Nov 6, 20 h @ Usine C, 1345 Avenue Lalonde

Adam Basanta will be presenting “instant gris” (stereo, 2014) and “Three Myths of Liberalism” (12 channels, 2012) at this year’s Akousma XI festival.

His two compositions will be performed as part of the Onde_symbiotique program, which also includes works by Robert Normandeau, Gilles Gobeils, Hanna Hartman, and Olivia Block.

For more information see, http://www.akousma.ca/fr/festival/festival-akousma/akousma-xi/6-novembre-2014/.

Nov. 14, 19h @ Radialsystem, Berlin

On November 14, Sandeep Bhagwati will lead Ensemble Extrakte as they perform “ITERATIONS” in concert as part of the festival “faithful! II Fidelity and Betrayal of Musical Interpretation.” The piece explores looping and the history of Berlin sound, and is performed in collaboration with Gebrüder Teichmann.

The group features Klaus Janek (bass, elektronics), Cathy Milliken (oboe instruments), Deniza Popova (Bulgarian singing), Farhan Sabbagh (ud), Gregor Schulenburg (flutes, duduk), Ravi Srinivasan (tabla, percussion), Hong Yoo (daegum), and Gebrüder Teichmann (silent DJs).

For more information, see http://www.faithful-festival.de/en/programm-berlin-2014/.

Nov. 13, 19h @ Berghain Club, Berlin

Panel Discussion: “Where the Balance Tilts: from Creators or Performers?”

To open the festival “faithful! II Fidelity and Betrayal of Musical Interpretation”, Sandeep Bhagwati will be participating in a panel discussion that explores the differences between cooperation and collaboration in musical interpretation, and the interfaces between composers and interpreters.

The panel features five music theorists, composers, and musicians, and will be moderated by musicologist Lydia Rilling. Berlin-based composer Johannes Kreidler will also be presenting his work “Fremdarbeit / Migrant Work.”

For more information, see http://www.faithful-festival.de/en/faithful-eng-2012/programm-berlin-2014/.

Nov. 5, 18:30h @ Museum Tinguely, Basel

On November 5, Sandeep Bhagwati’s “Tenerenmente”, a recently premiered cycle for prepared piano, will be performed in a special concert at the Tinguely Museum. Moritz Ernst will play the cycle’s first movement “Stele.”

http://www.tinguely.ch/de/ausstellungen_events/events.html

Nov. 27, 19:30h @ Music Multimedia Room, McGill University (527 Sherbrooke St. West)

live@CIRMMT: Beta Lyrae & City?

On November 27, Sandeep Bhagwati will present “Sutra” for flutes, recorders and electronics at live@CIRMMT. The piece will feature Cléo Palacio-Quintin on flutes and Terri Hron on recorder.

New works by Terri Hron, Cléo Palacio-Quintin, and Patrick Saint-Denis will also be performed.

For the complete program and ticket information see,
http://www.cirmmt.org/activities/live-cirmmt/lyrae.

Nov. 6-7, 18:30h @ Agora Hydro-Québec du pavillon Coeur des sciences, 175 avenue du Président-Kennedy

Lenka Nováková in collaboration with Otso Lähdeoja and Navid Navab present “F O L D”, a performative audio-visual environment and installation.

“F O L D” is a platform for interdisciplinary approaches to performance and the performative environment. Merging powerful optical architectures, compositions of structure-born sound, and the aesthetics of chiaroscuro image, “F O L D” envelops the spectator in the performative, theatrical, and cinematic experience of self and other.

In dialogue with the performance group “IF YOU NO WHAT I MEAN” featuring Mayra Morales, Petur Grunansom, Marcelino Barsi, and Mona Ayash.

NOVEMBER 6, 18:30 – 21:30 (18h: artist talk and meet the team, 21 – 22:30h: vernissage)
NOVEMBER 7, 18:30 – 21:30

Please reserve your place in advance at http://doodle.com/e3hwrur2pq75v84a.

For more information about the performance see, http://www.lenkanovak.com/fold/.

Oct 30, 20h @ McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, Pollack Hall

On October 30, the McGill Percussion Ensemble will be performing Sandeep Bhagwati’s “ATAVIST.” The piece is a movement from Bhagwati’s “Alien Lands” cycle for four percussionists. Aiyun Huang will be leading the ensemble.

http://www.mcgill.ca/music/channels/event/mcgill-percussion-ensemble-237708

On Monday, September 8, at 20h, the pianist Moritz Ernst will play the world premiere of Sandeep Bhagwati’s three movement work “Tenerenmente” for prepared piano [ca.21 min].

This will be part of Concert&Discussion in the off-Beethovenfest Bonn, in the PostTower Lounge. Platz der Deutschen Post 1, 53113 Bonn. Free Entry.

Tenerenmente
Three memorials for prepared piano
1.) Stele
2.) Mneme
3.) Nerve

“tener en mente” in Spanish means “to keep in mind” – and the three movements of this work all, in different ways, engage with memory: in “Stele”, the memorial stone, music and life inscribe themselves deeper and deeper by each moment into a hard, inflexible pulse – and thereby transforms it. In “Mneme” (also the name of the antique Greek muse of memory), we encounter a melos and the impossibility of re-living it unchanged – it eludes us and thereby gives rise to new sensations. In “Nerve”, finally, memory is like a raw nerve: Even the most desperate attempts to cover it up with activism, inventiveness and new perspectives – fail. The thing that bothers us will simply not go away into oblivion.

The prepared piano embodies the ambivalence between memory and forgetting: half of its strings are prepared, making them sound different, alien, elusive, dry. They create, around the familiar and present piano sounds, a realm of shadows and potentialities – the forgotten, the remembered, the never realized.

Each of these three movements also is dedicated to some of my private artistic “heroes”, by creating a blurry memory of their musical language. “Stele” is for John Cage and Merce Cunningham, “Mneme” for my teacher Wilhelm Killmayer, and “Nerve” for Zakir Hussain and Shivkumar Sharma

Replica, an acousmatic work co-composed in 2012-2013 by Martin Bédard and Marie-Hélène Breault will be co-diffused at the Théâtre Marni in Brussels.

Replica is a finalist in international composition competitions “Città di Undine” (Italy) and “Métamorphoses” (Belgium). Commissioned by Erreur de type 27 (E27), the work was premiered in Quebec City, March 13, 2013, in Erreur de type 27’s Espaces mixtes II concert.

Marie-Hélène Breault is a Post-Doc Researcher at matralab.

Replica, an acousmatic work co-composed in 2012-2013 by Martin Bédard and Marie-Hélène Breault is a finalist in international composition competitions “Città di Undine” (Italy) and “Métamorphoses” (Belgium). Commissioned by Erreur de type 27 (E27), the work was premiered in Quebec City, March 13, 2013, in Erreur de type 27’s Espaces mixtes II concert, and it will be co-diffused by the two musicians, October 15, 2014, at the Théâtre Marni in Brussels.

Marie-Hélène Breault is a Post-Doc Researcher at matralab.