Concerts on May 25 and 26, 2019

To mark the reopening of the east tunnel after its renovation, the HfMT and the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) are organizing four concerts in the St. Pauli Elbtunnel at the Landungsbrücken on the last weekend in May. 144 musicians will bring the more than 100-year-old landmark of the city of Hamburg to life.

Each of the two tunnels of the St. Pauli Elbtunnel stretches over a length of 430 meters. The musicians will play six meters apart in each of the two tunnels, turning the St. Pauli Elbtunnel into an 860-metre-long musically active space. Tablet-based scores will be used to synchronize the instrumentalists and singers, which will be individually controlled in real time by a server computer. Each performer receives their own score voice on a networked tablet using specially developed software. To minimize latency, a network system connects the 144 tablets to the main server.

Subgroups of twelve musicians each form an ensemble of string, brass, woodwind, plucked and percussion instruments as well as electric guitars, accordions and vocals. This line-up and the way it is arranged allow for spatial compositional refinements that will only be heard on the last weekend in May in the "Old Elbe Tunnel". Concertgoers will be able to move freely around the Elbe Tunnel and thus enjoy a very individual, spatial concert experience.

Pieces composed especially for the symphony in the St. Pauli Elbtunnel will be performed by contemporary composers Nicolas Collins (USA), Alvin Curran (USA), Cat Hope (AUS), Shing-Kwei Tzeng (TWN) and Lindsay Vickery (AUS) as well as by Alessandro Anatrini, Xiao Fu, Rama Gottfried, Georg Hajdu, Jacob Sello (all HfMT) and students from the Multimedia Composition department.

Concert dates:
Saturday, May 25, 2019 16:00 and 18:30
Sunday, May 26, 2019 16:00 and 18:30
Duration of the concerts: approx. 1 hour each

Admission: EUR 15.00
Reduced: EUR 10.00
Tickets: Sold out. There are no more tickets available for the "Symphonie im St. Pauli" Elbtunnel.

Program

Saturday, May 25, 2019 4:00 pm

Georg Hajdu: symphony for a tunnel

Rama Gottfried: echoic memory capsule

Alessandro Anatrini: Open Fields

Xiao Fu: Growing

Nicolas Collins: Roomtone Variations

Jacob Sello: RE:sonate

Saturday, May 25, 2019 6:30 pm

Alvin Curran: Notes from Underground

Dong Zhou: Children's Scene

Benjamin Wong: Happiness

James Cheung: Dodecahedron Star

Shing-Kwei Tzeng: The Spring of the Golden Pig

Cat Hope: Musk

Sunday, May 26, 2019 4:00 pm

Georg Hajdu: symphony for a tunnel

Rama Gottfried: echoic memory capsule

Alessandro Anatrini: Open Fields

Xiao Fu: Growing

Nicolas Collins: Roomtone Variations

Jacob Sello: RE:sonate

Sunday, May 26, 2019 6:30 pm

Alvin Curran: Notes from Underground

Jan Wegmann: Blues

Minzuo Lu: Lónglóng - (Gloomy)

Víctor Gutiérrez Cuiza: Texculpting

Seonghee Lee: Spiral

Tam Thi Pham: The Maiden, the mother and the Hag

Tzu-Ning Liao: Chakra

Lindsay Vickery: decompression

The event "Symphonie im St. Pauli Elbtunnel" is part of the project "Stage_2.0" and is funded by the federal-state program "Innovative Hochschule", an initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Joint Science Conference (GWK).