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Open Cube presentation Alec Hall STAIR 2020

October 13, 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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PROGRAM

Alec Hall – There are only two ways to see inside someone (2019-20)

Violin and live electronics

Alec Hall – U.L.F. (2015-6)

Violoncello and live electronics

Alec Hall – Boehner, Barack, Bloomberg (2012)

Organ and pre-recorded sounds

 

SCHALLFELD ENSEMBLE

Myriam García Fidalgo – Violoncello

Olivia de Prato – Geige

Aleksey Vylegzhanin – Orgel

Alec Hall – live electronics

Batuhan Gülcan – technical assistance

 

Alec Hall ist Artist-in-residence des StAiR-Programms 2020 des Landes Steiermark

 

In collaboration with the IEM Graz

     

 

Entrance: Free offer

PROGRAM NOTES

There are only two ways to see inside someone

Violin and live electronics (2019-20)

For the last several years I have experienced regular discomfort in my hip and lower back; sometimes agonizing, other times only faintly perceptible, but always present. Trying to find the source of this pain was a multi-year process, with numerous imaging procedures from ultrasounds to x-rays to MRIs. The common refrain lab technicians say about MRIs is that “they’re really noisy”, as they offer you ear plugs before you climb in. What they don’t seem to ever state is that the machines emit a myriad of rhythmic and melodic patterns, repeating for minutes on end in rather splendid surround sound. The MRI offers the most advanced imaging possible inside the human body—a remarkable picture of what our delicate container of water, bones and other organic tissues we schlep around the world looks like. Studying the inside of yourself or another person is a bizarre experience, something that almost feels taboo, somehow. The other way to see inside another person is, often times taboo in polite company or at the very least uncouth, an erotic encounter. In the context of this concert, this piece is not a triptych like the other two, but more of a dialectic of opposing extremes: the sensual and the medical, the hot and the cold, the distant and the immediate.

U.L.F.

Violoncello and live electronics (2015-6)

Unknown life form / Ultra low frequency

Three disparate planes of physical existence: two are inhospitable to life without an enclosure that replicates conditions at the human scale. Another, the natural habitat, made unlivable by endogenous actions. We communicate intra and inter-spatially, between the upper-most reaches and the depths below. The voice is distinct in each medium—each atmosphere (or lack thereof) creates aesthetic conditions in which the voice becomes a universe of its own, yet the simultaneous interaction between great distance and the immediacy of aural proximity is always a liminal event.

Boehner, Barack, Bloomberg

Organ and pre-recorded sounds

The Three B’s: the great masters of musical history, standing out in ways that other composers do not. This trio represents the triumph of Teutonic thought—the deepest musical minds. Not customarily considered in the same way, the contemporary Three B’s of US politics are a triumvirate of similarly powerful influence. Here are three portraits of the men who would rule us.

This piece is dedicated to everyone and to no one, the red and the black.

2020 postscript: For non-American audiences, the three B’s of the title refer to John Boehner (Republican-Ohio), the former Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2011-15, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, and Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City from 2002-14. The piece is a triptych portrait of three American autocrats who conspired successfully to crush the Occupy movement, the galvanizing international movement for democratic and economic reforms against the world’s richest individuals and corporations. In mid-November 2011, the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zucotti Park (also known as Liberty Square) was cleared in a military-style raid in the middle of the night. I had been present at Zucotti Park from the start of the protest movement. This piece was written in the month following the raid.

 

