February 9, 2013. 20 h, Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstr.4a, 10115 Berlin, Germany
Festival „Soundscape East Asia“
www.asianart-ensemble.com/english/home.html
For the final concert of the Festival, the three resident ensembles
IIIZ+ / AsianArt Ensemble / ensemble unitedberlin
will perform four works commissioned or arranged for them together.
Claude Vivier [Zipangu]
Sandeep Bhagwati [„warnings written on the wind“ for 13 asian and european instruments} world premiere
and new works by Il-Ryun Chung and Keiko Harada
conductor: Manuel Nawri
February 24, 2013. 11 h, Agora Hydro Quebec, 175 Avenue Président-Kennedy, Montréal, Québec/Canada
Festival Montréal Nouvelles Musiques
ATISH-E-ZABAN / FEUX DE LA LANGUE
www.festivalmnm.ca/fr/2013/prog/concert/30392/
The Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart will perform my one hour long composition for 6 singers a cappella on poems by the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz.Croissants and coffee will be served before the concert (!).
February 26, 2013. 10h-18h, Hexagram Black Box, Concordia University, 1515 rue St. Catherine, Montréal, Quebec/Canada
Festival Montréal Nouvelles Musiques
Symposion Workshop „Musiques Glocales – post-exoticism in contemporary written music„
http://matralab.hexagram.ca
After more than a century replete with curiosities, exotisms, appropriations, ethnomusicological and post-colonial theories etc. this day looks at the situation today and here in Montréal around the kind of music aesthetics often qualified as hybrid or inter-cultural. I have invited leading diverse composers of the Montréal scene to discuss their own works and, in a true symposion format, think about questions around the creation of music in a glocal multi-traditional music environment. Conversations will be both in French and in English.
February 26, 2013. 13h, Hexagram Black Box, Concordia University, 1515 rue St. Catherine, Montréal, Quebec/Canada
Festival Montréal Nouvelles Musiques
Concert ARCHITEK Percussion Quartet
www.architekpercussion.com/fr_home.cfm
During the symposion, the young Architek Percussion Quartet from Montréal will perform several movements with interactive scores from my 2011 composition „Alien Lands“, as well as works by Claude Vivier and Steve Reich
March 2, 2013 20h-24h, Goethe Institute Montréal,1626 St-Laurent, Montréal, Quebec/Canada
LuminoCities [ as part of the Montréal Nuits Blanche Festival]
http://matralab.hexagram.ca
Villes LuminoSoniques – LuminoSoniCities is a multifaceted media arts exhibition I curated in the new spaces of the Goethe Institute Montreal. It showcases the work and collaborations of 10 artists working at or connected to the matralab. In the context of this exhibition I will present my collaboration with Adam Basanta and Julian Stein in the work „piano/forte“, a sound and light installation in which sounds of the city outside will resonate in the strings of a grand piano. Twice during the evening I will perform a 45 min comprovisation score for piano interacting with these city resonances and light impulses.
Upcoming:
- March 26, 2013 University of Applied Sciences Ansbach, Germany – Keynote and Workshop on Ensemble Comprovisation as Creative Technique
- April 12-14, 2013 Hexagram Concordia, Montréal, Canada – Workshop Music/Science, with Continuum Ensemble and Subtle Technologies Festival Toronto
- April 26, 2013 Mumuth Graz, Austria – Portrait Concert of my compositions with interactive scores – works for 4 choirs, for jazz and early musicians, and for trombone and eight computer comprovisers, with Mike Svoboda and students and professors of the Graz Music University
- June 15/16, 2013 Athenaeum and Stadeum, Stade, Germany – Mythos Athe 425 / Stundenplan, a large scale sonic art installation and an evening length concert cantata, both celebrating the 425 years anniversary of my old school
