"brass of the moving image": the brass musicians from the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie take their name literally. The moving image, which had until now stood programmatically for a wide range of projects, has been rea­ lised here in accordance with the very meaning of the words. A virus which causes decomposition permeates the evening. The broad sweep of the programme takes the audience from a complete work (Flowers) to a static poly-rhythmic study with four slide projectors to each of which a musician is clearly assigned (London Poems); from video and tape recordings which are played into an improvisational exploratory music (die ruckwartsgesprochenen), to a self- decomposing interactive composition (TeeWeeDee), in which the musicians and a dancer control the music and images via their movements. The work which served as the point of departure is dismantled further and further in the course of the concert. The visual main layer is interrupted by a purely musical layer of electronic music by Herbert Eimert. Performed in total darkness, it is an optical point of rest and recollection. Due to its origin in the ideas of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, "brass of the moving image" has had a special affinity to recent trends in art and new music since its start. In 1996, 'Fanfares form Heaven' by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu and 'Heilige Zeichen' by the Czech composer Peter Eben were premiered in Germany. In 1997, the ensemble was commissioned by Baden- Wurttemberg's Ministry for Science, Research and Art to compose two works. On invitation of the Foreign Office, the Goethe Institute and the German Music Council, "brass of the moving mage" performed the opening concerts at the official cultural festivals of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan and Kirghizia in 1996. The "Brass Academy Friesland" appointed "brass of the moving image" "ensemble in residence'' for 1996 and 1997. Flowers, Klangstudie I, London Poems II, Epitaph für Hikichi Kuboyama, Glockenspiel, die rückwärtsgesprochenen, Selektion I, TeeUJeeDee - turn the world upside down