Microtones at the Dampfzentrale

The Russian-French artist Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) is considered a pioneer of microtones. Over two days at the Dampfzentrale Bern, Susanne Huber and André Thomet will contrast his works with world premieres of compositions commissioned from the three young female composers Anda Kryeziu, Eleni Ralli and Elnaz Seyedi, as well as compositions by Georg Friedrich Haas, Edu Haubensak, Bruce Mather and Pascale Criton. The four concerts will be complemented by discussions in which contemporary witnesses will also have their say. Barbara Barthelmes and Roman Brotbeck will speak and moderate, while the American writer Paul Auster, who was the first to recognize Wyschnegradsky in The Locked Room is brought in directly from New York for a nocturne.