New Ensemble. Technics

Nou Ensemble presents Technics, a reflection on the concepts of technique and technology applied to musical creation in our decade, offering a concert that blends sound installation and musical theater.

General admission: €12 and €8

THE CONCERT

Technics is the result of a reflection on the concepts of technique and technology and their application in musical composition. In the case of music, technique is understood as the rules relating to how to play an instrument, in both its physical and intellectual variants.

In Technics, the members of Nou Ensemble must develop a new tekné, in the sense of developing skills and adapting to reality: this is the case, for example, in the work Todos Caníbales [trio; 2016] by Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca, in which the performers, from a dramatic perspective, surround different instruments (cello, bass clarinet, and electric guitar), playing them simultaneously and thereby producing new sound relationships.

On the other hand, Technics considers the use of technology as a result of the practical application of technique in various ways: whether through the electronic transformation of the sound of a traditional instrument—the violin in Simon Steen-Andersen's work—the inclusion and foregrounding of non-sound elements—light in Íñigo Giner's work—or video as the main part of the musical discourse — Screen Sketch IV by Oscar Escudero — the use of everyday electronic objects such as neon tubes, as requested by Simon Loeffler in his piece b, or the conversion of metronomes into musical instruments, as in the work of Jose Pablo Polo, where learning the "instrumental" technique is simultaneous with the process of composition-interpretation.

PROGRAM

Approximate duration: 70 minutes

Off stage:

ALBERTO BERNAL

Impossible music #33 "Silent scream"

Interactive video installation

On stage:

FRAN MM CABEZA DE VACA (1976-)

Todos Caníbales [trio; 2016]

Clarinet, cello, electric guitar, and electronics

SIMON STEEN ANDERSEN (1976-)

Study for string instrument #2

Violin and whammy pedal

ÓSCAR ESCUDERO (1992-)

Screen Sketch IV

EWI 5000 and video

JOSE PABLO POLO (1984-)

no-Tune / no-Tempo

Digital metronome, delay pedal, whammy pedal, and loop pedal

IÑIGO GINER (1980-)

a little light for T

 Bass clarinet, violin, cello, and LED lights

SIMON LOEFFLER (1981-)

b

3 neon lights, effects pedals, and jack cable.

ARTISTIC CREDITS

Georgia Privitera: Violin

Myriam García: Cello

David Romero - Pascual: Clarinet

Jose Pablo Polo: Guitar and metronome

NEW ENSEMBLE

Nou Ensemble is an instrumental ensemble dedicated to performing contemporary music. With the aim of broadening the traditional concept of a concert, Nou Ensemble bases its proposals on thematic and aesthetic coherence, a commitment to experimentation, and the promotion of interdisciplinary projects.

Since its formation in 2011, it has performed more than 50 concerts throughout Europe in venues and festivals such as Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), Festival Teatro in Prossimità (Italy), Huddersfield University (United Kingdom), Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, L'Auditori de Barcelona, Festival Escena Contemporánea de Madrid, Series XX-XXI CNDM, XV Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tres Cantos, Sirga Festival, Festival Vertixe Vigo, Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Mallorca, Festival de Música Contemporánea de Barcelona, Festival de Música Contemporánea de Madrid, Series XX-XXI CNDM, XV Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tres Cantos, Sirga Festival, Festival Vertixe Vigo, Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Mallorca, Festival de Música Contemporánea de Barcelona, Festival de Música Contemporánea de Madrid, Series XX-XXI CNDM, XV Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tres Cantos, Sirga Festival, Festival Vertixe Vigo, Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Mallorca, Festival deAuditori in Barcelona, Festival Escena Contemporánea in Madrid, Series XX-XXI CNDM, XV Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tres Cantos, Sirga Festival, Festival Vertixe Vigo, Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Mallorca, Festival Smash in San Sebastián, Festival Bernaola in Vitoria, Festival Zemos98 in Seville, Festival de Música Contemporánea de Córdoba, Mostra Sonora in Sueca...

He has premiered works by composers such as José María Sánchez-Verdú, Íñigo Giner, Alberto Bernal, Jose Pablo Polo, Abel Paúl, and Joan Bagés, as well as the opera Todos Caníbales by Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca.

The members of Nou Ensemble collaborate annually as teachers at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Córdoba, teaching a course on composition and extended techniques.

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