WORKSHOPS
Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Nika Schmitt
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. On Abweichungsversuche by Nika Schmitt A text by Julia Krabes Nika Schmitt filled the Orangerie’s enfilade on the upper floor with what the program called an “electro-mechanical chain reaction“. On paper that […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Georges Aperghis
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. On Tell Tales by Georges Aperghis A text by Carmel Curiel The title Tell Tales reads as an order, a request — to tell a story rather than to introduce one. It […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Tristan Perich
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. On Reflections of a Bright Object by Tristan Perich A text by Jakob Schwall On Saturday, October 18, 2025, the piece Reflections of a Bright Object by New York based composer Tristan Perich […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Mark Andre
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. Im Enfalten. Dem Andenken an Pierre Boulez for Orchestra by Mark Andre A text by Raphaëlle Proust and Maayan Gabel ‘For dust you are, and to dust you shall return’ (Genesis […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Philippe Leroux
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. Divertissement, intense On Paris, banlieue (Un informe journal de mes rêveries) by Philippe Leroux A text by Sasha Katsalap In the programme note, Philippe Leroux says he hesitated whether the name […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Alexander Khubeev
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. Having the courage to open the abyss On Garmonbozia by Alexander Khubeev A text by Christian Gregori Approaching a circular stand of twelve sycamore trees surrounding a puddle of thick black substance, […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Imsu Choi
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. Und am Ende: nichts? Miro von Imsu Choi im Eröffnungskonzert Ein Text von Lawson Lawall Nach der ersten Hälfte des Eröffnungskonzerts der Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025 ging man mit einer gewissen Ratlosigkeit in […]
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Visite Critique Donaueschingen: Hanna Eimermacher
The following text was written in the context of the visite critique during the Next Generation workshop at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025. Aura by Hanna Eimermacher for 22 Performers A text by Ivana Petrač “Time is an illusion – There is always everything there all at once” Audience expectations are inevitably heightened when the […]
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„Visite Critique“ at Darmstadt Summer Course 2025
(26. Juli bis 2. August 2025) The “Visite Critique” accompanies the second festival week of the Darmstadt Summer Course 2025 with open and free discussion sessions in which we articulate and exchange our experiences of the concerts and critically discuss aesthetic tendencies in contemporary music and its history. Together we will listen to and discuss […]
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Partisan Critique @ Next Generation Donaueschingen
One hundred musicians, composers and musicologists have participated in the Next Generation programme of the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2024. During the festival weekend, Partisan Notes animated a series of discussions, about the premiered compositions, the currents and tendencies of contemporary musical production and the standards of music criticism. The following texts emerged from these debates.
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