The legendary SWR Experimentalstudio – an emblematic venue for electronic creation since Luigi Nono – and IRCAM concentrate on the string quartet in the company of a new rising star in the chamber music scene; the JACK Quartet from the United States. Georg-Friedrich Haas has broadened the spectral perspective of the quartet with the support of technology and the projection of sound in space. Chaya Czernoiwn plunges her vast creation HIDDEN in a subaquatic landscape, devoid of all human presence and pierced by sonorous monoliths. In this writing of observation and perception, silence plays an essential role. Here, this silence, not often a form of rhetoric, measures the distance to the object and imparts the work’s spatial dimension. In the words of Gurnemanz’ prophecy made to Parsifal, “here time becomes space”.

JACK QUARTET © Henrik Olund

JACK QUARTET
Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld violin
John Pickford Richards alto
Kevin McFarland violoncello
IRCAM Computer Music Design Carlo Laurenzi
Sound Conception EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO
des SWR/Thomas Hummel, Simon Spillner

Chaya Czernowin HIDDEN, commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Premiere
Iannis Xenakis Tetras
Georg Friedrich Haas Quatuor à cordes n°7, French Premiere

 An IRCAM-Centre Pompidou production. With the support of the Sacem.