TRANSIENT SPHERES

The synthesizer trio Lange//Berweck//Lorenz draws on the live electronic music of the 1980s and brings it into the present. Their program for the Naxos Hall Concerts places contemporary works in the context of almost 100 years of electronic music. Bernard Parmegiani’s monumental Stries (1980) serves as an early point of reference for the combination of three live synthesizers and tape. Going even further back in time is the trio’s new transcription of Johanna Magdalena Beyer’s Percussion Suite (1933 / 2026 world premiere), whose graphic notation and expanded understanding of sound remain visionary to this day. Returning to the present, Florian Zwißler reflects on the concert situation in Mäßig schnelle Achtel (2025), presenting it as a humorous competition between human live performance and a technologically controlled studio experiment. In repeat one_synthpop (2026, world premiere), Annette Schmucki sends deconstructed pop pieces back into a loop as distant memories, returning them to their original instrumental source of inspiration: the synthesizer.

Programm

Annette Schmucki

repeat one_synthpop | 2026 ✶

Johanna Beyer

Percussion Suite | 1933
Transkription for synthesizer trio | 2026 ✶

Florian Zwißler

Mäßig schnelle Achtel | 2025

— INTERMISSION —

Bernard Parmegiani

Strilento – Strio – Stries | 1980

for three synthesizers and tape

 

✶ World premiere as part of the Naxos Hall Concerts