NEW CD's OUT NOW!
WEDDING CEREMONY
Christian Kesten zonder titel (schuif en ruis)
improvised piece
Radu Malfatti Quartet+2
Taku Sugimoto Doremilogy 2.12
Lucio Capece About "The Society Of Spectacle" Guy Debord 1967
Lucio Capece - bass clarinet, soprano saxophone | Julia Eckhardt - viola | Christian Kesten - voice | Radu Malfatti - trombone | Toshimaru Nakamura - no-input mixing board | Taku Sugimoto - electric guitar
http://www.cathnor.com/weddingceremony.html
AND:
Jacques Demierre: SAVE OUR SHIP
Christian Kesten (voice)
Isabelle Duthoit (clarinet)
perform Demierre's Sound Poetry.
Order here: [email protected]
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www.christiankesten.de
www.virb.com/kesten
www.antenne-pernot.de
Christian Kesten is a composer, vocalist/performer, sound and performance artist. His work explores the connections between voice and action, music and language, and deals with the interpenetration of sound and space.
Since 1984, he has written chamber music, music theatre and site-specific compositions for various ensembles. As composer/performer, he presents his works for voice and action as a soloist, in duo with Lucio Capece, in the trio “dishk“ with Axel Dörner and Makiko Nishikaze, or in the ensemble “Maulwerker“.
In 1998, he received a commission by the cultural senate of Berlin for PAROCHIAL (Parochialkirche Berlin), in 2008, a commission by the Ontological Experimental Series in New York, for THE ROOM (for 5 vocalists and 5 instruments), and in 2003, a collaboration with Steffi Weismann, entitled JA ES IST PLOETZLICH WAERMER GEWORDEN [yes, it’s suddenly got warmer], at Staatsbank Berlin was supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin).
In 2000, Kesten was composer-in-residence at Kuenstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop and in 2007, at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles. In 2008 he won with the group antenne pernot the interdisciplinary realization prize operare08 to realize WUESTE WUESTE (2009).
His works have been performed at: The Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (1996), Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles (2007), Diapason Soundart Gallery, New York (2007 and 2008), EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA, New York (2008), Museum of Modern Art MUMOK, Vienna (2005), TESLA, Berlin (2006), the wulf., Los Angeles (2008), Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin (2000), Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (2009), among many others...
Since 1987, Kesten has worked as an interpreter of new vocal music and new music theatre with numerous premieres worldwide. He has collaborated with a diverse selection of composers and ensembles, such as Alessandro Bosetti, Chico Mello, Andrea Neumann, Josef Anton Riedl, Iris ter Schiphorst, Dieter Schnebel, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Modern and Apartment House London.
