Klosterkirche Heilig Kreuz

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19:00Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen
20:00Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

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Thursday, 15 Oct 2026Thu, 15 Oct • 19:00 • Klosterkirche Heilig Kreuz
Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen
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Thursday, 15 Oct 2026Thu, 15 Oct • 20:00 • Klosterkirche Heilig Kreuz
Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko
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Crystalline, minimal and dissonant, The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity is a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by Lea Bertucci. Steeped in folkloric influences, this work is a haunting contemplation of time, duration and memory, evoking the primeval and futuristic simultaneously. Written for master flutist, early music scholar, and member of the legendary early music group Sequentia, Norbert Rodenkirchen, this work reaches back through the spans of history and catapults ancient music into an mesmeric present. The collection of flutes that Norbert has amassed over many decades features unique instruments not usually found in the repertoire of most flutists, from the Renaissance to the Neolithic: Medieval Traverso, Swan Bone, Sheep Bone, Renaissance Tenor and Renaissance Bass. Pre-recorded sustained pitches and abstracted melodic fragments generated from these flutes are sampled and live deployed across an eight channel speaker array. The drones pulsing through the sound system create a lush and dissonant bed over which Norbert plays with minimal amplification, in effect expanding and contracting the instrument from its point of live origin to a diffused, spatialized sonic environment. The project premiered November 20th, 2025 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, DE and is the recipient of the 2023 Gigahertz Prix. Lea and Norbert have toured the US together in summer 2026.

Heinali is the moniker of composer and sound artist Oleh Shpudeiko. His artistic practice reimagines early music through modular synthesis, viewing the past as a mirror that reflects contemporary experience. Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko is a musician, singer, and actor, who explores the voice as an instrument. Her cross-genre explorations bring together authentic Ukrainian singing, jazz, and electronic music – always with an ear for the subtle sensibilities of folk music as a living material. Гільдеґарда (“Hildegard” in Ukrainian) is their collaborative reimagining of Hildegard von Bingen's music. This piece combines Saienko's singing, rooted in traditional Ukrainian vocal techniques, with Heinali's modular synthesis, which draws on medieval polyphony and monophony. Together, they aim to highlight the physicality of Hildegard's music while reflecting on and processing wartime experience and parsing the raw spirituality that emerges from it.