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Xenakis - VNM Festival 2011 - Night I
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC); 8PM
mini-polytope 01
A collective of local artists have created the 'mini-polytopes' that will be presented each night. These installation-performances have been inspired by Xenakis' polytopes large-scale, site-specific, multi-media works that integrate sound, light and architecture.
8:30PM
Introduction by Sharon Kanach and James Harley
Sharon Kanach, a Paris-based new music specialist, was Iannis Xenakis' assistant for two decades, and leads the Centre Iannis Xenakis in France and the Xenakis Project of the Americas at CUNY. She has edited a number of books of Xenakis' writings, including Music and Architecture by Iannis Xenakis, Architectural Projects, Texts, and Realizations (Pendragon Press, 2008), and is the author of Performing Xenakis (Pendragon Press, 2010).
James Harley is a Canadian composer presently based in Ontario, where he teaches Digital Music at the University of Guelph. He obtained his doctorate at McGill University in 1994, after spending six years in Europe. His music has been awarded prizes in Canada, USA, UK, France, Poland, Japan, and has been performed and broadcast around the world. He is the author of Xenakis: His Life in Music (Routledge Press, 2004).
8:45PM
Fringe Percussion (Vancouver) with Aiyun Huang (Montreal)
Iannis Xenakis, Persephassa (1969), 24'
Vancouver's premiere contemporary percussion ensemble, Fringe Percussion, will be joined by special guest Aiyun Huang for the performance of Persephassa, Xenakis' monumental first work for percussion. Surrounding the audience, six musicians envelop the listeners in intricately interlocking sounds of percussion instruments and noisemakers.
"Following the rules of riddles, the beats are systematically displaced within further riddles, leading to great complexity of crossed rhythms, phrases which run into one another, altered accents and density." - Col Legno Records
http://www.fringepercussion.com/home.html
http://www.aiyunhuang.com/
9:30PM
Lori Freedman (Montreal) + ensemble
James Harley, Breathwood, 20'
Featuring renowned clarinetist Lori Freedman, Breathwood is a new work by James Harley for amplified solo bass clarinet, ensemble and electronics, specially composed for the occasion of VNM's celebration of Iannis Xenakis.
http://www.lorifreedman.com/
http://homepage.mac.com/james.harley/
10PM
Ensemble - Iannis Xenakis, Phlegra (1975), 13' and Anaktoria (1969), 12'
An ensemble comprised of some of Vancouver's finest new music performers presents two of Xenakis' chamber works. Phlegra, a reference to the Phlegrean fields, the site of the battle between the Titans and the new Olympian gods, is a [adjective] work for eleven instruments. Anaktoria, a work for, eight instruments, means "as beautiful as a palace", and is the name of Sappho's lover. Xenakis dedicated the piece "to love in all its forms: carnal, spiritual, logical."
* Performance times approximate.
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LocationScotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 1B7
Canada
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