Zone Experimental and Kabinett der Kuriositäten
February 7, 2018As 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