sonority (2020), the final composition of Benjamin Grau’s concert exam, was created at the beginning of the Corona Pandemic. The cancellation of the concert at the end of the composition phase was foreseeable at that time, but nevertheless it demanded an enormous amount of creativity and flexibility from everyone involved. The planned performance turned into a video production at short notice, with all its technical and organizational difficulties.

The already completed music was originally conceived as a pure concert piece – without an explicitly designed visual level that could be referred to or built upon. The video concept is therefore a subtle synaesthetic extension of the classical concert situation – a representation of the sound event rather than a reinterpretation. What can be seen is the typical view of the audience. There is no editing, no change of perspective. The post-production is visible and the subsequent overlaying of the recordings is pointed out in some places. However, the question of whether only these superimpositions or even all of the shots were made with a time delay remains open in the video.

Since the concert of Adventure #4 in collaboration with the Institute for New Music of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln could not take place in summer 2020, videos were produced that deal with the interplay of instrument, electronics and mediality. As a first release we present Marc L. Vogler’s Chamber Concerto for a Trombonist, dedicated to Bruce Collings.

| Chamber Concert | Chamber | Concert | Summer 2020 | Corona | Video Meetings | Tiles | The Private Becomes Public | The Chamber Becomes Concert Space | The Picture Tile Becomes Art Form | One’s Own Four Walls Become a Stage | Solo | Tutti | Skype | Zoom | No score, a list of playing instructions | No rehearsals, an online collaboration lasting several weeks | No orchestra, one trombonist | No performance, just a webcam | Chamber Concert | A Video Piece | in 4:3 |

Marc L. Vogler