Klangkörper was a composition project, supported by a scholarship by German Musikfonds. Based on the improvisational work with GlädjeCollective, a newly founded interdisciplinary improvisation lab, I experimented with choir writing in order to transform the improvisation experiences into something new for another setting. Inspired by the lab’s artistic work with the topic of distance and the reinhabiting of space, I researched from the composer’s point of view how musical closeness can develop and choir singing become possible in the times of the pandemic. The choir literally turns into a Klangkörper that tides over the distances through the composition.

GlädjeCollective started in 2020 from the encounter of 4 artists that never worked together before, facing the challenge of building a safe place to inhabit in risky times.

The focus lay on how to perceive and organize space, based on the new Corona regulations in Berlin. We asked ourselves how to design new choreographies and frequencies of coexistence for our bodies, working with both movement and sound and being interested in their relation and common expression.

Artists: Oktavia Zoë Voehringer, Cecilia Gil Marino, Lucia Rosso, Birgitta Flick

From 2020–2021, the project was hosted by “Cordillera – Raum für Körper und Utopien”, founded by Oktavia Zoë Vöhringer and Silvia Ospina in Berlin Oberschöneweide. 

More information on current activities and performances are to come.