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Te Kk New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington

in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut

BARBARA LNEBURG
BEYOND EXPLORE

CONCERT 2: EXPLORE

7:30pm, Saturday 13 September


Adam Concert Room
PROGRAMME
MARKO CICILIANI
MARKO CICILIANI is a composer, audiovisual EXPLORE
artist and researcher based in Vienna/Austria. He
received his musical training as a composer and
electronic musician in New York, Hamburg and
The Hague. The focus of his work lies in the Michael Norris Deep Field II (2014) for violin and electronics
combination of instruments and electronics,
Yannis Kyriakides Re: Mad Masters (2010) for violin and electric violin,
often in audiovisual contexts. Video, light- or
text-based video and live-electronics
laser-designs are often integral parts of his
compositions. The artistic combination of sound Henry Vega/Emmanuel Flores Elas Stream Machines and the Black
and light was also the topic of his PhD research, Arts (2010) for electric violin, sound track and video
completed at Brunel University London in 2010.
Marko Ciciliani is guest-professor for electro- Marko Ciciliani Formula minus One (2014) for electric violin,
acoustic composition at the Institute for live-electronics, and live-manipulated video
Acoustics and Media (IEM) of the Arts University
in Graz/Austria.

MICHAEL NORRIS

MICHAEL NORRIS is a composer, software Barbara Lneburg (violin | electric violin )


programmer and music theorist. He teaches Marko Ciciliani (electronics and live-video)
composition, sonic arts and post-tonal music
theory at Te Kk New Zealand School of Music Michael Norris (electronics)
and is editor of Wai-te-ata Music Press.
Performers of Michael's work include the NZ
Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Fabbriciani, In the course of her career, violinist Barbara Lneburg has often
Michael Houstoun, the NZ String Quartet, NZTrio, collaborated with composers and visual artists in the creation of new
Richard Haynes, the Viennese Saxophonic multimedia works for electric or acoustic violin, with the goal of exploring
Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, Stroma, the Israel artistic relations between the classical violin, mediated sound, and visuals.
Contemporary Players and the Ensemble Pierrot In this programme the approaches of the individual artists vary greatly,
Lunaire Wien. In 2010, the SWR commissioned a ranging from the game-inspired Formula minus One by Marko Ciciliani, via
new chamber orchestra work, which was the colonial subtext of Yannis Kyriakides Re: Mad Masters to a more
premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage sonic-art approach in Vega/Flores' Stream Machines and the Black Arts.
2010, conducted by Peter Etvs. Michael's suite New Zealand composer Michael Norris adds Deep Field II to this
of real-time audio effects, 'SoundMagic Spectral', is widely used in both assemblage of extraordinary works.
industry and academia worldwide, including artists such as Aphex Twin and
Brian Eno.
Michael Norris Deep Field II (2014): In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope
opened its lens on a nondescript patch of sky about one ten-millionth of the BARBARA LNEBURG violin | electric violin
total sky area and over ten days recorded light from ever more distant
objects. The resulting image, the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), included some of BARBARA LNEBURG's work as a soloist and
the most distant objects ever imaged, over 12 billion light years away. This, chamber musician has inspired numerous
and subsequent deep fields, evoke a kind of cosmic melancholy at the composers to write solo works, violin concerti
unalterability and unknowability of the wheeling field of matter, space and and chamber music for her. In her career, she has
time around us. Deep Field II is the second in a proposed series of works for been awarded prestigious scholarships and
solo instrument/voice and electronics drawing sonic ideas from the HDF. various prizes in violin competitions. Barbara
(Michael Norris) studied at Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and
Lbeck, at Londons Guildhall School of Music
Re: Mad Masters by Yannis Kyriakides is based on Jean Rouch's legendary film and Drama, and at the prestigious Tchaikovsky
Les Matres Fous. It plays with the colonial subtext of the film, and the Conservatory in Moscow. She combines Russian
relationship between music and possession, as displayed in a Hauka ritual and Western European virtuosic violin traditions
from Ghana in the 1950s. The texts shown are transcriptions of Rouch's with a fresh contemporary approach to music.
original spoken commentary, and there are some sound samples and images
taken from the original film. Mirroring this possession ritual, the violinist in Re: Barbara was awarded a doctoral degree for her
Mad Masters takes on changing roles; the sound of her instrument is also research on The creative role of a performer as
hijacked by the animistic spirits colliding with the colonial military machine. an interface between instrument, composer and audience in contemporary
music, including theoretical and practical work on creativity and
In Vega/Flores' Stream Machines and the Black Arts sound track, electric collaboration, programming, and concert aura. Her latest research project,
violin and video images merge into a single morphing Gestalt. Flores gradually TransCoding (funded by the Austrian Science Fund), explores social media
transforming geometric visuals interact with linear, pulsating grids in Vegas and their potential to interest and engage a young audience for the new arts.
electronic sound track, while the violin melts into both worlds, adding an
element of expressiveness through simple sleek lines. Barbara Lneburg has featured on many CDs and in radio productions. Critics
have described her playing as 'viciously virtuosic, passionate, translucent,
Formula minus One (2014) by Marko Ciciliani deals with the motorsport with an amazing capacity for purity of sound and integrity of pitch, detailed
Formula One, which, in its combination of machinery, power and speed, and nuanced, expressive and gripping'. Her first solo CD, The Refined Ear
symbolizes virility. Remarkably, though, contrary to most other sports, male (label Coviello Classics), received international acclaim. International
and female drivers may (theoretically) compete against each other in the same reviewers regard Weapon of Choice, her solo DVD with multimedia works
Grand Prix; Formula One does not distinguish between the sexes. However, up (label Ahornfelder), as a groundbreaking production. BBC Music Magazine
until now, women have only succeeded in being test drivers. Throughout the gives her latest DVD with Bach and Scelsi 5 stars, and labels it audacious.
history of Formula One the actual races have been purely men's business.
Formula minus One combines real-time processed excerpts from Formula One Barbara Lneburg's special merit is her determination to find her own
films with live-generated electronics. Ciciliani uses the visual material in such a particular ways through the beaten paths of the musical landscape. She does
way that it becomes de-masculinised and aestheticized. The resulting video not deny her classical education, but divides her passion between everlasting
forms the score of the violinist. As in computer games, the performer must masterworks, as yet unelevated treasures of the modern repertoire, and
react bodily to the image and, subsequently, her movements determine the brand new scores. By doing this, she and her audiences reap the benefits of
progress and development of the sonic and visual material. Through musical both classical music and the most recent works. Die Welt
and physical gestures the violinist generates the piece and keeps it going.

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