BIO

Alec Hall
Born in Toronto in 1985, Alec Hall currently resides in New York City, where he works as an independent composer. His music is centered on the nature of acoustic materials in the post-Avant-Garde musical landscape. Through samples, field recordings and other representational elements of sound, Hall engages both conceptually and aesthetically with important non-musical subjects, such as labor conditions in China, environmental destruction in Canada, state violence and civil disobedience in America, the Internet, animal cognition, (un)wellness, and beyond. The result is a sweeping body of work that crosses traditional boundaries, including instrumental and vocal pieces with and without electronics, orchestral compositions, experimental opera, architectural environments, kinetic installations, and intermedia pieces. He has had works performed by such groups as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble SurPlus, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the JACK Quartet, the Cecilia Quartet, ICE, Talea, Either/OR, TAK, Wet Ink, Continuum, Pamplemousse, Ekmeles, the Mivos Quartet and soloists Patrick Higgins, Séverine Ballon, Stephane Ginsburgh, and David Broome. He has also collaborated with a wide range of artists across multiple disciplines, including Vanessa Place, Tyshawn Sorey, MarieVic, the architecture collective : , Michael Mandiberg, and the Philosophical Investigation Agency. Hall is the co-founder of Qubit and currently serves as an artistic director. He was a curator and co-director of Project-Q, an experimental performance space in Harlem throughout 2018 which featured an array of new programming across multiple artistic disciplines, including the premiere of his opera “The House of Influence”. Hall’s work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Arts Council Norway, the New York State Council on the Arts, the French American Cultural Exchange, New Music USA, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Das Land Steiermark as a 2020 Styria Artist-in-Residence with the Schallfeld Ensemble. His degrees include a doctorate of musical arts from Columbia University, a master of arts from UC San Diego and a B.Mus from McGill University. .
Myriam García Fidalgo

Myriam García Fidalgo is a cellist specialized in contemporary music. Member of Schallfeld Ensemble and Nou Ensemble, she also performs with groups including Klangforum Wien or Phace.

After finishing her Grado Superior studies in the Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca (Spain) she moved to Austria. She studied with Andreas Pözlberger in the Anton Brucker University Linz, where she obtained the Master of Arts with honors. Later, she studied the Master “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” at the University of Graz under the guidance of Klangforum Wien.
Especially interested in contemporary music, she studied with Andreas Lindenbaum and Benedikt Leitner, and has participated in courses such as the IMD Darmstadt (Lucas Fels), Impuls (Roham de Saram), Acanthes (A. Karttunen), Ensemble Modern Akademie Klangspuren or Ensemble-Akademie Freiburg (Ensemble Recherche).

She has performed in Festivals such as Wien Modern, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Darmstadt Festival, Musikprotokoll Graz, Klangspuren Schwaz, Shangai Spring Festival, Daegu Festival for Contemporary Music, Biennale Zagreb, Open Music Graz, Fast-Forward Wien, Escena Contemporánea Madrid, EMA Festival, Festival Bernaola, Festival Internacional Zemos98 or Mostra Sonora de Sueca.

As a solist, she has performed in the pieces “Précarité” (Frederik Neyrinck), Berge. Träume” (K. Lang),“Harold in Italien” (C. Eftimiou) and “Eros” (Luis de Pablo).

In 2017 she has been awarded with the “Startstipendium” from the Austrian Ministry for Arts and Culture.

Olivia de Prato

Internationally recognized as a soloist as well as a chamber musician, Austro-Italian violinist Olivia De Prato has been described as “flamboyant….convincing” (New York Times) and an “enchanting violinist” (Messaggero Veneto, Italy). After moving to New York City she has quickly established herself as a passionate performer of contemporary and improvised music, breaking boundaries of the traditional violin repertoire and regularly performs in Europe, South America, China and the United States.

Her chamber music activities include appearances at the Bang on a Can Marathon in New York City, the David Byrne Perspective Series at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival with Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble Modern Festival (Austria), “June in Buffalo” Festival, the Ojai Festival with Steve Reich and Brad Lubman, the Darmstadt New Music Festival and the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK.

Olivia is a member of New York contemporary music ensembles Signal and Victoire, and is the co-founder and first violinist of the Mivos String Quartet.
She has recorded on New Amsterdam Records, Tzadik, Carrier, Sunnyside, Mode, Cantaloupe and Porter Records.

In 2010 and 2011 she toured Europe and South Africa with Grammy-award winning Esperanza Spalding and Chamber Music Society on violin and viola.

As a guest artist, she has been invited to hold solo and chamber music master-classes for young musicians and composers in Anchorage (Alaska), Medellin (Colombia), Vienna (Austria), Hong Kong, “Yong Siew Toh Conservatory” (Singapore), Shanghai Conservatory, MIAM University (Turkey), Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College, New York University and CUNY Graduate Center in New York.

Olivia has closely collaborated with well-known composers such as Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Pierre Boulez, Anthony Braxton, Chaya Czernowin, Peter Eotvos, Beat Furrer, Michael Gordon, Annie Gosfield, Georg Friedrich Haas, Helmut Lachenman, David Lang, Brad Lubman, Philippe Manoury, Benedict Mason, Meredith Monk, Krystof Penderecki, Hilda Peredes, Steve Reich, Todd Reynolds, Ned Rothenberg, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, J.G Thirwell, Julia Wolfe, Charles Wuorinen, and Evan Ziporyn.

