tpk darlings - pecha kucha for trio trafique will receive its premiere in Winterthur at Theater am Gleis on the 1st of November with a follow up performance in Basel at Gare du Nord on the 3rd of November 2008.
In the mean time take a look at the score and a short clip from the film Goya's ghosts.
Or for a different take on the idea of 'killing your darlings' see the following film (found on pitchfork).
Kill
your darlings is the title for a series of concerts by Trio Trafique to be
held in Switzerland in during October/ November 2008. The concept
(initiated by Michel Heisch) is
centered around Oscar Wilde's claim that "One loves that which one
hates" (and vice versa) in this case taking a strong polarisation
between the "sacrosankt" avant-garde and "unholy" popular culture as a
point of departure. Since DJs have no problem in remixing works as
radical as those of Brian Ferneyhough then why not also a reverse
cultural stance in which "classical" ensembles embrace DJ culture?
Amongst the composers to be presented in the program are Michael
Heisch, Alvin Lucier, Kaspar Ewald, Michael Bürgin, Rudiger
Meyer, an installation by Felix Profos as well as interludes
provided by a DJ.
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On
Sunday the 18th of
November Helge Slaatto premiered Fuglens
Flugt - a violin piece
based on a poem by Vagn Steen. Read more
about the concert, which took
place at Sofiebadet, Copenhagen,
here.
Or take a listen to Vagn Steen reading the poem
here
In September 2007 I made a trip
to Portugal with the Danish
author and poet Peter Poulsen. The purpose was to collect sounds
from the city of Lisbon - hometown of the Portugese poet Fernando
Pessoa. The project is part of an extensive internet
project initiated by the Danish composer Klaus Ib
Jørgensen who has composed a series of musical works around
poems by Fernando Pessoa.
Take a listen to a walk through Rua
Augusta, a major pedestrian
street in the centre of Lisbon
here. ( The recording was made with
binaural microphones and thus provides the best spacial impression when
listened to with a pair of headphones. )
___________________________________________________________ Six Marches and a
Funeral - a composition based around of Mauricio
Kagel's 10 Marches to miss the Victory
premiered as part of the final
concert of the Close Encounters
Festival in Georgia.
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For the month of August 2007 Sink in
- an installation created with choreographer Rosa Isaldur could
be experienced at Lutzhøfts Købmandsgård/Roskilde
Museum. Read, hear and see more...
