Songs and Hurdy-Gurdies. Voices in a Dialogue with the Familiar and the Foreign within Themselves and in Others Presentation and Discussion of Film Dokumentaries on Vocal-Laboratory-Projects in the framework of the 9th International “Stimmtage Stuttgart”University of Music and Dramatic Arts Stuttgart, 09:00

The performer of the presented vocal projects are are students from various fields of study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, guest voice artists, as well as people from in and around Salzburg who are interested in creating new songs through improvisation and in making ‘old’ songs new again. Depending on the origin and the teaching situation, the vocal idioms of the performers are also based on the techniques in western and classical singing cultures (film exerpt).

Because the tonal idioms used are also the embodiments of the respective performers’ imaginations and the worlds they inhabit, this permits “Songs and Hurdy-Gurdies” to expand into small expressions of the art of living (film exerpt). Similarly, the “Songs and Hurdy-Gurdies” are a constant inspiration to raise awareness about the processes of incorporating and excluding ‘foreign’ elements and to cope with them by singing and playing the ‘songs’ of others within the context of their respective life stories and their cultural and social circumstances (film exerpt).