soundON Festival of Modern Music: Thresholds
curated by Colin McAllister
January 9-12, 2020
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St, La Jolla, CA
In the Confessions, St. Augustine wrote about the distentio animi, the distension of the mind that refers to its stretching out in relation to past and future, a three-fold present known in memory, attention, and expectation. This is an analogue to what musicians would call “performative time,” or perhaps, what Gabriel Motzkin calls “abnormal time,” a transcendent state that can be experienced only at those rare moments when the normal, everyday world loses its meaning, thus making this kind of time more authentic. The 13th edition of the soundON Festival of Modern Music explores these rarified states, these journeys to thresholds of space, time, memory and perception.
This year we welcome five visiting composers: Anthony Tan (who will also perform his aptly titled Endlessnessnessness for solo piano and live electroncs), Lukas Schulze, Stuart Saunders Smith (premieres of solo works for flute and guitar), Vera Ivanova and Derek Keller. We celebrate Mark Osborn and Nathan Brock, two old friends who have gone beyond the threshold into eternity, but whose life and music continue to resound with us. We will explore the work of Argentinian-Uruguayan composer Graciela Paraskevaídis, in whose compositions “the basic coordinates of every musical occurrence—time and silence—are experienced as sanctuaries of solidarity and resistance, and are as well an origin of an intense hope.” Saturday evening’s concert features two large ensemble works, Alberto Posadas’s Tres pinturas imaginarias, and Gerard Grisey’s monumental Vortex Temporum, which explores “three gestalt sounds, three spectra, and three archetypes of time.”
Thank you to our Friends of soundON Julia S. Falk, Ph.D., Drs. Sally and Einar Gall, Christian Hertzog and Susan Dorin, Garna Muller, Catherine and Robert Palmer, Erika and Fred Torri, Eric Starr and Sarah Skuster, and to the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library for their continued support, to Ann Craig and Garna Muller, to San Diego State University for providing rehearsal space and instruments, and to the University of San Diego for providing audio equipment.
NOISE
Colin McAllister, guitar and conductor
Lisa Cella, flute
Franklin Cox, cello
Morris Palter, percussion and conductor
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Christopher Adler, piano
SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS
Marion Garver, contrabass flute
Vera Ivanova, composer
Derek Keller, composer
Matt Kline, bass
Ezekiel Mortensen, composer
Martha Muehleisen viola
Todd Rewoldt, saxophone
Diego Rodriguez, composer
David Savage, bassoon
Lukas Schulze, composer
Anthony Tan, composer, piano
Ilana Waniuk, violin
Jane Zwerneman, horn
Thursday, January 9, 7:30 p.m.
... on the edge of forever ...
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Sin ir mas lejos
Anthony Tan, Endlessnessnessness
Mark Osborn, Sleep in the Shape of My Body
Stuart Saunders Smith, Giants ** world premiere
Student composer commissioned work by Diego Rodriguez (UCSD)
Nathan Brock, Cenotaph
Saturday, January 11, 7:30 p.m.
liminal space and the archetypes of time
Alberto Posadas, Tres pinturas imaginarias
Stuart Saunders Smith, Peace ** world premiere
Gerard Grisey, Vortex Temporum
Sunday, January 12, 2:00 p.m.
... the edge of perception ...
Derek Keller, Three Pieces for Piano
Student composer commissioned work by Ezekiel Mortensen (Palomar College)
Mark Applebaum, Aphasia
Anthony Tan, On the Sensations of Tone II
Vera Ivanova, Aura
Lukas Schulze, EXIT ID
Graciela Paraskevaídis, Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido
TICKETS ON SALE SOON
Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athenaeum Members / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athenaeum Members / $5 Students
Purchase tickets here (links to the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library site)
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