MEDIA
February 22, 2025
Atelier neuer Musik: Revisited Forum neuer Musik 2020/21
Wollen wir den Tod überwinden?
Eres Holz' String Quartet Dunkle Risse
Matthias Reuland - Tonmeister
Rostislav Kozhevnikov - violin
Barbara Streil - violin
Justyna Sliwa - viola
Teemu Myöhänen - cello
Covid-19 dramatically highlighted the urgency of this question at the time: Even we modern humans are highly fragile and mortal at any moment. But would it be human to overcome the boundary of life? In recent works, composers of the Forum class of 2020/21 have dealt with trans- and posthuman concepts in a differentiated manner. In Jamilia Jazylbekova's ensemble music, an image of extreme nature serves to suddenly bring awareness of one's own death. Eres Holz leads into a space between life and death in his string quartet. At the boundaries of the existential, Sergej Maingardt's video-music-theater piece Transfleisch also plays—questioning the possibility of consciousness continuing without a body and understanding itself as an artistic critique of transhumanism.
Touching Universes
Release: 26. August 2022
Label: NEOS Music GmbH
EAN: 4260063122071
Order number: 12207-08
Number of discs: 2
Duration: 156 minutes
Nomination for the OPUS Klassik
"Touching Universes" was nominated for the OPUS Klassik in three categories: "Composer of the Year", "Chamber Music" and "Contemporary Music"
June 2023
In addition to Sarah Nemtsov, Eres Holz contributed an outstanding work to this rich, thoughtful Forum. His string quartet Dunkle Risse wants to set the negative pole to our society, which focuses only on positiveness. Beauty arises here from pain, from carefully developed, fragile, repeatedly broken up sound spaces in which the transience of the sound leads us straight to the meadow of paradise.
Forum neuer Musik 2021
NZM - Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
1/2022
For Eres Holz, the microtones stand »as a sign of the imperfection of human – human as a biological being, and not a sterile, not a 'well-tempered' machine. Microtones as an expression of pain, but also of passion and eroticism.«
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
Harmony is essential as a frame of reference for the melodic: “I work harmonically so that the melodies obtain a relevance of meaning, as Bach does. And that is precisely why I allow myself melodic freedom, because it is harmonically well-founded.«
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Ingo Dorfmüller
NEOS
2022
Holz does not want to unfold a deceptive paradise in his music, but to raise questions about fears and existential situations. This means creatively facing the contradictions of life.
Forum neuer Musik 2021
Eres Holz's great string quartet also relies on emotions; it is inspired by thoughts of crossing borders and internal state of extremity.
Frank Kämpfer
Forum neuer Musik 2021