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ALEPH Guitar Quartet

»through the ears of...«

Sat, January 14, 2023 7:00 pm CET

© Sabine Haymann
Location
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The ALEPH Guitar Quartet presents, among other things, a world premiere as well as a German premiere and surprises the audience with a very special musical experience.

A binaurally miked guest sits acoustically ideally positioned to the musicians of the ALEPH Guitar Quartet. The microphones are located in the ears of one listener. The individual anatomy determines what the recipients in the Cube will hear.

Technically, this method is similar to recording with an artificial head. This is characterized by precise spatial directional imaging. In contrast to the standardized auricles of the artificial head, however, the very individual ear characteristics of the guest come into play here.

Between the pieces Ludger Brümmer conducts interviews with the composers of the performed works.

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    Jaime Reis »Fluxus, Vortex – Schubkraft«, (2018) for guitar quartet and electronics, 12’, German Premiere

    This piece belongs to the »Fluxus« cycle, inspired by physical elements, in which musical elements are developed with reference to aerodynamic phenomena and fluid mechanics. »Fluxus, Vortex – Schubkraft« (vortex for »impulse«), exists in 2 versions: in an acoustic one and in one for guitar quartet and spatialized electronics for a dome-shaped sound system (which is also adaptable to simpler systems). The instrumental composition is based on the simulation of electronic processing that can induce a fusion of listening between the acoustic and electroacoustic universes. This coalescence is reinforced by the electronic composition which uses synthesis based on physical models, thus making it possible to create guitar sounds that would not be physically possible. The formal aspects of the electronic version are driven by spatial »shapes« or »paths« that relate different parameters to create movements that I have called »elliptical rotations«, »spirals«, »rotations«, »spectral explosions«, »sound suctions«, »sound walls«, »points«, »geometric shapes«, »Lissajous curves«, »sound swarms«, among others, which are related to formal aspects of the macro structure and also to the »energy flow« present in each one of the sound worlds used. The work is dedicated to the ALEPH Gitarrenquartett, which commissioned the piece with the generous support of Musikfonds e. V. together with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, where it was created during an artistic residency between 2018 and 2019.

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    José María Sánchez-Verdú »Sakkara«, (2022), for guitar quartet, 12', World Premiere

    This work acts as a metaphor about space, theology and mythology of ancient Egypt. It is an abstract cartography of spiritual knowledge. The Egyptian plateau of Sakkara is a unique place of this mental, physical, religious space, whose architect was the great master builder Imhotep. The musical work unfolds itself in three movements with certain images related to specific landscapes such as the desert, the earth, the water (Nile), the architecture (Djoser's pyramid), the writing (Thoth), the lotus flower as a symbol and as ornamentation, etc. The dramaturgy of the piece represents three different stages by means of the three gods of tradition in the time of Memphis as the capital: the god Ptah, his wife Sekhmet and his son Nefertem. Ptah as the god of time, Sekhmet as the goddess of the desert, war and fire, and Nefertem as the god of new beginnings with the lotus flower as a symbol.

    The ALEPH guitar quartet opens up different sound worlds to characterize the three movements. Each character is reflected in the musical material. The three movements are:
    1st: Ptah (grammar of time)
    2nd: Sekhmet (grammar of fire)
    3rd: Nefertem (grammar of the lotus flower)

    A commissioned composition by the ALEPH guitar quartet.
    With kind support of the Aventis Foundation.

    Author: José María Sánchez-Verdú

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    Zeynep Gedizlioğlu »Ort der Entzifferungen«, (2015), for 4 guitars, ca. 20‘

    A place created by music and defined by music. A place where four players meet, imitate each other, cover or reveal each other, interrupt, ignore, stop, listen to each other, vary, play with each other, keep silent together, »talk« to each other and sit still, act into the silence and react to audible movements. A place opened and bounded by movements. A place of remembering, connecting and letting go.

    Author: Zeynep Gedizlioğlu

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ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
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