How does closeness sound? What happens when music is not just played, but shared between musicians and audience, between past and present? With Somehow We Can, the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop opens up a space for connection at the Radialsystem. Not a classical concert, it’s curated by composer Ethan Braun, uniting eleven compositions and twelve performers who further the string quartet genre as a living network of relationships, as a collective expression of art and society. The program moves between tonal delicacy, formal deconstruction, and political relevance. It allows marginalized voices to be heard in the canon of new music (such as BiPoC and LGBTQ+ composers), where the quartet is a place where differences are celebrated, not squashed. Alvin Singleton explores coexistence without the pressure for harmony, Yuri Umemoto brings pop-cultural references, and Sarah Davachi transforms microtonality into a sensual experience. Together, they show how new music can be polyphonic, political, and accessible. Listen, it resonates — a space of possibility.
Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Julian Blum, Romanos Lioutas, Sonja Müller
Radialsystem, Holzmarktstr.33, 10243 Berlin–Friedrichshain; map
Somehow We Can – 11 String Quartets. Tickets (pay what you can) can be purchased here.
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