Christian Klinkenberg
“Charade - Henry Mancini Revisited”
In this innovative project, I have removed the original music from Stanley Donen’s film classic Charade (1963) to reinterpret Henry Mancini’s iconic compositions live alongside the movie.
Thanks to the Autoconductor software, developed by Lothar Felten, we can achieve precise synchronization of film and newly arranged live music.
What do critics say about the movie ?
Rotten Tomatoes: "A globetrotting caper that prizes its idiosyncratic pieces over the general puzzle, Charade is a delightful romp with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn's sparkling chemistry at the center of some perfectly orchestrated mayhem. "
Brian Eggert: "It's almost a cliche at this point to call Charade the best Alfred Hitchcock film not directed by Hitchcock. Yet, there's an undeniable truth behind the claim."
Emanuel Levy: "Stanley Donen's stylishly elegant, largely entertaining romance-thriller teams Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (then at the height of their careers) for the first and only time."
Musicians
Luc Marly: Saxophone
Tim Dahmen: Trombone
Stephan Klinkenberg: Drums
Max Malkomes: Double bass
Christian Klinkenberg: Piano, electronics, and arrangements
Film Details
Charade (USA 1963)
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Walter Matthau, James Coburn
Composer: Henry Mancini
Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Tickets
Kino Corso Sankt Vith (B) - February 7, 2025 - 8:00 p.m.
Re-performance of the opera 1984:
27 and 28 September 2024 @ Alter Schlachthof Eupen
6 and 7 November 2024 @ www.kasemattentheater.lu Kasemattentheater Luxembourg (LU)
Regie und Libretto Ela Baumann
Komposition und Keyboard Christian Klinkenberg
mit Jean Bermes und Claire Parsons
Bass Pol Belardi
Drums Stephan Klinkenberg
Geige Paul Pankert
Bühne und Kostüm Dagmar Weitze
Licht und Video Krischan Kriesten
Grafische Partituren Marc Kirschvink
Technik Pascal Klein
“All the national movements everywhere […] seem to take non-democratic forms, [….] and to adopt the theory that the end justifies the means. […] With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer. Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. [….] I think, and have thought ever since the war [against fascism] began, in 1936 or thereabouts, that our cause is the better, but we have to keep on making it the better, which involves constant criticism. Yours sincerely, Geo. Orwell” Letter by George Orwell to Noel Willmett, 18 May 1944
On 24/05/2023 20:00 @ Le Senghor - Brussels and on 26/05/2023 20:00 @ Alter Schlachthof Eupen a brand new composition will be played by the Ensemble Sturm und Klang.
"Nineteen Eighty-Four for chamber ensemble" is a musical narrative based on the novel 1984 by George Orwell and is presented in Brussels by Elodie Brochier in French and in Eupen by Hans Reul in German.
ECCO (European Contemporary Composers Orchestra) concert organised by the Forum de la Création Musicale and Sturm und Klang with the support of the Creative Europe programme.
A unique opportunity to discover the abundant universe of Ziv Cojocaru (Israel, student of Philippe Leroux), the playful energy of Moritz Eggert (Germany), and the intimate poetry of Henrik Strindberg (Sweden). The ten musicians of Sturm und Klang will also present two creations by Belgian composers Sarah Wéry and Christian Klinkenberg, dynamic and unconventional figures in our musical landscape. While the ensemble has already performed two of Sarah's creations, this will be their first collaboration with Christian.
Programme:
Ziv Cojocaru, XoOx!...
Moritz Eggert, Pong
Christian Klinkenberg, Nineteen Eighty-Four for chamber ensemble (premiere, 2023)
Henrik Strindberg, Bilder
Sarah Wéry, Blanc Coupé (premiere, 2023)
Sturm und Klang under the direction of Thomas Van Haeperen
Maxime Stasyx, violin - Jean-Samuel Bez, violin - Pierre Heneaux, viola - Catherine Lebrun, cello - Natacha Save, double bass - Anne Davids, flutes - Cédric De Bruycker, clarinet - Véronique Delcambre, piano - Jean Louis Maton, percussions
On Saturday, June 4, the 2nd performance of the music-theater Gleichmachung (Equilisation) by Christian Klinkenberg will take place @Alter Schalchthof (tickets). It is a cooperation of KL-EX and and the Logos Foundation. In this piece, human musicians play together with music robots. These robots with their many lights and movement possibilities become actors and are thus at the same time part of the play.
