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Promoted by the City of Brno under the auspices of the mayor Roman Onderka
in co-operation with the Brno House of Arts it is financially supported
by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
 
Exposition of New Music 2009
22nd year

SOUNDart & ARTsound
 
 
2009, March 25. – 28.
Dům pánů z Kunštátu (Dominikánská 9, Brno)
VUT Assembly Hall in Brno (Antonínská 1, Brno)
Baroque Hall of the Governor’s Palace, Moravian Gallery in Brno (Moravské náměstí 1a, Brno)

 

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

Gordon Monahan

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
Don Ritter


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

Quatuor Bozzini

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
phono_phono

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

The International Nothing

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

Jon Rose

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

Hans W. Koch

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

Keith Rowe

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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