“BOHNENBERGER’S MACHINE FOR DARK CIRCUITS ORCHESTRA” is a 60-minute composition written by Hans Tammen in 2024. The piece juxtaposes the sonorities of about 20 analog synthesizers with those of voices, and a rhythm section of bass and drums. Using his binary conducting technique, Tammen will set sounds and rhythms in motion, to then enable different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear.

SPECIAL SECTION:
Shelley Hirsch voice
Dafna Naphtali voice
Izzi Ramkissoon bass
Yuko Togani drums
Katherine Liberovskaya visuals

SYNTHESIZERS:
Dafna Naphtali
David Galbraith
Ben Manley
Abby Davis
Emad Jamal
Shoko Nagai
Luke Dubois
Andrew Neumann
Marcia Bassett
Alex Zhu
Chuck Bettis
Crystal Penalosa
Laura Feathers
Miguel Frasconi
Larry 7

Hans Tammen is “just another worker” in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).