At one extremity of Klangforum Wien’s concert is the furious craft of Franck Bedrossian inspired by Emily Dickinson and at the other is Georg-Friedrich Haas’ holistic spirit, marked by Giacinto Scelsi. The Austrian composer has used recordings on an ondolino – the improvised part of Sclesi – providing a form to an incantatory and microtonal work. With an unsystematic musical coherence, Franck Bedrossian concentrates on the inflections and distortions suggested by the poem or the voice itself. The first part of this evening is dedicated to three young composers brought together by the San Fedele Foundation to focus on Hildergard von Bingen and Chinese astrology: fire for Vito Źuraj, earth for Pascale Corrado, and unification of all elements, electrified, in Aurélien Dumont’s Abîme Apogée.

Klangforum Wien © Lukas Beck

Donatienne Michel-Dansac soprano
Klangforum Wien
Direction Emilio Pomarico
Collaboration informatique musicale IRCAM Serge Lemouton
Computer Music Design IRCAM Aurélien Dumont
IRCAM Pedagogical Advisor Alexander Mihalic

Aurélien Dumont Abîme Apogée, French Premiere Cursus 2
Franck Bedrossian Epigram I and II, French Premiere
Commissioned by Ensemble Contrechamps, Françoise and Jean-Philippe Billarant and Witten
Pasquale Corrado Grain, French Premiere
Vito Źuraj Fired-up, French Premiere
Georg-Friedrich Haas, Introduktion und Transsonation, French Premiere

An IRCAM/Les spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou coproduction. With the support of the SACEM and the ULYSSES network. This project was funded with the support of the European Commission. The views expressed in this publication are the sole responsability of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission. With the support of the Sacem.