MEDIA
June 6, 2026
Atelier neuer Musik
My Composing Generation X
Frank Kämpfer
Excerpt
Introduction
Encounter (A)
Musical excerpt: “Ein Mensch erkennt, dass er nie Mensch war” for ensemble and live electronics, from the album “DEATH” (Neos), commissioned by Deutschlandfunk
Encounter (B)
Closing Remarks
Produced by Deutschlandfunk
Part 12: My Composing Generation X
Featuring recordings by Samir Odeh-Tamimi, Jamilia Jazylbekova, Lisa Streich, Ying Wang, Sarah Nemtsov, Farzia Fallah and Eres Holz
Providing emerging musicians and composers with airtime, a public platform, and opportunities for artistic development has long been part of Deutschlandfunk’s tradition. With the rapid diversification of the recording-label landscape around the year 2000, it became a natural step to open the Deutschlandfunk Chamber Music Hall to the next generation of composers as well. Through CD co-productions, a new framework emerged in which selected young composers could be supported conceptually throughout their artistic development. At the same time, an editorial philosophy began to take shape that combined support with challenge and responsibility. In the final episode of the series, producer Frank Kämpfer reflects on his collaboration with seven composers, ranging from Samir Odeh-Tamimi, born in 1970, to Lisa Streich, born in 1985.
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
The music is very powerful [...] I found it (the album) also gripping enough to really stay with it [...] in the end, you come away [...] enriched and deeply impressed.
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March 6, 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.
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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.
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by Valeska Baader and Mathis Ubben
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„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.
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