Zone Experimental and Kabinett der Kuriositäten

As students at the Master Specialized program for Contemporary Music in Basel our main job is to… be creative. The first big performance our student’s ensemble, zone expermimental, has prepared this year, was a performance in Ackermanshof in Basel. An unusual performance. Not a concert. Not an exhibition. Not a theatre. Not a musical. Why do we need to name it actually? 

It concluded in some way what I had been doing the whole year: NOMOZART was a music theatre, Happening na Grodzkiej with Felix dell Tredici was a performative improvisation, some other projects are dwelling in my head and waiting to be taken care of. This was a combination of several performative pieces, set as if in a gallery. Pieces were happening at the same time and the audience could walk around the room watching whatever they felt like. As unusual as it sounds, the perforamance was very well received and left us all with enthusiasm to work on as a group. In the concert we used the following pieces:

John Cage Music for three

Ricardo Eizirik Junkyard Piece

Dieter Schnebel Poems for 4 Heads

Simon Steen-Andersen Difficulties Putting it into Practice

Alvin Lucier Heavier than Air

Morton Feldman Bass Clarinet and Percussion

Georg Katzer SeitenZungenspiel

Christian Wolff Changing the System

Mark Appelbaum Mobile for Paper

Francois Sarhan Situations

Pierluigi Billone Mani, Gonxha

Georges Aperghis Zig Bang

Robin Hoffman Oehr

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