Tuesday 13th March 2012
Door Times : 8pm
Tickets: £8 advance / £10 on the door
Tashi Wada wrote 'Revenant', a piece for Virginals and electromagnets in 2011 for Stephan's 'Virginals' project which connects the sound of early instruments, the application of historical media in the context of composing and performing contemporary music, as well as the act of paraphrasing a written score. For this occasion Wada and Mathieu will present for the first time a duo version adding a second voice played on ebowed Phonoharp, a table top zither from the late 1800s. This will also be the premiere virignals performance in the UK.
TASHI WADA
Tashi Wada is a San Francisco-based composer and performer whose recent work focuses on sound perception as a basis for direct modes of listening. His work has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, and for several years now he has performed alongside his father Yoshi Wada.
"To make an exact reference point Tony Conrad's Fantastic Glissando matches similar aesthetic and conceptual moves. This may be an easy comparison due to both pieces utilizing the distinct sound of the violin, but beyond mere instrumentation each hold at their core slowly gliding pitch's and perceptional experiments. But unlike Conrad's abrasive pre-noise take Wada brings a more accessible and dare I say engaging take to such concepts." Last Night's Records
STEPHAN MATHIEU
Stephan Mathieu is a self taught composer and performer of his own music, working in the fields of electroacoustics and abstract digitala. His sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound and obsolete media, which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution; it has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, the work of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.
During the last decade Stephan’s music has been released on 30 CDs and vinyl records. Apart from refining his solo work he currently collaborates with Sylvain Chauveau, Robert Hampson/Main, Taylor Deupree, Jozef van Wissem and David Sylvian in live and studio projects.
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Video from the premier performance of Revenant at Collège des Bernardins, Paris:
Tashi Wada: "Revenant", by Stephan Mathieu (excerpt 1) from Maxime Guitton on Vimeo.
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