COUNTERPOINT ERGODOS SUMMER EDITION @ LEAP – 19-20 AUGUST 2011 * Opening: Friday 19 August, 20:00* with performance by Jonathan Sage <http://www.jonathansage.co.uk/> at 21:00, followed by DJ set from Ergodos co-curators Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Garrett Sholdice.
Entrance free * Installations: 19–20 August, 12:00-18:00.* Entrance free _____________________________________ Following the success of Immersia in April, Ergodos will continue an ongoing series of quarterly editions at LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance) in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. The summer edition, entitled ‘Counterpoint’, will feature a performance of music for solo clarinet and playback by Ergodos Musicians clarinetist Jonathan Sage, alongside an interactive sound installation by acclaimed Irish composer Jonathan Nangle, and a new sound installation in celebration of the mix-tape. My father is an architect and I am a composer. From time to time we talk about problems of design as they relate to our professions. This usually leads to his quoting the iconic German architect Mies van der Rohe: ‘Architecture begins when two bricks are placed carefully together.’ This simple, powerful statement always reminds me of the primacy of counterpoint in the craft of music. It makes me think of the medieval-period Latin origin of the word: punctus contra punctum – literally, ‘note against note’. Counterpoint is more than a musicological term with a plethora of historical understandings; it’s a profound and elegant idea, perhaps the elemental idea in all creative work. — from ‘When Two Bricks Are Placed Carefully Together’, an article by Ergodos co-curator Garrett Sholdice, published at journalofmusic.com Ergodos has curated a programme of work that emphasizes the elemental nature of counterpoint as idea: Clarinetist Jonathan Sage will perform Steve Reich’s classic New York Counterpoint, a work Sage recently recorded for Ergodos Records. New York Counterpoint creates visceral excitement from careful superimposition of a pattern over itself. Benedict Schlepper-Connolly’s Another Country, commissioned by Sage and conceived as a sister-piece to New York Counterpoint, uses a language of interlocking melodies to transport the listener from graceful contours to biting intensity and back. Schlepper- Connolly’s solo clarinet arrangement of J.S. Bach’s ‘Sarabande’ from the Partita in D minor for solo violin is poetic in its creation of the impression of two distinct voices singing within a single line. Touch Music, an interactive sound installation by composer Jonathan Nangle, uses three iPod Touches as a means of generating and controlling rhythmic, melodic and visual output. Users are invited to engage with the devices and, through gestural touch, create a unique sonic environment: instant composition through juxtaposition. Nangle’s Touch Music will be complemented by a black box installation featuring looping digital ‘mix-tapes’ created by Berlin-based Irish composer Brian Ledwidge Flynn, musicologist Karin Weissenbrunner and composer/ filmmaker Neil O’Connor. The colliding of audio against audio – the basic principle of DJ’ing – is, perhaps, musical counterpoint in its most direct form. www.leapknecht.de www.ergodos.ie _______________________________________________ LEAP Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (Berlin Carré 1. Stock) Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13 10178 Berlin www.leapknecht.de how to find LEAP: http://vimeo.com/20384216 subscribe to newsletter: http://leap-berlin.tumblr.com/newsletter
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