The 21st century is characterized by diverse innovations in the field of classical music: the intensive preoccupation with advanced playing techniques, acoustic principles and the newly discovered complexity of timbres enabled a small number of mostly European composers to redefine “sound excess”. The exploration of frequencies has allowed the sonic extremes of the scores to be linked to both the concept of energetic overexposure and the physical presence of the materials. Essentially, it is the materials that have to change.

Grammy award winner, multi-instrumentalist and lead singer of the former Frank Zappa band Napoleon Murphy Brock and the Ensemble Musikfabrik are releasing an impressive concert recording of the Zappanale 2019 with "Bad Doberan & Elsewhere".

"It was only with Partch that a music emerged that could do equal justice to the physical need for a rhythmic pulse and the curiosity for new, unheard sounds; a music that carries you along even though - or better: because - you don't know it yet. A music for which one has no concept and which has no place, and which is nevertheless grounded in a strange way." (Heiner Goebbels)