BTZM 2024

26.Sept.2024 // 20:00
Bludenzer Tage für zeitgemäße Musik,
Bludenz, Kunstraum Remise

Nacho de Paz, conductor

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Francesco Palmieri, e-guitar
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussion
Ivana Pristasova Zaugg, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Maximilian Ölz, double bass

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

In  the three lessons of Professor Bad Trip, Fausto Romitelli created a unique piece of music that unfolds waves of melodic fragments over seductively fragile harmonies and exalted ornaments and rushing glissandi, only to collapse in on itself again and again. Influenced by the distorted and “dirty” sounds of psychedelic rock music, the material is shaken up, developing expressive metastases, like a musical mutant infected by viruses, becomes a beautifully scary monster and casts a spell over the listener. Inspired by the descriptions of the mind-altering effects of mescaline in the works of Henri Michaux, Romitelli’s work is all about “the artificial, the distorted, the filtered”. The composer forges sound sculptures that materialize like surreal musical visions of the deformations, distortions and disfigurements in Francis Bacon’s paintings.

The professor’s three idiosyncratic lessons also could be of interest to Clara Iannotta’s composition class. Her students at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna have created a collective composition for the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, adding a contemporary perspective to the evening. The aim was to find out how an idea can spread and change by passing through different minds and bodies, ultimately becoming a coherent sound performance. Silent Post represents a year of hard work full of experimentation and mutual inspiration.

PROGRAMM

Gaia Aloisi, Claudia Cañamero Ballestar, Isaac Blumfield, Yuheng Chen, Giuseppe Franza, Yoko Konishi, Manuel Hidalgo Navas, Miguel Segura Sogorb, Sophie Wallner
Stille Post for ensemble (2023–24) UA
a collective composition by students in the class of Clara Iannotta at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien

Fausto Romitelli
Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I – III for ensemble and electronics (1998-2000)