The first impression: This is organized chaos. Instruments and musicians are distributed seemingly randomly in the large room under the roof; everyone seems to be doing whatever comes to mind. But behind every sonic growth, behind every seemingly random idea there is a plan, of course, after all a piece of music is being created here. However, anyone who has ever been present at a rehearsal of a “normal” orchestra will still be very surprised at how it works. There is nothing hierarchical here, no one here says, backed by the wisdom of their artistic knowledge, how something has to be indispensable, here there is no conductor as the personification of quasi-absolutistic power. No, members of the Ensemble Modern together with their scholarship holders Hans Zenders “Models”.
20 years of the International Ensemble Modern Academy – Culture
