Darmstadt presents: Essential Repertoire
Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” music series is proud to announce its first-ever multi-performance curation at ISSUE Project Room from October 22 through the 26th. Entitled “Essential Repertoire,” its six performances are an initial attempt to accumulate a unique and expanding collection of cherished experimental music: from the New York School through the Minimalists, European approaches, and a number of electronic practices, alongside music’s connectivity to art, performance, and multimedia. Darmstadt’s curators encourage vivid interpretations of their favorite avant-garde works from the city’s liveliest composers and musicians.
Sunday, 26 October 2008
New Electro-Acoustic Practices with Tristan Perich and Ensemble Pamplemousse
Tristan Perich: new compositions for nine strings and nine-channel 1-bit music
In 2004, Tristan Perich began work on 1-Bit Music, combining simple, rhythm-based compositions with primitive, hand-programmed electronics that investigate the foundations of digital sound. The Village Voice, BOMB Magazine, BPM Magazine, Res Magazine, Wired News, Cool Hunting, and Spin Magazine covered the release. Surface Magazine called the boxes “profound throwbacks to the traditional album, a response to the intangibility of iTunes and mp3s in the form hand-held artwork.” Since then, Perich’s compositions have connected his electronic impulses with acoustic instruments in the context of more traditional chamber music forms. Collaborations with Bang on a Can (2008 People’s Commissioning Fund), counter)induction, Calder Quartet, New York Miniaturist Ensemble, Due East, Y Trio and Ensemble Pamplemousse have been performed recently at venues including the Whitney Museum, PS1 and Mass MoCA. His experimental electronic music group, the Loud Objects, has performed in Germany, Japan, Italy (Screen Music 2), Norway (Piksel), England (Evolution) and the USA (including at the NIME festival). He has spoken twice at Dorkbot. Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University after attending Philips Academy, Andover. More recently, he studied art, music and electronics at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
http://www.1bitmusic.com/
Scott Wollschleger: Secret Machines (2008)
Natacha Diels: Butterfly Effect (2008)
Chiyoko Szlavnics: Autonomous Gardens (2008)
Andrew Greenwald: Valve 2.0 (2008)
Ensemble Pamplemousse
Natacha Diels - flute, electronics
Kiku Enomoto - violin
Jessie Marino - cello
Andrew Greenwald - percussion
David Broome - piano
Founded in 2002 as a musical exploration vehicle, Pamplemousse presents concerts of extraordinary focus and clarity. Comprised of virtuosic musicians trained in classical, electronic and improvisational realms, the group consistently delivers fresh, exhilarating new concepts in sound. The members’ eagerness for aural discovery has allowed for ample experimentation processes, where boundaries are non-existent, and from which a strong dialogue has emerged. Among the group’s vernacular resides formerly unfathomable sound landscapes formed by the acute relationships the performers have forged with each other, and with the composers who are an intrinsic part of the ensemble. The product, uncompromising and resolutely beautiful, is created by incredibly innovative, yet-to-be-named approaches to performance and composition.
http://www.ensemblepamplemousse.org/