<videovortex> Pierre Bismuth: The YouTube Variations

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Stefanie Hessler & Carsten Höller present:
Pierre Bismuth
The YouTube Variations
 
For his new project ”The YouTube Variations”, Pierre Bismuth worked with different computer algorithms to transform sound material into musical scores. The scores are neither the product of thought, nor of chance, but the result of a series of computer translations, transliterations, and transcriptions of audio material.
Bismuth fed the software YouTube clips including musical parts, but also sound and speech. The music scores that are achieved after a first series of operations are then processed by using more conventional methods of composition, involving issues of choice, reference, structure, and aesthetics. The result is a piece in five movements for four instruments: cello, clarinet, flute, and percussions.
The piece is at the same time succinct and immensely difficult to play. “The YouTube Variations” is the first composition for several instruments based on this protocol and will be performed for the very first time at Andquestionmark.
With: Daniel Borgegård Älgå (clarinet), Robin McGinley (cello), Magnus Nordén (kit percussion), Anna Petraskevica (flute)
Thursday, 20 March, 18.00-20.00, Roslagsgatan 60, 113 54 Stockholm
On Friday, 21 March at 14.00, Pierre Bismuth will talk about “The YouTube Variations” at Iaspis in conversation with Robin McGinley, one of the musicians interpreting the piece. The conversation is moderated by Stefanie Hessler. Location: The Project Room / Projektrummet, Iaspis, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists, Maria skolgata 83, 118 53 Stockholm
Thursday, 20 March, 18.00–20.00
Andquestionmark
Roslagsgatan 60
11354 Stockholm
www.andquestionmark.com
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