What are your memories about? What can you remember? Starting from Claude Debussy’s Rêverie, Hanni Liang will create a unique concert experience where your memories shape the entire performance. Through drawing or writing, your memories will be transformed into a musical extension of the original work. This immersive experience invites you to actively take part in the collective creative process.

The interactive concert is based on the musical piece Rêverie by Claude Debussy. What if the original work by Debussy doesn’t end with the double bar line, but is an ongoing work which is inspired and influenced by the audience themselves?

This concert creates a space for individual music experiences that are created by and through the memories of the listeners, opening an immersive visual as well as auditive environment. While the audience is invited to share their memories on two prepared iPads, by writing or scribbling, the process is projected in real-time in the room. As each story unfolds, the music – starting from Rêverie – responds improvisationally to the narrative and slowly changing the piece by Debussy and creating a new collective work for this moment.

Once the sharing is finished, the music returns to Rêverie – and what remains is just a fading memory.

This event will last approximately 75 minutes, with no interval.

Hanni Liang

Hanni Liang is a pianist and concert creator – the latter of which she currently teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Actively engaged in developing new concert formats, she explores contemporary social themes and addresses them musically in her concerts.

Her performances have taken her to venues such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Pinakothek der Moderne, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Styriarte Festival in Graz, the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, DAS HAUS Brussels, and features collaborations with the Munich Philharmonic, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and the Edinburgh International Festival.

Through her co-creative projects, in which she involves people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds in the artistic process—both on and behind the stage—she transforms the concert into a space of encounter and exchange. Her projects have been presented at festivals such as the Reeperbahn Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Kissinger Sommer, and the Mozartfest Würzburg. Upcoming projects will take her to collaborations with Jeunesse Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz, State Theatre Augsburg, and Kings Place London, among others.

Reviews

‘Hanni Liang demonstrated her ingenuity, creativity and repertoire with this communal piece that connected us all through each other’s dream. From children drawing their surreal dream of turning into turtles and elephants to elder people speaking to their late parents and siblings, it was a space where everyone felt safe to share, with Hanni Liang guiding us on the piano.’ Scottish Field

‘This is a one-of-a-kind concert, full of emotional swells and gentle moments of reflection.’ Operabase