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Event
Xenakis - VNM Festival 2011 - Night III
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC)
8PM
mini-polytope 03
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).
8:45PM
JACK Quartet (New York)
Iannis Xenakis, Tetora (1990), 17' and Ergma (1994), 9'
Also see program for Friday, October 21, 2011; 8:45PM.
Tetora is a slow-paced work that incorporates "no glissandi, no grinding noises or other effects, no trills, tremolandi, or microtones, and very little use of polyrhythms" (James Harley, Xenakis: his life in music). The result is a piece that is darker, and more brooding than the earlier quartets.
Ergma, Xenakis' final string quartet, is a thick, but richly detailed work. The title, meaning "finished work", is "in deference to the austere art of Mondrian", and the piece itself "an interesting tribute to one modernist master by another" (Harley).
" It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing [Xenakis' music] with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand." - Allan Kozinn, New York Times
http://www.jackquartet.com/
9:30PM
Danny Tones (Vancouver)
Iannis Xenakis, Rebonds (1987-88), 12'
A "ritualistic web of complex rhythms", Rebonds is a demanding solo work for tom-toms, conga, bongos, bass drums and wood blocks. Rebonds' two movements, A and B, are intended to be played in either order, flowing into each other as a single piece.
http://www.danieltones.com/
10PM
VEE Audio Installation (20')
10:30PM
Roger Admiral (Edmonton)
Iannis Xenakis, Mists (1980), 12' and Herma (1960-61), 7'; Howard Bashaw, Form Archimage (2001/2010), 16'
Herma, labeled as "symbolic music" by Xenakis, combines set theory principles with probability calculus, one of the results being a contrast between linear structures and clouds of pitches. This contrast can be heard again in Mists; a work created in part using mathematical logic functions, in which ascending scales at different tempos are alternated with light clouds of pointillistic tones.
The three movements of Howard Bashaw's composition, Form Archimage, shift from "roller-coaster-like excursions up and down the keyboard" to kaleidoscopic pulse-streams that "surround you like hovering clocks", with the final movement being described as "a real barn-burner" (Marc Couroux). Giorgio Magnanensi will collaborate with Admiral to deliver an interactive audio-visual performance in which he generates visuals from the sounds and movements of the performer.
http://www.rogeradmiral.com/
*Performance times approximate.
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LocationScotiabank Dance Centre (View)
677 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 1B7
Canada
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