Kai Schumacher. Christoph Sietzen. MOTUS Percussion – 30 Jahre Heidelberger Frühling

2027 Anniversary Season: Tickets available from 19 October 2026

Kai Schumacher. Christoph Sietzen. MOTUS Percussion
Minimal Night

Bookable from 19 October

11 Apr 2025
20:30

Karlstorbahnhof

Musikfestival

A whole evening for minimal music! The Karlstorbahnhof pays homage to a musical style that fascinates with its unmistakable method of processual time organization in music. One of the most important minimal voices is the American composer Steve Reich, who is represented on this night with two of his greatest works.

Man with or against machine - one of the most pressing questions of our time, and not just since the advance of artificial intelligence. Almost forty years ago, Steve Reich wrote his "Electric Counterpoint", a series of pieces in which the instrumentalist plays to a tape recorder. Pianist Kai Schumacher shows how this music of miniature motifs begins to pulsate and finally unfolds its maelstrom effect. He groups his own rhythmically floating pieces from his album "Tranceformer" around Reich's atmospheric counterpoint. "Drumming", one of Steve Reich's longest compositions with a playing time of around an hour, is another groundbreaking but rarely heard work of minimal music. It is based on the technique of "phasing" developed by Reich, in which two players play a repetitive pattern in unison and leave the previously created synchronicity through slight to stronger changes in tempo and timbre. Percussionist Christoph Sietzen and his ensemble MOTUS Percussion take the audience on an incredible journey during which the music flies and ultimately becomes a meditation.

This event is the entire Minimal Night. You can find the late night ticket from 22:00 here.

Kai Schumacher

Piano

Philip Glass
Metamorphosis Two

Terry Riley
Keyboard Study No. 2

Steve Reich
Electric Counterpoint (Arr. Kai Schumacher)

Kai Schumacher
Eskalator
Drift
Scapes_Spaces

Moderat
A New Error (Arr. Kai Schumacher)

The Prodigy
Out of Space (Arr. Kai Schumacher)

Kai Schumacher
Rausch

Christoph Sietzen

Percussion

MOTUS Percussion

Percussion

Leonhard Schmidinger
Percussion

Nico Gerstmayer
Percussion

Miguel Llorente
Percussion

Akisato Takeo
Percussion

Lorenzo Manquillet
Percussion

María Monleón
Percussion

Filippo Loat
Percussion

Valentin Neudorfer
Percussion

Johanna Dömötör

Flute

Christine Rainer

Voice

Laure-Catherine Beyers

Voice

Steve Reich
Drumming

Christoph Sietzen trommelt sich nach Heidelberg, um das Publikum so richtig in Trance zu spielen: mit dem Ensemble MOTUS Percussion und dem Schlagwerk-Klassiker „Drumming“ von Steve Reich. Im Podcast zeigt er, wie schwierig es ist, die rhythmischen Muster, die Patterns, übereinander zu schichten. Und verrät, warum Bongos richtige Sensibelchen sind. Host Thilo Braun fantasiert dazu über ein tanzendes Chamäleon.

-> Zu Christoph Sietzens Konzerten