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About
the shady omnipresence of future and past, the foreshadowing and the repeating.
Within a 34 minute-long space composiiton, 15 time windows of light and
sound emerge. Acoustic sounds of flute and violoncello disperse, overshadowed
by their electronic transformations, performers (re-) appear as shadows
of spotlights. Musical shadings in an interplay of development and repetition,
improvisation as the shadow play of composition.
In beshadowed, the acoustic sounds of two instruments (flute, violoncello)
are combined with audio samples of the same origin. Both performers are
positioned behind translucent paravents and lit from behind, casting coloured
shadows onto the screens. Thus, acoustic and visual stimuli are separated,
and recombined in new ways. The title beshadowed refers to the shadow
as a compositional, visual and temporal-transcendent model. Throughout
the piece, instrumental and electro-acoustic sounds are often indiscernable,
it remains unclear whether certain sounds are pre-recorded ore created
live by the performers. This disorientation offers a new way of listening,
a more abstract appreciation of all sound in space.
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Past
presentations
Concert Series 'Fast Forward', Porgy
& Bess, Vienna, March 2002 (premiere)
Commissioned by Jeunesse, Austria.
Performers: Eva Furrer (fl), Michael Moser (vc), Bernhard Gal
(sound- and light direction)
Festival
Sound Travels,
Toronto, August 11th, 2006
Festival Nuova
Consonanza, Rome, December 15th, 2006
Campus
Musick, Alpen-Adria-Universität,
Klagenfurt (AUT), November 8th, 2008
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