Sound experiments in the Oberlichtsaal

Synergies of architecture and music unfold through a concert in the spatially-acoustic installation.

In the living room atmosphere, designed by product design students, the sound of John Cage’s »living room music« is presented by students of Professor Thorsten Johanns’ clarinet class as well as experimental works by Paul Hindemith and other chamber music pieces by the string class of Professor Kathrin ten Hagen. Vanessa Zuber with her band »Ironipation« bring the past 100 years of chanson music to life.
The spatial acoustics of the overall installation provide the framework for the evening, and also improve the acoustics in the Oberlichtsaal in the long term. This project has been developed by two students under the direction of Professor Jürgen Ruth at the professorship in Structural Design in cooperation with the professorship in Building Physics.

John Cage's »living room music«

»living room music« has been composed by John Cage and was written for Drums and speech quartette. The traditional music term was complemented with usual everyday sounds. The four players shall use any objects in the room or parts of the building as instruments, with a graduation from high to low sounds. This is the recommended »instrumentation«:
1. Player – newspaper
2. Player – table, Wooden furniture
3. Player – large books
4. Player – floor, wall

The 2nd movement contains a poem by Gertrude Stein, followed by an instrumental solo in the 3rd movement.

Concerts
6.45 p.m.
10.10 p.m.

Participants
University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Prof. Thorsten Johanns, Professor for Clarinet

With students from his class
Clarissa Schmidt
Jonathan Groß
Eva Mauersberger

»Paul Hindemith: Kanonische Variationen für zwei Violinen«

Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)

Canonic Variations for Two Violins
Leicht bewegt
Ein wenig ruhiger
Ruhig bewegt
Schnell
Sehr lebhaft
Sehr langsam
Finale. Sehr schnell

Concerts
7.15 p.m.
10.40 p.m.

Participants
University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Violin students, Class of Prof. Kathrin ten Hagen
Jiwon Shin and Ri Yu

»100 Ans de Chansons«

Musical nostalgia shines through in these variety and cabaret tunes! Yvette Guilbert has taken the popular (sometimes political, sometimes raunchy) speech-song style from Paris’s Le Chat Noir and Moulin Rouge in the 1920s and brought it to Germany. Experience chansons from the last century, from Edith Piaf to Zaz in Ironipation style.

Concert
8 p.m.

Participants
University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Constantin von Knebel Doeberitz, Student of Korrepition
Toni Leuschner, Graduate from University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and Student of Accordion and Music Theory
Rebekka Dusdal, Graduate from University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar and Student of Violin
Vanessa Zuber, Student of Musicology/Music practice

Acoustic enhancement of the Oberlichtsaal

Observations from student work, computer simulations and measurement results are used to develop mobile acoustic elements. Their effects are recorded in the space and in a 1:10 model, under real conditions.

Participants
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Students of Architecture
Sophia Hoppe and Julia Meyer

Katrin Flügge, Student of Civil Engineering

Supervising professors:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Ruth, Professorship of Constructive Design and Structural Theory, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Conrad Völker, Professorship of Building Physics, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Bauhaus Wohnzimmer

To mark the »Republic of Spirits« Bauhaus Festival, a space will be given a modern redesign in line with the (new) principles of Bauhaus, paired with musical accompaniment from an HfM quartet. Primary focal points include the furniture (to be designed and made by students), the floor plan, and contemporary music by German composer Paul Hindemith.

Concerts
9.30 and 11.30 p.m.

Work:
Paul Hindemith »String Quartett in E flat« (1943)

Participants
Students at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar
Violin 1: Johannes Kürschner
Violin 2: Antonia Fischer
Viola: Maurice Appelt
Violoncello: Sophie Walter

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Students of Produkt-Design
Alexander Jürs and Mariya Kaplunenko

David Hampel, Student of Visuelle Kommunikation

Location
Main Building, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Oberlichtsaal