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Interzone Perceptible

Silent movie in concert

23.02.2025
7:30 pm

InterZone Perceptible have been making silent film music for 25 years. With electrified accordion, electric bass and live electronics, the two musicians Sven Hermann and Matthias Hettmer, who studied at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, bring early silent film into the 21st century. They are internationally active and have played in South Korea, Finland and the USA at the invitation of the Goethe Institute. InterZone Perceptible's INDUSTRIAL SOUNDART does not attempt to illustrate external film events, but rather the inner worlds of the film characters, allowing the film to be experienced in a completely new way. The whole thing is supported by meticulous sound design that creates the illusion that all sounds come directly from the screen.

InterZone Perceptible are back at Szene 10 in Essen on 23.02.2025 at 19:30. The program includes the music INS FLEISCH by and with InterZone Perceptible to the silent film drama DIE FREUDLOSE GASSE by Georg Wilhelm Pabst from 1925. It took two years and three months to create a soundscape for the two-and-a-half-hour silent movie monster, within which film and music form a common third. The work was premiered in 2015 at the Cologne film festival BESONDERS WERTLOS - DAS FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN PSYCHOTRONISCHEN FILMS. An elegiac sound journey for electrified accordion, electric bass, live electronics, voice, playback and keyboards takes the viewer to the poverty-stricken Melchiorgasse in Vienna in 1921. Two wealthy people pull all the strings: butcher Josef Geiringer and Mrs. Greifer, who officially runs a fashion salon but actually runs a brothel. She acquires her prostitutes by making women financially dependent and thus vulnerable to blackmail.

15€/10€
karten@szene10.de
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