The renowned ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten will perform Christian Klinkenberg's new composition on the following dates:
Marseille, 10 May 16h30: This concert takes place in the context of the Tenor Conference. The 7th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR) will take place in Marseille on 9/10/11 May 2022. The event will take place in a hybrid format (both in-person and remote). About TENOR : “The International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation is dedicated to issues in theoretical and applied research and development in Music Notation and Representation, with a strong focus on computer tools and applications, as well as a tight connection to music creation. "Technology" in the conference name refers to any mean that may contribute to the notation, representation and/or visualisation of the music and sound, for purposes that may include (but not limited to) music composition, performance, representation, transcription, analysis and pedagogy.” The event will be hosted by the interdisciplinary art-science laboratory PRISM, in collaboration with the InCIAM Institut and Aix-Marseille University (AMU). In addition to its scientific collaborators, the Salle Musicatreize and the Université Côte d'Azur as well as the Marseille Conservatoire will participate in the organization of the artistic side of the conference.
Stuttgart, 1 June 20h00: This concert is part of the concert series "Südseite nachts" at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart Südseite-P1.
Sandeep Baghwati: VILLANELLES DE VOYELLES (nirgun bhajan 2)
for 4 or more singers with audioscores
Version 2 for non-linear generative audioscore (2022)
David Kim-Boyle: 96 Postcards in real color
für fünf Stimmen und Elektronik
Micha Seidenberg: MY MOTHER is a fish
für vier Stimmen und Elektronik
Christian Klinkenberg: The Legionaries (Scherenschnittfilm)
für vier Stimmen und Elektronik
Greg Beller: Casual Casuality
für vier Stimmen und Elektronik
Sara Glojnarić: Artefacts
für sechs Stimmen (2018)
Neue Vocalsolisten
Johanna Vargas, Sopran
Susanne Leitz-Lorey, Sopran
Truike van der Poel, Mezzosopran
Martin Nagy, Tenor
Guillermo Anzorena, Bariton
Andreas Fischer, Bass
After a long preparation, the world premiere of the opera 1984 will finally take place on 14 June 2023!
Tenor 2021 in Hamburg
The 6th international conference on technologies for music notation and representation will take place from Monday May 10 to Thursday May 13 and be hosted by Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT). The conference will include a special emphasis on Notation and Representation in the Time of a Pandemic.
The program will include daily paper presentations, workshops and concerts by international artists and researchers. Keynote speakers at TENOR 2021 will be Thor Magnusson (10.05.), Michael Maierhof (11.05.), Carola Bauckholt (12.05.) and Alexander Schubert (13.05.). The artistic programme will include, among many others, music by Christian Klinkenberg, Cat Hope, Jonathan Bell, Lindsay Vickery and Sandeep Bhagwati. Ensembles and artists in residence will be SPIIC Ensemble, Blue Print Ensemble, So Wrong it’s Right Trombone Quartet and the Bohlen-Pierce-clarinetists Nora-Louise Müller and Ákos Hoffmann.
The last two days of the conference will overlap with Klingt gut! Symposium on Sonic Art and Spatial Audio — an interdisciplinary event at the intersection of art and technology hosted by the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW). Attendees will be able to get passes at a reduced rate should they wish to participate in both conferences. TENOR 2021 and Klingt gut! 2021 will share two round tables together. First on May 12 with Natasha Barrett as keynote speaker at Klingt gut! and guests Hyunkook Lee, Daniel Rudrich, Markus Noisternig, Heather Frasch and Thor Magnusson. The event will be hosted by Rama Gottfried. The second round table on May 13 will focus on the (artistic) research project KiSS – Kinetics in Sound & Space in collaboration by HAW Hamburg and HfMT Hamburg.
