WORKSHOP
Montag, 2. Mai 2005, 15.15 Uhr Fortbildungszentrum für Neue Musik, An
der Münze 7, 21335 Lünburg
Sonsoles Alonso: Workshop Klavier & Elektronik
- 'Electrified Piano'
Sonsoles Alonso will introduce pieces with electronics from her repertoire as
well as her experience with electronics as an improviser. Among the pieces Nono's
Sofferte onde Serene, Marko Ciciliani's Tullius Rooms and Toek Numan's Søyr as
well as samples from her impro duo with sound designer Jorrit Tamminga. She will
discuss aspects of performance practice (pianist and technician), notation and
interaction between player and electronics.
Tullius Rooms- Marko Ciciliani 1999/2000 for piano, electronics, and soundscapes
From Antiquity up through the Renaissance, there are reports
of people who had the ability to retain unimaginable amounts of information. These
people accomplished such feats of recollection by means of a particular technique
— the ars memorativa — which worked in the following way. One created a personal,
imaginary building, all of the different spatial divisions of which one came to
know well. In order to remember a particular subject, one would place various
virtual objects in the rooms of the building. These objects would symbolically
represent information. To recall something later, one would imagine oneself walking
through that particular part of the building which housed the objects pertaining
to the subject at hand and would then "decode" them.
The idea of a fictitious building which, although uninhabited, is still "imbued,"
serves as the inspiration for this piece and as a metaphor for its formal organization.
The form consists of 126 sections that were derived by means of a magic square.
The architectural metaphor lends itself well to the piece and its sections, in
that although the physical characteristics of individual rooms may greatly differ,
together the rooms form an edifice.
A second aspect in the piece is derived from architecture, in that the acoustic
characteristics of the hall in which this piece is performed play an important
musical role, as do those of the piano and the musician’s body. These last two
are also utilized as "architectural" entities unto themselves. Furthermore, artificial
and remote acoustics are brought in by means of electronics and soundscapes. Tullius
Rooms is a diverse musical landscape of piano sound, electronic material, singing,
whistling and percussive or "performance" actions.