Boundary. Value

Limit. Value. Limit Value. As term for the maximum permissible disturbance value, for the greatest allowable deviation from a prescribed norm, the proposition of limit values within the limitless realm of music in its turn represents a disturbance factor beyond what is artistically acceptable. Or, to put it the other way round: what is without limit has neither shape nor form. It cannot make an appearance; it eludes perception as well as understanding. It is everything – and at the same time nothing.

© Albert Mayr for Klangforum Wien, 2017
© Albert Mayr for Klangforum Wien, 2017
© Albert Mayr for Klangforum Wien, 2017

Boundary. Value
Klangforum Wien's subscription series 2017/18 at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

15 September 2017
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal Boundary. Value Utility Music / Music as Art
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A mass by Johann Sebastian Bach. A symphony by Philip Glass. Utility music? Music as art? The one thing and/or the other?

Arnold Schönberg — Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene op. 34
Unsuk Chin — Gougalon
Mauricio Kagel — from: Die Stücke der Windrose. Südwesten
Bernd Alois Zimmermann — Metamorphose

conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

5 November 2017
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal Boundary. Value / Wien Modern Portrait
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Portrait – focus, concentration, clear delineation. But also: representation of all kinds of transgression of limits, adaptation, divergence, which constitute an oeuvre. No-one is an island.

Peter Eötvös — Shadows
     — Sonata per sei
     — Chinese Opera

Vera Fischer, flute
Olivier Vivarès, clarinet
Peter Böhm & Florian Bogner, sound design
conductor: Peter Eötvös

Part of Klangforum Wien subscription series Boundary. Value and Wien Modern 2017 programme.

11 December 2017
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal Boundary. Value French School EA EA
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French music. Is there such a thing? In the 21st century? And if so – how does one define the maximum permissible value of "world" that can be absorbed by the French (or indeed any other idiom) before it disappears?

Mark Andre — riss 2
Raphaël Cendo — Corps Austrian Premiere
Yann Robin — Arkham Austrian Premiere

Joonas Ahonen, piano
conductor: Emilio Pomàrico

15 January 2018
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal Boundary. Value Dream and Reality EA
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What is dream, what reality when we speak of music? How real are the dream worlds of Vivier and Kyriakides? And how unreal is Varèse’s objectivity? Is each concert, as the kind of experience par excellence in which time comes to a halt, not in any case always a dream world? A real one, of course.

Edgard Varèse — Ionisation
Johannes Maria Staud — Auf die Stimme der weißen Kreide EA
Claude Vivier — Bouchara
Yannis Kyriakides — dreams of the blind

Juliet Fraser, Soprano
Peter Böhm & Florian Bogner, sound design
conductor: Bas Wiegers

16 March 2018
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal Boundary. Value A case of doubt
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Doubt invades knowledge. The invasion of uncertainty in the global empire of enlightenment. Natural sciences on the threshold of the inexplicable.

Joseph Haydn — Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, Hob. III / 50-56
Giacinto Scelsi — Quattro Pezzi per tromba sola
Georges Aperghis — Babil
Iannis Xenakis — Jalons
Klaus Lang — the book of serenity.
Gérard Grisey — Berceuse

Martin Mosebach — Das Tuch
Dörte Lyssewski, speaker
Hermann Schmid, speaker

Katrien Baerts, Soprano
Olivier Vivarès, clarinet
Anders Nyqvist, trumpet
conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

La Sindone di Torino – doubt, love and hope, materialised in the form of a piece of cloth. The shroud, which is kept safe at Milan Cathedral, clearly shows the image of a dead body bearing the marks of abuse and torture that Jesus of Nazareth had to suffer according to the corresponding reports of the Synoptic Gospels. more

12 April 2018
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal Boundary. Value Genre boundaries UA EA EA EA
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Those who remain within an enclosure of their own can have their peace. Hopefully. Unless, of course, two (or more) souls, alas, are housed within their breast. One can come up against boundaries and their values – unless one simply wants to play with them.

Bernhard Lang — DW 24
James Clarke — Ritornelli Austrian Premiere 
Alexander Schubert — Sugar, Maths and Whips Austrian Premiere 
James Clarke — Ritornelli Austrian Premiere
Lukas König — Stereogram 1 World Premiere

Audrey Chen, voice
Gerald Preinfalk, saxophone
Manu Mayr, electric bass
Lukas König, drums, synthesizer, voice
Markus Wallner, sound design
conductor: Baldur Brönnimann

Lukas König about his new composition:
Lukas König — Stereogram 1

With the kind support of SKE / austro mechana.

7 May 2018
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Saal Boundary. Value Continental Drift and Pangaea EA EA EA
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America, Australia, Europe. – The snug fit of the shelves’ margins, of the continents’ coastlines covered by water, reveals the boundaries to be no dividing lines, but connecting seams. Pangaea – one earth.

Ashley Fure — A Library on Lightning Austrian Premiere
Vito Žuraj — Tension Austrian Premiere
Liza Lim — Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus Austrian Premiere

Sophie Schafleitner, violin
conductor: Peter Rundel

Die KomponistInnen über ihre neuen Werke:
Ashley Fure — A Library on Lightning
Vito Zuraj — Tension
Liza Lim — Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus

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