▍SPIEGLEIN, SPIEGLEIN - Reflecting Truth｜SEEKLANG Festival 2024

 

The music begins: the mirror rises like the sun. After seeing ourselves, we stand and walk, coming from all directions to meet. Connections form between people, sounds emerge between people and instruments, and between music and people, there is expression and mutual feeling. We create many kinds of duets, and our feelings with the audience flow like mist on a lake, filling the space.

 

We tidy our appearance in front of the mirror and tune our instruments in front of the people, while the eyes of others reflect another version of ourselves. We are mirrors for others and things, and in this, I see the reality—the vitality of "who we really are." This vitality is a light that illuminates us and others, helping us find each other and exist together within our limitations.

 

We photograph and document every moment that is simultaneously passing and occurring.

 

And we began this way: meeting at Concerto21, reuniting at Jesper's invitation, and, in trust, love, and passion, growing into that night's concert with Yannic Borchert on stage, reflecting all of this with the audience by the beautiful lake in Hergiswil.

 

Creating in this way is blissful, and advancing calmly towards the unknown with wonderful souls is both dark and brilliant. How fortunate we are.

 

For this, I wish to offer my eternal thanks.

 

 

◉ Artists 

 

Jesper Gasseling｜Violin, Artistic Director of SEEKLANG Festival

Melissa Wedekind｜Soprano, Baroque Harp & Live Electronics, Technical Support

Annette Fritz｜Violin

Yi Lu｜Viola

Natania Hoffmann｜Cello

Teresa Emilia Raff｜Harp

Elshan Ghasimi｜Persian Lute (Tar)

Zilvinas Brazauskas｜Clarinet

Shuteen Erdenebaatar｜Jazz Piano

Jan Lukas Roßmüller｜Jazz Piano

Yannic Borchert｜Photo- and Videographer, Performer

Ching-Tien Lin｜Director and Staging 

 

◉ Special Thanks To

 

Patrik Haf｜Managing Director 

Support from the Family of Jesper

Josefine Göhmann｜Soprano

Konzertsaal Aula Grossmatt, Hergiswil am See

GLASI Hergiswil

Concerto 21