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SCORES
Saâdane Afif, Christian Marclay,
Ari Benjamin Meyers, Jorinde Voigt
Exhibition & Concerts
Exhibition: October 28 – November 13, 2016
Opening: October 27, 2016, 7 p.m.
Concerts: October 28 & 30, November 13, 2016
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin / Rieckhallen
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557 Berlin
SCORES, the latest in the series Works of Music by Visual Artists, is an exhibition and concert project devoted to the musical score, a subject that gets constantly reexamined in the visual arts as well as in music. Particularly since the 1960s, the score has been appreciated, above and beyond conventional musical notation, as a multivalent medium of recording which may take the form of spontaneously free drawings, individual symbolic systems, or instructions for activities.
With projects by Saâdane Afif, Christian Marclay, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Jorinde Voigt, the score theme now becomes the focus of an exhibition accompanied by concerts. Despite their differing approaches, all the selected artists are interested in the transformation of one medium into another, a process that is accomplished in close collaboration with the participating musicians. The scores are presented as drawings, objects, lyrics, graphic-photographic-film notation, and as concepts that generate musical events and performances. Almost all of the works presented on a grand scale in the Rieckhallen of the Hamburger Bahnhof have been recently created on commission; they will be performed, piece by piece, in the spaces in which they are exhibited.
Vice de forme: Das Kabarett, a work developed by Saâdane Afif together with the composer Augustin Maurs, will be presented in both an opening event and a concert on the last day of the exhibition. A Yamaha player piano will play First Notes, recorded at the opening, during the exhibition.
Christian Marclay’s new comic book To Be Continued will be performed by ensemBle baBel. Also on view by the artist are a video film collage and a slideshow, which serve as musical scores for the ensemble and the performers Elliott Sharp and Shelley Hirsch. All of these works are being presented for the first time in Berlin.
The first three chapters of Song of the Earth, a cycle of drawings in several parts currently being created by Jorinde Voigt, will be on view and performed by Ensemble zeitkratzer. Audio recordings from the concerts devoted respectively to the works of Marclay and Voigt will afterward play in their areas of the exhibition.
Ari Benjamin Meyers has developed a series of “Meta-Scores”, inspired by Sol LeWitt’s Instruction Pieces; each day, they will be newly translated and performed by the composer Wojtek Blecharz and the flautist Susanne Fröhlich. On the exhibition’s last day, all the interpretations created and rehearsed during the exhibition will be performed once more, now by heart.
CONCERT PROGRAMME
SAÂDANE AFIF
Vice de forme: Das Kabarett
Opening event: October 27, 2016, 8 p.m.
Vice de forme (First Notes)
with Augustin Maurs (piano)
Free admission
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
Screen Play, Zoom Zoom, To Be Continued
Video, slide show and comic as scores
Concert: October 28, 2016, 8 p.m.
Zoom Zoom (2007–2016)
Slide show as score for vocal performance
performed by Shelley Hirsch (voice) & Christian Marclay (images)
To Be Continued (2016)
Comic as score for ensemble
performed by ensemBle baBel
Screen Play (2005)
Video as score for ensemble
performed by ensemBle baBel and Elliott Sharp
Antonio Albanese (guitar), Laurent Estoppey (saxophone), Anne Gillot (flute/bass clarinet), Noëlle Reymond (double bass), Luc Müller (drums), Guest: Elliott Sharp (electric guitar/saxophon)
In cooperation with Kunstraum Innsbruck, Klangspuren Schwaz
and Deutschlandradio Kultur. Supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
JORINDE VOIGT
Song of the Earth
Chapter 1: Radical Relaxation – Stress and Freedom
Chapter 2: The Shift
Chapter 3: Divine Territory
Cycle of drawings as score for ensemble
Concert: October 30, 2016, 8 p.m.
Ensemble zeitkratzer
Reinhold Friedl (artistic director, piano)
Frank Gratkowski (clarinet), Hild Sofie Tafjord (french horn), Elena Kakaliagou (french horn), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), Maurice de Martin (percussion), Burkhard Schlothauer (violin), Nora Krahl (cello), Ulrich Phillipp (double bass), Martin Wurmnest (sound), Andreas Harder (light)
In cooperation with Kunstraum Innsbruck and Klangspuren Schwaz.
ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS
Who’s Afraid of Sol La Ti?
(Invention I)
Daily translation and performance of meta-scores in the exhibition and final concert
with Wojtek Blecharz (composer) & Susanne Fröhlich (recorder)
Final performance: November 13, 2016, 6.30 p.m.
Wojtek Blecharz (composer) & Susanne Fröhlich (recorder)
SAÂDANE AFIF
Vice de forme: Das Kabarett
Concert: November 13, 2016, 8 p.m.
Vice de Forme (In Songs)
Anna Clementi (voice) & Martin Grütter (piano)
Composer: Augustin Maurs
A project by Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
in cooperation with Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Made possible by funding from Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Ernst Schering Foundation.
With support from Electronic Music Studio TU Berlin, Audio Communication Group.
Curators:
Ingrid Buschmann / Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V.
Gabriele Knapstein / Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Press Contact:
Achim Klapp, Tel. ++49-(0)30-2579 7016, presse@freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de
Further Information:
www.musikwerke-bildender-kuenstler.de
www.freunde-guter-musik-berlin.de
www.smb.museum/hbf
www.facebook.com/hamburgerbahnhof
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