Sound of Difference

Maya Dunietz & Solistensemble Kaleidoskop feat. WhatWhyArt2024

Sound Of Difference is an ongoing collaboration since 2023 between composer Maya Dunietz and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop. It is an artistic exploration of new sonic dimensions. Each new version of the performance invites different artistic contributors who give “Sound Of Difference” a new character and diversify its sound. At the festival Musikinstallationen Nürnberg, this includes the herd of Chilling Mammoths—an installation of 15 self-resonating and self-speaking pianos by Maya Dunietz herself, which has been traveling through European art institutions for some time. Together with Kaleidoskop, they will enter into dialogue for the first time in Sound Of Difference in Nuremberg, setting the space in motion: the mammoths encounter instruments played by human hands—and vice versa.

Acoustic drones and constantly shifting sonic textures make beating patterns, microtonal friction, and pulsating rhythms audible and tangible. A continuously morphing sound emerges—one that oscillates between unity and complexity, from organization to anarchy: a stretching of the boundary between the detachment and domestication of sound.

The result is a complex and ambivalent soundscape of slow gestures and shifting pitches. The performers become a multi-headed organism, a swarm moving without a leader or a score.

*Sound Of Difference (Athens Version 2024)****
with Yorgos Stavridis & Underground Youth Orchestra (Athens)
including a cpomposirtion by Ana-Maria Avram: Chiaroscuro for 3 Cellos* (2011) & Maya Dunietz: Fruit Sorbet (2024)

*Sound Of Difference (Berlin Version 2024)****
with WhatWhyArt (Seoul)
including a cpomposirtion by Ana-Maria Avram: Chiaroscuro for 3 Cellos* (2011) & Maya Dunietz: Fruit Sorbet (2024)

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