Olivia De Prato grew up in Vienna and Italy. She studied at the University of Music and Arts in Vienna and holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music.

Aleksey Vylegzhanin
Aleksey Vylegzhanin wurde 1987 in Nowosibirsk (Russland) geboren. Erste musikalische Impulse erhielt er von seinen Eltern, einer Chorleiterin und einem Sänger. Mit sechs Jahren begann er Klavier zu spielen, einige Jahre später Orgel. Er studierte am Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt bei Natalya Baginskaya. Seit Herbst 2010 studiert er an der Kunstuniversität Graz in der Orgelklasse von Gunther Rost. Darüber hinaus nahm er an zahlreichen Meisterkursen teil, z. B. bei D. Roth, Z. Szathmary, L. Lohmann, J. van Oortmerssen, E. Bellotti, W. Porter und N. Hakim. Werke von Naji Hakim interpretierte er auch im Rahmen eines Soloalbums der CD-Reihe “Klangdebüts” der Kunstuniversität Graz. Konzerte führten ihn bereits durch Russland, Slowenien, Kroatien, Deutschland, Österreich und England, wobei er sowohl als Solist und Kammermusiker als auch mit Chören und Orchestern auftritt. Aleksey Vylegzhanin war Preisträger des Internationalen Orgelwettbewerbs Bach und Moderne Graz 2008 und wiederholt erster Preisträger des Martha-Debelli-Stipendienwettbewerbs.
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PROGRAM

Alec Hall – There are only two ways to see inside someone (2019-20)

Violin and live electronics

Alec Hall – U.L.F. (2015-6)

Violoncello and live electronics

Alec Hall – Boehner, Barack, Bloomberg (2012)

Organ and pre-recorded sounds

 

SCHALLFELD ENSEMBLE

Myriam García Fidalgo – Violoncello

Olivia de Prato – Geige

Aleksey Vylegzhanin – Orgel

Alec Hall – live electronics

Batuhan Gülcan – technical assistance

 

Alec Hall ist Artist-in-residence des StAiR-Programms 2020 des Landes Steiermark

 

In collaboration with the IEM Graz

     

 

Eintritt: Freiwillige Spende

PROGRAM NOTES

There are only two ways to see inside someone

Violin and live electronics (2019-20)

For the last several years I have experienced regular discomfort in my hip and lower back; sometimes agonizing, other times only faintly perceptible, but always present. Trying to find the source of this pain was a multi-year process, with numerous imaging procedures from ultrasounds to x-rays to MRIs. The common refrain lab technicians say about MRIs is that “they’re really noisy”, as they offer you ear plugs before you climb in. What they don’t seem to ever state is that the machines emit a myriad of rhythmic and melodic patterns, repeating for minutes on end in rather splendid surround sound. The MRI offers the most advanced imaging possible inside the human body—a remarkable picture of what our delicate container of water, bones and other organic tissues we schlep around the world looks like. Studying the inside of yourself or another person is a bizarre experience, something that almost feels taboo, somehow. The other way to see inside another person is, often times taboo in polite company or at the very least uncouth, an erotic encounter. In the context of this concert, this piece is not a triptych like the other two, but more of a dialectic of opposing extremes: the sensual and the medical, the hot and the cold, the distant and the immediate.

U.L.F.

Violoncello and live electronics (2015-6)

Unknown life form / Ultra low frequency

Three disparate planes of physical existence: two are inhospitable to life without an enclosure that replicates conditions at the human scale. Another, the natural habitat, made unlivable by endogenous actions. We communicate intra and inter-spatially, between the upper-most reaches and the depths below. The voice is distinct in each medium—each atmosphere (or lack thereof) creates aesthetic conditions in which the voice becomes a universe of its own, yet the simultaneous interaction between great distance and the immediacy of aural proximity is always a liminal event.

Boehner, Barack, Bloomberg

Organ and pre-recorded sounds

The Three B’s: the great masters of musical history, standing out in ways that other composers do not. This trio represents the triumph of Teutonic thought—the deepest musical minds. Not customarily considered in the same way, the contemporary Three B’s of US politics are a triumvirate of similarly powerful influence. Here are three portraits of the men who would rule us.

