The Exposition of New Music is now entering its 30th year. The festival starts today

11 October 2017, 4:00
The Exposition of New Music is now entering its 30th year. The festival starts today

The Exposition of New Music, under programme director Viktor Pantůček, offers new approaches to music expression. This year’s opening concert will be by the British band AMM, who are proponents of absolute freedom in music interpretation. The 30th anniversary carries the subheading NOVÁ ®EVOLUCE.

The opening concert of the festival will offer an old score in a whole new way, here and now. Known for their uncompromising poetry and an unorthodox philosophy of improvisation, the British band AMM will perform music based on a part of the longest graphic score in the world, Treatise by Cornelio Cardew, composed in the years 1963–1967. “In my experience, we can each of us play ten, twenty or a hundred tones, but only some can play one tone and send it perfectly into the surrounding space. This is of course related to the idea of mastering the moment,” says Keith Rowe, one of AMM’s members. “This will be followed by the guided improvisation of Pavel Zlámal and his little orchestra, made up of experienced jazzmen, virtuosos in classical music and musical experimenters. Then comes the long postponed project Pounding Ponc – LIVE, on the border between composition and interpretation using traditional instruments by the three charming ladies of the ISHA trio or the Moscow group for contemporary music with their multimedia music project Mašinérie”, Viktor Pantůček says, inviting us to the experimental music festival.

The festival will take place from 11 to 25 October in Brno.

The festival showed itself already in June, when Maria Blondeel and Christina Kubisch connected the Löw-Beer and Tugendhat villas with their installations and Charlemagne Palestine made the church resonate. During the month of October, the Exposition will give us 8 programmes: two will be part of the accompanying programme, where the sound artist Robert Aiki Lowe will perform and the duo Rie Nakajima & Pierre Berthet will give us their site-specific installation. The concerts and improvisations will take place in Besední dům, at Skleněná louka, in the new municipal Tržnice Brno, in Husův sbor on Botanická street and in the garden of the Arnold Villa.

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