live performance by Robin Hayward / Christopher Williams (Reidemeister Move)
The Berlin concert series will carry on in 2017. Critics have praised Kontraklang for the curatorial depth of its programming, as well as for its unconventional and refreshing approach to the complexity and multifaceted nature of contemporary music. This praise is rooted in the series‘ proof that contemporary music need not be academic, but can instead be sensuous, humorous, and exciting.
A two-day festival entitled TACTILE PATHS will open the 2017 concert season. The event revolves around the topic of notation for improvisers, featuring performances of new and experimental music and a panel discussion with artists reflecting on the festival theme. Tactile Paths brings together a broad spectrum of international composers, improvisers, dancers, and filmmakers working at the colorful and mysterious nexus of notation and improvisation.
Free improvisation, particularly in groups, brings musicians often into complex situations. They must simultaneously analyze, react to, and initiate a musical development. They must constantly make numerous decisions directly in the medium of music-making, without the opportunity to discuss and debate with their fellow musicians. Notation for improvisers helps them to focus, recontextualize, and transform these demands.
Another completely different form of graphic notation is the piece Borromean Rings by Robin Hayward, for microtonal tuba and contrabass. The score, written for the duo Reidemeister Move (Robin Hayward, microtonal tuba, and Christopher Williams, contrabass), consists of two circular staves and a set of rules, reminiscent of a complex board game. This concert is also the release party of the recording of the same piece on the Berlin label Corvo Records.
7 January “TACTILE PATHS — Festival zur Notation für Improvisierende” — LP release event, Berlin
Release event for the Picture Disc “Reidemeister Move plays Borromean Rings“
Sa, 07.01. – Sun, 08.01.2017
20:00
Heimathafen Neukölln
Berlin
In frame of the festival TACTILE PATHS — Festival zur Notation für Improvisierende
live performance by Robin Hayward / Christopher Williams (Reidemeister Move)
The Berlin concert series will carry on in 2017. Critics have praised Kontraklang for the curatorial depth of its programming, as well as for its unconventional and refreshing approach to the complexity and multifaceted nature of contemporary music. This praise is rooted in the series‘ proof that contemporary music need not be academic, but can instead be sensuous, humorous, and exciting.
A two-day festival entitled TACTILE PATHS will open the 2017 concert season. The event revolves around the topic of notation for improvisers, featuring performances of new and experimental music and a panel discussion with artists reflecting on the festival theme. Tactile Paths brings together a broad spectrum of international composers, improvisers, dancers, and filmmakers working at the colorful and mysterious nexus of notation and improvisation.
Free improvisation, particularly in groups, brings musicians often into complex situations. They must simultaneously analyze, react to, and initiate a musical development. They must constantly make numerous decisions directly in the medium of music-making, without the opportunity to discuss and debate with their fellow musicians. Notation for improvisers helps them to focus, recontextualize, and transform these demands.
Another completely different form of graphic notation is the piece Borromean Rings by Robin Hayward, for microtonal tuba and contrabass. The score, written for the duo Reidemeister Move (Robin Hayward, microtonal tuba, and Christopher Williams, contrabass), consists of two circular staves and a set of rules, reminiscent of a complex board game. This concert is also the release party of the recording of the same piece on the Berlin label Corvo Records.