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Music Composition Master Music Composition – Creative Practice
Master Composition – Creative Practice – Contemporary Jazz
The final concerts of the Master in Composition 2022 reflect the aesthetic diversity at work in our program. Thus we will travel between the most written music, quasiimprovised structures, powerful electronic sounds and a musical theater with digital contours. The common point between these journeys is a spirit of discovery, an openness and a constant sense of form. These concerts are open to the public and are meant to be the true culmination of the studies during which the artistic richness of our students is revealed.
Xavier Dayer head of Master Composition
Fr, 20. Mai 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
Lixing Ding Fernweh
Wuthering, for cello solo Dàn, for accordion and video Lone Star Falls Into The Ocean, for ensemble For Nine Performers, for ensemble Mentored by Leo Dick
Fr, 26. Aug 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
Corentin Barro Even Pire
Even Pire est une recherche sur l’agencement de son, la modification de ce dernier par des machines, et la recherche sur le bruit. Ce spectacle de théâtre musical expérimental mêle différents instruments et intérêts musicaux des performeur-euse-s. Even Pire se veut être une ode à l’analogie. En effet, durant ce spectacle instruments et machines analogiques sont utilisées de façon non conventionnelle. Les performeur-euse-s cherchent dans ces éléments des sons complexes, assemblés, «distorsionés», étirés… Ce voyage a quelque chose de simple, il est né d’une envie d’explorer les sons possibles de ces instruments et machines, et évite d’entrer dans l’effet de zapping et du surplus constant d’informations. Performers: Bernat Pont Anglada, Romane Bouffioux, Corentin Barro, N. N. Mentored by Cathy van Eck
Fr, 2. Sep 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
Daniel Miska Interspecific Smalltalk – Daniel & Guests
Composers: Hannah Biedermann, Daniel Miska Performers: Hannah Biedermann (voc, fx), Daniel Miska (keys, elec), N. N. Mentored by Peter Gromer
Mo, 26. Sep 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
David Carrillo Inflicting Autonomy
For ensemble, live video and live electronics Mentored by Cathy van Eck
Fr, 30. Sep 18 Uhr
Dampfzentrale, Marzilistrasse 47, 3005 Bern
Milian Mori MILIAN MORI – LIVE SHOW
Over the past three years Milian Mori (Max Dobler) developed a musical language mixing many influences: Minimal Music, Techno and Ambient Music. In this solo show at Dampfzentrale Bern he’s going to present a new live concept alongside many works which never got the chance to hit an audience. Mentored by Don Li
Sa, 7. Okt 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium Ostermundigenstrasse 103 3006 Bern
Jiwon Seo I like to compose and 3 as well
i!i. ri-cycle tes nerfs, tripes, saignants into a !I! S3me – The Flesh Byeongchang (3p – 人體竝唱 在伊甸園, 에덴동 산에서 인체병창) Performers: Ingrid Yen (vio), José Del Avellanal Carreño (voc), Yann Alhadeff (vc), n.n. (hn) Mentored by Leo Dick
Mo, 10. Okt 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
For ensemble, singer/actor, and non-western instrument(s) formless and boundless echoes of the universe is an experimental multimedia group creativity project that unites stage performers/improvisers from different musical genres, languages, aesthetics, social, and cultural rituals. In the process of deforming all the previous compositional forms and structures, the formless helps us understand how a group performance works in a live music setting. This project is like linguistic sonic dialogues and conversations among all participants. Through multiple resonances on stage, I intend to bring to the forefront performative and aesthetic practices and methods that address current and future personal compositional goals. This project’s music aesthetics and rituals range across a spectrum from the Balkan folk music «aura» to the gamelan music tradition, like a non-continental, archipelago thing or way of thinking. To cite Kamau Brathwaite, I would say that this non-continental “dialectic” way of thinking is like a “Boundless Open three-dimensional Spatial Universe.” Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen
Di, 11. Okt 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
Ali Latif Shushtari Zār
It was in 1909 that Arnold van Gennep defined the Rites of Passage and the concept of liminality as a threshold state of a transition. We have never lived in a more culturally mixed world with people not being able to find a stable post-ritual state. As in my life, liminality plays a major role in my compositions. Coming from a different culture immensely affects my aesthetics as an artist. This cultural ambiguity was at first an unconscious existence in my compositions but the more I matured as a composer the more clearly I could feel its emergence and hence was able to control it. In this piece, I am finding my way back to the original meaning of liminality developed by van Gennep. I am using an Iranian ancient ritual as a framework for my composition to realize a culturally liminal state as its inevitable consequence. Performers: Andrea Zamengo, Aline Sarah Müller, Christopher Mui, Alberto Anhaus, Kristine Solli Oppegaard, Marianna Angel, N. N. Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen
Do, 13. Okt 18 Uhr
HKB, Auditorium, Ostermundigenstrasse 103, 3006 Bern
Luciano Azzigotti Ita & the Crystals
Retro-futuristic drama for soprano, choir and early music ensemble. Ita is a retroprophet who holds the memory of the world. But she cannot remember, trapped into a whormhole of strange phenomena, where effects precede their causes. Suddenly, strange crystals grow, whose symmetry seems like a forgotten incantation. Ita&tC is an initial experiment in linking the voice, ancient instruments, and some technologies in a simple and connective musical experience. Mentored by Simon Steen-Andersen
