<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://4580/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: LyonTextWeb, 'times new roman'; font-size: 19px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; min-width: 500px; background-color: white; margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div id="container" style="width: 952px; text-align: center; "><div id="header" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 1); color: white; padding: 2em; position: static; z-index: auto; "><center><br></center></div><div class="spaltwrap clearfix" style="text-align: center; padding: 0em 2em 1em; max-width: 800px; margin: auto; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto; "><h3 style="font-family: Grotesque, helvetica, arial, 'times new roman'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 30px; font-weight: normal; padding: 1.5em 0px 0em; border: 2px solid white; margin: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; ">Stefanie Hessler & Carsten Höller present:</h3><h2 style="font-family: Grotesque, helvetica, arial, 'times new roman'; font-size: 36px; line-height: 40px; padding: 0px; margin: 0em 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; ">Pierre Bismuth</h2><h2 style="font-family: Grotesque, helvetica, arial, 'times new roman'; font-size: 36px; line-height: 40px; padding: 0px; margin: 0em 0px 0px; font-weight: normal; ">The YouTube Variations</h2><div class="spalt2" style="width: 584px; float: left; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; "></div><div class="spalt1" style="width: 184px; float: left; text-align: left; font-family: Grotesque, helvetica, arial, 'times new roman'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0em; padding-left: 0px; "> </div></div><div class="spaltwrap clearfix" style="text-align: center; padding: 0em 2em 1em; max-width: 800px; margin: auto; background-color: white; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div class="spalt2" style="width: 584px; float: left; padding: 0px 1em 0px 0px; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; "><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; ">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.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; ">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.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; ">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.</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; ">With: Daniel Borgegård Älgå (clarinet), Robin McGinley (cello), Magnus Nordén (kit percussion), Anna Petraskevica (flute)</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; ">Thursday, 20 March, 18.00-20.00, Roslagsgatan 60, 113 54 Stockholm</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; ">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</div></div><div class="spalt1" style="width: 184px; float: left; text-align: left; font-family: Grotesque, helvetica, arial, 'times new roman'; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0em; padding-left: 0px; "><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; ">Thursday, 20 March, 18.00–20.00</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; ">Andquestionmark<br>Roslagsgatan 60<br>11354 Stockholm</div><div style="padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; margin: 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; "><a href="http://carstenhllerstudio.createsend1.com/t/r-l-pkdjuhd-tdthhjuytj-t/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 1); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 1); ">www.andquestionmark.com</a></div><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; "><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; "><a href="http://carstenhllerstudio.createsend1.com/t/r-e-pkdjuhd-tdthhjuytj-r/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 1); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 1); ">View in browser</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; "><a href="http://carstenhllerstudio.createsend1.com/t/r-u-pkdjuhd-tdthhjuytj-y/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 1); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 1); ">Unsubscribe</a></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; width: 184px; "><a href="http://carstenhllerstudio.forwardtomyfriend.com/r-tdthhjuytj-D35BB285-pkdjuhd-l-j" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 1); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 1); ">Forward email</a></li></ul></div><img src="http://i2.createsend1.com/ei/r/0D/6BC/C16/csimport/Iaspis-web.183924.jpg" width="250" height="144" style="max-width: 100%; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-top: 1em; "></div></div><img src="https://createsend1.com/t/r-o-pkdjuhd-tdthhjuytj/o.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; border-width: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; "></div></body></html>