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Exhibition Opening: Resounding Voice
Opening event for Resounding Voice at The Mamuta Art and Research Center – The first solo exhibition in Israel by artist and choreographer Netta Weiser. In the exhibition, Weiser reactivates a sound archive recorded in Egypt in 1933 by Brigitta Schiffer (1909–1986), a Jewish-German composer and musicologist whose life was shaped by experiences of migration and exile.
The event will feature cellist Tom Klein, who will perform a contemporary musical response to Schiffer’s string quartet from 1933. The quartet’s second movement draws inspiration from a phonograph recording of a funeral song performed by a boys’ choir, which Schiffer recorded in an oasis in Egypt that same year. The original manuscript of the composition is preserved in the archives of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
Netta Weiser is an artist and choreographer based in Berlin. Her work combines sound installation, performance, and experimental radio. In 2019, she founded Radio-Choreography, an artistic research project dedicated to developing alternative methods of documenting dance through sound.