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“At the Bundeskunsthalle, Rolf Zavelberg presents a light design from burning desert sun to sparkling sea, opening a wide horizon of associations.”
Tobias Blum, Bonner General-Anzeiger, 27.10.2007

“Light and music complement each other to a "Vision". Breathless silence filled the church as the final notes echoed away... On the screen one could at the same time see motives which seemed to be abstract paintings.”
Kölnische Rundschau, 28. Febr. 2008

“Seductive sounds and colours On Friday evening, at a concert given by Markus Stockhausen (trumpets) and Tara Bouman (clarinets), visitors to the St Michael-Nye church were able to experience a really magical triad of music, light and space. Stockhausen had promised "more than just a concert" in the BLZ, and he was not exaggerating. Light-designer Rolf Zavelberg was responsible for the very special atmosphere. He flooded the bare walls of the church in a sea of brilliant colours: A warm orange changing to blood-red and further into a mystic, dark violet. The colourful lights not only underline the music, they are an equal partner. Where there is light, there is also shadow, and Zavelberg is a master of playing with shadows – falling on the stone walls of the church, on the altar and, above all, on a round screen above the altar. When coloured yellow, the disk is reminiscent of a full moon. Coloured spots remind one of Jupiter. Suggestive, beguiling pictures are created when the outline of Markus Stockhausen with his trumpet and the flowers on the altar glow as a two-colour shadow.”
STEFAN CORSSEN, Kölnische Rundschau (Bergische Landeszeitung), 15.10.07

“Rare, if not unique, was Stockhausen and Bouman's performance too. They fascinated the audience in Erpel with their own compositions and, above all, with their impressive improvisations, leading them on to honestly felt storms of enthusiasm. [...] Grandiose shadow-plays with the silhouettes of the musicians happened simultaneously on a round screen whose colour varied continuously, and in this way could sometimes be experienced as a rising sun, sometimes as a full moon”
Bonner Generalanzeiger, 26.09.07

“The logical merging of music, light and space produced a complete artwork of intimate demeanour, and an effect, that was by no means simply a whisper, but rather opened up spaces in a contoured way, which were then expanded in the climaxes to luscious fortes.” Remszeitung, July 27th, 2002

“Sounds were kindled that had not been heard before, and will probably not be heard again so soon. Profound lines mixed with buoyant twangs, passionate lamentations with eruptive exaltation...” Aachener Zeitung, April 24th, 2002

“His kind of free improvisation has not, as for example free jazz does, placed the momentary solidly opposite all conventional constituents of music, but rather creates from sound and the love for the instrument” Odilo Clausnitzer, Bonner Generalanzeiger, March 20th, 2000

“A musical work of art...sparkling vehemency and a breezily gentle presence” KStA, April 6th, 2004

“Again and again the trumpet and clarinet sought a consonance, which one would not expect to find with these differing wind instruments. Without wordy explanations it became clear that intuitive music is a qualitatively different, perhaps even higher level of improvisation” RP, June 6th, 2006

“Markus Stockhausen [...] performed brilliantly with his congenial partner Tara Bouman in Moving Sounds, where an almost paradisiacal space was created, because in it one could whisk oneself away into one?s own realm of associations[...] Accompanied by competently sensitive, concisely powerful playing, encouraged by the warmth of the constantly changing light, that allured and never scared” Neue Westfälische, October 18th, 2005

“With his light installations he created the effect of a disconnected, mythical-paradisiacal place [...] A new dimension of tone colours and staged space” Neue Westfälische, October 18th, 2005

“Moving Sounds [...] was sound and colour simultaneously. Because Rolf Zavelberg set up the stage with amospheric light, sometimes made the performers appear in sharp silhouette on a canvas, then again the objects in the space would carry more weight: Machines, gears, hoists [...] In the backdrop of the Sensenschmied sounds and light installation joined to form a complete artwork” KStA, September 27th, 2004

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