logos on the road
<dynamo>
Op zaterdag 9 december speelt Leonaar Degraeve Dynamo van Godfried-Willem Raes op z'n elektrische gitaar. Logos-Blad lezers zijn ondertussen vertrouwd met het stuk, maar ditmaal is de lokatie wel bijzonder: het koncert vindt immers plaats in het Gents Ekologisch Centrum. Hoe luider de gitarist in Dynamo wil spelen, hoe harder hij op de hometrainer moet trappen om de nodige energie op te wekken.
Wie meer info wenst belt best naar initiatiefnemer Hans Roels: 09/238.10.37.
Aveiro, Portugal JoRNADaS NoVA MuSICa
En nog heel goed decembernieuws:
een nieuwe schitterende internationale uitstraling voor het Departement Muziek en Drama van de Hogeschool Gent en dit in samenwerking met Stichting Logos.
Dr. Godfried-Willem Raes werd in zijn hoedanigheid als docent kompositie uitgenodigd tot participatie aan het Nieuwe Muziek Festival te Aveiro, Portugal. Het is ons gelukt om en het Hogeschoolbestuur en de Vlaamse Gemeenschap warm te krijgen voor deze Jornadas Musica Novas, zodat we ook daadwerkelijk met 5 Conservatoriumstudenten en 4 OP-leden die hierbij als Logos Kwartet aantreden, kunnen deelnemen aan het festival van donderdag 14 december tot donderdag 21 december 2000.
Wij zijn dolgelukkig dit verkwikkende nieuws als stimulerende verrassing bekend te kunnen maken en danken van harte zowel de Hogeschool Gent, als de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, om ons de middelen te verschaffen om dergelijke samenwerkingsdromen ook daadwerkelijk te kunnen realiseren. En vanzelfsprekend gaat onze dank ook uit naar onze Portugese collega's in het algemeen en studente, Diana Ferreira, in het bijzonder die het idee aanbracht.
M.D.
Het volledige festivalprogramma ziet er als volgt uit:
4as JORNADAS NOVA MUSICA - AVEIRO'2000
Fundação J. Jacinto Magalhães
Edifício I
Campus Universitário de Santiago
Aveiro
Master Class with the flutist Istvan Matuz
9:30 pm - Recital by a young Portuguese soloist
Friday, 15th December
Master Class with the flutist Istvan Matuz
6:00 pm - Conferencia por Paulo Ferreira de Castro
9:30 pm - Electroacustic Music Recital
Saturday, 16th December
Master Class with the flutist Istvan Matuz
Master-Class with the trombonist Leo Verheyen
5:00 pm - Recital by the students of the Master-Class on Flute
9:30 pm - Recital by Henk Van Twillert, saxophone
Sunday, 17th December
Master Class with the soprano Ana Ester Neves
Master-Class with the trombonist Leo Verheyen
Master-Class with the composer Salvatore Sciarrin
6:00 pm - Conference por Godfried-Willem Raes
9:30 pm - Recital by Suzanna Lidegran, violin
Monday, 18th December
Master Class with the soprano Ana Ester Neves
Master Class with the composer Godfried-Willem Raes
Master-Class with the trombonist Leo Verheyen
4:30 pm - Recital by the students of the Master-Class on Trombone
6:00 pm - Conference/Concert with Salvatore Sciarrino
9:30 pm - Recital by Quartetto Prometeo
Tuesday, 19th December
Master Class with the soprano Ana Ester Neves
Master Class with the composer Godfried-Willem Raes
9:30 pm - Concert by the Students from the Hogeschool Gent
Wednesday, 20th December
Master Class with the soprano Ana Ester Neves
4:30 pm - Recital by the students of the Master-Class on Singing
9:30 pm - Concert by the Chamber Orchestra of the Festival, in Aveiro*
Thursday, 21st December
9:30 pm - Concert by the Chamber Orchestra of the Festival, in Porto*
Friday, 22nd December
6:00 pm - Concert by the Chamber Orchestra of the Festival, in Lisboa*
*conductor - Gerhard Samuel
En hier een glimp van wat wij op het koncert zullen brengen:
Ensemble for Experimental Music of the Ghent Royal Conservatory
Christian WOLFF (1934-)
"Changing the system" (1973)
Christian Wolff can be considered to be one of the rare composers giving serious consideration to the inner politics of the ensembles he writes for. There is no conductor, no hidden hierarchy in the ensemble. The score is not prescriptive in an authoritarian way, but rather tries to reveal the typical inner workings of ensembles performing chamber music. As many pieces from the same period, this piece tries to redefine the notion of composition from a linear series of prescriptions and recipes to a rather game like and rule based system. This approach may well become visionary for a type of contemporary music practice to come.
