23/12/2024
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Ashlee Mack – Green
Ashlee Mack performing Jeff Herriot, Ian Mikyska, Eva-Maria Houben, and Marti Epstein on her new solo piano repertoire — music in which the atmosphere is serene, intimate, and elegant, with maximal time for reflection.
Kari Watson – enclosures
Kari Watson on their debut release: enclosures addresses issues of space, place, reverberation and resonance across five pieces. Each piece is a portal: a biome, containing its own environment, weather, sense of time, real and imaginary spaces, beatings between Just Intonation and Equal Temperament, a triptych of environmental portraits, an exercise in the musicalized resonance of the harp’s pedal mechanism, and finally, an exploration of precarious sounds and sonic expiration.
Ben Richter - Dissolution Seedlings Performed by House on Fire
The piece sprawls - musically, temporally, physically. Each movement reconfigures the group around a spare set of instruments, in each permutation pulling out new composite sounds. Wells plays cello and bass melodica simultaneously, Andrew tunes a C # drone, Richard plays a creaky melodeon. Dissolution Seedlings is House on Fire’s first large-scale commission.
Insub Meta Orchestra - Exhaustion / Proliferation
The Swiss experimental orchestra performs Exhaustion and Proliferation, two pieces created in 2024 by Cyril Bondi and d’incise for the Insub Meta Orchestra, with the help of Ed Williams. Both rely on their own principles, within a reduced aesthetic and a guided timeline. While Exhaustion offers to musicians multiples choices of paths and interactions, Proliferation plays with the echo; fragments of the piece being recorded and played-back via smartphones. The IMO's music, developed through years of experiences, deals with aspects and constraints of a large group in order to propose a complex but delicate listening.
Feldman and Hume – Intermissions
Spectacularly produced and performed by Luciana Elizondo (viola da gamba) and Guy Vandromme (piano) bring together the early piano music of Morton Feldman and the gamba music of renaissance composer Tobias Hume in a complimentary balance of time, place, a meditative quietude.
