re:organ - Organ Anatomy

The starting point for her work is the question of how an instrument shaped over centuries can be reimagined beyond familiar ways of playing it.

In this project, the organ is understood as a physical system: pipes, manuals, mechanics, and the wind supply appear as functional units of an organism, whose relationships are being reexamined. The composers analyze these structures and transform them compositionally. Sound material is fragmented, rearranged, layered, spliced, and fused. Larger contexts, states, and processes emerge from individual sonic particles.

Electronics play a central role here as an extension of the instrument’s body. Electronic sounds and processes do not compete with the organ but rather intervene in its structure, amplifying, shifting, and altering it. The familiar sound space is expanded, overlaid, and refocused.

As a result, the organ ultimately appears both recognizable and alienated—not as a monument to music history, but as a living system whose sonic possibilities can be experienced anew.

Performers & Program
: Wanying Lin (organ)
; works by Yiran Zhao and Lin Yang

Genre/Style: Post-Avant-Garde, Contemporary Music, World Premieres

Tickets:
€10, reduced €5 plus fees; available online via Eventim and at the box office starting at 6:00 p.m.

Organizer:
Evangelical Parish of Weinberg in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth

© Wanying Lin