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Watch Hans Tutschku’s “Winternacht”

Hi Everyone,

if you missed the HYDRA concert on December 11, here you can watch the video of our performance (with Sam Solomon on percussion). Even if this video cannot capture the effect of the electronics with 32 loudspeakers I guess it will still stimulate your appetite for the next HYDRA series. I hope you enjoy the video of Winternacht as much as we enjoyed performing it! Let us know what you think!

Best,
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 #003: How Méandres meanders

 
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Seda Röder and Bert van HerckThe third episode of Blackbox is on Bert van Herck’s piano piece Méandres. The main focus of this episode lies on the question of how the composer transforms a musical idea that seems secondary at first into an important supporting pillar of his work. Of course, you will also find out how all of this relates to the title of Bert’s piece (and of this episode).

As always the podcast contains many musical examples as well as a full recording of my performance of the piece.

I am looking forward to receiving any feedback or questions from you. Please post your comments below or email me directly at seda@sedaroeder.com

Have fun!

– Seda

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Bert van Herck’s Méandres now available

Seda Roeder and Bert van Herck

We are very proud to present to our website visitors a recording of Méandres, Bert van Herck’s newest piano composition. Seda gave the US-premiere of Méandres on February 9, 2008 at Paine Hall for an audience of New Music enthusiasts. The following is a live recording of her performance, which you can also download to your computer if you wish:

<a href="http://music.sedaroeder.com/track/bert-van-herck-meandres">Bert van Herck: Meandres by Seda Röder</a>

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