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Blackbox #007: “A Child’s Play” Listening to Helmut Lachenmann

 
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Helmut Lachenmann and Seda RöderIn this episode of Blackbox I would like to talk about a piece that caused a very interesting discussion on my YouTube Channel: “Ein Kinderspiel” (A Child’s Play) by Helmut Lachenmann. I am hoping that this episode will help you to develop a new listening strategy for this very interesting piece while also clarifying its context a little bit.

As always please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions or comments. Enjoy!

–Seda

Blackbox #006: HYDRA in a Winter Night

 
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Hydra_Gamelan_Poster_web_thumbThose who are familiar with the Blackbox series will remember the composer Hans Tutschku. Today I would like to dedicate another episode to Hans and his work. Actually to two of his works: one of them is a compositional achievement: a piano, percussion, and live-electronics work Winternacht (Winter Night), which I will perform together with the percussionist Sam Solomon on Friday.

The other one is an extraordinary contribution to the electro-acoustic music scene in North America: Hydra. Hydra is a so to speak loudspeaker orchestra specially designed for the performance of electro-acoustic music.

The concerts will take place at Paine Hall at Harvard University, on December 10 and 11 starting at 8pm, there will also be a late night concert on December 10 at 10.30pm with a large scale electro-acoustic work by Francois Bayle.

Our performance will take place during the Friday concert. Hope to see many of you there!


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Blackbox 005: Fuchs vs. Brahms – 1 : 1

 
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Robert Fuchs and Johannes Brahms
Robert Fuchs and Johannes Brahms

As you all know in this podcast series I usually talk about contemporary music, but this time I would like to focus on music that is new not in the sense that it was composed recently, but that is new because it is still undiscovered for the wider public: the piano sonata op. 88 in g-minor by Robert Fuchs.

Fuchs was a contemporary of Brahms and in today’s episode I compare two pieces by these two composers.

Please leave me a comment if you like the podcast!

Best wishes,
– Seda

Blackbox #004: My Chamber Music Partner is a Computer!

 
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Hans Tutschku - http://www.tutschku.comWelcome to the fourth episode of Blackbox. This episode of Blackbox will introduce a composition that employs not only solo piano but also live-electronics: Zellen-Linien (Cells and Lines), composed by one of the most important electronic music composers of our time: Hans Tutschku. I will particularly focus on one fascinating aspect of this composition which is the interaction between computer and performer, and how this interaction affects the aural outcome of each performance.

Here is the full recording of the piece from my performance at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival:

<a href="http://music.sedaroeder.com/track/hans-tutschku-zellen-linien">Hans Tutschku &#8211; Zellen Linien by Seda Röder</a>

If you would like to listen to a live performance of Zellen-Linien, you are kindly invited to my upcoming performance at MIT’s Kilian Hall on September 25, at 8pm.

I am looking forward to seeing you there, and as always please let me know if you have any comments on this podcast either by simply emailing me at seda@sedaroeder.com or using the comments field below.

– Seda

The next episode of Blackbox…

… will be about Hans Tutschku’s Zellen-Linien which is a piece for piano and live-electronics. You can listen to my live recording of Zellen-Linien at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival here.

<a href="http://music.sedaroeder.com/track/hans-tutschku-zellen-linien">Hans Tutschku &#8211; Zellen Linien by Seda Röder</a>

If you have any particular questions about this piece, please post them here by using the comments field below, or email me directly at seda@sedaroeder.com, and I will then try to address your questions in my upcoming podcast.

I am looking forward to your input:-)
- Seda