MUSICAL CITATIONS

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A series of musical events, short performances, exploring and redefining the relationship between the performance, the performance space, the performer and audience, as well as, exploring the opportunity to allow sound to enhance our understanding or awareness of a space, or vice versa, our understanding of a piece of music through the form of the space.

The space can be led by the music or the mus

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GP Teleman - Twelve Fantasias for Violin Solo TWV 40:14-25 No. 10 in D major

The setting was inspired by the nature of the composition: the fantasia is in the spirit of a typical dance music composed for members of the court.  Here the performer is playing in the “palace” whilst we, ordinary people, are forced to listen from outside.  The shadow creates a distance between the audience and the per

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1790) Partita NO.2 BWV 100, D Minor, IV. Chaconne

This is a loud, complex and intense piece. The viewing/listening condition was altered to increase the awareness of the structure and form of the music. Instead of the performer being at level or slightly above the audience, the audience is placed dramatically above.  This allowed a new understanding of the physicality 

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1790) Partita NO.3, BWV 1006, E Major, I. Prelude

Eugene Ysaye (1858-1931) Sonata for Solo Violin No.2, Op.27, I. Obsession, II.Melancholy,  III.Fury

The sonata was interpreted as portraying the nature of human suffering: the way in which one might share problems with others to a degree but remain, in the end, alone in the battle.  This condition was physically expresse

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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), Mikka, 

Richard Stoker (b. 1938), Sonata for Solo Violin No.2, op27

This setting was a literal expression of the idea that music could affect space and, in turn, a space could affect the music sounded within.  The composition was plotted as a graph, in a similar manner to the composer’s method. The graph was then interpreted into a three-dimensional web in which the per

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Two Part Inventions: No.1 in C Major, No.4 in D Minor, No.11 in G Minor, No.8 in F Major

Two duets by Ernst Miller (Allegretto and Prelude)

This setting was designed to emphasize the contrasting nature of the two instruments: saxophone and violin. in terms of their material, tone and texture, and the manner in which they are played.