In a distant future with no awareness of music and concerts as we know it, archaeologists have excavated a tape machine and a number of tape rolls, one of them with a live recording of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto. To better understand the nature of the sounds stored on the mostly deteriorated tapes they connect the tape-machine to a "reverse echolocation"-chamber, enabling them to visualise and explore the space where the mysterious, acoustic signals were recorded …
Simon Steen-Andersen's new work, no Concerto, is created as a fictional media- and music archaeological exploration staging an imaginary first encounter with a (reconstruction of a) classical concert, experienced by a person from a distant future in which music and concerts as we know them no longer exist.
no Concerto is performed on 3 February, 20.00, at Funkhaus Wallrafplatz in Köln by the WDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Wendeberg, actor Sebastian Rudolph and pianist Rei Nakamura. Rei Nakamura is also the soloist in Simon Steen-Andersen's 2014 Piano Concerto performed at the same concert.
The concert will be broadcast live on YouTube and on the WDR website. Find more information about the concert and broadcast link here.
Find more information about Simon Steen-Andersen's no Concerto here.