Exchange: Cologne - Rochester
Ensemble Garage brings its signature experimental approach to contemporary music to the University of Rochester in this exchange program. Together with
Oliver Schneller, director of the Eastman Audio Research Studio, Exchange: Cologne – Rochester brings young composers from Germany together with music and film students for a series of workshops, culminating in a guest performance by Ensemble Garage.
The workshops emphasize the Ensemble’s intersectional approach to performance, encouraging improvisation and incorporating visual media. Media produced during the workshops will be used during the guest-performance alongside live audio and video material. The concert program includes contemporary composers like Anna Meredith and Pierre Jodlowski alongside newcomers like Jakob Lorenz. The program is bookended by two excerpts from Brigitta Muntendorf’s series
Public Privacy.
Ensemble Garage was founded in Cologne in 2009 by composer
Brigitta Muntendorf as a platform for musicians, composers, and other artists to explore new concepts and works. The ensemble focuses on bringing the works of younger composers to life through the process of collective and cooperative rehearsing. The Ensemble is known for unusual concert formats that incorporate the theatrical and multimedia. Through this, they seek the answer questions defining our generation: Who does it consist of? Where does it congregate or belong? What does it think and do? What does it use and create, and, most importantly, hear and want others to hear?
Oliver Schneller is a professor of composition and the Director of the Eastman Audio Research Studio at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. His works reflect an interest in space, acoustics, and aspects of interculturality in music.
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