Dissonance of power

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An evening between music, power and morality: from 5pm to 11pm, an evening about music and power, about sound and control unfolds. Works by Dmitri Shostakovich and his contemporaries - composers who lived in the field of tension between ideology and artistic truth - come together in several rooms. Their music reflects the dissonance of power: the juxtaposition of pathos and fear, of compulsion and inner freedom.

Shostakovich wrote in the shadow of Stalin - a life between fame and threat. His sounds oscillate between hymn and accusation, between official partisanship and secret subversion. The dissonance that can be heard in his music is not just aesthetic: it is an expression of a political state in which art becomes a mirror of power.

The evening invites you to experience this conflict through listening. Musical spaces become experiential spaces in which the mechanisms of control, fear and adaptation are acoustically revealed. Between performances, readings and discussions, a course of listening is created that understands sound as a political language.

"Dissonance of Power" shows how music does not fall silent in times of terror, but preserves its truth in nuances, ironies and breaks. It is an evening about listening in a state of emergency - about the fragile freedom of art in the face of power.

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