ManiFeste-2013 » Posadas

Hannigan – Diotima

root — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 20:30:00 +0000

“The voice is everything.” This cry by Philippe Schœller, that could be tuned to Nono’s music, says everything about nature and language, about archaism and the vocal icon, the irreducible instrument. Operspective Hölderlin performed by Barbara Hannigan and the Diotima perfect the series with electronics initiated in Feuillages and Vertigo, with their proliferations of spatial perspectives.

Operspective forebodes an operatic time, sustained by a grand orchestra (see the concert June 7). Perspectives sur Hölderlin in the direct vicinity of Nono? Phillipe Schœller calls upon the poet and the “essential fraternity of his word of fire, beneficial and solaire.”

When the voice exits the stage at the Bouffes du Nord a pure quartet remains, that of Alberto Posadas, nearly an hour of memorable incantations and twisting, crossing by propagation, by series, and by auto-similarity, like a natural organism.

Luigi Nono Djamila Boupacha
Philippe Schœller Operspective Hölderlin, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, premiere of the new version
Alberto Posadas Liturgia Fractal

Quatuor Diotima © Molina Visuals

Barbara Hannigan soprano
Quatuor Diotima
IRCAM Computer Music Design Gilbert Nouno

An Ircam-Centre Pompidou, ProQuartet Coproduction, organized with the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. With the support of the Sacem.

EXAUDI – Ensemble intercontemporain

root — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:00:00 +0000

Dominant composer of his generation in Spain, Alberto Posadas leads an imposing work where the unique pungency of details is included in a vision of a whole, often a vision of a tragic and dark painting. Like his teacher, Francisco Guerrero, Posadas uses fractal geometry to create large forms, reiterating a figure on several scales. After Quatre scènes sombres inspired by Goya and Elogio de la sombra for quartet, Posadas has created his Tenebrae on fragments of Novalis, Stefan Georg, and the Bible. Starting with Nietzsche’s The Traveller and His Shadow, Rihm has sketched an inner boundary (Innere Grenze).

Magnus Lindberg © Saara Vuorjoki / Fimic

Magnus Lindberg’s Jubilees provides a brilliant contrast to the other works presented during this evening’s concert. Written for Pierre Boulez’ 75th birthday, lightly ignoring the throes of expressionists, solemn depth.

Magnus Lindberg Jubilees
Alberto Posadas Tenebrae, commissioned by Françoise and Jean-Philippe Billarant, premiere
Wolfgang Rihm Klangbeschreibung II – Innere Grenze

EXAUDI | Ensemble intercontemporain
Conductor François-Xavier Roth
IRCAM Computer Music Design Thomas Goepfer

7pm, Cité de la musique, Médiathèque

Presentation of the concert by Clément Lebrun, musicologist
Free entry upon presentation of a ticket for the evening’s concert.
Reservation required: 01 44 84 44 84

A part of the Biennale d’art vocal. An Ensemble intercontemporain, Cité de la musique, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou coproduction. With the support of the Sacem and Diaphonique, fonds franco-britannique pour la musique contemporaine. Concert broadcast on France Musique on June 24 at 8pm during Les Lundis de la contemporaine.

Alberto Posadas

root — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:36:21 +0000

Born in 1967 in Valladolid Spain, Alberto Posadas began his musical studies there before moving to Madrid to continue his training. In 1988, he met the composer Francisco Guerrero, who Posadas considers to be his true master. With Guerrero, Posadas explored new musical forms through the use of techniques like math combinatorics and fractal theory. Self-determination and a constant search to include aesthetics in these mathematical procedures led the composer to look for other models for composition, notably the transposition of architectural spaces into music, the application of topology techniques and painting in a relationship with perspective, or the exploration of the acoustic phenomena of musical instruments at a microscopic scale.

Alberto Posadas also created a personal writing style of electro-acoustic music through several projects such as Liturgia de silencio (1995), Snefru, and Versa est in luctum (2002). More recently, his interest for the implication of movement in the electronic transformation of sound led him to take part in a multidisciplinary project instated by IRCAM: Glossopoeia, created in collaboration with the choreographer Richard Siegal in 2009.

Since 1991, Alberto Posadas has taught analysis, harmony, and composition at the Mahadahonda Conservatory in Madrid. He is also regularly invited to speak in a variety of contemporary music courses.