MEDIA
June 28, 2025
Atelier neuer Musik
Revisited Forum 2023: Auf der Suche nach Normalität
Frank Kämpfer
Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie Mensch war (2023) for ensemble, text projection, and live electronics
Commissioned by Deutschlandfunk
Christoph Maria Wagner – Artistic Director
Robert F Schneider – Sound Engineer
Intro
Background of the work
Creation and context
Press
Excerpt
Escapism, lack of mourning, even general emotional coldness — these were observed by contemporaries describing Germany after 1945. The traumatized population was in search of normality, consistently blocking out the experiences of war and the Nazi dictatorship. To musically and literarily gather something that could delve into and listen to that distant, still closed and silent time — while at the same time creating an emotional connection to the here and now — was the aim of conductor Christoph-Maria Wagner, narrator Olaf Reitz, and the E-MEX Ensemble. On October 26, 2023, they presented the opening evening of the new music forum “In the German Postwar Period.” For this occasion, Eres Holz composed a monumental ensemble piece reflecting the psychoses of former Wehrmacht soldiers.
DEATH
Release: November 2024
Label: NEOS Music GmbH
Order number: 12431
Number of discs: 1
Duration: 71 minutes
Cover: Maria Frodl
[...] Music of overwhelming intensity, emotional impact, and at the same time, deeply sorrowful rage.
May 2025
One sees that Eres Holz is totally confident in his craftsmanship and always knows what he's doing when handling sounds. Nothing is left to chance.
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March 6, 2025
[...] Se trata entonces de una gozosa ceremonia de la confusión interpretada con furia y, a la vez, se ha de insistir en ello, con una extrañísima musicalidad marca de la casa.
[...] Ultimately, it is an ecstatic ceremony of confusion—performed with fury but, it must be emphasized, with an unmistakable and uniquely original musicality that is distinctly Holz’s own.
February 2025
The Berlin composer Eres Holz [...] writes music of deeply moving, existentialist relentlessness.
February 2025
New CDs of new music, presented by Dirk Wieschollek
Hardly any other composer currently reflects the horrors of the present as intensely as the Israeli-born composer Eres Holz. One will search in vain for superficial content or political messages. Everything existential is directly transformed by Holz into the sphere of sound and its articulations.
February 2025
by Valeska Baader and Mathis Ubben
How does war and violence turn into music? How do composers artistically deal with war and violence? What does violence sound like in music? And how should the audience experience this music?
In this episode, Mathis and Valeska trace the footsteps of music in times of war and talk with Eres Holz and Ehsan Khatibi.
February 2025
Composers and Their Audience in the Echo Chamber of War and Violence
„I think every human being must, in some way, bring humanity back into the discussion as a topic. And that, please, also in the contemporary music scene. We cannot continue isolating ourselves with experiments.“
February 2025
New music that leaves no one indifferent [...] His expressive works exhibit a densely structured, highly individual signature.
February 2025