New project: poetry translated into music
Next dates: 29.01.22 concert and 05.02.22 talk
New videos on Youtube
Dear readers and music lovers!
I hope you had a good start into the year and are healthy and full of energy.
So many things are at a standstill right now and yet time is flying by. That's crazy!
However, I always have the time to "gender". (This is a german problem. In english it's only "readers", which includes female and male readers. In german we have different words to address female and male readers. If we use both forms which is complicated but only fair it's called "gendering".
Costs only a few letters and 2 seconds!
I know, many are annoyed by it, but if you want changes, you must be uncomfortable at times.
Last week I wrote an application for a jazz competition and didn't have to gender the jurors and organizers because they were all men.
Unfortunately, I then had to immediately address and criticize this circumstance.
We probably don't have much of a chance of being shortlisted there anyway. I only hope that my rhetorical point will not have a negative influence on the decision of the jurors. Crap! Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut, I thought, when the mail was already sent.
You will find out whether we are lucky or not! The jury is currently in session.
I was actually lucky in the last grant program that the GEMA announced.
I got a grant for a composition project that has been on my mind for a long time: to set German poetry to music.
Phew! I've got my work cut out for me.
My piles of books with poems and secondary literature on the subject of poetry are growing, and my mental overload is growing exponentially.
Especially modern poetry I often don't understand at all. Besides, a poem without rhymes or fixed form is very difficult to translate into a musical form. That's where I've learned a lot.
One book inspired me a lot and actually made me laugh out loud. Yes, really!
"Poetry sucks" by Andreas Thalmayr has a good title for a start and is funny to boot.
It also takes away the awe of this form of literature.
What good does it do me to know how a flawless iamb or anapaest works? Or what was the form of a sonnet again?
I learned all that in school, but it was a long time ago! Now I remember, and I can't use it.
After reading this book, I decided to approach the matter intuitively and simply choose what appeals to me.
Worked out pretty well! I finished writing a few things - including my own lyrics.
You will be able to hear the results soon.
Just so much: German is a very beautiful language !
Concert tip:
I'm looking forward to the concert next weekend!
On Saturday, the 29.01. I will play in duo with Erwin Kühn (guitar) in the Hotel Nord in Braunschweig a double concert with the trio of my dear colleague Mel Germain.
It will be an entertaining evening with jazz and pop.
Doors will be open from 6pm (they say you can eat well there!) and our concert will start at 8pm.
VoiceSistas Live Talk
On Saturday, d. 05.02. at 8:15 pm the VoiceSistas will be live guests in the Talk in the Kulturstream Hildesheim at the Atelier Licht.n.Stein. With our vocal colleague Julia Schönleiter we talk about improvisation, singing, our projects and plans and watch excerpts of our project Soundscapes///, which took place last October in the Magnikirche in BS as a live concert and stream.
The concert will also be shown there again in full length this weekend!
So if you missed it, feel free to have a look!
On Youtube you can already find some videos from the album release concert for my album "On Air On Water" in April 2021, which I finally edited.
Here are the new videos on my YT channel, which you can subscribe to!
Stay healthy and optimistic!
Best wishes
Britta
