Programme

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Instruments of Lucilin

In a Large, Open Space
Grand Foyer
Fri
Part of the rainy days 2025 on -

Today’s music is overly intellectual? The 2025 festival rainy days grabs this cliché by the throat, choosing «bodies» as its theme. Bodies and physicality have always interested the arts. Especially in music, the subject is ambiguous, the idea that the body cannot do without spirit, nor the spirit without the body, more than a bon mot. The multitude of approaches to the body and bodies is reflected in the festival’s programme, once again designed for diehard fans of contemporary music and those who are simply curious alike, offering something for almost all age groups.

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What you’ll hear and see

The music

  • Iannis Xenakis Okho
  • Giacinto Scelsi Arc-en-ciel pour deux violons
  • Jessie Marino YjQzljv1uFQ – For Toshi Makihara
  • Gérard Grisey Nout
  • Helmut Oehring ὀξύμωρον (Oxymoron) (ma-te-re / mā́tēr)
  • Laura Bowler Wicked Problems
  • James Tenney In a Large, Open Space any 12 or more sustaining instruments

The artists

  • United Instruments of Lucilin
  • Helmut Oehring guitar

A carefully selected set of sound stations

deployed in the reverberant body of the Philharmonie’s Foyer, in which the audience can move around freely and discover, one by one, a high-energy work of Iannis Xenakis, the meditative spectralism of Gérard Grisey and Giacinto Scelsi, the gestural music of Jessie Marino and high-intensity performances of Laura Bowler and Helmut Oehring – all culminating in James Tenney’s work In a Large, Open Space for twelve musicians.

Tickets

  • Free seating 20 €
Festival pass (4 days): 58 €
Kulturpass welcome
The sale begins on
18.09.2025
10:00
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Details

  • Date Friday 21.11.25
  • Time 19:15
  • Duration 60
  • Room Grand Foyer
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