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Event has already taken place. Prolific composer Rebecca Saunders is centre stage at this concert, which explores the magical physicality of sounds.

Concert length: 2 h incl. intermission Scene: Stenhammarsalen
170-220 SEK Student 85-110 SEK

Event has already taken place

The hand gripping the bow, the finger against the key, the weight of the arm as it strikes the kettledrum. This Gageego! concert is about what happens in the space between musicians, musician/instrument, and musician/audience in music by multi-award-winning composer Rebecca Saunders, amongst others. Prolific composer Rebecca Saunders is centre stage during this concert, which explores the magical physicality of sounds. Music breaks down borders, requiring intense communication.

Prolific composer Rebecca Saunders is centre stage at this concert, which explores the magical physicality of sounds.

‘What’s important to me is to make it possible for the listener to experience the magical physicality of the sound, the sound’s tone, colour, mass, weight. That’s what I feel I work with, almost like a sculptor working with different materials,’ says composer Rebecca Saunders, who sometimes lets the instruments reflect and mix with each other. The interaction is the whole point.

Xenakis’ music sometimes sounds like it’s calling and talking to us; it doesn’t create melodies, but rather the floating tonal heights of the conversation.

Programme

Xenakis Psappha 16 min

Saunders Aether 27 min

Jolas Episode septième 'Nightaway' 8 min

Intermission 25 min

Carter Con Leggerezza Pensosa - Omaggio a Italo Calvino 5 min

Ceccarelli Birds for bass clarinet and birds songs 10 min

Xenakis Kottos 10 min

Saunders Vermillion 15 min

Participants

Gageego!

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