Kirsten Reese: Basics
One of the central questions of contemporary music culture is how traditional forms such as the classical chamber concert relate to the actual consumer behavior of a class of listeners, which is strongly influenced by media such as television or Internet during their everyday lives at home.
New music can orient itself on tradition: in this context, on musicians who have been trained on classical instruments and who desire to go beyond the bounds of the stiff concert experience and make music for people who may usually stand at a distanced from the world of art. Principally, this means opening up small or even large stumbling blocks for a new kind of listening and experience. Such experiments need adept musicians like the oh ton-ensemble and a composer whose work has proven that she can pick up "Basics" of the everyday and transfer them into art: Kirsten Reese.
Kirsten Reese
was born in 1968. She is a composer and sound artist living in Berlin who studied flute at the Hochschule für Künste in Berlin and during 1992/1993 in New York where she also took courses in electronic music. Her activities include concerts as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, mostly with contemporary and improvised music. Reese has also worked on film and CD recordings as well in radio, including DeutschlandRadio, arte/ZDF, SFB.
She has made concert trips to Minsk, Seoul, Hong Kong, New York, Istanbul and the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. Reese is a member of the trio "e-vent" (flute, oboe, clarinet) and has worked as a concert facilitator, made radio broadcasts and has been written of in trade publication articles.
Since 1994 she has taken part in composition projects at the electronic studio TU Berlin. She has also produced her own electro-acoustic compositions and sound installations since 1996 including "Der tönende See" (2000) for floating sound bowls, "Contained" (2001) an interactive sound installation, "Symose" for four instruments and four loudspeakers (2002, Schlosshof, Rheinsberg), "inyib" for new instruments, live electronics, 15 loudspeakers (for the ensemble Zeitkratzer 2002), and "dulationen" for flute and laptop (2002/03). Reese has received numerous stipends including the Stiftung Kulturfonds and Die Höge. Since 2002 she has performed research and taught on the subjects of contemporary music, gender and Internet / New Media at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
Basics Program:
Kirsten Reese: anregen/übertragen (2002/2003)
concert installation / interactive installation
Bass clarinet and cello, loudspeakers and objects stimulated to clang and hum
Siebenschlaf (2000)
Tenor saxophone and 4 channel tape recorder
Basics (1997)
Bass flute and 4 channel tape recorder
Neues Werk (2004), Premiere
for saxophone, clarinet, cello and drums
oh ton-ensemble musicians:
Anne Horstmann
studied at Hochschule für Musik Detmold. Since receiving her diploma with commendations, Horstmann has worked freelance as a flutist with a focus on new music. She is a soloist, chamber musician and member of the oh ton-ensemble. Radio and concert recordings as well as productions with RB, NDR, WDR and DLF. Horstmann also works as a guest performer, lecturer and seminar director. As a founding member of "Literamusico", she works on uniting music and literature with musicians, actors, writers and visual artists from the Ruhr Area. In 1996 she founded the duo "Neue Flötentöne" with Dörte Nienstedt, the recorder player from oh ton-ensemble.
oh ton-ensemble member since 1995.
Cordula Rohde - Violoncello
studied in Hamburg and teaches as an assistant to Prof. Wolfgang Mehlhorn. Regular concert activities as a cello soloist with orchestras in Germany and abroad. Rohde is a sought-after musician of improvised music, jazz and pop with groups such as "Sternen" and Arabic fusion music. She has performed as a guest with the Neuen Ensemble Hannover, Ensemble l'art pour l'art, and Ensemble Resonanz. Original productions for radio drama and theater for the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Kampnagel are part of her work, as is intense cooperation with composers.
oh ton-ensemble member since 2001.
Christoph Hansen
born in 1965, first studied at Bremen Musikerziehung before continuing his saxophone studies with J.- M. Londeix in Bordeaux as a DAAD resident. Here, he received the first prize for saxophone and chamber music. In Hanover, he ended his studies with the final exams as well as solo exams. Since 1993 he has been Professor for saxophone at the Hochschule in Hamburg. He has often beena jury for the national contest "Jugend musiziert". His interpretory interest as a soloist and chamber musician is dedicated to contemporary music, especially for the premiere and circulatoin of new works for and with the saxophone. In addition, his saxophone quartet has taken part in various orchestras as well as in numerous CD and radio productions.
Founding member of the oh ton-ensemble
Bernhard Kösling
was born in 1965 in Neuss, studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover with Prof. H. Deinzer. Kösling was then a member of Jungen Deutschen Philharmonie and guest performer in Ensemble Modern. In 1990 he won First Prize in the German Higher Education Contest. Bernhard Kösling plays clarinet for Ensemble Köln, Gruppe M, oh ton-ensemble and the Kammersymphonie Bremen. He can also be heard at performances at the Klangforum Wien and the Musikfabrik NRW.
Michael Pattmann
studied at the Folkwangschule in Essen in the solo class for drums with Prof. Martin Schulz and at the Musikhochschule Köln Kammermusik with Prof. Peter Eötvös. He currently teaches at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen, has been an annual lecturer at the Stockenhausentagen in Kürten since 2001 and works for K. Stockhausen as a drummer. The focus of Pattmann's work is the interpretation of contemporary music. He has a range from orchestra to chamber music and a rich solo repertoire: theater and music to modern dance and film, improvisation and electronic music. As a member and guest in various ensembles, Pattmann has given concerts in numerous European countries and produced recordings with renowned radio and television networks...
oh ton-ensemble member since 1997 and oh ton board of director member since 2002.