ensemble  & electronics

PHACE | FLASHFORWARD

18.Nov.2021 // 19:30
Festival Wien Modern – Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Saal

PHACE Series 21/22 – N°1

A production by PHACE, Wien Modern & Wiener Konzerthaus

ARTISTS
Nacho de Paz, conductor
Markus Sepperer, oboe

PHACE

Doris Nicoletti, flute
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet
Berndt Thurner, percussion
Mathilde Hoursiangou , piano
Luca Lavuri, piano (Kaiser)
Ivana Pristasova, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schuele, cello
Maximilian Ölz  double bass
Samuel Toro Perez, electric guitar
Alfred Reiter, sound design

PROGRAMM

Clara Iannotta
They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall for ensemble, 2020  D:18′

Wolfram Schurig
Kokoi for oboe and ensemble, 2020 D:18′
commissioned by PHACE and Wien Modern

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Januibe Tejera
Flashforward 3
for ensemble and electronics, 2021  D: 18′. (UA)
commissioned by PHACE and Butler School of Music – University of Texas at Austin

Alexander Kaiser
The Passenger Awaits for ensemble and electronics, 2021 (UA) D: 17‘
commissioned by PHACE and Wien Modern, supported by SKE-Fonds

FLASHFORWARD observes the contrasts between surging flow and solid form, between artificial landscape and natural environment. Wolfram Schurig’s kokoi can be understood as a commentary on the traces of human activity and deals with the sounds of threatened ecosystems. The call of the Phyllobates terribilis (golden poison frog), in whose poison the Colombian Embera soaked their blowpipe arrows, serves as the basic material for the oboe part in kokoi and paints a picture of ambivalence between flawless beauty and death. Clara Iannotta’s music often has the property of bundling the essentials in a highly concentrated form and creating musical spaces that perception gradually opens up. What happens in them has time and space to unfold and to be perceived. In this sense, They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall spans multi-layered, constantly changing, oscillating spaces of perception in which the ear, figuratively speaking, can wander around and gain experience. Disorder and rearrangement are central to Alexander Kaiser. In the unstoppable flow of recycling ideas, sounds and materials, strongly accelerated throughout the digitalization of artistic creation, the main focus for Kaiser is changed perception due to unlimited availability, mass consumption and oversaturation. The deconstruction and reorganization of the codes, which sometimes wash this and sometimes that into the foreground, is subject of his new work. In his new work Flashforward 3, Januibe Tejera plays with ideas and expectations and takes the audience on winding paths into a surprising world of sound.