From wood to wide players to the washing machine. Begins today’s music festival decibels / day

Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA) Contemporary Music Festival decibelwho surprised passers -by on the street on Monday will continue this week until April 4th, giving every concert a different, unprecedented listening experience and inviting you to enjoy the magnificent diversity of contemporary music. As usual, the program will also have several free lectures and master classes!

Dustless

The festival is intrigued not only by the participation of interesting foreign guests, but also for the new work of thirteen Latvian composers. They are written after the festival decibel The custom, and the premieres are also prepared by foreign waiters.

So, for example, the main guest of the festival – the Finnish modern music ensemble Defunensemble – Alongside the composers of the Finnish composers and Reiven Chakon, the JVLMA Student Linda Dambergs will premiere Sekhmet flute, clarinet, cello, piano and electronics and Lauma Cossacks Hide and seek Flute, clarinet, cello and electronics. Lauma Kazaka, inspired by Tagore verses and Latvian folk songs, contemplates the symbols of smoke, ferrets and toads, but Linda Damberg’s visions of ancient Egyptian mythology. Defunensemble The core consists of the most prominent Finnish contemporary music personalities who consider « systematic diving into the world of electrical music » as their mission and tend to see new conceptual solutions. In their concerts, « any dusty statements about classical music are quickly forgotten ». This concert will take place in the Great Hall of JVLMA on April 2 at 9 p.m. 19.

Do it yourself!

JVLMA contemporary music festival decibel This spring has begun cooperation with the Riga Circus. Especially for this concert, Guntar Freiberg, Head of Percussion Instrumic, JVLMA Percussion Department, and Dimitra Maronida, a Lecturer at the Faculty of Music, Aristotle University, has created a sound from a variety of household items made by JVLMA compositions.

The biggest challenge for the young composers will be a concert of new sound worlds: the DIY percussion ensemble (April 3 at 7 pm in the Riga Circus Renewed Arena), which has created not only new compositions by students of the Department of JVLMA composition, but also of glass, wood or metal, as well as various household items and material instruments. The motto of the program is Do It Yourself! (Do it yourself!), And it will be performed by percussionist Guntars Freibergs, Arnis Stepiņš, Sonja Misina and Tom Kozlovsky. Light artist – Nikola Suhareva. There will be no surprise tonight. For example, Davis Vilks created a composition The chase Baking sheet, metal buckets, metal pipes and bass drums. Dāvis Vilks is currently studying the composition of JVLMA at associate professors Jan Petrashkevich and Arthur Muscat, but about their new work says: « You can look at this composition as healing for someone or someone chasing after you.

Meditative respite will be offered by Cynthia Onužāne Imprint Marimba and tool made of metal pipes, cans, other household items and even car details. Each of us creates lasting imprints in life, which will be left in a variety of materials in the seven stages of the composition – plastic, glass, wood, metal, sand, rust and dust.

Score… washing machine

Edward Kaļva, who is studying composition at assoc. prof. Krista Auznieks, New Sound World Concert Program offers a composition of a BIBLILELY ACCURATE WASHING MACHINE HAS APPEARED BEFORE YOURS…created for the washing machine. The author explains: « The body of this sound and veil makes you think of your daily routine, your little duty, the inability to get in. Because you wash more clothes because you have to hang more afterwards … We will meet in the ritual by calling on the veil of the veil from another dimension and listening to the wisdom of life.

New Zealand composer John Psathasa’s creativity is represented by opus Atalanta. Psathas has been able to work with writer Salman Rushdi in his productive career and write music for the 2004 Olympic Games ceremony in Athens, but about the opus Atalanta It reveals that it has been created in eight days, « the most insane, wildest and the most saturated days of caffeine in his life, » but apparently it has paid off, as the composition has become the most successful composer’s work in the last twenty years.

Melancholy, wood and jazz

During the concert Melancholy (April 1 at 7 pm in the Great Hall of JVLMA) Pianist Hert Hansen, Cellist Eric Kirchfeld and violinist Sanda Steinberg will be able to experience new composers Marina Anna Timofeyeva’s new work piano piano Energy, Both Latvian music old master Paul Dam Trio no. 2 For violin, cello and piano premiere. The program also features masterpieces of Maija Einfelde, European and American avant -garde Jan Ksenak, Jonathan Harvey and Salvatore Sharino for cello and piano. Eric Esenwald and Dimitra Maronida’s electrical compositions will bring special color. The music with light scenography will be complemented by light artists Ivars Wacers and Aija Ķiber.

In the Riga Circus Hall Horse stable April 3 at 18 will feature original Austrian sound artist Andreas Trobolovich’s composition Woodin which string quartet Sinfonietta Riga You will play with cuts from the tree trunk. Andreas Trobolovich has built « Wood Wide Players » – a device that reads information from rotating wooden pucks with fine wooden needles and allows you to hear the landscapes hidden there.

The most widely contributed contribution to jazz is expected in the international big band for students from Hamburg, Barcelona, ​​Siena and Ferrara universities I play Latvian jazz composer Karl Vanaga, Madara Kalnins, Edgar Cīrulis, Anna Vibes-Gorkus, Anna Wilson, Sven Wilson and Montas. Listen to them to go to the Tallinn Quarter Concert Hall Hangar April 4 at 19.

There will be a short introduction before each concert. On April 1, the young composer Ernest Walt Circenis, on April 2, will be provided by musicologist Dāvis Angelis, on April 3, composer, musicologist and writer Gundega Šmite, and on April 4, jazz researcher, musician and professor Indrikis Veitner.

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