Arne Deforce
Cellist-performer-composer
'Dissonance is far more interesting than consonance and depending on the specific context in which both occur, dissonance can be very consonant and consonance very disturbing.'
Short Bio
Born in Ostend on 21 november 1962.
Arne Deforce is a member of 'artistic board' and the principle cellist of the contemporary music ensemble 'Champ d'Action' and is also teaching history of music and chambermusic at the conservatory of music in Brugge. At the 'Logos Foundation'-studio his preparing his first solo c.d. project, 'Composed improvisations'. Occasionaly he also collaborates in the logos ensemble.
As a cello-soloist he is mainly concentrating on the performance of contemporary music, and aims for a permanent criticism on jamed attitudes of listening: he looks for confrontation, the opening of horizons, and scanning the borders of order and chaos. In his solo programms Arne Deforce chooses for the abstract enigmatic composition, for creation of new musical idea's rather than recreation. He wants to break off with traditional listening -and observing levels and confront the auditor with new or less-evident esthetics and sometimes other concert forms as gallery concerts with improvisations on the work or installations of fine artists, multimedia concerts with electronics and video art. With his own 'Composed Improvisations' he performed at the 'FLEA'-festival New York, 'Musique Echange' Montreal , 'November Music' Eindhoven, 'Octobre en Normandie' Rouen, 'Toho University' of Tokyo and 'Ars Musica', Brussels. As a performer he recently worked together with the Brittish composer Richard Barrett, the Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl, the Australian Elision Ensemble as well as with dutch composer Dick Raaijmakers.
"philosophy, painting, poetry and paradox./ music as a gamework of the homo estheticus, usefull consumption or onfolding of veracity without use./ the creative act: intentional en with great accuracy kicking next to the target (goal), betraying oneself and suddenly with imperative mood (manner) leaving every form of traditional structure and semantics for new and different creativity./ searching in the 'inbetween-ness' of order and chaos: zone./ jamed attitudes of listening against new sounds./ there is no choise, unless art: predicting the unpredictable and being surprised when it happens, predicting the predictable an being surprised when it doesn't./ escaping is allowed."
He first became involved in music at the age of seventeen and studied music analysis, history of music, harmony and guitar at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels (1980-1985). He then studied violoncello and chambermusic at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Ghent (Andre Messens, Edmond Carlier & France Springuel) and graduated in 1994 with distinction on the performance of contemporary music with both a 'Hoger diploma' for cello and a 'Hoger diploma' of chambermusic. As a final project in the conservatory of Ghent he was selected for the production of a first CD of the famous electric string quartet 'Black Angels' of the American composer George Crumb.
Adress : Arne Deforce Begijnhoflaan 448, B - 9000 Gent [Belgium] Tel./fax : 32/9/329.61.72 email: <arne.deforce@pandora.be>
Repertoire (selected works)
Aperghis, George 4 Recitation 1980 Barrett, Richard Ne songe plus a fuir 1986
Von hinter dem Schmerz 1992-96Berio, Luciano Les Mots sont alles 1979 Cage, John Etudes Boreales 1978 Dusapin, P. Incisa 1982
Item 1985notes Feldman, Morton Durations 2 1960 Finnissey, Michael Andimironnai 1982 Halffter, Cristobal Variationen uber Sacher 1976 Harvey, Jonathan Curve with Plateau 1982
Three Sketches 1989notes Henze, Hans Werner Serenade 1949 Hespos, Hans Joachim fur cello solo 1964 Holliger, Heinz Chaconne (Sacher) 1976 Huber, Klaus Transpositio ad infinitum (Sacher) 1976 Hubler K.K. Opus Breve 1987 Kagel, Mauricio Unguis incarnatus est 1972 Kaipainen, J. Trois morceaux de l'aube op.15 Lachenmann Helmuth Pression 1969 notes Monet, M. Chant 1984 Penderecky, Krzystof Capriccio per S. Palm 1968 Raes, Godfried-Willem CelloPi, 1999 (with electronics) , 1999 Rihm, Wolfgang Grat 1970
von weit 1993Saariaho, Kaaia Petals
PresSciarrino, Salvatore Al limiti della note 1979 Tenney, James Cellogram Webern, Anton Drei kleine Stucke op.11 1914 Xenakis, Iannis Nomos Alpha 1965
Paille in the wind
EpicyclesLaMonte Young Composition 1960 #7 Zimmermann Bernd Alois Vier kurze Studien 1970
Intercomunicazione 1967notes Yun, Isang Nore 1964
Barrett, Richard Unter Wasser Brewaeys, Luc Oban Carter, Eliot A mirror on which to dwell
Con leggerezza pensosaChagass, P. Un invible Laberinto de Tiempo Del Puerto, D. Concierto pour marimba et 15 instruments Donatoni, Franco Ultima Sera
About
De Pres
Etwas ruhiger im AusdruckEsll, Karlheinz Champ d'Action Goeyvaerts, Karel Das Haar
opus 2,3,6
Litanie 4
PianokwartetHarada, K. After the summer Lehman, Heinz Ulrich. De Profundis Logghe, Geert Time before and time after Murail, Tristan Treize Couleurs Nancarrow, Conlon Studies 3A, 7 Neuwirth, Olga. Hooloomooloo Oliveira, J.P. String quartet (Peregrinacao) Pagh-Paan, Y. SOWON/Wunsch I Raes, Godfried-Willem Reich, Steve Eight Lines Saariaho, Kaaia Lichtbogen
Solar
Sah den Vogeln
GraaltheaterScelsi, Giacinto Trio a cordes Stockhausen, Karlheinz Microphonie 1 Tenney, James Spectrum 5 Versockt, Serge Feuillage du coeur Screens
Xenakis, Iannis Epicycles
n'Shima
Phlegra
Plekto
Medea
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