Saturday - April 12

Northern Lights
Lucier III

Lucier III

Two circles for five instruments and electronics had its premiere at the Venice Biennale in 2012. Here performed by members of Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums: The pianist, Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir, plays a series of notated pitches in chronological order, repeating them freely in overlapping patterns. As she does so, the tones sympathetically resonate snare drums positioned throughout the space. The drums respond in various ways depending on the pitch of the piano tones, the resonant regions of the drums and their geographical locations in space. This work was written for Hildegard Kleeb.
Nothing is real (Strawberry Fields) for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system:
The full title says everything. This is a duo of two rather different musical instruments; the grand piano and a teapot.
Vespers: Acoustic orientation by means of echolocation, for players with hand-held echolocation devices.
Robert Ashley wrote:
This is the fulfillment of a dream for a new kind of music. There is nothing like Vespers in the literature of music. It is a completely new way of defining what music is, and the definition is given to us in a purely realized form.  In Vespers the musical experience comes from the special “meaning” that the sounds give to the space in which they are performed. This “meaning” of space is something we have not been invited to appreciate before. Also in the equation, and equally important, the sounds, as what we have come to the concert to hear, do not have any musical meaning apart from their relationship to the space. In Vespers the music is not heard even in imagination except in the performance.