PERFORMANCE
"Which movement creates which sound and which sound creates which movement?"
Harald Kimmig
THE HUMAN FACTORY
In his performances, Harald Kimmig does not limit himself to playing the violin, but also combines it with dance and movement sequences, which gives his performances a unique touch.
In these performances, he uses a variety of media to examine the mechanisms of action of different genres and arts and their influence on the human self. The possibilities, challenges, problems and joys in encountering the other, the stranger and the familiar are illuminated.
HARA
SOLO-IMPROVISATION HARALD KIMMIG
Harald Kimmig – violine, e-violin, composition, improvisation
HARA is a fusion of the sounds of the acoustic and electric violin with your own body and the surrounding space. The performance poses the question of the fluid transition from sound to movement and vice versa, blurring the dividing line between music and movement in a fascinating way.
DUO LILO STAHL - HARALD KIMMIG
Lilo Stahl – dance
Harald Kimmig – violin
The risk: a leap into the unknown. Nothing is planned, nothing has been agreed upon. All that matters is the moment of meeting. The actors act unprotected. Here, risk is desired, confrontation and yet always: closeness.
Lilo Stahl and Harald Kimmig find a common language and specific forms of artistic communication in their improvisation. Through the metalanguage they have found together, which always happens in the moment, both actors are able to initiate, further develop and end a process at any time. Thus, the performance goes beyond the individual statements of those involved. Dance and music combine to form a new form.
> Exploratorium Berlin, 2021
> FIM Basel, 2019
NEXT STEP IS
Dancers and musicians venture into the unknown: nothing is planned, nothing is arranged, only the moment counts, the only thing that is certain: NEXT STEP IS.
Improvisation as an independent art form runs like a thread through the activities of the artists involved. And again and again, the dialogue between dance and music is at the centre of these activities.
The dancers and musicians who have come together to form NEXT STEP IS show the artistic wealth and innovative impulses that are revealed in improvised performances.
FLOW
Harald Kimmig – violin, performance, artistic director
Ephraim Wegner – sound direction, audio live processing
Simon Schwab – video processing
Georg Hallmann – lighting direction
FLOW – to be in flow, to transform, but also: to return to the origin, to drift forward or to be driven. This performance is dedicated to ‘water’ and its fluctuating properties from a double perspective. Harald Kimmig moves in a projected water sphere between video worlds, playback noises, and violin sounds. He searches for and finds trickling sounds and movements, flowing processes, but also harsh breaks and abrupt changes of direction.
Sensuality and analysis collide and perhaps reveal the quality that leads from water to human FLOW.
INTERFACE
Hideto Heshiki – dance
Harald Kimmig – violin, overall management
Ephraim Wegner – audio live processing
Daniel Bisig – video live processing
Georg Hallmann – light
In order to explore the complex communication between man and medium via interfaces, the performance INTERFACE integrates violin sounds of new and improvised music (Composer:
Harald Kimmig), the movement language of contemporary dance (choreography: Hideto Heshiki), electronically generated sounds (Ephraim Wegner), real-time video images (Daniel Bisig) and lighting design (Georg Hallmann). In the interaction of these media, the boundaries between hearing and seeing as well as between the real physique of the actors and their digital processing become blurred – perhaps to the point of complete dissolution? One thing is certain, however: the performance takes up the influence of interactive media in the direct encounter between two people in order to create a stage situation that reflects the increasing mediatization of our everyday lives through the principle of intermediality.
In 2019, INTERFACE received the Dance and Theater Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg.
THE HUMAN FACTOR
Harald Kimmig – performance, violin
Ephraim Wegner – audio live processing
Bernd Dudzik, Katja Wahl – video live processing
Georg Hallmann – lighting direction
THE HUMAN FACTOR is an interdisciplinary performance project by the artists Harald Kimmig, Ephraim Wegner, Bernd Dudzik and Katja Wahl. The violinist Harald Kimmig performs musically and physically in a seemingly empty space, a “white cube” made of gauze. This represents a kind of individual “communication space” – a place for the exchange of information. It is measured entirely digitally, recorded acoustically and visually through live processing (sound/image/video) and continuously modified. This creates a complex interactive network.
WRITING SOUNDS
ANNETTE PEHNT, HARALD KIMMIG
Annette Pehnt – text, performance, improvisation
Harald Kimmig – violin, e-violin, improvisation
Play, text, sound in one space: writing and music interact in live improvisation. This creates an aesthetic format that has hardly been tested before. We make ourselves vulnerable, reveal our work processes and thereby risk blurring the boundaries between genres without giving up our own artistic language. Text and sound write and play themselves between touch and collision and create new resonances.