A MyJHB.co.za selected Goethe-Institut Johannesburg video for you:
“untitled #310”
(Short video edit from excerpts of the composition during rehearsals)
Composed by Francisco López
Performed by: Jill Richards (piano), Waldo Alexander (violin), Magda de Vries (percussion), Reza Khota (guitar), Marcus Wyatt (trumpet), Siya Makuzeni (voice, trombone).
Video footage by Hannah Paton.
Created during a two-week residency in Johannesburg (June 2013). Premiered at the Goethe Institut (Johannesburg) and the National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, South Africa), June-July 2013.
With generous support from the Spanish Embassy of South Africa, the National Arts Festival, the Goethe Institut Johannesburg and the University of Johannesburg Arts & Culture.
López has created a new work for an instrumental ensemble for the National Arts Festival 2013 (Grahamstown, South Africa). It is the result of an unorthodox process of his working directly with the musicians involved: sonic textures,
gestures and compositional structure itself all arise from the particular skills, style and features of the specific ensemble. Grounded on a “concrète” aesthetic of the specific sonic material itself being the basis and origin of the music,his compositional work proceeds without a preconceived “theme” or programmatic drive. Accordingly, there is never an a priori description of the future composition, but instead it unfolds from scratch. López also requires the musicians to be blindfolded. Both scores and visual cues are thus replaced by aural cues that the performers have to carefully listen to within the music textures as they perform the piece.
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