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Brno International Music Festival Exposition of New Music |
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Two main streams of today - the art working immediately with sounds and the compositions for interpreters beyond habitual conventions - these are actually two sides of the same phenomena: an endeavour to unshackle the bourgeois music concept as a mere symbol of “culture” and generate changes in perception. When changing the perception, the way of thinking can be changed and on changing the way of thinking, life itself can be changed.
The music's dramaturgic concept takes the opportunity of a great Soundart exhibition Hermear’s Ear being held by the Brno House of Art in March 2009. The renowned artists (Gordon Monahan, Don Ritter, Jon Rose, Keith Rowe, Hans W. Koch) will exhibit their works here and simultaneously present their sound installations in the House of Lords of Kunstat (Dům pánů z Kunštátu). The other side presents the compositions performed by the top Canadian ensemble Quatuor Bozzini in two differently conceived programs: in particular the first one presents the American composers and the new work of radical German minimalist, Ernstalbrecht Stiebler. The second concert features the works of JAMU students and the first Czech performance of an extremely spacious piece of James Tenney “...in a large open space ...”. A certain balance of these two extreme views brings together two Berlin ensembles with their individual musical approaches: the trio, phono_phono, processing acoustic instruments in electronic matrix combining severe composition and improvisation and the clarinet duo, The International Nothing, with its own consequently acoustic composition going beyond the usual instrument playing.
Program
Wednesday, March 25. Dům pánů z Kunštátu
Dominikánská 9, Brno
17:00
Soundart I - Opening Session Gordon Monahan (CAN)
Theremin Radio Interference
Piano Mechanics
A theremin controls live radio broadcasts through the antennas, that eventually become drowned out by the theremin's tones. An 8-channel delay system repeats the radio signals and theremin tones so that one hears 8 theremins and 8 radios at the same time.
www.gordonmonahan.com
Don Ritter (CAN)
Badlands
Dynamic audio-visual production of the interactive video-art pioneer (living in Berlin) based on interactions of images and real time generated sounds.
www.aesthetic-machinery.com YouTube
VUT Assembly Hall in Brno
Antonínská 1, Brno
19:30
Gordon Monahan (CAN) Speaker Swinging (for three swinging loudspeakers and audio-oscillators) YouTube
Quatuor Bozzini I (CAN)
Walter Zimmermann: Fränkische Tänze
Walter Zimmermann: Keuper John Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts Ernstalbrecht Stiebler: sehr langsam Thursday, March 26. Dům pánů z Kunštátu
Dominikánská 9, Brno
17.00
Accompanying events: Hear and There (presentation/live) Three key figures of multimedia Arts - Gordon Monahan, Don Ritter and Jon Rose - will present their work and answer your specialist and non-specialist questions. In any case, you will learn how a teremin and interactive bow works and what is possible to do with swinging speaker boxes. You will even find out how to control video pictures by playing the trombone, what are physical aesthetics and what tones you can expect by playing Australian and Israeli fences. Event Hear and There is organized in collaboration with Creative Sound Lab, Brno House of Arts and the Multimedia Studio FaVU. VUT Assembly Hall in Brno
Antonínská 1, Brno
19:30
Quatuor Bozzini II (CAN) a JAMU students (CZ) Improvisation with JAMU students James Tenney: Arbor Vitae Martin Arnold: contact; vault James Tenney: Koan James Tenney: In a large, open space The Quatuor Bozzini is a Canadian democratic ensemble – even the first violin is not fixed to one person. The Quartet was named after the Bozzini sisters, the viola and violoncello players. Soon after its foundation in 1999 the Quatuor Bozzini got to the top of world performing ensembles: the rich and unusually conceived repertoire reaches from classical quartet pieces (Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms) to works composed directly for the ensemble or ensemble improvisations. www.quatuorbozzini.ca
Friday, March 27.
Baroque Hall of the Governor’s Palace, Moravian Gallery in Brno Moravské náměstí 1a, Brno
19:30
Berlin scene – Composed Improvisations and Improvised Compositions phono_phono (DE)
Sabine Vogel – flétna
Magda Mayas – piano Michael Renkel – kytara
The International Nothing (DE)
Einfache Freuden
Tomas Kucera forced us to give this piece a title Wenn alles wehtut und nichts mehr geht Amongst dissidents Sleep! Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke – clarinets
The Berlin music scene is one of the most live ones in the whole world. The phono_phono and The International Nothing present the counterparts of the present musical concepts: the phono_phono brings sound delicatessen in composed improvisations combining instruments and electronics whereas improvisers of The International Nothing came to fixed and sophisticated compositions in which the virtual electronic sound is created in all-acoustic way.
kylie.klingt.org www.michael-thieke.de
Saturday, March 28. Dům pánů z Kunštátu
Dominikánská 9, Brno
19:30
Soundart II Jon Rose (GB/AUS)
Hyperstring 4 (interactive polyphonic improvisation)
„Work in progress“ in which the famous violin virtuoso brought into play his thirty years of experiences in experimenting with historic, modern, adapted, home-made, and virtual string instruments; devastating violin playing with an interactive fiddlestick.
www.jonroseweb.com YouTube YouTube
hans w. koch (DE)
x∞= op (x∞)3
A piece of works inspired by the equation of philosopher Heinz von Foester in which he treats the sound as an agent of system interaction with its surrounding.
www.hans-w-koch.net
Keith Rowe (GB) Cultural Templates (guitar improvising)
Imaginative improvising performed by the non-conventional electric guitar pathfinder and the legend of non-idiomatic musical improvisation. www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk YouTube
Ticket price: 130,-CZK, students: 60,-CZK
Tickets will go on sale at the concert venue half an hour before the concert begins or book at ars@arskoncert.cz. The program is subject to change..
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