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NO HAY BANDA #3 : Elena Rykova + Frechette/Primard

Matralab affiliate Charles-Antoine Fréchette will be participating in the third concert of NO HAY BANDA’s inaugural season of experimental music performances presented with the support of Suoni Per Il Popolo.
 
Frechette will be part of the opening set in collaboration with Guillaume Primard with their new project Exploration topographique. The performance will explore actions and sound situations found in a kitchen, with the use of close amplification, found objects and modified instruments. 
 
This concert is presented in co-production with Suoni Per Il Popolo and with the generous support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

 

La Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent)
Portes 20:00 / Show 20:30
$12
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Clash! Generationen – Kulturen – Identitäten in Neuer Musik

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From April 5th to April 7th, Sandeep Bhagwati will be participating in the Clash! Generationen conference Identitäten in Neuer Musik taking place at Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt April 5th. This event will be the world premiere of Bhagwati’s piece “Miyagi Haikus” for Viola solo performed by violist Vincent Royer. April 7th, Bhagwati will be the lecturer on “How does the thing I am listening to relate to me? – Aesthetics of Relational Musicking” which will be done in German.

For more information follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1617609315208162/

MNM Festival

 

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Matralab creator, Sandeep Bhagwati, will be participating in the upcoming MNM Festival in the following events:

February 27th he will be a panelist and lecturer as part of the “Horizons musicaux contemporains : radios, universités et création musicale, synergies croisées” discussion.  [MNM Festival, 5e Salle, Place des Arts]

Mar 2  La Jeunesse de la SMCQ  will perform Sandeep Bhagwati’s piece “Niemandslandhymnen” [MNM Festival, 5e Salle, Place des Arts]

 

Mar 2 evening Fine Arts Black Box JF Laporte & Ben Thigpen “Rust” Concert.

 

For more information follow this link: http://www.smcq.qc.ca/

matralab honorable mention

In a recent report to the government by Universities Canada on “Mobilizing people and ideas: Supporting the creative economy and fostering Canadian culture in the digital world” matralab is highlighted on pg.4 as an exceptional beacon of Canadian culture.

To view the report follow this link: Mobilizing people and ideas: Supporting the creative economy and fostering Canadian culture in the digital world

ECHOLOT at miss hecker

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Tomorrow, Sunday December 11th Milena Kipfmüller and Klaus Janek will present the project ECHOLOT at miss hecker in Wedding, Berlin. They created this project at the beginning of 2016 for the Goethe Institut in Montreal. They performed it afterwards at Matralab run by composer Sandeep Bhagwati  and will end the year with the Miss Hecker presentation.

It is encouraged to bring an important book to donate during the evening. The book will be transformed into music during the event.

It is a joy to present this very special project in the most welcoming venue of the city, miss hecker, Gerichtstrasse 23 in Wedding, Berlin. We recommend this special concert to everyone and hope to enjoy it all together.

Jaali & Bacon

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Jaali & Bacon
Dec 1, 2016
In a concert at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart entitled “gespannt auf Bacon” (curious about Bacon), the Open Music quartet Stuttgart will perform Sandeep Bhagwati’s work “Jaali” in a new version, together with works by Cornelius Cardew and Jonathan Harvey.
Please see the program folder for more details.

 

For more information: gespannt auf Bacon

Ghent & Bochum

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Nov 21-27, 2016

This coming week, matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati will give talks and participate in round tables at two conferences: from Nov 21-23 he will be in Ghent, at the Orpheus Music Institute, to participate in a Colloquium on Composition as Critical Technical Practice. From Nov 24-27, he will participate in a Conference and Workshops on “Establishing Transcultural New Music” (see the attached program) at the recently inaugurated “Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr” in Bochum.

 

For more information: plattform für transkulturelle neue musik

AICHINGERLIEDER in MUNICH

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Dec 5, 2016

On Nov 11 this year, a famous German poet, Ilse Aichinger, died at the age of 95. Her terse, beautiful, haunting poems have influenced many generations of post-war artists and musicians. By chance, a long-planned concert in Munich will also feature a song cycle on poems by Ilse Aichinger, written by matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati in 1993 and re-imagined in 2014. This concert will thus become a memorial for her unique voice.
These songs are set for solo voice only (mezzo-soprano), sparsely supported by varying sonic backgrounds. The Munich version, as every realisation, will be unique in its sound, probably including Bavarian folk instruments such as Zither and Hackbrett.
The concert will take place on Dec 5 @ 8 p.m. in the Einstein Kultur-Halle 4.
Free entry. Unfortunately, Sandeep will not be able to attend.

Ensemble Extrakte

matralab director Sandeep Bhagwati is in Berlin for the final mix of a new studio album by Ensemble Extrakte Berlin, an ensemble he founded and leads together with Elke Moltrecht. On 13 tracks, renowned musicians from many traditions explore the borderlands between their music and that of the others. A rich and fruitful collection of musical conversations across boundaries and cultures, the album will be released with dreyer gaido records in early 2017.

Miyagi in Weimar, Crossings in Basel

Two major performances of works by Sandeep Bhagwati took place simultaneously this past weekend, on Saturday, October 29:

In Basel [Switzerland], pianist Moritz Ernst played new fragments from the encyclopedic piano cycle “Music of Crossings”  – while at the 29th “Tage der Neuen Musik” Festival for New Music in Weimar, the Open Music Quartett Stuttgart performed his cycle of 17 Miyagi Haikus, which they had recorded in studio in June 2016 ( this recording is currently in progress for a CD publication next year).
The Open Music Quartet will also perform Bhagwati’s complex comprovisation score “Jaali” in Stuttgart on Dec 1, while Moritz Ernst has set himself the goal to perform each of the 36 piano pieces of “Music of Crossings” in concert at least once before aiming at an extended 2.5hr marathon performance of the entire cycle in 2018.