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Nov/Dec
2024, concert poster
score
excerpts by the composition students of Arturo
Corrales' composition class @ CPMDT
         Adventurous Sounds / electroacoustic sessions @ MEbU (Münster Earport), 10/2024
       9/2024, rehearsals for Adventurous Sounds, CPMDT Geneva
       Adventurous Sounds/Form & Farben, 3/2024 Ensemble ö!/UMS'nJIPLeuk, Zürich, Basel, Chur
One
of the most hilarious compositions i’ve ever
heard, Motoharu Kawashima‘s Das Lachenmann,
which i’d seen Javier Hagen and Ulrike
Mayer-Spohn perform at Forum Wallis back in
2019, began the concert, preceded on this
occasion by an equally funny session where the
audience was taught to sing several isolated
bars from the score, which were projected onto
the wall. It was fantastic to see an audience
of predominately young people engaging with
new music as both listeners and, briefly,
performers, and clearly having an absolute
blast. The
majority of the concert involved students from
the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich, all
playing various recorders, who took part in a
number of pieces alongside Hagen, Mayer-Spohn
and members of the dissonArt ensemble. Particularly
effective was Agnes Dorwarth‘s Nachtvögel;
Gezwitscher; Nachtkrapp, a textural work made
up of birdsong-like behaviours, concluding in
a lovely chorus of modulating pitches.
Dorwarth’s Kopfnuss-Trio was an even stronger,
the three players using their headjoints to
create something akin to a tribal chant, in a
close unison peppered with rhythmic cries and
glissandi. Two of the students turned Franz
Müller-Busch‘s Der Streit into a brief but
compelling argument, while another student,
Sara Weinmann, gave a strong performance of
Dorwarth’s Artikulator 1, channelling a range
of emotions into sound in different ways, from
disruptions and interruptions to the work’s
flow to violent vocal eruptions, in a
nicely-controlled melding of musical,
non-musical and meta-musical ideas. The
concert ended with an expanded version of
Sancho’s Dream by UMS ‘n JIP (Hagen and
Mayer-Spohn’s joint nom de guerre), the
original of which was part of the duo’s opera
Sancho, which i experienced in 2020. In this
new form it was utterly mesmerising, living up
to its title by creating a dreamy, soft
texture environment developing into what
seemed to be accelerating Shepard tones."  Adventurous Sounds, UMS'nJIP/dissonArt, Festival Forum Wallis 2023   Konzertplakate für die Konzerte von Adventurous Sounds am Forum Wallis und in Zürich
MusiMatrix (eersteklasconcerten) Featured ensembles: Works performed by UMS ´n JIP: MusiMatrix (Eersteklasconcerten) is an interactive journey of experience confronting >4000 children in their first year of school with classical or contemporary composed music and its interpreters. These ‘first class concerts’ break down the borders between listening, active experience and performing together. The format was awarded a European YEAH! Award in 2015. From the jury report: “MusiMatrix is a unique, immersive experience for first grade students to become familiar with the sounds and process of contemporary music. The project epitomises the very essence of creating and playing music. All communication takes place via music, sound and movement. This is an ideal example of contemporary music mediation that relies on the motivation and activity of a young audience as well as the musicians – without reducing the artistic quality. Excellently done!” MusiMatrix/Eersteklasconcerten 2020 introduces you to three quirky contemporary music duos: Jasper & Jasper (B), Duobaan (B) and UMS 'n JIP (CH, performing works by Motoharu Kawashima/Das Lachenmann IV and excerpts from UMS 'n JIP´s acclaimed electropop opera Sancho). MusiMatrix 2020 is created within the project 'Sounds Now' co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The project ‘Sounds Now’ has been selected as a large-scale European collaboration project for Creative Europe. Musica Impulse Centre for Music Belgium will lead Sounds Now, as project leader, together with: Wilde Westen (BE), Festival van Vlaanderen (BE), SNYK National Centre for Contemporary Music and Sound Art in Denmark (DK), SPOR Festival (DK), Viitasaaren Kesäakatemia ry (FI), Stichting November Music (NL), Stiftelsen Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival (NO), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK) and Ariona Hellas AE (GR).
    
Adventurous Sounds @ CPMDT Geneve & Lausanne
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EN BARRIOS INFORMALES LA NOCHE DE LA BESTIA FNOBA II. FESTIVAL NUEVA OPERA BUENOS AIRES 2018 Musik: UMS 'n JIP
 
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