A web of different music (speech over, and with, music) unfolds in the second concert. Graham Valentine and Martin Schütz improvise, Christina Daletska and Walter Prossnitz interpret Ives, our festival philosopher speaks and Marcel Zaes layers rhythms and tone sequences.

The vocalist, Graham Valentine and the cellist, Martin Schütz have known one other since the 1980s via Christoph Marthaler productions. Since then, they often improvise together.

Textures, transformable weaves from repeated and varied tone sequences and (micro-)rhythms are the focus of Marcel Zaes’s new chamber music piece «Textur A». Though no repetition collides with another, groove elements slowly emerge from the textured landscape, though constantly threaten to fall apart. The rhythmic patterns, that Zaes developed with the digital algorithm BRAID.live are transferred into an instrumental body of sound in a process of translation and transcription. Electronics bring a digital temporality into play. So the music becomes, as it were, orchestrated techno.

Charles Ives was one of the first composers to collage different music and superimpose time layers. This is also evident in Christina Daletska and Walter Prossnitz’s recitals of his songs.

In between, Christian Grüny intervenes with his «Minute Theory»: «What can one say in one minute? You begin, accelerate, trip, are forced to stop. Or did you start too late? Was time too short or your thought too long? Can one manage with conciseness? It’s already over, but there is so much left to say. Restart, quickly!»