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a CAGE of Saxophones

Various programs with the music of John Cage from saxophone trio or quartet to various chamber music combinations with other instruments like: piano, percussion, accordion, strings, etc. Concert. Performance. Ambient (see repertoire list for details).

John Cage - Atlas Eclipticalis

Star chart music. Concert hall or open air. With or without stars.
Complete, 60-minute version for 3 soprano saxophones with or without live-electronics.
The saxophonists play in different corners of the space, according tom each new room.

John Cage/Ulrich Krieger - Four⁵ x5
A 60-minute version of the Cage composition Four⁵ as contemplative concert-installation.
The player are positioned around the audience, the first version gets recorded by a computer during performance and played back, while the second run-through is performed and gets also recorded, etc. Massive-fine accumulation sound walls, which enclose the audience.

weisslichschwarz
A program over two evenings, that brings to you the newest tendencies of „Silent Music“ in contrast to the so called „Noise Music“'. The two halves of the programs can also be performed seperat. As well as the longer composition can be played individually.

Silence
Antoine Beuger (NL)   carthamrosa (2003), 40‘
(saxophone quartet)
Radu Malfatti (AU)   Wechseljahre einer Hyäne (2003), 30‘
(saxophone quartet)
Carlo Inderhees (D)   4 Stimmen³ (2003), 60‘
(saxophone quartet)

Noise
John Duncan (I/USA)   Channel Zone (2001/03), 23‘
(saxophone trio with live-electronics)
Zbigniew Karkowski (J/PL)   Execution of Intelligence III (2002), 30‘
(saxophone solo with live-electronics)
Zbigniew Karkowski (J/PL)   ..... (2003), 20‘
(saxophone quartet with live-electronics)
Ulrich Krieger (D)   V.Q. (2003), 21‘
(saxophone trio with live-electronics)

Ulrich Krieger - Up and Down 23
A 60-minute composition for 4 soprano saxophones in Just Intonation.
Acoustic irritations, long tones.

Welcome to Tomorrow - A Space/Time Voyage -
A 90 minute multimedia -science fiction show,
researching the artistic impetus and inspiration science fiction, space and time travels, and the cosmos itself holds for musicians.
The social, political, spiritual and emanzipatorical possibilities which the future holds are important issues for Sun Ra and John Coltrane, the purity and infinity of space, the crowded emptiness interested John Cage, its romantic David Bowie. The esoteric and mystical influence the planets hold on our lives were of interest for Holst and Stockhausen. intersax will weave a web of all this influences with futuristic sounds, ‘to boldly go where no one has gone before’.There is a wide variety of artistic interest in science fiction, the future and space and in the new physical discoveries of Supestrings, which more or less states nothing less than:everything is sound. And although mostly only discussed within a pop cultural context, science fiction goes way beyond this. Asking some of the most essential questions we have as human beings here on earth: were do we come from, were do we go to. And because music is the most abstract, non-descriptive of all arts, it is the art most fitting to make statements about this and think about the future:
An evening of philosophy and fun, of questions with no answers, of unsolved beauty, and of the small and the big.
With music by: 
Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Gustav Holst, John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Science Fiction Film Themes (Star Trek, Raumpatrouille Orion, etc.), Intersax, Ulrich Krieger, Tobias Rüger, and many more.. 
Detailed program here...  

as you wish ...
Of course you also can combine your individual program from our repertoire list.

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