Skip to main content

stage: Improvisation International

ThePureVoiceAndThe DifferentDrum // Sung Rose

© Katelin Stiles (top), Simon Rose (below)

Location: exploratorium berlin, Saal

ThePureVoiceAndTheDifferentDrum (DE)
Silvia Sauer – vocal
Wolfgang Schliemann – percussion

Sung Rose
Youjin Sung (KR/DE) – gayageum
Simon Rose (UK/DE) – baritone saxophone

With voice and percussion ThePureVoiceAndTheDifferentDrum draws a musical bow from crude archaic intensity to impressive musical delicacy. The duo of vocalist Silvia Sauer and percussionist Wolfgang Schliemann moves closely to the sound material and unfolds it with a spacious gesture, blurring the boundaries between concert and performance. Their improvisational collaboration started 2013, also occasionally performing with Eiko Yamada (recorder) und Susanne Resch (saxophone) as SSYR – Systerhood of Breath meets Percussion Syrprise.

Youjin Sung and Simon Rose have approached their collaboration through open form improvisation. In this way the music has been produced through the act of performance. This process produces trans-disciplinary outcomes: the music formed is singular – viewed as its own thing – rather than hybrid or ‘cross-over’. The two met when Sung attended a quartet performance of Rose’s in Berlin last year. Sung’s curiosity about open form improvisation was matched by Rose’s long term interest in Korean music and the possibilities for improvisation suggested by the gayageum: the music’s sound formations, particular percussive approaches, rich sonorities and special sense of time. The encounter becomes an opportunity to explore these rich musical features together with the harmonics, multiphonics, and sonorous range of the baritone saxophone. Through this unusual instrumentation and shared process, Sung Rose is a genuinely international, inter-cultural collaboration.

https://vimeo.com/384474116
https://vimeo.com/384483960
https://vimeo.com/384487014

 

Admission: 12 / 10 / 6 Euro (normal price / reduced / Berlin Pass)

 

Currently the number of available seats is limited and a concert visit is only possible with advance reservation. Please use the form below to make your reservation, preferably by the evening before. Short-notice registrations are still possible until 17 h on the day of the concert. Please note that you will receive a reply to your registration with further important information!
You can find exploratorium’s current rules of hygiene by clicking on this link.

In addition, the concert will be broadcast as a live stream via our YouTube channel. Therefore the start will be start on time!

Subscribe to our explo newsletter

The explo newsletter informs you weekly about the exploratorium berlin program and is sent in German.

To subscribe to the newsletter, please enter your email address.

Download programmes

Please note that the programmes are only available in German.

Address

exploratorium berlin

Zossener Straße 24
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

Marheinekeplatz (Bus 248, 20m)
U Gneisenaustraße (Bus 140, U7, 200m)
U Mehringdamm (Bus M19, U6, U7, 900m)
U Hallesches Tor (Bus M41, Bus 248, U1, U3, U6, 1000m)

Office Hours

Mo – Di 10.00 – 14.00
Mi 14.00 – 18.00
Do – Fr 10.00 – 14.00