DAY 5: THE TURNING WORLD
"At the still point of the turning world... there the dance is." TS Eliot
Dance theater
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998) - France
Vortex Temporum (1995)
for Six Instruments
occupation
NN dance
musica assoluta
Thorsten Encke. conductor
“A tone becomes a timbre, a chord becomes a spectral complex and a rhythm becomes a wave of unpredictable durations.” With these words, the composer Gérard Grisey described the sound concept of the “Musique spectrale”, which took place around the Paris research institute in the early 1970s IRCAM and the ensemble L'Itinéraire and is considered one of the most important contemporary movements in new music.
musica assoluta plays the important work “Vortex Temporum” by Gérard Grisey in a dance and movement performance that carefully involves the audience and breaks up the classic concert arrangement in favor of an overall physical and mental experience for everyone involved. The different facets of the “time vortex”, in which the individual is the plaything of events, are presented in a stylized form.