Review – Solo Concert in Wuppertal, 2015:
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review by Heinrich Brinkmöller-Becker
Extremely concentrated the musician elicits her alto sax a firework of woodwind art. Nimble runs in all positions, almost melodic passages that dissolve into entropy, screams, cries for help, answers phrases, key sounds, rhythmic patterns, which also change again dynamically, multiphonics by singing along, a downright sprawling motifs and stylistic diversity in rapid changes – Silke Eberhard draws all her blowing art without mutating her music into a mere presenting technical skills on the instrument. No, it is highly compressed and complex music .. Nevertheless, Silke Eberhard´s playing has an infectious lightness, a certain wit and shrewdness. How much of this have instant composing or compositionally fixed patterns, one can only guess. The meter long notation in panoramic format with many colors and cryptic characters (and also notes!) leaves the outsider anyway to inconclusive.