Duration
12.9.25, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Terrassensaal
Language
English
Admission
15 € regular | 12 € reduced | Free admission with “365 Live”
Info
The September edition of TUNE is dedicated to the Munich-based composer, sound artist and music producer Beni Brachtel, featuring two concerts and an artist talk.
ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN is a new multi-channel audio installation by Beni Brachtel, commissioned for the TUNE sound programme and the Terrassensaal. It will be installed for six months from the 12.12.25, and in September the artist will present a live adaption of the sound installation across two evenings of performances that complement each other. The work features the cello section of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and marks a continuation of Brachtel’s collaboration with them that started in 2024 when he composed and recorded his Orchestral Suite Monument eines unbekannten Menschen for Ersan Mondtag‘s contribution for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024.
On the first evening, the cello section of the Munich Symphony Orchestra performs ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN. In contrast, the second evening, called Ode to Unpossible Musics, celebrates and cultivates the positive forces in music. The same musicians will perform a selection of Brachtel’s own compositions. A free artist talk with Beni Brachtel will take place ahead of Saturday’s concert.
ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN. Live
Every acoustic event has a moment in time: It begins, it sounds, it ends. The temporal structure appears for example when shaping sounds on a synthesizer: the initial swelling (attack), the sound subsiding (decay), the holding of the sound (sustain), and the resonance after the sound has been played (release).
The work examines the literal meaning of these phases. The function of the word is removed from its technical context in order to be metaphorically linked back to its own area of application, music-making itself.
ATTACK: Eight cellos were crushed one after the other using a manual hydraulic press.
DECAY: The recorded sound of the destruction of the instruments serves as an audio score for interpretation by eight cellists from the Munich Symphony Orchestra.
SUSTAIN: The dialogue of the instruments being destroyed and their live-interpretation are woven together into a new body of sound.
ADS Performance Video
Performer: Max Mayer
