Getauscht
Hannes Buder, Cecile Rossant
Concert performance
13. September 2024
13. September 2024
I walked out of the door and took the roads down south.
By 5 o’clock I reached the place where the city stops and the fields began,
and by 7 o’clock I was in some kind of forest ... (Hannes Buder)
Santa Månika taufte eine formschöne Schlammpfütze auf den Namen Laura. Ihr Beben begann schon auf den Kirchentreppen und verstärkte sich noch, als ein altes, in blauschwarzes Leinen gebundenes, mit zarten Schimmelwolken versehenes und von Feuchtigkeit aufgequollenes Buch in ihrer Mitte landete. (Cecile Rossant)
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Hannes Buder (born 1978 in the former GDR) is a german guitarist, cellist and composer, whose work gaines from a disparate range of influences, including minimal music, 20th century classical music, jazz and avantgarde rock. After studying electric guitar in Dresden he relocated to Berlin, where he became involved with the experimental music scene. He played in numerous projects ranging from completely improvised music to completely composed music, and the transistion area in between. Besides that, Buder has always been a composer and music inventor himself, creating a large collection of solo compositions, first for electric guitar, and later for cello and voice, documented on his five solo albums. He also composed for smaller and larger ensembles, including four compositions for 25 piece orchestra.
Buder also frequently works with dancers, in larger companies or in duos. He composed, performed and recorded music and sound for film and theatre.
The musicians and composers that Buder collaborated with include Nicole Mitchell, Todd Capp, Andrew Lafkas, Helmut Öhring, Thomas Noll, Hannes Lingens, Luc Houtkamp, Audrey Chen, Tony Buck, Audrey Lauro, Hilary Jeffery, Mike Majkowski, Steve Heather, and many more.
Cecile Rossant, born and raised in New York City, is a writer and performer who applies a multidisciplinary approach to all her work. After earning a BA in Biology she apprenticed in the studio of the painter and architect Arakawa, an experience which inspired her to study architecture. She received a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and worked several years at the offices of Arata Isozaki & Associates in New York, Tokyo and Berlin, where she has lived since 1995.
She is the author of the novels Tokyo Bay Traffic (Red Hen Press 2008), Underground New York (Cornelsen Verlag 2006) and the collections of short fiction About Face (Red Hen Press 2004) and Microfictions in collaboration with the artist Nana Suzuki (Pluraal Verlag 2021). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals including Salt Hill, Exberliner, The Crucifix is Down, Bordercrossings, Graensen Grenzen, and the London Review. Her third young adult novel Fractured will be published by Cornelsen Verlag at the end of 2024.
In 2019, Rossant joined Marcozzi Contemporary Theater Ensemble performing in the company's productions of McBeth (2019), On Urgency*Pilot (2020), and On Urgency*Nesting (2021-2022). She was also a member of PAN/k Theater Company, created in Berlin in 2020 and took part in the urban performative interventions project Dreams on Target.
Rossant wrote and performed The Butcher, a solo performance piece that premiered in 2022 at the Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin.