Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie

Conductor > Pablo Rus Broseta

Martin Matalon > Las siete vidas de un gato (1996) 18’

Music for the film by Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dalì Un Chien Andalou for 8 musicians and electronica

Wolfgang Rihm > Bild (1984) 9 – 18’

Musical performance with film by Luis Buñuel / Salvador Dalì Un Chien Andalou

Conductor > Joong Bae Jee

Paul Hindemith > Im Kampf mit dem Berge (In Sturm und Eis) (1921) 54’

The namesake music from the film by Arnold Fanck, in the shortened version “Moscow Materials” by Lothar Prox.

The masterpiece of surrealist cinema, Un Chien Andalou, inspired two great composers of our times, Martin Malaton and Wolfgang Rihm. The shifting temperatures of the sounds in the music of Martin Malaton – his rich and eclectic musical language deriving from Jazz, Fusion and Rock – accompanies the absurd, onirical strangeness and creativity of the cinematographic version of the Andalusian dog.

Rihm's music, on the other hand, moves autonomously and wants to be lived as a separate, parallel entity to the movie; the musical language in this piece is dry, but as sophisticated and complex as the language of Un Chien Andalou. These two versions form one complete work of art that reconfirms the surrealist philosophy of the movie, a philosophy which states that existence is unfatomable and fleeting and just because of that: wonderful.

After the agressive images of Buñuel we come to the titanic work of Arnold Fanck, pioneer of mountain cinema, one of the first directors to show the glory of alpine landscapes with dangerous shots from breathtaking angles. The music for this version of the movie, shortened by Lothar Prox, is composed by Hindemith. A surprisingly vertiginous camera, hanging over precipices and crevices, intertwines with stories of love and death, of danger and heroes, of emotions and adventure.