SOS KLIMAWANDEL Von der Wüste bis zum Eis – Musik im Wettlauf mit der Zeit

In the organizer's words:

ive composers - all born in Chile and now working internationally - meet the E-MEX Ensemble in this
E-MEX Ensemble to capture the consequences of climate change in music.
Their origins shape their perspective: Chile is a country of extremes - from the driest desert in the world to
desert in the world to Antarctic ice, from the endless Pacific Ocean to mountain ranges that
that run through the country like a spine. It is a landscape full of beauty, but
but also full of threats: Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and droughts
are part of the experience here.

This geographical and climatic diversity forms the resonating space in which the composers
composers explore the topic of climate change artistically. They know: What we do in
Europe also has an effect there. The waste from the textile industry ends up in the Atacama Desert,
the high water consumption for avocado plantations dries out entire regions, overfishing
overfishing and salmon farming are irretrievably changing marine ecosystems. The
global climate crisis is being felt directly in Chile - and it also bears traces of our
consumer behavior here in Germany.

In the concert program curated by Ramón Gorigoitia, for whom Cologne has become his adopted home
Cologne, various compositional styles and perspectives come together: scientific
different compositional styles and perspectives: scientific data is transformed into sound textures, poetic fragments
poetic fragments meet musical quotations, and each composition seeks its own
language to make the urgency of this topic audible. Music here becomes a
sensorium for the fine cracks and the enormous ruptures in the balance of nature - and an
and an invitation to face up to the responsibility we all bear, no matter how far apart the coasts and continents are.
coasts and continents lie apart.

Program
curated by Ramón Gorigoitia

Alejandro Guarello - Klima Klama (2025)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

Ramón Gorigoitia - 5-4-12 (2025)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

Javier Party - Syncu (2025)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano

Mauricio Córdova-Branttes - Aire (2025)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano and percussion

Leon Schidlowsky - Trío Nocturnal (2017)
for violin, violoncello and piano

Pablo Aranda - MAsPed II (2025)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano