A whole evening for minimal music! The Karlstorbahnhof pays homage to a musical style that fascinates with its unmistakable method of processual time organization in music. One of the most important minimal voices is the American composer Steve Reich, who is represented on this night with two of his greatest works.

Man with or against machine - one of the most pressing questions of our time, and not just since the advance of artificial intelligence. Almost forty years ago, Steve Reich wrote his "Electric Counterpoint", a series of pieces in which the instrumentalist plays to a tape recorder. Pianist Kai Schumacher shows how this music of miniature motifs begins to pulsate and finally unfolds its maelstrom effect. He groups his own rhythmically floating pieces from his album "Tranceformer" around Reich's atmospheric counterpoint. "Drumming", one of Steve Reich's longest compositions with a playing time of around an hour, is another groundbreaking but rarely heard work of minimal music. It is based on the technique of "phasing" developed by Reich, in which two players play a repetitive pattern in unison and leave the previously created synchronicity through slight to stronger changes in tempo and timbre. Percussionist Christoph Sietzen and his ensemble MOTUS Percussion take the audience on an incredible journey during which the music flies and ultimately becomes a meditation.

This event is the entire Minimal Night. You can find the late night ticket from 22:00 here.