ManiFeste-2013 » Schick

Percussion Master Class

root — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:30:00 +0000

Steven Schick

Concert given by the students from Steven Schick’s master class.

Suggested Repertoire

Helmut Lachenmann Intérieur
Iannis Xenakis Psappha
Karlheinz Stockhausen Zyklus
James Dillon Ti.re-Ti.ke-Dha
Brian Ferneyhough Bone Alphabet
John Luther Adams The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Kaija Saariaho Six Japanese Gardens
Thierry De Mey Silence Must Be

An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production. IRCAM and the CENTQUATRE are partners for experimental performance projects. With the support of the FCM – Fonds pour la Création Musicale and the Sacem.

Percussion 2013

root — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:30:00 +0000

The percussions of the 20th and 21st centuries are at the heart of the IRCAM festival and its academy. One of its most distinguished representatives, the American Steven Schick, imagined his recital with classics from the repertoire such as Xenakis or Ferneyhough.

Lorenzo Pagliei’s work in the first part of this evening represents the fruit of two years of musical and technological research on virtual percussions carried out at IRCAM. Is this the birth of an Esperanto for sound and gesture? Voir-Toucher introduces new instrument-making techniques, an original alphabet of gestures that control physical models using the Modalys software program.

Geecos (Gestural Control Surfaces) © Florian Leger. Ludovic Barrier, instrument maker

Lorenzo Pagliei Voir-Toucher, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, premiere
Iannis Xenakis Rebonds, Psappha
Brian Ferneyhough Bone Alphabet
John Luther Adams Roar

Daniel Ciampolini, Benoît Maurin, Pierre-Olivier Schmitt, Gianny Pizzolato, performers
Steven Schick percussion
Creation of the Geecos Ludovic Barrier – instrument maker
IRCAM Computer Music Design Lorenzo Bianchi

An Ircam/Les Spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou coproduction. With the support of the Sacem.

Steven Schick

root — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:12:22 +0000

Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past thirty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher, by commissioning and premiering more than one hundred new works for percussion.

Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and a Consulting Artist in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. He was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002, and from 2000 to 2004 served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, “red fish blue fish”, and in 2007 assumed the post of Music Director and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus.

Steven Schick recently released three important publications. His book on solo percussion music, “The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams,” was published by the University of Rochester Press; his recording of “The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies” by John Luther Adams was released by Cantaloupe Music; and, a 3 CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis, made in collaboration with red fish blue fish, was issued by Mode Records.