A composition by Maya Felixbrodt (composer and musician), Aurélie Lierman (radio artist, vocalist, and composer) and Samuel Vriezen (composer and writer) as part of the second performative conference of Propositions #2: Assemblism. 25.11.2017, BAK, Utrecht (NL). Propositions #2: Assemblism is a day-long gathering that addresses the current rise of the new authoritarian world order, and […]
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Peter Gizzi’s great poem Vincent, Homesick for the Land of Pictures from his collection The Outernationale was set to music as a long song, written for the extended Trio Scordatura. It was premiered by Alfrun Schmid, Bob Gilmore (keyboard), Elisabeth Smalt (viola) and Lucas van Helsdingen (bass clarinet) at Poetry International in Rotterdam in 2014,
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Four performers each bring three books for the other three performers to read from. During performance, they all read to themselves, reading certain words, sentences, or passages out loud during one-minute time brackets as given by the score. The time logic intersects clock time with elements of musical improvisation (since often, the words or phrases
Essay for Four Voices and Twelve Books (2013) Meer lezen »
Originally written for a Pecha Kucha presentation in Montréal, later developed into a stand-alone chamber piece for three or more performers (the ideal number probably being between three and seven). The subject is not the number of performers, but their quality of interaction, which is structured like a game. Each of the piece’s forty pages
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