Symphony of Time: City, Sound, Movement

Symphony of Time: City, Sound, Movement invites you into a day-long odyssey through the heartbeat of Berlin, as Walter Ruttmann’s pioneering film *Berlin: Symphony of a Great City* turns sunrise to sunset into a relentless, rhythmic motion. In a daring intertextual dialogue, a live orchestra reimagines this visual masterpiece by layering music from across epochs—Late Beethoven’s slow, reflective passages, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s tensioned repetition in **Klavierstück IX**, Klaus Lang’s fragile interplay of sound and silence, and John Adams’ pulsing **Road Movies** that revives the drive of the open road. This isn’t just a concert; it’s a living cycle titled *From Silence to Score*, where the contemporary ensemble EEGERU—Kazakhstan’s sole champions of contemporary academic music—transforms silent cinema into an immersive sonic tapestry. Marking its anniversary, their tenth season, and a new residency on the Main Stage, EEGERU collaborates with ARTiSHOCK to deliver landmark projects like the chamber opera *Er‑Tostik* by Alexander Manotskov and *Beethoven Mute*, commemorating the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven. Come witness film and music dissolve into a unified score of perception, where older and new artistic languages reverberate as parts of a single urban narrative, and experience a concert that is as timeless as the city itself.