The Listeners

ten erased compositions by Alessandro Bosetti

Video

2005

Catalogue number : 8

Alessandro Bosetti composed ten short music pieces. All between 2 and 3 minutes.
Each piece has been listened, through headphones by just one person. Every person was aware of being the only listener of that very piece and that after a first hearing the piece would have been destroyed. No score, recording, audio file or cd had been left. Part of the agreement between the composer and the listeners was not to speak about those pieces. Though, the listeners are free to speak about with other people than the composer.

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Lampo @ Odum
10.12.2005
Chicago
(Premiere)
HouseMusik – Musik für Büros & Läden
27.05.2006
Berlin
Carnegie Hall, NYC Berlin in lights
10.11.2007, 20.00 – 24.00 Uhr
Metropolis – Counterpoint Berlin
New York City

 

produced by Alessandro Bosetti and Jesse Seay at the School of the Art institute of Chicago.

Thanks to Nicolas Collins

Duration : 26’20”

Alessandro Bosetti composed ten short music pieces. All between 2 and 3 minutes.
Each piece has been listened, through headphones by just one person. Every person was aware of being the only listener of that very piece and that after a first hearing the piece would have been destroyed. No score, recording, audio file or cd had been left. Part of the agreement between the composer and the listeners was not to speak about those pieces. Though, the listeners are free to speak about with other people than the composer.

 

 

 

7.00 pm – 1st part

Stefan Bartling
Mit Namen und RANDNOTIZ / 2002
for 4 loudspeakers, 2 megaphone- and 1 bicycle performer

Helmut Oehring
Philipp / 2007
for double bass clarinet and cd

Marc Sabat (Music)/Peter Sabat (Video)
AUTOMAT / 2007
music scenery for 2 violins and video with field recording

Ana Maria Rodriguez
Telegram from a sea / 2007
for speaker, instruments and live-electronics
words by Ron Winkler

08.30 pm – 2nd part

Stefano Gervasoni
An

Luigi Nono
Post-prae-ludium per Donau / 1987
per tuba e live electronics

Peter Ablinger
voices and piano / since 1998
(Bertolt Brecht, Arnold Schoenberg, Angela Davis, Mao Tse-Tung)

Helmut Lachenmann
Intérieur I for one percussionist / 1965-1966

09.45 pm – 3rd part

Alessandro Bosetti
The listeners / 2005
Eight short compositions

Walter Zimmermann
Shadows of Cold Mountain 5 / 1997

Thomas Meadowcroft
Ezra Jack Plot / 2007
for chamber ensemble and video stills from The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Stephan Winkler
Vom Durst nach Dasein. / 2000-2001
Sieben Sachen und eine Gegebenheit für Bratsche und noch sieben

Metropolis-Counterpoint Berlin is made possible by the Capital Cultural Fund in Berlin and supported by the Goethe-Institut New York.

With : Emily Kuehn, Justin Goh, Jovencio de la Pac, Brett Balogh, Georgia Lang, Luisa Bufardeci, Michael Graeves, Richard Curtis, Autumn Ramsey, Sharon Younger

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