 |
Brno International Music Festival Exposition of New Music |
|
This year's program reflects the wide variability of musical space, without pandering to the masses, or following uniformity. Today this space has become a natural environment for a wide range of creative approaches.
This allows juxtaposition of classic works of music of the late 20th century - America's Morton Feldman and John Cage, the Ukraine's Valentyn Silvestrov, famous British music journalist and experimenter David Toop, mysterious sound objects from DAMA DAMA's leader Dan Dlouhý, or music in real time, developed by the American trombonist Nicolas Collins, Dutchman Hilary Jeffery and the Austro-Hungarian Abstract Monarchy Duo. The absence of integrated subject matter for this music festival does not mean the theme is missing. The theme is the music itself and its variety of forms.
Program
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 18:00
Music Club Fleda, Štefánikova 24, Brno
Hilary Jeffery (NL/UK)
Tromboscillator (2002-today)
Hilary Jeffery - trombone and live electronics
The composer, writer, artist, and trombone magician Hilary Jeffery performs one of his continually developing compositions. The Tromboscillator is not a specific instrument, it is an idea of the sound which happens when a trombone mutates and melts into another virtual world. It is the sound of an imaginative journey from interior worlds transformed and transmitted via music: from the mind and breath - through the trombone - to a microphone - into the computer or analogue processor where the audio signal is fed through circuits which transform the sound.
www.hiljef.com www.myspace.com/auxhil YouTube 
Abstract Monarchy Duo (AT/HU)
A Temporary Abstract Autonomous Improvisation (2010)
Franz Hautzinger - quarter-tone horn, effects Zsolt Sőrés a.k.a. Ahad - viola, electronics, home-made instruments, circuit bent toys, theremin, percussion, effects, objects
In the Abstract Monarchy Duo project the well-known Austrian trumpet player Franz Hautzinger pulled together with the Hungarian viola player and intermedia experimentalist Zsolt Sőrés to discover, in the rich structured soundscapes, the unexplored corners of intimate sound processes. In their music the sense of off-hand improvisation and real time composing with prudent minimalist and ambient aesthetics are fusing. Non-conventional use of traditional instruments and application of new technologies in unusual way activate a spontaneous experience on both subconscious and ritual levels.
www.franzhautzinger.com inaplo.hu/ahad YouTube www.myspace.com/ahadnoisemusic 
Nicolas Collins (USA)
Pea Soup II (1973/2002)
The Talking Cure (2002) Salvage (Guiyu Blues) (2008) Nicolas Collins - electronics, home-made instruments and gadgets Pavel Zlámal - clarinet (Pea Soup II) Students of Musicology Institute FF MU (Salvage)
The US experimentalist Nicolas Collins presents three typical examples of postmodern treatment of sounds and voices, based on his longstanding focus on processuality, interactivity, and evolving of found or deliberately created sound situations of the most versatile features and origins. In collaboration with the clarinet player Pavel Zlámal and the students of the Musicology Institute he proves that good experimental music can be made even in terms of unsophisticated ideas; and neither instrumental skill nor university degree must necessarily affect it.
www.nicolascollins.com Listen: www.nicolascollins.com/peasouptracks.htm YouTube 
Monday, March 8, 2010, 19:30
Reduta Theatre, Mozart Hall, Zelný trh 4, Brno
Central European Percussion Ensemble DAMA DAMA (CZ)
Dan Dlouhý: Metamorfózy (Metamorphoses) (2009)
Dan Dlouhý: Vlnoplochy (Wave Fronts), 5. movement - Invocation II (1995) Peter Graham: Caprichos (1987, rev. 2010) Alois Simandl Piňos: Metatance (Metadances) (1999) Adrián Demoč: Šachy (Chess) (2009) Dan Dlouhý: 7-3-5-1/2-6-4 (2009) Rudolf Růžička: Suita No. 7 (1991) Vít Zouhar: Petite sirène (2001) Dan Dlouhý (Dama Dama), Ctibor Bártek (Conger Conger) and Jan Řihák (Jacana Jacana) - percussions
The concert program - as it the Central European Ensemble DAMA DAMA generally presents - is a manifold palette of possibilities which the contemporaneous music "on the borderline" can bring. For example, there are compositions for not always common, but rather special music instruments, provided by the Dama Dama leader Dan Dlouhý, looking sometimes as kid toys, other times as bizarre statues, attuned by a standard virtuosity and energy. There are compositions flavoured by improvisation, electronics, video projection and last but not least compositions controlled by a chess match!
www.damadama.cz Dan Dlouhý video-interview: www.2000forza.cz/html/interview.html Czech TV: www.ceskatelevize.cz/ivysilani/308295350110009-notes/ 
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 19:30
Music Club Fleda, Štefánikova 24, Brno
David Toop (UK)
Sinister Resonance (2010)
David Toop - laptop, guitar, flutes, disembodied singers, voice and projections
Solo performance by British composer and theorist David Toop (1949) on the borderland of music theatre, lecture, virtual opera, improvisation, and séance, challenges our traditional European perception. The composer himself speaks of a "mind re-programming" and looks on the music from many levels. The minimalist planes benefiting from traditional Japan music, Jamanami shaman incantations, or "random" improvisation with flute stops and electronics; it all is aimed to both break and extend usual musical conceptions.
www.davidtoop.com YouTube 
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 21:00
VUT Assembly Hall in Brno, Antonínská 1, Brno
Valentyn Silvestrov (UKR)
Melodie okamžiků (Fleeting Melodies) (2004/05)
Bagately pro klavír (Bagatelles for piano) (2006/07) Bohdana Pivnenko (UKR) - violin Valeriy Matyukhin (UKR) - piano Valentyn Silvestrov - piano
In the present compositions the most notable Ukrainian composer of today Valentyn Silvestrov (1937) the music of previous styles and periods fades out in silent reminiscences. Fleeting Melodies reminds of Schubert's Moments musicaux - as a bonus the composer himself plays a "meddle" of his poetic piano compositions, kept in mind for a long time, but recently scored.
Valentyn Silvestrov YouTube 
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 19:30
VUT Assembly Hall in Brno, Antonínská 1, Brno
fama Q (CZ)
Morton Feldman: Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet (1961)
Morton Feldman: Clarinet and String Quartet (1983) Earle Brown: Four Systems (1954) John Cage: Four6 (1992) Ronald Šebesta – clarinet David Danel, Aki Kuroshima – violin Ondřej Martinovský – viola Balázs Adorján – cello
John Cage – together with the similar minded composers, in the 20th century music history often shifted „off the main track“ in the looser position – is on one hand contemporary but also on-coming and on other hand also long gone. His music conception as the art of “quieting the mind to accommodate it for divine perception“ is actually a revived concept of „an age long music“ only which was here even before the artist came, and which lived – and lives to this day – in “cultures without artists“...
Associated performance of the Exposition of New Music
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 18:00
Besední dům, Komenského nám. 8, Brno
Janáčkův akademický orchestr (CZ)
Gala concert to 20th anniversary of HF JAMU statutory renewal
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question Edgar Varèse: Octandre Edgar Varèse: Ionisation Peter Eötvös: Triangel Percussion Ensemble JAMU Lázsló Hudacsek - percussions Zsolt Nagy – conductor
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. Brno transportation for handicapped is possible to book on +420 537 021 493, +420 777 01 03 31 or info@ligavozic.cz. The program is subject to change.
 |
Exposition of New Music on Facebook
|
© 2001 - 2011 |