This piece is dedicated to everyone and to no one, the red and the black.

2020 postscript: For non-American audiences, the three B’s of the title refer to John Boehner (Republican-Ohio), the former Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2011-15, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, and Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City from 2002-14. The piece is a triptych portrait of three American autocrats who conspired successfully to crush the Occupy movement, the galvanizing international movement for democratic and economic reforms against the world’s richest individuals and corporations. In mid-November 2011, the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zucotti Park (also known as Liberty Square) was cleared in a military-style raid in the middle of the night. I had been present at Zucotti Park from the start of the protest movement. This piece was written in the month following the raid.

 

BIO

Alec Hall
Born in Toronto in 1985, Alec Hall currently resides in New York City, where he works as an independent composer. His music is centered on the nature of acoustic materials in the post-Avant-Garde musical landscape. Through samples, field recordings and other representational elements of sound, Hall engages both conceptually and aesthetically with important non-musical subjects, such as labor conditions in China, environmental destruction in Canada, state violence and civil disobedience in America, the Internet, animal cognition, (un)wellness, and beyond. The result is a sweeping body of work that crosses traditional boundaries, including instrumental and vocal pieces with and without electronics, orchestral compositions, experimental opera, architectural environments, kinetic installations, and intermedia pieces. He has had works performed by such groups as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Proton, Ensemble SurPlus, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the JACK Quartet, the Cecilia Quartet, ICE, Talea, Either/OR, TAK, Wet Ink, Continuum, Pamplemousse, Ekmeles, the Mivos Quartet and soloists Patrick Higgins, Séverine Ballon, Stephane Ginsburgh, and David Broome. He has also collaborated with a wide range of artists across multiple disciplines, including Vanessa Place, Tyshawn Sorey, MarieVic, the architecture collective : , Michael Mandiberg, and the Philosophical Investigation Agency. Hall is the co-founder of Qubit and currently serves as an artistic director. He was a curator and co-director of Project-Q, an experimental performance space in Harlem throughout 2018 which featured an array of new programming across multiple artistic disciplines, including the premiere of his opera “The House of Influence”. Hall’s work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Arts Council Norway, the New York State Council on the Arts, the French American Cultural Exchange, New Music USA, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and Das Land Steiermark as a 2020 Styria Artist-in-Residence with the Schallfeld Ensemble. His degrees include a doctorate of musical arts from Columbia University, a master of arts from UC San Diego and a B.Mus from McGill University. .
Myriam García Fidalgo
Myriam García Fidalgo ist eine auf die Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik spezialisierte Cellistin. Sie ist Mitglied der Ensembles Schallfeld und Nou Ensemble und gastiert u.a. mit dem Klangforum Wien und Phace. Nach Abschluß eines Bachelors am Conservatorio Superior de Salamanca und eines postgraduate-Studienganges an der Musikhochschule Barcelona ESMUC, zieht sie 2007 nach Österreich, wo sie an der Anton Bruckner Universität Linz einen Master im Konzertfach Violoncello bei Prof. A. Pözlberger mit Auszeichnung absolviert. Parallel dazu belegt Myriam Garcia beim Klangforum Wien den Masterstudiengang “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. Von der Kunstuniversität Graz erhält sie ein Sonderstipendium aufgrund besonderer Leistungen. Weitere wichtige Impulse im Bereich der zeitgenössischen Musik waren Meisterkurse mit dem Ensemble Modern und dem Ensemble Recherche sowie bei Lucas Fels, Anssi Karttunen und Roham de Saram. Myriam Garcia konzertiert u.a. bei den Wiener Festwochen, dem Wien Modern, dem Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, dem Musikprotokoll Graz, den Klangspuren Schwaz, dem Shangai Spring Festival, der Biennale Zagreb, Open Music Graz, Fast Forward Wien und dem Festival Escena Contemporánea Madrid. Als Solistin war sie bei den Stücken “Précarité” (Frederik Neyrinck), “Berge. Träume” von K. Lang, “Harold in Italien” von C. Eftimiou und “Eros”, von L. de Pablo zu erleben. 2017 erhielt sie das Startstipendium für Musik des BMUKK.
Olivia de Prato
Die österreichisch – italienische Violinistin, Olivia De Prato, international anerkannt als Solistin und Kammermusikerin, wird von der Presse als “extravagant und überzeugend” (New York Times) und “verzaubernd” (Messaggero Veneto, Italien) hoch gelobt. Sie lebt seit 2005 in New York wo sie sich schnell einen Namen als leidenschaftliche Vertreterin der Neuen Musik und Improvisation gemacht hat, grenzüberschreitend mit klassischer Musik. Sie konzertiert regelmäßig in Europa, Japan, Südamerika, China und in den Vereinigten Staaten. Ihre Auftritte als Kammermusikerin sind gefragt in vielen bedeutenden Festivals: u.a. im Lincoln Center Festival, in der Carnegie Hall, in der NY Phil Biennale, im Luzern Festival, im Ensemble Modern Festival, im “June in Buffalo” Festival, im “Ojai Festival” mit Steve Reich und Brad Lubman, im Wien Modern Festival, im Acht Brücken Festival in Köln, der Venice Biennale, in den “Darmstädter Ferienkursen für Neue Musik” als auch im Aldeburgh Festival in England. Olivia ist Mitglied zweier New Yorker Ensembles für zeitgenössische Musik: des „Ensemble Signal“ dirigiert von Brad Lubman, und – als Mitbegründerin und erste Violine – des Mivos Streichquartetts. Sie hat Cds mit Amsterdam Records, Tzadik, Carrier, Sunnyside, Mode, Cantaloupe und Harmonia Mundi eingespielt.

