Full-circle was the replacement event for the Blue Night 2020.
It was a 4-hour performative installation with Johannes Billich on piano and Gunnar Tippmann / light. Recorded and broadcast live from the Egidienkirche.
With the concert performance full-circle, Johannes Billich and Harald Kienle condense the sum of their joint experiences on the largest scale to date. Four hours have been chosen as the duration of the event. A 12-hour performance was planned for the Night of the Churches and the opening of the ION. Over this period, the two will realise a direct contact between their fields of work that can be experienced in the process, when an expansive wooden sculpture develops parallel to the musical composition ‘full-circle’. The basic material of the wood and the process of finishing in an almost closed figure-eight form is reflected in the steadily upward arpeggiated three-note structures on the piano. As the architectural basis of the sound process, all nineteen possible basic forms of these triads are arranged in such a way that they can be heard in all possible transpositions in chromatic space, changing key every half hour over a period of six hours, with only one note changing from structure to structure. Together, the two artists improvise a wood-sound-space sculpture that can be understood as both a concert and a performance, always under the premise of understanding the improvisation as a composition in authenticity. The Holz_Klang_Raum sculptural installation is therefore always in motion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixjSrIq2q_4&feature=youtu.be
