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Please join us on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 from 8-10pm at Slought Foundation for the Sound Field @ Slought series, featuring a live concert with Matthias Kaul and Ensemble Noamnesia and the world premiere performances of “Doubleroom” and “Walk don’t Run." This program was made possible in part by The Argosy Fund for Contemporary Music.
Matthias Kaul and Ensemble Noamnesia
Part 1:
Matthias Kaul: “Doubleroom”
For bass clarinet and integrated loudspeaker
With Gene Coleman, bass clarinet
Notes about the music: ”For some time now I have been experimenting with sounds through what I call flexible resonators. A bass clarinet is something like that because one can modify the sounds that come out of the integrated loudspeaker by opening and closing different keys. But this is just the technical idea. For me the situation is interesting when you see a musician playing his instrument and you hear sounds that you do not expect from this instrument. Then you might see that reality is as well a little bit flexible.”
Matthias Kaul: “Arabesken”
For ensemble
Ensemble Noamnesia:
Cynthia Folio (flute)
Gene Coleman (bass clarinet)
Matthias Kaul (percussion and voice)
Evan Lipson (dbl. bass and e-guitar)
Notes about the music: “This piece is influenced by the works of a German writer Karl Mai. He was very famous and wrote lots of books about fictitious adventures in Arabian countries. For his protagonists he invented hundreds of funny names. I use these names like sound poetry. Next to that are some ‘Arabian’ ideas, which have been adopted by western cultures over many centuries. They are hidden in this piece, as well as the atmosphere of the desert.”
Intermission
Part 2:
Matthias Kaul: “Walk don’t Run”
For snare drum and record player
Matthias Kaul (snare drum)
Notes about the music: "'Walk Don’t Run' is the title of a rock music song that was famous around 1960. In fact the drummer on this record played a fill that convinced me that being a drummer is a cool thing. I still own this record but it is very old now, so it makes lots of extra sounds when you play it. This gave me the idea to play a snare drum solo together with a record that only produces crackling noises."
Improvisation with:
Gene Coleman (bass clarinet)
Matthias Kaul (percussion)
Evan Lipson (dbl. bass)
Matthias Kaul studied percussion at the Hamburg Musikhochschule. He has collaborated with musicians and composers including John Zorn, David Moss, Carla Bley, John Cage, Malcolm Goldstein, Mauricio Kagel, Hans Werner Henze, Vinko Globokar and Joachim Hespos. Kaul has performed throughout Europe, North and South America, Canada, Africa, Taiwan, Japan, India and Korea, and has recorded as a percussionist and composer with record labels including Wergo, Hat Hut, col legno, and CPO. Among his many commissions, the IMD in Darmstadt and the Bavarian State Opera recently commissioned Kaul to write music-theater works for their upcoming festivals.
Ensemble Noamnesia was founded in Chicago in 1987 and frequently performs new and experimental music. In 1997, the group initiated a series of projects with an international orientation, including a residency with German composer Helmut Lachenmann, which included four concerts of his music in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, The Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Subsequent projects included performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art with the Beppie Blankerkt Dance Company and the music of Charles Ives, a concert of music by Gerhard Staebler and Kunsu Shim, and two concerts of music by George Crumb. More recently, featured composers have included Luc Ferrari and Otomo Yoshihide, as well as Mathias Spahlinger, Burkhard Stangl, Vinko Globokar, Nic Collins, Malcolm Goldstein, Amnon Wolman, Karlheinz Essl, Jennifer Walshe, Salvatore Sciarrino, Chao-Ming Tung, Michael Maierhof, Yuji Takahashi, and many others. Gene Coleman is the artistic director of Ensemble Noamnesia.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of Sound Field NFP and the Argosy Fund for Contemporary Music
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