Klangforum Wien
Sandeep Bhagwati / Madli Marje Gildemann / Karen Power / Kristine Tjøgersen
Concert / Premiere
photo: Tina Herzl
Dates
6.10.2023
Location
Helmut List Halle
Graz
Part of
musikprotokoll 2023
Production specifics
The compositions by Karen Power and Madli Marje Gildemann were commissioned by ORF musikprotokoll with the support of VGR–Verwertungsgesellschaft Rundfunk.
The composition by Sandeep Bhagwati was commissioned by ORF musikprotokoll with the support of Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ).
The performance of Karen Power’s composition is supported by Culture Ireland.
Klangforum Wien creates a suggestive network of sound. The acoustic landscape of a spruce forest and the subterranean communication network of trees inspired Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen to write her piano concerto, in which the interior of the instrument itself is transformed into a forest landscape. Composers Madli Marje Gildemann of Estonia and Karen Power of Ireland also use biological processes as a source of inspiration and have written new works for this concert.
Canada-based composer, artist, curator, and author Sandeep Bhagwati has shaped current postcolonial discourses with his essays. For Klangforum, he has conceived a work that places musicians in a nonhierarchical spatial arrangement. They do not follow a score but instructions received via headphones—a work weaves a fine-mesh textured entanglement of composition and improvisation.
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