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Ulrich Kreppein: Headspace–Urban Sound Spaces No. 3

for 24 voices

after the poem ‘Sleepless City’ by Federico García Lorca

There are always voices in my head.

My own, the voices around me, on the streets, in the trains, from the phones, from the screens.

Texts turn into voices in my thoughts, just like images, signals.

The voices connect, blend with mine, become voices

in all of our heads.

Voices that never fall silent, born of boredom and fear.

We are a vast head, in which the voices never stop, a cluster of murmuring, whispering, speaking, or shouting heads.

The world is a headspace, a theatre in which there is never a pause, full of voices fighting loudly for attention in the inner rooms of the mind.

(Ulrich Kreppein)

How does reality sound? This question lies at the heart of the compositional work of Ulrich Kreppein (*1979). He studied, among others, with Manfred Trojahn, Tristan Murail, Julian Anderson, Helmut Lachenmann, and Chaya Czernowin at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf and Columbia University in New York, and he completed his studies with a PhD at Harvard University in Boston. Since 2022, he has been a Professor of Composition at the HfMDK in Frankfurt; prior to that, he was an adjunct professor at the HfM Weimar. His works have received numerous awards, including the Audience and Jury Prize at the Heidelberg Spring in 2011, the Composition Promotion Award from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2012, and the first prize at the Alexander Zemlinsky Competition at the University of Cincinnati in 2013. In 2018/19, he received a fellowship from the German Federal Ministry at the Cité des Arts in Paris, and in 2023/24, he was a fellow at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg. Ulrich Kreppein has written orchestral works, operas, and chamber music. He is currently working on the music theater composition Caligari, which will have its world premiere in 2026 at the Landestheater Coburg.

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