ABOUT THIS EVENT

John Cage once described music as the organization of sound. Yet, to organize sound one needs time, as music is a temporal art. This symposium will explore ways in which composers have used musical organization to create unique projections of musical time. The symposium offers a set of presentations investigating pertinent topics related to musical time across historical and cultural boundaries, with a focus on contemporary repertoire, where this compositional dimension has been extensively engaged. Additionally, a lecture-recital featuring works by Italian composer Luigi Nono and American composer Morton Feldman as well as an evening’s program of music performed by Ensemble Chromoson, visiting the conservatory for the week from Europe, will allow attendees a chance to experience a fascinating array of approaches toward the projection of time through sound.

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PROGRAMME

9 AM, Recital Studio
Welcome/Introduction

PETER EDWARDS, presenter

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9:30 AM, Recital Studio
Bernhard Lang: An Aesthetic of Repetition

HANNES KERSCHBAUMER, presenter

The music of Austrian composer Bernhard Lang shows a unique perspective on composing with repetition. Building off of the philosophical ideas of Gilles Deleuze and others, the composer developed a unique aesthetic in the late 1990s that evolved from the central elements of difference and repetition.

A look at the compositional application of repetition in Western music history provides important impulses as to how repetition can have a structure- and form-building role. Lang’s music articulates a unique use of repetition as a style-forming element. In this presentation, the work series DW (Differenz/Wiederholung) as a central manifesto of his aesthetics will be analytically outlined to examine the compositional application of sample and loop. Developments in his recent aesthetics, in which the composer applies algorithmic procedures and enters into dialogue with materials from music history, will also be presented.

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10:30 AM, Recital Studio
On Swings, Grooves, and Pockets: Concepts of Time in Jazz

ANDREAS MARINELLO, presenter

Many of the central concepts in jazz have to do with time: rhythmic placement, swing, microrhythm, time feel. While a consistent theoretical framework has been developed for melody and harmony, the rhythmical elements of jazz remain somewhat more elusive, at least in academics.

This lecture looks at the most recent research on these issues, while also giving an overview on the history and idiosyncrasies of swing and time feel in the jazz tradition, from its African roots to contemporary developments.

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1:30 PM, Recital Studio
Buying Time in Nicolaus A. Huber’s ‘Aus Schmerz und Trauer’

CHEN ZHANGYI, presenter
ANDREAS MARINELLO, saxophone

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2:30 PM, Recital Studio
Takemitsu and Time in Japanese Culture

PETER EDWARDS, presenter

In his essay, My perception of time in traditional Japanese music, composer Toru Takemitsu distinguishes between the perception of time in Japanese culture versus in the West. This lecture will outline Takemitsu’s argument and show how this Japanese concept of temporality is manifested in the composer’s own work.

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4 PM, Orchestra Hall
Lecture Recital

HANNES KERSCHBAUMER, presenter

PROGRAMME

LUIGI NONO
…sofferte onde serene…

LUCA LAVURI, piano
FEDERICO CAMPANA, electronic

MORTON FELDMAN 
Instruments I

OPUSNOVUS
with
CAROLIN RALSER, flute
PHILIPP LAMPRECHT, percussion
LUCA LAVURI, piano

This lecture-recital features 2 important works from the 1970s. Luigi Nono was the most important composer of post-war Italy. A pioneer in the use of time and timbre in music, he created a deeply personal style, especially in his later works from the 1980s. His …sofferte onde serene… (…serene waves endured…), a forerunner to this later period, is a beautiful, spacious, lyrical work for piano and 2-channel playback. Morton Feldman was a close associate of John Cage and a member of the New York School. Like Nono’s work, Feldman’s Instruments 1 is a precursor to the singular style of the composer’s late pieces.

This concert features members of YST’s contemporary music ensemble, Opus Novus, along with members of Ensemble Chromoson, in residence for the Composing Time symposium. Hannes Kerschbaumer, artistic director of Ensemble Chromoson, will contextualize these two works for the audience through his presentation.

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7:30 PM
Concert, Orchestra Hall

ENSEMBLE CHROMOSON

Programme Notes

PROGRAMME

DANIEL ALVARADO BONILLA
Low-fi delirium

ANDREAS MARINELLO
Kairozétema

FEDERICO CAMPANA
viral

PETER EDWARDS
Codeables

   1. Uniform Waves
   2. Circuit Breaker
   3. Ein Exemplar
   4. Junior Jam Session
   5. Mosaics

PIERRE JODLOWSKI
Coliseum

HANNES KERSCHBAUMER
untitled (a)

Founded by the former members of the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt am Main, flutist Carolin Ralser and percussionist Philipp Lamprecht, as well as the composer Hannes Kerschbaumer, ensemble chromoson strives to make contemporary music accessible to a larger audience. By working closely with an international pool of young aspiring artists from different fields, the ensemble has consistently shown its high level of artistic quality since its debut in 2014. Hailed as one of the leading Italian contemporary music ensembles, chromoson is a collective of highly specialized and award winning musicians, sound designers and composers, who strive to create collaborative environments by designing innovative interdisciplinary projects such as chemin, respiro, rayon uv-a, aeria, abyss, hot and mundlicht and perform at prestigious contemporary music festivals such as Transart Festival d Festival of Contemporary music Bolzano (IT), novalis festival Zadar (CRO), Vienna Hongkong Music Festival, Free Space Festival Hongkong, Distat Terra Festival Argentina, WGT Festival Leipzig (GER), and concert series such as Int. Paul Hofhaymer Society and Mozarteum Salzburg and the Gustav Mahler Music Festival, amongst others. Chromoson was ensemble-in-residence at INAUDITO/UNERHÖRT and the Austrian Hongkong Composers Connection. Projects for 2022 include performances and several world premieres at the CROSSROADS Festival Salzburg (Austria). In 2023, the ensemble will perform works by the award-winning composer Manuel Zwerger at the Radiokulturhaus in Vienna.

This concert opens with a short discussion with composers on their works.

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• Only individuals who are fully vaccinated or exempted from Vaccination-Differentiated Safe Management Measures (VDS)* may be admitted to performances with more than 500 audience members.

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