Plus Minus No. 14
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L'Auditori Lepant 150, 08013 Barcelona
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Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the key figures of twentieth-century music, a pioneer in pushing the boundaries of musical technique in the post-war period. A tireless developer of new musical forms, including electronic music, “intuitive music,” spatialization and the use of serial techniques to control all the parameters of sound, his influence led to an almost theological approach to the art of composition.
The program's main work, Plus minus, is central to Stockhausen’s repertoire. A "polyvalent process composition," the music is self-generated in a very strict framework of polarities and combinations, cataloged in a total of seven pages and seven layers.
Program
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Tierkreis (1974-1975) 25'
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück No. 9 (1954-1961) 10'
- Alberto Posadas: Anklänge an Stockhausen (2017) 9'
- Karlheinz Stockhausen and Ming Tsao: Plus Minus No. 14 (1963, 1974) 32'
Performers
- Ensemble Ascolta
- Markus Schwind, trumpet
- Andrew Digby, trombone
- Erik Borgir, cello
- Florian Hoelscher, piano
- Hubert Steiner, guitar
- Boris Müller and Julian Belli, percussion
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