Duration
13.9.25, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Terrassensaal
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 the concert.
Ode to Unpossible Musics
As a composer, Brachtel is often concerned with allowing the music to speak for itself. While the work often emerges from troubled places, it retains a distinct power to elevate. This capacity to transport the material toward something not necessarily cheerful, but emotionally pure, is central. Listeners are invited to draw from it whatever resonates most deeply with them.
There is a particular magnetism in melancholia, a gravitational pull that many feel but rarely articulate. This attraction may stem from an intuitive understanding that naming such feelings too plainly risks being consumed by them.
Ode to Unpossible Musics explores themes that are often overlooked, dismissed, or quietly avoided, not out of ignorance, but often for personal, even unconscious reasons. It seeks that fragile balance point, where lightness and heaviness coexist – a kind of emotional tightrope that is both precarious and revealing.
As a creator, the deeper one leans into the gravitational fields of human emotion, the greater the risk, and the greater the discovery. This body of work is an ode to musical rollercoasters, to detours and digressions, to letting go and embracing the unresolved. It honours the beauty of what resists definition: the unpossible.
