7/8/2023 0 Comments Musique concreteSince 1965, he has focused almost exclusively on purely instrumental music. He studied piano with Jürgen Uhde and composition and theory with Johann Nepomuk David at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule and was the first private student of the composer Luigi Nono in Venice.He later worked at the Institute of Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music (IPEM) of the University of Ghent. Helmut Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart, Germany. Using instruments and voices unconventionally, Lachenmann has questioned past assumptions of the function and expectation of music. Consequently those qualities, such as timbre, volume, etc., do not produce sounds for their own sake, but describe or denote the concrete situation: listening, you hear the conditions under which a sound- or noise-action is carried out, you hear what materials and energies are involved and what resistance is encountered." Lachenmann has consistently explored and elaborated new and innovative musical languages. According to the composer, this is music "in which the sound events are chosen and organized so that the manner in which they are generated is at least as important as the resultant acoustic qualities themselves. Lachenmann has referred to his compositions as "musique concrète instrumentale." Here, Lachenmann implies a musical language that embraces the entire sound-world made accessible through unconventional playing techniques. No reservation is required although advance ticket purchase is encouraged. The evening's program includes Lachenmann's "Gran Torso" (1971) and his String Quartet no. This event is part of the "EurEthos" series at Soundfield, and contributes to an ongoing cultural exchange between European and American composers, through concerts and community dialogue.įollowing the discussion at Slought, the JACK Quartet, comprised of violinists Ari Streisfeld and Christopher Otto, violist John Pickford Richards and cellist Kevin McFarland, will perform at 8 pm at the Amado Recital Hall in Irvine Auditorium at 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Slought and Sound Field NFP are pleased to announce an evening of new and experimental music, featuring a conversation with esteemed German composer Helmut Lachenmann and a performance of his music by the acclaimed JACK Quartet on Monday, Apfrom 5:30-9:30pm at Slought Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania.Īt 5:30pm at Slought, Lachenmann will engage in public conversation with Philadelphia composer and series curator Gene Coleman, addressing Lachenmann's controversial ideas about music, noise and beauty, accompanied by recorded excerpts from his 1st and 3rd string quartets and his opera "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" as examples.
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