To quote the composer: "To turn the making of music into a collaborative and transforming activity (performer into composer into listener into composer into performer etc...), the co-operative character of the activity to be the exact source of the music. To stir up, through the production of the music, a sense of the political conditions in which we live and how these might be changed, in the direction of democratic socialism".
Christian Wolff was born on 08.03.1934 in Nice (France). However, his origin is German, and his family emigrated in 1941 to the US. There, in New York, he met in the early fifties, the progressive composers John Cage, Earle Brown and Morton Feldman who have been very influential on his own work.
Frederic RZEWSKI (1938)
"Lullaby: God to a hungry child" (30.10.1994)
Frederic Rzewski is a well known pianist and composer whose work very often is tied to conveying political ideas and/ or the expression of injustice done to people. This little song may demonstrate this. He was one of the contributors of pieces to the Scratch anthology.
During the seventies he experimented further with forms in which style and language are treated as structural elements; the best-known work of this period is The People United Will Never Be Defeated!, a 50-minute set of piano variations. A number of pieces for larger ensembles written between 1979 and 1981 show a return to experimental and graphic notation, while much of the work of the eighties explores new ways of using twelve-tone technique. A freer, more spontaneous approach to writing can be found in more recent work. His largest-scale work to date is The Triumph of Death (1987-8), a two-hour oratorio based on texts adapted from Peter Weiss' 1965 play Die Ermittlung (The Investigation).
Since 1983, he has been Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Liege, Belgium.
Cornelius CARDEW (1936-1981)
"The Great Learning" Paragraph 6 (1969)
This composition is part of a very large scale project involving very big ensembles. Paragraph 6 however can be performed by smaller groups and shares the same considerations for musical democracy as can be found in the Christian Wolff pieces. In the mid seventies the composers had close contacts and collaborated in what was then called the 'Scratch Orchestra'.
"How should we interpret the word 'soon' in the statement 'there will soon be a high tide of revolution'?'" (1971)
Godfried-Willem RAES (1952- )
"Cues" (1972)
This piece goes back to the first years of the existence of the Logos group in Belgium, the oldest still existing group devoted to experimental musics. At that time the composer had close contacts with the composers in and behind the 'Scratch Orchestra' in London. Hence this composition shares similar considerations as the pieces by Cardew and Wolff from the same period. The piece was published in the Experimental Music Catalogue published by Gavin Bryars.
Godfried-Willem RAES
Capita selecta from:
<Songbook> (1995), for voices and invisible instrument (program notes)
<A Book of Moves> (1992), for invisible instruments (program notes)
Salvatore SCIARRINO
"L'orrizonte luminose di Atoni"
Soloist: Karin DE FLEYT
Kristof LAUWERS
"New Theremin piece"
for theremins, ringmodulators and instruments.
In 1998 Godfried-Willem Raes asked the students in his composition class to build theremins and to write new pieces for this revolutionary instrument dating back from 1917. For this concert, Kristof Lauwers was asked to revise his composition so we could pick it up in this program.
Moniek DARGE (1952)
"Caete" (1995/98)
This piece shows the authors interest in both the ritual aspects of performance and in the integration of soundscape composition.
In this piece we find three layers of sound material:
- soundscape of water (underground rivers and streams at Ouro Preto, at Jandira -the Buddhist centre-and at Caete) realized in 1995 in Minas Gerais (Brasil)
- sounds of the Brasilian farmland at Caete
- an instrumental translation of a poem (written 01.01.98) in which a second of intense eye contact with a very old dying woman is evocated.
And extra possibilities and pieces as part of masterclass/workshops:
Godfried-Willem RAES
<Songbook>, for voices and invisible instrument
<A Book of Moves>, for invisible instruments
<Cohiba>, for flute and computer (program notes)
PERFORMERS / INSTRUMENTS:
Eva VANDEVOORDE : bass clarinet, objects & piano
Vanessa DEFAUW : mezzosoprano, objects
Moniek DARGE : voice, electronics, objects, invisible instrument
Brent WETTERS : fluegelhorn, electronics
Joachim BRACKX : baritone, objects, electronics
Bruno DEBUSSCHERE : ophicleide, electronics
Kristof LAUWERS : gitaar, theremin, computers, objects
Godfried-Willem RAES : director
