BARDINALE FLOWS - Günter Heinz und Ruairí O'Brien 
LIGHT AND WORD
Bardinale flows 2010
Light poetry, music and spoken word performance
Dates: 29/08/2010
09599 Freiberg / Sa. Village Church Klein Walter village, beginning: 20 clock
31/08/2010
01099 Dresden, Jazz Club New ton, beginning 20 clock
is the end of August, a composition of the Saxon composer and jazz musician Günter Heinz , the This year, three-month scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of Saxony, is coming to the premiere. The performance "Letters from smoke" will be presented at the literature festival "BARDINALE" section.
The composer and Jazz musician Günter Heinz, who this year was awared a 3 month Scolarship by the Cultural Foundation of Saxony, will perform his work, as special guest at this years international poetry festival "BARDINALE," "Letters from smoke" (letters of smoke) for the first time in public at the end of August in Dresden and Freiberg.
The work is based on texts by contemporary English poet
Juan Carlos Valle Karlotti.
It is of paramount Concentration, but also of the utmost sensitivity - as the words of the poet. The lyrics are sung by Vanessa Vidal (Valencia) in the original language and in German. Single words, such as thrown. And yet they produce images of great intensity. Ruairí O'Brien projected light sculptures created for this purpose. Günter Heinz and Ruairí O'Brien open up the language with their music and light compositions an enhanced experience which appeals to all senses.
The composition Refers to a text written by the contemporary English poet Juan Carlos Valle Karlotti. It is highly concentrated and yet full of sensitivity – as are the words of the poet. The text will be read by Vanessa Vidal (Valencia) in English and in German. Single words, almost thrown into the space, which creates images of great intensity. Ruairí O’Brien “speaks silently” with light and space, the images or hints of images create a window of thought through which one can “see” the voice of the poet.
Günter Heinz and Ruairí O’Brien interact with their music and light compositions which open up a world of further perceptions and possible fresh spatial experiences for the senses of the attentive public.
Günter Heinz entdeckte den Dichter, dessen Texte erstmalig in Deutschland gelesen werden, durch eine Newspaper notice that it (the musicians) with Karlotti (the poet) compared. There
Ildefonzo Rodrigez wrote: "... I saw something I had never seen before: Günter Heinz, these musicians, who always reminds Karlotti gave his trombone during the concert a sip of wine. Sensitive (everything is sensitive to Günter, his bubbling, gurgle, gurgle, his sound bubbles) he raised a glass filled with red wine and had to drink his trombone. As in the ancient history of the one who shares meals with wine and his animals ... "
Günter Heinz discovered the poet, Whose texts will be read for the first time in Germany, when a newspaper journalist compared them to each other. Heinz the musician and Karlotti the the poet. In the newspaper article the journalist Ildefonzo Rodriguez wrote…”I saw something that I had never seen before..Günter Heinz this musician, who always reminds us of Karlotti, gave his trombone a glass of wine. Sensitive…everything on Günter Heinz is sensitive, his bubbling, spluttering, gurgling, chortling, and his blowing sounds. He lifted his full glass of red wine and gave his trombone a drink. Like in the ancient stories of the past where our forefather shares his food and wine with his trusted animals...”
Vanessa Vidal Mayor studierte Philosophie in Valencia und Mainz und arbeitet zur Zeit im Adorno-Archiv in Berlin on her dissertation on art experience in the work of Theodor W. Adorno.
Vanessa Vidal Mayor studied Philosophy in Mainz and Valencia and is presently working on her dissertation on the "art experience" (ArtExperience) in the work of Theodor W. Adorno Adorno at the Archives in Berlin.
Ruairí O'Brien was born in 1962 in Dublin, Ireland, is an architect, lighting designer and artist, lives and works in Germany since 1991. After studying architecture at universities in London, Edinburgh and New York, he worked as a project architect in London, New York, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin. In 1995, O'Brien his own architectural firm, based in Dresden. O'Brien taught at national and international universities in the fields of architecture, lighting design and art. O'Brien has dedicated light sculptures and other art performances light poetic genres and artists, often in the literature. In 2004 he founded "Light and Word" with the program part Bardinale flows as an experimental space of the international poetry festival BARDINALE.
Ruairí O'Brien (architect, lighting designer and artist) was born in Dublin, Ireland and has lived and worked in Germany since 1991. He studied architecture at universities in London, Edinburgh and New York. O'Brien had worked as a project architect in London, New York, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin before he founded his own architecture and design firm in 1995 called Ruairí O’Brien. Architecture. Light. Art. in the city of Dresden. O’Brien has taught architecture, art and light at several Universities in Germany and the Czech Republic. O’Briens work as an artist includes a large series of Light sculptures developed often in hommage to writers and poets of personal interest. In 1994 O’Brien established the festival “Light and Word” to provide a platform for cross over projects to accompany the international poetry festival BARDINALE. A further experimental block”Bardinale flows” allows him to invite guest artists from other art forms to accompany him in developing his genre “lightpoetry”.
