SUNDAY 25th April 2010
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £9 / £6 concs
incidental music
Julia Eckhardt, viola and varia (Bruxelles)
Normisa Pereira da Silva, flutes and varia (Berlin)
Stefan Thut, violoncello and varia (Solothurn)
Manfred Werder, varia (Zurich)
Guests:
Angharad Davies, violin (London)
Tim Parkinson, varia (London)
incidental music explores experimental music where there are no other categories other than allowing the phenomena of sound to emerge. incidental music places something, or performs a selection of activities, in space and time. Places and forms of presentation – space time – have become part of basic decisions which don’t categorise themselves but finely delineate a field of potentials. incidental music is a reference to George Brecht’s Water-Yam.
Julia Eckhardt, Normisa Pereira da Silva and Manfred Werder have worked closely together since 1998. In 2001 they founded incidental music. In 2004, cellist Stefan Thut joined the group.
incidental music focuses on the dialogue between artistically outstanding works from the early Sixties and new works of composers such as Antoine Beuger, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, James Saunders, Taku Sugimoto and Manfred Werder.
In the early Sixties, composers such as George Brecht and Yoko Ono worked on musically and artistically condensed forms which subsequently established the new media of 'performance' and the musical genre of 'event'. Though later on, 'performance' had its most significant effect in the arts world, it initially emerged through a musical reflection which consistently developed the aesthetic concerns of John Cage’s 'indeterminacy' from the 1950es.
For many years now, incidental music has drawn from this history, in order to stimulate today’s compositional activities.
incidental music proposes that the finest composers' works arise where the hidden potentials of 'indeterminacy' and 'event' consistently meet and provoke new interpretations.
Programme:
Manfred Werder: 2010
Antoine Beuger: kiarostami quintets (2004)
Tim Parkinson: trio with objects (2008)
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