Picking it up from where they left it last year, \u03a4\u0395\u03a4\u03a4\u03a4\u0399X bring James Tenney back to KET and build around his \u201cnaked\u201d sound \u201c\u0399ntererences #2\u201d. Swell Pieces, written on postcards sent to friends, are what their title stands for: a sound wave that swells and then recedes. The music of the other composers interferes with this wave and alters our perception of motion and of the flow of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kondo puts into operation a subtle mechanism that produces high notes constantly, while in Troiani a dark and distorted sound seems to be moving underground. In Wolff time is on the performers\u2019 side (!), since all musical parameters \u2013except for melody\u2013 depend on their own choices. Sarto causes an unstable movement within a stable rhythmic environment, and Ter Veldhuis, by \u201cstretching\u201d and \u201ccompressing\u201d a ready-made material, gives us a work based on the melodics of human speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVienne la nuit sonne l\u2019heure\u201d (Come the night, toll the hour) as Apollinaire would say\u2026\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Program:
James Tenney (1934-2006) | Swell Pieces 1, 2 & 3 (1967, 1971)
Christian Wolff (1934) | Exercise 1 (1973)
Jo Kondo (1947) | Standing (1973)
JacobTV (Jacob ter Veldhuis) (1951) | TA TA TA TA (1998)
Andrea Sarto (1979) | Toccata (2016)
Lorenzo Troiani (1989) | Cratere a calice. Figure Rosse (2013)
+ group improvisations and interferences<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u03a4\u0395\u03a4\u03a4\u03a4\u0399X members that perform in this concert include: Ana Chifu (flute), Eirini Amanatiadou (clarinet), Guido de Flaviis (saxophone), Mislav Re\u017ei\u0107 (guitar), Stamatis Pasopoulos (accordion), Katerina Konstantourou (piano), Charis Pazaroulas (double bass). <\/p>\n\n\n\n