Perhaps it has to do with the long-standing loyal relationship of the ensemble’s nine musicians to musikprotokoll that establishing very special bonds is a central theme of the works on this year’s bill. The commissioned composition by Katharina Klement, for example, whose works often set out in search of cross-links to the realms of text, video and performance, confronts ensemble recherche with the video artist Doris Schmid. A confrontation of a very different kind prefaced the composition of British artist Alwynne Pritchard, who conducted very personal discussions with the musicians based on objects charged with private memories. The programme also features the intimate, filigree music of the Swede Malin Bång and an exuberant floral tribute from the north, the première of Danish artist Hans Abrahamsen’s “Flowersongs”.