Hans Thomalla 

Nachtmusik – German for night music – is a musical exploration of night and of the sharpened sense of contrast that comes with it. Night is depicted not only as that period of quiet calm between wakefulness, dream, and sleep, but also as a time of vulnerability, of exposure, of nightmares and violence.

   The musicians of Nachtmusik are distributed throughout the hall, creating an immersive sound experience going far beyond the traditional concert setup, where instead the listeners quite literally are inside the sound. 

   While Nachtmusik emphasizes an immediate, if not intimate, experience of quietness and darkness, the analogy to the “Dark Times” that our society seems to move towards, to the ever-increasing social contrasts and contradictions, is of course present.