4’33’’ (a tribute to John Cage)
conductor Peter Rundel Ircam music computer designer Frédéric Voisin, José Miguel Fernandez
Ircam sound engineer Maxime Le Saux Ircam sound technician Martin Antiphon
performance by Louise Stern & Olivier Plouliot
John Cage: Sixteen Dances (1 to 8) (1950-1951)
Carlos Caires: All-in-One*
Roque Rivas: About Cages**
Bruno Mantovani: ...273...*
John Cage: Sixteen Dances (9 to 12) (1950-51)
John Cage / Christian Marclay (adaptation) : 4’33"*
James Dillon: Torii*
John Cage: Sixteen Dances (13 to 16) (1950-51)
* Commissioned by Casa da Música
** Commissioned by IRCAM
Remix Ensemble is Casa da Música’s contemporary music group. Since its debut in 2000, the group has already performed the world premières of sixty new works and a considerable range of contemporary music, covering all currents of style and idiom. In addition to its work on the concert
platform, the group has made incursions into opera and music theatre, music accompanying films, dance and jazz.
*Belgian première
António Jorge Pacheco, Artistic Director Casa da Música (Porto)
This concert/project is somehow provocative. John Cage invented a piece without music with the precise duration of 4’33’’ and Casa da Música together with IRCAM has invited some composers to invent music to fill up the precise 4’ 33’’. I believe Cage would have liked to know that somebody had the idea of destroying his concept. On the other hand, we commissioned these pieces from composers with totally different, if not opposite aesthetic backgrounds. So there was not a question of asking John Cage’s “followers” to write music in Cagean style.
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Brussels
Co-prod. Casa da Música & Ircam/Les Spectacles Vivants-Centre Pompidou
Co-presentation Flagey, Ars Musica with the support of Réseau Varèse
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