Olivia De Prato war mehrfach eingeladen, sowohl Solo – als auch Kammermusik – Meisterklassen für junge MusikerInnen und Komponisten zu halten: in Anchorage (Alaska), Universidad EAFIT Medellin (Columbia), am “Yong Siew Toh”- Conservatory in Singapore, am Shanghai Conservatory, an der MIAM University (Türkei), an der Hochschule für Musik Mannheim, and der Manhattan School of Music, am Brooklyn College, an der New York University, an der Duke University, an der UC Berkeley, and der UC San Diego und am CUNY Graduate Center in New York zu halten.

Olivia, in Wien geboren, wuchs in Italien und Wien auf, studierte bei Prof. Dora Schwarzberg an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien, erhielt ihr Bachelor Diplom bei Prof. Charles Castleman an der Eastman School of Music in Rochester (USA) und Ihren Master Abschluss in Contemporary Performance an der Manhattan School of Music in New York City (USA). Im März 2018 hat sie ihr erste solo Cd mit neuen Werke für Violine solo und Violine mit Elektronik auf New Focus Recordings herausgebracht hat. Diese Cd, “Streya” , wurde mit dem Werk von Missy Mazzoli für ein Grammy 2019 nominiert. Das Mivos Quartett gewann den Dwight und Ursula Mamlok-Preis für Interpretation zeitgenössischer Musik 2019. Olivia De Prato spielt auf einer Violine von Nicolaus Gagliano filius Alexandri fecit Napoli 1751.

Aleksey Vylegzhanin
Aleksey Vylegzhanin wurde 1987 in Nowosibirsk (Russland) geboren. Erste musikalische Impulse erhielt er von seinen Eltern, einer Chorleiterin und einem Sänger. Mit sechs Jahren begann er Klavier zu spielen, einige Jahre später Orgel. Er studierte am Konservatorium seiner Heimatstadt bei Natalya Baginskaya. Seit Herbst 2010 studiert er an der Kunstuniversität Graz in der Orgelklasse von Gunther Rost. Darüber hinaus nahm er an zahlreichen Meisterkursen teil, z. B. bei D. Roth, Z. Szathmary, L. Lohmann, J. van Oortmerssen, E. Bellotti, W. Porter und N. Hakim. Werke von Naji Hakim interpretierte er auch im Rahmen eines Soloalbums der CD-Reihe “Klangdebüts” der Kunstuniversität Graz. Konzerte führten ihn bereits durch Russland, Slowenien, Kroatien, Deutschland, Österreich und England, wobei er sowohl als Solist und Kammermusiker als auch mit Chören und Orchestern auftritt. Aleksey Vylegzhanin war Preisträger des Internationalen Orgelwettbewerbs Bach und Moderne Graz 2008 und wiederholt erster Preisträger des Martha-Debelli-Stipendienwettbewerbs.
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October 13, 2020
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