All events can be attended through Whova after registration (see link below). Keynotes and concerts only will be provided by HfMT Hamburg’s Youtube channel and public Zoom Links for free.
Registration, ticketing and pricing here
Please check for daily schedule here
More information about TENOR and Klingt gut! can be found here:
https://tenor2021.hfmt-hamburg.de
https://www.tonlabor-haw.de/klg/klingtgut-2020
NFT-Collections
The digital artwork is now for sale at opensea.io.
Delighted to announce that I successfully defended my PhD-thesis on the 29 may 2020!
My thanks go to all the people who supported me and contributed to my projects during the last five years. Without you all this would not have been possible!
The live recording of the opera "The Glacier" was completely mixed at the Bauer Studios (Ludwigsburg, Germany) by Philipp Heck and will be released on 29 May 2020 at Neuklang.
Tracks: 01 Prolog 02 Das Größte 03 Brüder 04 Der Berggeist 05 Die Erde bebt 06 Gabriel fällt 07 Bin ich tot 08 Kristallkorn 09 Zeitreise 10 Giganten 11 Nicht ewig allein 12 Schildgletscher 13 Einsamkeit 14 Dreißig Jahre 15 Schritt 16 Natur 17 Bergsee 18 Bild 19 See 20 Grund 21 Max taucht auf 22 Abend 23 Granit 24 Rausch 25 Geborsten 26 Betrachtete 27 Verlöschen 28 Gedenken 29 Kreis 30 Bild 31 Kristallstrahl 32 Max fällt 33 Erdmitte 34 Jubel 35 Im Kreise geschehen
15th of September 2019
Painter Marc Kirschvink has now completed all 119 pictures of the graphic score of the opera "The Glacier". The pitch is notated exclusively by note heads and accidentals on the lower quarter of the screen, sometimes supplemented by short written explanations or pictograms. These note heads are linked to a corresponding graphic element on the upper part of the screen by using the same color.
Do you want to know what these pictures sound like? The world premiere will take place on October 25. This will be followed by 6 more performances.
25 October 2019 8pm: Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (Belgium) – Premiere – TICKETS
26 October 2019 8pm: Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (Belgium) – TICKETS
27 October 2019 6pm: BOZAR, Brüssel (Belgium) – TICKETS
31 October 2019 8pm: Triangle, St. Vith (Belgium) – TICKETS
1.November 2019 8pm: Triangle, St. Vith (Belgium) – TICKETS
19 November 2019: 2:30pmCollege of Staten Island, Staten Island/New York (USA) – TICKETS
20 November 2019 6pm LeFrak Concert Hall - Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, Queens/New York (USA)– TICKETS
22. November 2019: 7pm The National Opera Center, Manhattan/New York (USA) – TICKETS
18th of February 2019
New releases @ Neuklang
Christian Klinkenberg has launched the first microtonal conference:
Lectures, workshops and an evening concert with international microtonal experts such as Philipp Gerschlauer (saxophone), Nora-Louise Müller (Bohlen-Pierce clarinet), Anne Davids (flute), Melle Weijters (31-edo guitar), Donald Bousted (composer), Kathryn Bennetts (recorder), Christian Klinkenberg (composer and pianist), and Juhani Vesikkala (composer).
This microtonal day is the first part of a 5 day conference called Polyphonic Performance Spaces organized by Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and kunstenplatformbrussel.be
25 October 2019 8pm: Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (Belgium) – TICKETS
26 October 2019 8pm: Alter Schlachthof, Eupen (Belgium) – TICKETS
27 October 2019 6pm: BOZAR, Brüssel (Belgium) – TICKETS
31 October 2019 8pm: Triangle, St. Vith (Belgium) – TICKETS
1.November 2019 8pm: Triangle, St. Vith (Belgium) – TICKETS
19 November 2019: 2:30pmCollege of Staten Island, Staten Island/New York (USA) – TICKETS
20 November 2019 6pm LeFrak Concert Hall - Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, Queens/New York (USA)– TICKETS
22. November 2019: 7pm The National Opera Center, Manhattan/New York (USA) – TICKETS