Faust on Beats
Sound. Art. Work. Drama and Music.
Faust reinterpreted. For speaker, clarinet, cello and electronics.
Music by Andy Miles
Ensemble
Folker Banik, speaker
Andy Miles, clarinet - saxophon - electronics
Laura Wiek, cello
Short Info
Music. Theatre. Performance.
3 persons: 1 actor, 2 musicians, Electronics
Duration: 80 min plus break
Original text from Faust 1
Music: film musically with elements of Classic, HipHop, Tekno.
The breathtaking composition came from Miles' pen, which breathed life into the texts presented and created an impressive total work of art - magnificent and extraordinary!
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About
A man has everything, knows everything, and yet still demands more. For more and more knowledge and experience that move him, provide him with new temptations. The devil shall make
it. A pact is sealed, as a beautiful woman enters the stage...
Man, woman and devil, these three forces circle around each other, three texts spoken by a person, carried, accompanied and seduced by music. Music is much more than just an
accessory: it reaches ahead, knows more than its protagonists, it comments and feels with it. A music that knows to handle with classic references and modern electro-beats. Cello,
clarinet and filmmusical sounds are mixed together with speech into a very impressive sound art work, Faust on Beats, the great drama of German literature, presented in a rhetorical
way according to today's music and listening habits.
The Concert
The live concert lasts nearly 90 minutes incl. break. The audience is by this magic performance in the spell of Dr. Faust and surely will not forget this evening!
Folker Banik is a popular actor in film and television productions ("Hotel Heidelberg" ARD, "Marie Brand and the last meal "Rosenheim Cops", Wilsberg, crime scene ...). Furthermore,
Folker Banik has numerous speaker parts in WDR and German radio.
Andy Miles is the principal clarinet of the WDR Funkhausorchester and an internationally known soloist. Again and again he breaks musical boundaries and is called Marco Polo by the
press the clarinet. In addition, he is more and more active as a composer and, in addition to the composition "Faust" with his clarinet concerto, his setting of "Novecento" and
especially with his orchestral suite "Bridges" it attracted a lot of attention.
Laura Wiek is a cellist in the WDR Funkhausorchester and is a passionate chamber musician. She has been giving concerts with Andy Miles in "Duo: Scope" for many years and has the
Faust project decisively shaped.
Today I sat full of tension on my shapely armchair and followed the action almost like a crime thriller. It wasn't just exciting, it was also very moving. For the first time I found emotional access to the material. Thank you!
( C. Zander )
