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Bielefeld: transcript 2019
Listen to Irene Kurka and Eva-Maria Houben on Irene Kurka’s podcast!
Musikalische Praxis als Lebensform. Sinnfindung und Wirklichkeitserfahrung beim Musizieren
Bielefeld: transcript 2018
Eva-Maria Houben im Gespräch mit der Sopranistin Irene Kurka
- 12. September 2020
Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy (CCAM), Nancy (France): Eva-Maria Houben, listening to yourself. double bass and drone (2019). Louis-Michel Marion, Kontrabass. - 4. Oktober 2020
Festival of Flanders, Mechelen, Kempen (Timemonochromes): Eva-Maria Houben, méditations sur le piano 15 (2020). Werke von Anton Webern, Antoine Beuger, Erik Satie, Morton Feldman, Jürg Frey u. a. Guy Vandromme, Klavier. - 23. Oktober 2020
Pauluskirche, Hamburg: Eva-Maria Houben, 4 for four (percussionists) (2015). Werke von Chiyoko slvnics, Adriana Hölszky, Nikolaus Gerszewski. Ensemble Frantic Percussion. - 23. Oktober 2020
Pauluskirche, Hamburg: Eva-Maria Houben, you and we für gemischten chor (2019). Werke von Robert Ashley, Nikolaus Gerszewski. Kammerchor Klub Konsonanz, Ltg. Uschi Krosch (als Videoprojektion). - 25. Oktober 2020
Saal der Musikschule, Heidenheim: Eva-Maria Houben, 6 sonaten für klavier (2011). sonata I – III. Eric Mayr, Klavier. - 9. November 2020
St. Petri, Hamburg: Eva-Maria Houben, in pace. voice and organ (2019). Werke von Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, Sydney Corbett, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel u.a. Irene Kurka, Stimme; Kerstin Petersen, Orgel. - 10. November 2020
Lutherkirche, Hamburg: Eva-Maria Houben, in pace. voice and organ (2019). Werke von Oskar Gottlieb Blarr, Sydney Corbett, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel u.a. Irene Kurka, Stimme; Kerstin Petersen, Orgel. - 5. Dezember 2020
Saal der Musikschule, Heidenheim: Eva-Maria Houben, 6 sonaten für klavier (2011). sonata IV – VI. Eric Mayr, Klavier.
Konzerte
Look for concerts in live-streams and social media!
For example:
Social Distancing Project #013: Eva-Maria Houben, Busy. Places to Dwell (2019)
Matt Hannafin (voice, whistling, tissue paper, radio) performs Eva-Maria Houben’s “Busy. Places to Dwell” (2019), recorded at home in Portland, Oregon, USA, in May 2020
Or:
Sonata Nr. 5 (2011) by German composer Eva-Maria Houben. Her music is especially challenging for me as a very unpatient player and listener. As a pianist I am mostly used to busy parts, having no time to listen to each particular tone – from its beginning to its end. Someone told me once, the music is born from silence and dies into silence, and this is exactly the starting point for Houben’s music.
All three movements of the Sonata have different conditions: 1. Andante cantabile e grazioso – listen notes dying out and moving into each other. Alas, the higher pitched notes have here shorter life than the lower ones. 2. Adagio con molto espressione – a strict rhythm, but wait at the end of each line until the tone is completely gone 3. Andante amabile e con moto – a Lullaby, repeat each section as often as wanted.
https://www.facebook.com/divine.shark/videos/10158151817019536
Or:
Bryan MacNamara: Eva-Maria Houben – golden sun
Neue CDs
Eva-Maria Houben, one performer. Denis Sorokin, performance: double. a whistling singer/ a singing whistler (2018); rec. by Adam Asnan in PAS, Berlin, 3.11.2018; busy. places to dwell. 1 performer (2019); rec. by Taku Sugimoto in PAS, Berlin, 7.3.2019; what is a chord? 1 performer (2019), rec. by Sergei Tumanov in Saint-Petersburg, 6.5.2019; mastered by Sergei Tumanov. diafani
Eva-Maria Houben, ensemble works. echo fantasy I, IV und V (2018), gesang XI (2018), unter anderen (2017). Ordinary Affects: Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin), Laura Cetilia (cello), J.P.A. Falzone (vibraphone/ piano), Luke Martin (guitar) with Eva-Maria Houben (organ). Recording/ Mastering: Luke Damrosch (October 2018, Memorial Chapel, Wesleyan University, Middletown (CT, USA). edition wandelweiser records 1904-05
Eva-Maria Houben, haiku for 11 (2002-04). die himmelsmechanik for orchestra (2012). University of California San Diego Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Matt Kline. diafani
Eva-Maria Houben, twin compositions: le jardin suspendu (2015) – tombeau (2015). Eva-Maria Houben, piano. diafani
Eva-Maria Houben, nothing more. string quartet (2019). 2 Dodecaphonic String Quartets by The Ars Combinatoria String Quartet, together with Dieter Schnebel’s „Stücke“. Erik Carlson, Norman Sifronsky, Paul Oliver, Michael Nicolas. Eric Carlson, recording. erikcarlson.bandcamp
Eva-Maria Houben, le silence de l’orgue (2019). Eva-Maria Houben, organ. diafani
Eva-Maria Houben, erwartung 1 und 2. Second Editions 006 2019 (LP)