Fernsehforum 2010
10. to 13. March 2010
Programme 2010 (German) pdf
“A NEW AUDIOVISUAL EXPERIENCE –
New Music in Film and Television”
This is the title of the 6th edition of the International Television Forum for Music “The Look of the Sound” from 10 to 13 March in Bremen that will focus on the presentation of current music films from all areas of classical music as well as contemporary music.
Musicians Rohan de Saram and Carin Levine will perform works of Xenakis, Varèse, Scelsi, Berio and others. They will discuss possible approaches to cinematographic adaptation in tandem with directors and editors. What are pictures able to bring across that cannot be conveyed live? What do musicians have in common with filmmakers? What programme formats used by broadcasting stations can be applied to New Music?
The Television Forum selected this year’s focal point with an eye to opening up a debate on possible ways of conveying New Music via film and encouraging new forms of cooperation.
Those interested in music and/or film can see and discuss numerous films about Stockhausen, Nono, Kurtág, Cage and others with directors, musicians, promoters, music editors of broadcasting stations and music researchers. The International Television Forum receives non-material assistance from the broadcasting stations of ARD, ZDF, DW and Arte and is supported by the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.
Press Review 2009
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (17-03-09)
Tailor-Made for Television
Glamour, Spirit, Ethos: In Bremen music films are shown to a broad public
There was a very thin line between laughing and crying at this fifth edition of the “International Television Forum for Music” in Bremen. As part of a meeting of experts, German, French, Dutch and Canadian directors showed new and, without exception, emotionally charged films in which so-called serious music is the main focus or at least represents the motor of the story. At times one forgets that the genre is that of documentaries because the viewer is repeatedly taken along with the protagonists into exceptional emotional situations. For this reason films about musicians, composers, about people who experience happiness through an encounter with music, about children who are torn out of a threatening everyday life by making music, are tailor-made for television with its stories about human fates. read more
review as pdf
KlassikInfo.de (27-03-09)
Seeing Music
Bremen art gallery proprietor Katrin Rabus has been holding the International Television Forum for Music under the motto “The Look of the Sound” in cooperation with the ARD, Deutsche Welle and Arte broadcasting stations as well as the city of Bremen since 2002. The Forum took place for the fifth time from 11 to 14 March. read more
review as pdf