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Wolfe Mata Jarrett Mata Festival 2017
Kristina Wolfe: Record of Ancient Mirrors (2017) MATA Commission Live from MATA Festival 2017 April 29, 2017 The Kitchen New York, New York NOVUS NY Scott Jarrett, conductor Doug Balliett, viola da gamba solo Kristina Wolfe: Record of Ancient Mirrors (2017) Kristina Wolfe is a wanderer. She spent her early years exploring the forests of Mols Bjerge, near Århus, Denmark, has walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain and – during the composition of Record of Ancient Mirrors – explored Southeast Asia. In her journeys, she carries a recording device to preserve the sounds that strike her: church bells, birdcalls, cowbells. In so doing she has gained a deep respect for ancient markers, history, and spirit, captured the resonance of things from the past, and developed an understanding about time that she presents in her music. To achieve these ends, she has created a catalogue of imaginary reconstructions of ancient liturgies, virtuosic pieces for viola da gamba, and compositions of massed diffuse drones – notated in a personal and precise style (“Some people do not like the way that I have notated my works (some do).”) The goal is to somehow reclaim a more ancient way of hearing in which time is not seconds ticking away but rather an eternal duration marked off by events: imagine a lazy-man’s lifecycle, the day passes with events scattered throughout: eat breakfast, eat lunch, eat dinner, go to sleep, expanding into larger and larger forms. “Musical time is ... based on events, and time changes according to the length of those events. For example, your sense of time in a pop song is no longer than three minutes long, but your sense of time in a drone is infinite.” Record of Ancient Mirrors is inspired by the Zen concept of reflection on water. “Like reflections of the moon on water, like the Shobogenzo, the idea that the moon is perfect and beautiful and it’s sitting in the water but it’s not wet. It’s this concept that you would be above the world and the elements, slightly affected by it but you are a projection.” In this work the Viola da Gamba is like the moon reflected through a water mirror of drones; “sometimes the ensemble steps out of this undulating reflective surface and into the world. Other times... the sound of the viol illuminates hidden structures.” www.matafestival.org
Mata Lamb Mata Festival 2011 2012
Eli Keszler: Cold Pin (2011) MATA Festival 2012 Roulette Brooklyn, NY April 19, 2012 Eli Keszler, percussion with LoadBang: Alejandro Acierto, Jeffrey Gavett, Andy Kozar, William Lamb www.matafestival.org
Mata Gibson Kurtag Mata Festival 1982 2014 2017
Joseph Michael: Together in Perfect Harmony (2014) Live from MATA Festival 2017 April 26. 2017 The Kitchen HOCKET Piano Duo Thomas Kotcheff, Sarah Gibson, piano Joseph Michaels: Together in Perfect Harmony (2014) Composers have approached four-hand piano choreography in numerous ways: from the Primo on the higher pitches and Secondo on the lower prevalent in many 19th century four-hand arrangements to the intricate interplay of hands in the four-hand works written by Kurtag for himself and his wife, Marta. Joseph Michaels takes an ingenious, yet simple, approach to four-hand choreography by segregating pitch collections and effectively viewing the piano as two instruments: one comprised solely of the so-called ‘black keys’ and the other, the ‘white keys.’ Hence the title, Together in Perfect Harmony, borrowed from 1982 appeal to racial harmony by Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, “Ebony and Ivory,” which remarks that the two “sit together in perfect harmony, side by side on my piano keyboard.” While the allusion to race relations was ever-present for Michaels, the work makes no statement in that regard. Instead, Michaels explores the many tone colors possible in clusters and their combination. Michaels writes: “I would never use the word "perfect" while speaking about my own music... the numerous dense clusters of my work are doubtfully what come to most people's minds when they associate the word "perfect" with music.” Together in Perfect Harmony was written for the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, who premiered it in February 2014 in Stuttgart, Germany. www.matafestival.org
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