Beat Club Bliss: Sebastian Wielandt - Rhythms of Life
Everything is percussion, the human body just as much as a frame drum and snare drum, a vat of water just like a marimba. And of course, a classical drum virtuoso can raise the fundamental questions of life with their music: All life comes from water. But where does life go and what is its meaning? With passion, expressiveness, and sensitivity, the multi-percussionist Sebastian Wielandt poses this primordial question of humanity in his "Rhythms of Life."
Water is the primordial element. For Tan Dun's "Water Spirit," the percussionist fills two basins with water and brings them to sound with bowls, containers, and his hands, sometimes gently, sometimes dramatically. "I become a malleable medium like water" (Wielandt). A whole human life accompanies the Canadian J. Thrower in "Rhythms of Life." "He was not yet 50 when he wrote the piece," says Wielandt. "Can he even judge and set life to music?" Bach was just 35 when he composed the Chaconne, they say, when he received news of his wife's death after a three-month business trip. Music as self-therapy? Fitting to Wielandt's motto? He believes: "Life must be played!" With an improvisation on frame drum and hand drum, he celebrates the moment. On the snare drum, he honors fantasy, art, and craftsmanship with A. Gerassimez's "Asventuras" and turns his own body into a percussion instrument with "Cosoni."
Artists
Sebastian Wielandt (*1994, Karlsruhe) completed his master's degree with distinction at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz under Bogdan Bacanu, Christoph Sietzen, and Leonhard Schmidinger. Among others, he has performed with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, played at renowned festivals in Austria, and collaborated with Martin Grubinger and the Wave Quartet. He is a scholarship holder of the German Music Competition 2021.
Rhythms of Life
Tan Dun (*1957): Water Spirit. Solo cadenza from: Water Concerto
John Thrower (*1951): Rhythms of Life, for marimba
Alexej Gerassimez (*1987): Asventuras, for snare drum
Sebastian Wielandt (*1994): Improvisation, for frame drum & darbuka
Joh. Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Chaconne, from: Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004, for marimba
Alexej Gerassimez: Cosoni, for body percussion
Photo: Susanne Schulte
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