ZOOMING IN adopts the premise that music is not just an acoustic phenomenon, but also a form of visual representation via performance. The classical concert form itself includes elements like movement, light and space that, per se, go beyond the purely audible.
Each notated work of this program has this in common: a strong influence of visual concepts. Furthermore, the audience is invited to curate the evening’s music and to produce musical parts that, over the course of the evening, the ensemble will choose and perform. These musicals parts without conventional notation will be decoded via a previously determined deciphering principle. As a result, each successive performance creates an entirely new large-scale musical result.
The evening concert is largely inspired by Christian Marclay’s “Graffiti Composition”. At the sonambiente festival für hören und sehen in 1996, Marclay had 5000 empty pages of sheet music hung up throughout the entire city of Berlin, an invitation to the public to leave behind any kind of music or graffiti. Marclay documented the resulting “compositions” and later assembled a selection of them to be printed as graphic scores.
In this concert project MAM not only brings together exciting music, but also masterfully achieves the bridging of music to other art practices: young director Recha la Dous, with whom MAM has already successfully converted Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire for its instrumentation, will theatrically design this project in order to render musical concepts and structures visible. |
Iannis Xenakis
Jörg Widmann
Peter Ablinger
Iannis Xenakis
Nicolaus A. Huber
Peter Ablinger |
