Am Punkt des gleichen Umwegs
Tina Tonagel
Opening: May 07, 2020, 7:00 pm
Duration: May 07, 2020 – Jun 14, 2020
Photos: Johannes Bendzulla
Tina Tonagels works encompass spacial interventions, kinetic objects, sound installations and live audiovisual concerts. She combines light, sound and movement into a harmonious and poetic unity. Among other works, she is developing a composition of 240 slabs of slate for the NKR, which shall be made audible electronically. For the duration of the project Tina Tonagel will publish videos and photographs of her works in the NKR as well as her studio in Cologne on the NKR website.
Visitors are welcome from 8 May 2020 onwards during usual opening hours. Please wear a mask, wash your hands and keep your distance. Visitors are initially limited to 10 persons. Many thanks for your understanding. We are looking forward to seening you!
Concert by Simon Rummel Ensemble and Tina Tonagel
The sound installation, which can currently be viewed and heard at NKR Düsseldorf by artist Tina Tonagel, is comprised of 240 freely swinging slate slabs which are played automatically by being struck individually using small mallets. From the view point of organology, the structure can be described using either the term stone-play, or its Greek term lithophone. Slate is a natural material and although the stone plates all are the same shape, each still has its own sound. Some differ distinctly, though many sound similar and can only be distinguished by listening very closely.
The composer Simon Rummel has taken the time to listen closely and has analysed the individual slate slabs as they resound in Tina Tonagels composed sequence. By carefully adding tones, Rummel has created a new composition on the basis of his transcription and while it remains very close to Tina Tonagels work, it still leaves room for the unexpected by weaving space for improvisations into the sound web.
Simon Rummel and ensemble will play live to Tina Tonagels large lithophone at the finissage of the exhibition at the NKR.
Line-up:
Lucia Mense - Recorders
Joris Rühl (By way of transmition from Paris) - Clarinet
Georg Wissel - Clarinet
Udo Moll - Trumpet
Matthias Muche - Trombone
Carl Ludwig Hübsch - Tuba / Pitch pipes
Radek Stawarz – Viola tenore
Oxana Omelchuk - Reed organ
Michael Griener - Xylophone / Metallophone
Ketonge Manfred Rücker – Real-time effects
Simon Rummel - Mikrotonal harmonica / Composition
Tina Tonagel - Constructed Lithophone / Composition
Times: half-hourly intervals from 3 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
Registration required: info@nkr-duesseldorf.de
Masks are compulsory.
Funded by:
Musikfonds e.V.
Kunststiftung NRW
