sogno/suono + Fabian Jung

With her solo program sogno/suono for violin and voice, Ronja Sophie Putz weaves a delicately iridescent soundscape in which familiar and surprising sounds move through a corridor of ever-expanding silence. Through experimentation, improvisation, and composition, RSP—driven by a fascination with finding the differences in the common (and vice versa)—has found a sound language that creates a space for permeability, synesthetic associations, and heightened sensitivity. The violin becomes an extension of the body, its sound an extension of the voice. Acoustic illusions, subtle electronics, and a violin prepared with screws and vibrators, which appears sometimes with bloodcurdling intensity, sometimes with almost inaudible delicacy and subtle humor, play with the listener's perception and open the ears to the borderland between sound and silence.

Compositions by Jacopo Salvatori, Tom Smith, and Graciela Paraskevaidis alternate with original compositions and experimental improvisations. The mood of the violin changes repeatedly, with each piece receiving a new scordatura that alters the timbre of the instrument—the corridor darkens. The improvisations woven between the pieces act as a connecting element, leading from the sound world of the previous composition to the next, yet always treading paths discovered in the moment.

The concert is part of the release tour for the album of the same name, which was released in summer 2025 on the Tonkunstmanufaktur label.