NEW CD with Hèctor Parra '...limite les rêves au-delà' MUSIC FOR BLACK HOLES
NEW CD with Hèctor Parra '...limite les rêves au-delà' MUSIC FOR BLACK HOLES
CELLIST
ARNE DEFORCE
MUSIC FOR NEW ERAS
In the light of the major climate mutation the world is facing up, we do not need nostalgia or melancholy in music but the ecstasy of new visions that propel us into new forms of world consciousness. The current crises of the world are symptomatic of a more general and profound crisis of imagination.
We need to explore new and other aesthetics in music that express the fundamental interconnectedness of human and non-human life forms, including the electronic.
Arne Deforce
A Psychoacoustic Journey towards a Black Hole and back to Earth in Holography
A Psychoacoustic Journey towards a Black Hole and back to Earth in Holography
‘…limite les rêves au-delà’
MUSIC FOR BLACK HOLES
‘…limite les rêves au-delà’
Hèctor Parra
A Journey towards a Black Hole
for cello and surround live-electronics.
A full evening seventy-minute cosmological symphony for cello and surround live-electronics inspired by contemporary astrophysics and cosmic topology, black holes, gravitational waves and the holographic principle for advanced surround real-time electronics and the endless variations of vibrations of a cello's strings.
The mind-bending ideas Black Holes bring about push us musicians beyond the limits to make music we previously could not have imagined.
‘This present composition originates from the intimate need to listen to and feel our own internal murmur, our own temporal experience of being alive, which contrasts strongly with the destructive power and ‘nothingness’ of the most brutal forces of nature conjurable up by the human mind: the black holes, which create abysses on the inner tissue of space-time.’
Hèctor Parra
New CD Album
Release november 2022
Label: Passcaille Plus PAS9702
‘… limite les rêves au-delà’
Excerpt Video Opera
Hèctor Parra ‘…limite les rêves au-delà’ - Excerpt Video Opera - Full version available from July 2023
Patterns in a Chromatic Field
Morton Feldman
Between Time and Space
Between Painting and Music
‘Patterns in a Chromatic Field’ is one of the most beautiful works I have ever played. Magical, mysterious, stilling and contemplative like Mark Rothko's grand color field paintings. I have always seen Feldman's music as one of the first radical representations of the nature of sound in its purest form. Its essence as timbre, its progression and decay over time, its relationship to silence, its tendency to form structures and patterns. Stripped of any form of self-expression. With the slowly evolving light patterns of Visual Kitchen, the performance gives a timeless experience that will delight anyone who loves the subtle parallels between music, time, nature and visual art.
As an abstract parable on the fabric of patterns of nature, Patterns in a Chromatic Field brings a poetic evocation of nature's mesmerizing grammar. How patterns fold and unfold as an ode to the vibrating earth.
Arne Deforce
In the present time of disrupted climate regime, we need a new non-anthropocentric avant-garde in music with strong ideas, unrestrained imagination and powerful expression. An avant-garde free from the authority of self-expression that makes us aware of the greater other while harnessing and focusing on the forces and phenomena of nature and the cosmos.
We require a new aesthetic of sensitivity to an all-encompassing ‘inclusive’ sound concept in which the integration of the full sound spectrum, the many energetic transformations of sound and its multidimensional sound spaces are paramount. From the purest tones and harmonics, from spectral sound complexes to fractal sounds, pulsing rhythms to non-pulsed time and free-flowing sound complexes with variable pulsations. The integration of the energy of sound, its timbre, articulation, intensity, density and complex layering as a manifestation of its fundamental nature. A new cosmology of liberated sound, exploring its full spectrum from the spin of cells to the swirling galaxies.
Arne Deforce
music for electronic insects, birdsongs, cowbells, rainforests
music for electronic insects, birdsongs, cowbells, rainforests
life form
for cello & surround electronics
‘life form’
Richard Barrett
a grand sixty-minute cycle of electronic life forms
inspired on the behavior of cells, molecules, the metamorphoses of insects or the interactions of entire ecosystems
The overall idea explored in ‘life-form’ is the question how and to what extent, the processes of diverse organic life forms (from the behaviour of single cells or even molecules to metamorphoses of insects, to the complexity of an ecosystem, to the geological time scale of evolution) can act as metaphors for the development of new musical processes (…) this idea is not intended to be illustrative; rather, the sound processes you hear might be compared to the processes of metabolism and catabolism, proliferation, differentiation and decomposition which we see in living (and dead) organisms and in the interactions of entire ecosystems. (Richard Barrett)
The future is fluid
We should learn to listen to the changing sounds, noises and disruptive rhythms of the trembling Earth. Creating a new aesthetic of sensitivity and reshape the song of the Earth as an Eco-sphere of connected and interwoven life forms, processes of transformation and perpetually interacting forces. For a music of changing perspectives.
Arne Deforce
Song of Insects
Requiem for a dying species
Unless we push the limits of our ability to listen to and express non-human forms of life in art and music, we will get nowhere. Non-human such as insects, birds and animals, plants, trees to whole ecosystems, as well as non-organic players like mountains, glaciers, rivers and oceans, galaxies and black holes and back to cells, molecules or even the spin of particles.
The whole idea is about reinventing metaphors in music and the arts and creating a new aesthetic of sensitivity to the fundamental interconnectedness of human and all non-human life forms and constantly interacting cosmic forces, including the electronic.
For new Eras, new Areas, new Ears and new Airs.
Arne Deforce