{"id":13433,"date":"2026-01-19T19:11:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T18:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/project\/music-for-an-open-space-vol-i\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T19:28:15","slug":"music-for-an-open-space-vol-i","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/project\/music-for-an-open-space-vol-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Music for an Open Space &#8211; Vol. I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Insight in 3 Minutes :<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Music for an Open Space\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Or0AMvSEtjU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jZlZuCDEvHE%20&nbsp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the complete concert recording of the premiere in Schw\u00e4bisch Gm\u00fcnd 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like a raft built of wooden planks and metal plates, the Xala lies ready. It is steered using minimalistic, dance-like movements, wide and large gestures or by means of figures, rhythms and melodies which are danced into the sounding boards with ones feet or using flamenco shoes. With apparent ease and impressive physical presence, Ania Losinger steers her raft \u201cXala\u201d through the world of sounds and rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>The flow of music is driven forwards by Mats Eser with his five-octave marimba, drums and Asian gongs. Their common composition streams into wide, open spaces. The result is a dynamic between fast grooves and floating, meditative calm; It spans an arc from \u201csounds beyond all styles\u201d to highly aesthetic images that allow one to forget both time and space: \u201cMusic for an Open Space\u201d!  <\/p>\n<p>This production of the duo Ania Losinger and Mats Eser is a concert performance, in which they again completely dedicate themselves to the purely acoustic instruments Xala II and marimba \/ percussion.<br \/>\nThe focus is on interacting with the large echoing space in which they play. As light is thrown back from walls and ceiling, so does the reverberation of sound which is woven into the music as though it were an invisible fellow musician. This precise interaction develops into an inescapable rip-tide. The soundscapes that open befor the Xala and the Marimba lead the listener into a world of repetitive rhythms and artful reduction. The harmony between the two instruments reveals a broad spectrum that ranges from poetically quiet chamber music to magical orchestral power.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic for an Open Space Vol. I\u201d celebrated its acclaimed premiere at the Festival of European Church Music 2017 in Schw\u00e4bisch Gm\u00fcnd (St. John\u2019s Church).<\/p>\n<h5>Spaces:<\/h5>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c\u2026to achieve such unboundedness, everything must flow\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"project_category":[127,123],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13433","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-concert-performances","project_category-past-productions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/13433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/13433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=13433"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anialosinger.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=13433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}