Disklavier Plus 2014 – Reruns and World Premiere
08/2014 IMD – DE
The Disklavier Plus project started in March 2013 with a two day workshop at Utrecht Muziekhuis where the selected composers presented their first ideas or drafts.
Each Ulysses partner will announce one composer from their home country, for Darmstadt Summer Course the Cologne based Steffen Krebber will write a new piece – commissioned by IMD – for the automatic piano conceived by Winfried Ritsch from the IEM in Graz (AT). The IEM will be in the “Studio in Residence” at the Internationale Musiktage Darmstadt 2014.
After the workshop held in spring 2013 in Utrecht (NL), the premieres of three pieces (Ville Raasakka, Vito Zuraj and Ji Youn Kang) in September 2013 at the Gaudeamus Music Week (NL) , and further performances in Vitasaari (FI) in Summer 2014, Lukas Wiegerink and Steffen Krebber will premiere their pieces in Darmstadt during the 47th International Summer Course for New Music.
Lukas Wiegerink will write a piece for Disklavier and Harp. The harp will be performed by Gunnhildur Einarsdóttir, who will also be the coach of the harp-workshops during the Internationale Musiktage in Darmstadt 2014.
Before he comes to Darmstadt, Lkas Wiegerink will have the occasion for a try-out in at Muziekhuis Utrecht with the harpist Anneleen Schuitemaker and with Robert van Heumen for the live-electronics.
Steffen Krebber discribed his first thoughts for the Darmstadt piece like this:
„In my series Confusions – the piece for disklavier will be part of – I try to find music in music. Ethnographical recordings of solo flute music from Papua New Guinea inside of early renaissance vocal music from Italy. Bird songs in spectralism. Yodeling pygmies in serialism. Machine sounds in frogs. And the history of electronic dance music in Wagner.
For the Disklavier piece I will confront additively synthesized environmental, nature imitating sounds played by a mono speaker into the piano with coalesced music from different genres seen through the eyes of a machine: piano.“
The works by Vito Zuraj and Ji Youn Kang will also be presented to a larger public,
after the world premieres during Gaudeamus Muziekweek in September 2013 and the performances in Viitasaari in July 2014.
In Darmstadt, the Disklavier Plus project will be presented within the presence of the Studio-in-Residence IEM Graz.
Two workshop concerts – also with the Automatic Piano of Winfried Ritsch/Peter Ablinger – is scheduled for Thursday, 14 August, at 10am and 4pm:
World premieres by Lukas Wiegerink and Steffen Krebber (IMD commission for the Ulysses Network).
Re-runs by the Gaudeamus pieces of Vito Zuraj and Ji Youn-Kang.
This project is supported by Yamaha Music Europe.
In September 2014, reruns of the pieces by Ji Youn Kang and Kukas Wiegerink are programmed during the Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2014 in Utrecht (NL).