The Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Argento New Music Project, Mica Music Austria, and the Czech Center New York present MOVING SOUNDS – a festival devoted to sound and its roles in contemporary music. (1-5 September, 2010)
As in Moving Sounds 2009, last year’s highly successful festival which received rave reviews and listings in all leading New York periodicals, Moving Sounds 2010 investigates the phenomena of sound by pairing leading contemporary classical music performers with electronic performers. Moving Sounds 2010 features world premiere performances of works by landmark contemporary composers, Austria’s Georg Friedrich Haas and Bernhard Lang. On the side of electronic performers, Moving Sounds 2010 will feature leading Austrian electric guitarist and composer Christian Fennesz, along with Japanese acousmatic composer Steven Takasugi and Austrian alternative singer/songwriter Soap&Skin. To bridge the world between the electronic and acoustic worlds, Moving Sounds will also feature a world premiere performance of American composer Ed Campion. This performance will be the first-ever concerto for Yamaha’s new avant-guard electronic keyboard invention, the AvantGrand.
All events take place at The Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022, Czech Center NY, 321 East, 73rd Street, NY 10021 and Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, NY 10012-1408.
Moving Sounds is a 5-day festival of music, visual media and aesthetic dialogue, produced jointly by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the music information center austria (mica), and the Argento New Music Project. The festival creates a forum for dialogue about sound. What is the relationship between sound and music? Can new theories of sound transform traditional ideas of “popular” and “classical” music? Through concerts, symposia, and social environments, the festival explores sound and its musical and sociological implications.
Program
Wednesday, September 1st: Opening concert & get together at ACF
7.30 pm (short “taste” of Moving Sounds, 38 minutes)
Georg Friedrich Haas – Duo for prepared piano and viola – 18 minutes
Reception
Thursday, September 2nd at ACF
7:00 pm (1 hour, no intermission)
Haas – Duet for clarinet and viola – (US PREMIERE) 18 minutes
Georg Friedrich Haas – ATTHIS (WORLD PREMIERE) octet version, no singer 30min
8.30 pm
Georg Friedrich Haas – ATTHIS (US PREMIERE) for Soprano and octet, 40min
Steven Takasugi & Astrid Steiner– work for electronics, 20 min
Installation by Victor Adan: Fonoptera 15 minutes (WORLD PREMIERE)
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen for string orchestra 22min
Georg Friedrich Haas – Unheimat for string orchestra 18min (US PREMIERE)
Friday, September 3rd at Czech Center
7:00 pm (concert exploring spatialization) (58 minutes of music, no intermission)
Spatialized Installation by Victor Adan: Fonoptera 15 minutes (WORLD PREMIERE)
Georg Friedrich Haas – Unheimat for string orchestra in Spatialized performance18min (US PREMIERE)
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen for string orchestra 22min
8:30 pm (directional concert format) (60 minutes of music, with intermission)
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen for string orchestra 22min
Georg Friedrich Haas – Unheimat for string orchestra 18min
Intermission
Ed Campion – Flow for Electronics and 19 musicians 20min (WORLD PREMIERE)
Saturday, September 4th at LPR
6:30 pm
Due East percussion, flute, and electronics
Bernhard Lang DW 21 – 10min (WORLD PREMIERE)
Brian Kane – WORLD PREMIERE for Contrabass flute and electronics 10 min
7:30 pm: Soap&Skin
9 pm: Christian Fennesz
Sunday, September 5th at ACF
Two performances
2 AND 6 pm
Jack Quartet
Georg Friedrich Haas – string quartet #2 (in the dark) 50 min
Media Contact
Martina Laab
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, NYC 10022
212 319 5300 ext 215
917 628 4275
mlaab@acfny.org