TOTAL MUSIC MEETING ´01
International Festival for Improvised Music
November 1 - 3, 2001
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Thursday, November 1, 2001
8.30 p.m.
GEORGE LEWIS / VOYAGER
George Lewis (trb)
Aki Takase (p)
Voyager is a ´multi-channel' project, a metaphor, as it were, for that of a virtual orchestra with human soloists playing acoustic instruments. The software aspect of the piece currently supports a maximum of sixty-four (64) separate MIDI-voices. These voices are played by four 16-voice MIDI synthesizers, each of which has two audio output channels (stereo).
George Lewis, trombonist, composer, improvisor and computer/installation artist, studied composition with Muhal Richard Abrams at the AACM School of Music, and trombone with Dean Hey. As a composer, Lewis has explored electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installations, text-sound works, and notated forms. A member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, Lewis' work as composer, improvisor, performer and interpreter is documented on more than ninety recordings.
His forthcoming book "Power Stronger Than Itself: The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians" will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2001.
Lewis has received numerous Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is the 1999 recipient of the Cal Arts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Lewis now serves as professor of Music in the Critical Studies/Experimental Practices area at the University of California, San Diego.
The renowned Japanese pianoplayer Aki Takase will be heard for the first time on a digital grand piano sponsored by Yamaha Europa GmbH, Rellingen.
In collaboration with the Electronic Studio at the Technical University Berlin.
Young European Improvisors / England & Wales
IST (Improvising String Trio)
Rhodri Davies (harp)
Mark Wastell (violoncello)
Simon H. Fell (double bass)
Formed in 1995, IST play acoustic strings and use extended techniques and special preparation of their instruments both for improvising and the performance of experimental composed music. All three are noteworthy figures on the current London Improvised Music scene, and are members (as individuals or collectively) of the ´London Improvisers' Orchestra´, Evan Parker's ´String Project´, Butch Morris´ ´London Skyscraper´, Derek Bailey's ´Company´ and Chris Burn's ´Ensemble´. Between them they have performed with many of Europe's key improvising musicians.
Although mainly concerned with improvisation, IST's repertoire includes several compositions. They perform their own pieces as well as pieces by composers like Earle Brown and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Supported by the British Council, Berlin.
European Master-Series / Germany
ZENTRALQUARTETT
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky (reeds)
Conny Bauer (trb)
Uli Gumpert (p)
Günter ´Baby´ Sommer (dr, perc)
The music created by Zentralquartett, initiated in 1984 by drummer / percussionist Günter ´Baby´ Sommer, combines past and present in a very unique way. They personify the history of improvised music in the former German Democratic Republic (hence the group's name) and display a virtuosity creating soundscapes beyond ´styles´ which has left its mark on European Improvised Music.
»Zentralquartet - a lamento and a scream, the refractoriness and triumph of the senses« (Bert Noglik).
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