Argento Performs Back-to-back Spatialized Concerts Tonight 7:00/8:30 PM at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St
Posted by s21concerts in Concert AnnouncementArgento Performs Back-to-back Spatialized Concerts Tonight 7:00/8:30 PM at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73 St
The Spatialized Sonic Experience
FRIDAY, SEP 3, 7:00 and 8:30 PM
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021
Subway: 6 train to 77 St
Suggested Donation at the Door; Ticket reservation
Georg Friedrich Haas - UNHEIMAT – US PREMIERE
for string orchestra in spatialized performance
Spatialized Installation by Victor Adán – FONOTOPERA B (“sounding insect”) - WORLD PREMIERE
(7 PM)
for 8 computerized impulse generators
Edmund Campion - FLOW-DEBRIS-FALLS – WORLD PREMIERE (8:30 PM)
concerto for AvantGrand and 19 musicians
Richard Strauss (performed by the Argento Chamber Ensemble) - METAMORPHOSEN for string orchestra in spatialized performance
The word “Heimat“, which translates approximately into the words “motherland” or “homeland”, had a politically neutral meaning before World War II. But ever since the Nazis adapted this term in their propaganda, it has had a somewhat sinister connotation associated with German nationalism gone completely awry. In autobiographical terms, this work deals with the alienation Haas has faced vis-a-vis his own “Heimat” (the country of Austria,) and vis-a-vis his countries of residence and employment (Germany and Switzerland). In musical terms, UNHEIMAT is a dramatic musical structure for solo double bass and three separate string sextets, which are spatialized around the performance space.
Victor Adán’s first musical experiments took place during the late 1980s, when he began playing on an upright piano and using a computer. From the beginning, both machines served him well as musical instruments. Adán then discovered the uncompromising music of composer Julio Estrada and, in 1997, he joined Estrada’s deschooling Music Creation Lab at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In 2005 he earned an MS in media technology and digital communications from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2010 a DMA from Columbia University. He currently lives in New York and spends his time composing and programming software.
Flow-Debris-Falls may be the first full-length concerto for digital piano, computer and large ensemble. The piece was composed for Argento and features the new Yamaha AvantGrand digital piano combined with interactive computer software designed by composer Edmund Campion. Argento pianist, Joanna Chao performs the “hyper-instrument” to produce material derived from inside and outside the piano. The soloist and electronic parts, generated in real-time, move seamlessly with the 17 acoustic instruments. In three continuous movements, FLOW offers an engaging and at times whimsical retake on the traditional concerto form.
Metamorphosen is a work for 23 solo strings, truly a masterpiece of the art of composition, which Strauss completed in 1945. It was written shortly after the devastation of the opera house in Munich due to aerial bombardments. Metamorphosen transports the personal melancholic and tragic emotion Strauss had to face at this time. A passage of the Marcia Funébre of Beethoven´s Eroica Symphony is the primary motivic element. A long Adagio is followed by a faster middle section that completes the complex texture of the rich polyphony.
The Moving Sounds Festival is a 4-day festival of music, visual media, and aesthetic dialogue. Through concerts and symposia, the festival explores sound and its musical and societal implications.
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