Musarc and the ASD Choir present:
Juxtaposition
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Juxtaposition
Ensemble of the ASD Choir
Cathy Heller-Jones, conductor
Michael Anacker / Kallabris, performance
Sam Belinfante, performance
Mary Dullea, piano
Musarc, Entr’acte and the choir at the Department of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, present a diverse and unusual mid-summer programme of music and performances in one of the world’s oldest and last surviving grand music halls.
Juxtaposition brings together traditional and modern choral and instrumental works by composers as diverse as di Lasso, William Billings and Zoltán Kodály with contemporary performance and electronic music. The evening includes a rare performance of Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari and John Cage’s The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs for voice and closed piano; Piece for score, a new performance for electronics and voice by sound artist Sam Belinfante; and Kallabris: Inbetween the sound sound. A sound understanding of a phrase and the misinterpretation of its meaning, a performance by German experimental musician Michael Anacker.
For Juxtaposition there is no traditional stage and performances happen as consecutive events in space. The audience will be required to stand and make use of the auditorium floor. Some seating will be available. The performance will last approximately 90 minutes.
10 July 2009, 8.00pm
Wilton’s Music Hall
Graces Alley
Off Ensign Street
London, E1 8JB
www.wiltons.org.uk/find-us
Artists & Composers
Kallabris in Sint-Niklaas, exposing the causa formalis. Photograph by Lieve Apers
Kallabris is the project of Michael Anacker, born 1968 in Hagen, Westphalia. Active since 1986, Kallabris’ work has been described as ‘electro-acoustic chamber music’ — a description which should be taken literally. Anacker’s main interest is a reflection on the electro-mechanical conditions of sound recording presented in everyday recording devices such as cheap home computers, dictaphones and answering machines. Thus, he is not interested in the limits of musical styles but in the limitations of sound (re)production.
Besides music, Anacker teaches theoretical philosophy and philosophy of culture at the Ruhr University in Bochum. At present he is lecturing together with Dimitri Liebsch on the philosophy of music — covering positions from Eduard Hanslick to Stephen Davies, Jerrold Levinson and Peter Kivy. His topical research deals with non-representational aspects of intentionality, where ‘pure’ music comes into view as a symbol system which lacks representation — as symbols that mean without meaning something.
Mary Dullea. Photograph by Sophie Dennehy
As soloist and chamber musician, Irish pianist Mary Dullea has built an impressive reputation as a performer and commissioner of new music. She has performed throughout Ireland, England, Europe, USA, Hong Kong and South
Africa at festivals including Brighton, Huddersfield, Aldeburgh, Reggello (Italy) and National Arts Festival (South Africa). Mary broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 3 and is on the teaching staff of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She is currently undertaking a PhD in Performance at the University of Ulster, focusing on the use of the inside of the piano.
In May 2008, Mary curated Soundings in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum, London. This will culminate in a recital at the Wigmore Hall with her piano trio, the Fidelio Trio, who have recently released 2 CDs to critical acclaim:
Bulb (Irish piano trios by Kevin Volans, Deirdre Gribbin, Donnacha Dennehy and Ed Bennett) on NMC D147, and Metamorphoses (chamber music of Haflidi Hallgrimsson) on Delphian Records DCD34059. She appears as soloist on a Joe Cutler portrait disc (NMC D134). 2009 sees CD releases on Altarus Records (a Simon Mawhinney portrait disc) and, with Darragh Morgan, thirty-nine pages by Paul Whitty for Divine Art and the complete violin and piano music of Michael Finnissy for Mode Records.
Mary will perform Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari and John Cage’s The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs with Joseph Kohlmaier.
Sam Belinfante, Taos. Photograph by Tina Larkin
Sam Belinfante is an artist living and working in London. In his projects he endeavours to bridge the gap between the visual and the audible. This is most evident in his graphic scores, where drawings offer an interface between a performance and its direction. Since recently completing his Masters at the Slade School of Fine Art, Belinfante has shown both nationally and internationally, including group shows in Stoltzestrasse 11 Frankfurt, REMAP Athens and Tate Britain for Late at Tate.
Forthcoming projects include a major sonic commission for the Laing Gallery, Newcastle and a series of works stemming from a recent trip to Taos, New Mexico. Whilst there the artist investigated a mysterious hum emanating from the landscape, a sound that both fascinated and plagued the local Taosenos.
Image: view of a-Historische Klanken/a-Historical Soundings. Harald Szeemann's choice from the collection of the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1988. With kind permission by Jannes Linders.
