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Synaesthesis: Vortex temporum | Kaunas

Name: Synaesthesis: Vortex temporum | Kaunas
Start: 2020-01-29T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-01-29T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Kauno menininkų namai

2020-01-29/19:00 - 20:00

Free

“To hear Grisey’s music is to have adventures in the stuff of sound that will change your ears for ever,” once wrote The Guardian about one of the most influential 20th-century composers’, French spectralist Gérard Grisey’s music.

Raw and perfected at the same time, rigorously structured yet full of savage energy – this is the composer’s magnum opus: a three-movement thrilling journey with Vortex Temporum for piano, strings, and wind. This piece is a particular legacy of the composer, meditation of sound and time formats whose original, hardly recognisable motif is borrowed from Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. St. Augustine, one of the most influential philosophers of early Christianity, wrote that time proves itself until someone begins to try to describe it. In Vortex Temporum, Grisey transforms time into tangible material while exploring the

behaviour of sound, as a physical phenomenon, in space. In this piece, Grisey makes the movement of molecules – sound material – perceivable by examining it on three different scales: with human eyes, through a molecular microscope, or by zooming out on it through a telescope – what the composer himself calls “the time of humans, insects, and whales”.

Program:
Gerard Grisey – Vortex Temporum I,II,III

Performers:

Vytenis Gurstis (fleita /flute)
Artūras Kažimėkas (klarnetas/clarinet)
Diemantė Merkevičiūtė (smuikas/violin)
Monika Kiknadzė (altas/viola)
Gunda Baranauskaitė (violončelė/cello)
Marta Finkelštein (fotepijonas/piano)
Karolis Variakojis (dirigentas/conductor)

The project is partially funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Organizers of the project: Vilnius city contemporary music ensemble Synaesthesis, public institution Šiuolaikinė ausis. The partner of the project in Kaunas is Kaunas Artists’ House.

The concert will take place on January 29, 7 pm at Kaunas Artists’ House (V. Putvinskio g. 56).

Ticket prices: 5 Eur, 3 Eur for students and pensioners. Tickets here or at the door before the event at Kaunas Artists’ House.

Details

Date:: 2020-01-29
Time:: 19:00 - 20:00
Cost:: Free
Event Categories:: concerts, music
Website:: https://www.facebook.com/events/603472160431306/

Venue

Kauno menininkų namai

V. Putvinskio g. 56
Kaunas,

Organizer

: Kauno menininkų namai; View Organizer Website