Free Event
GBSR Duo:
George Barton percussion
Siwan Rhys piano
David Zucchi soprano saxophone
Live-electronic realisation:
SWR Experimentalstudio
Michael Acker sound direction
Lisa Illean (Australia, 1983)
Tiding II (silentium) (2021) 17’ UK Premiere
Lisa Illean’s extraordinary, aquatic study of sonic transience Tiding II (silentium) is inspired by “hypnotic hours listening to the world sounding through water, my head half-submerged, patterns of distant chattering mingling with the periodic rubbing of the sea”.
Precisely calibrated combinations of saxophone multiphonics, electronic processing, metal percussion and virtuosic inside-piano work combine to evoke that environmental mormorando, layers of sound effortlessly yet unpredictably floating in and out of perception. Hushed in tone, sensations between the vast and the intimate are at tension. Sheets of electronic sound and sustained tones resemble the revolving light from a lighthouse raking the ocean’s surface. The sound floods and ebbs; interwoven layers surface and recede in a delicate balance.
Produced by hcmf//
Tiding II (silentium) is commissioned by SWR for Donaueschinger Musiktage
Photo: David Zucchi © Bob Schellens / George Barton, Siwan Rhys © Tricia Yourkevitch
Getting There
Venue: St Paul's Hall
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