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Cut & Splice: From the Seven Days
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October 2008
one of the rare images of the stockhausen brothers during a performance at the planetarium 1968 in japan.
Sonic Arts Network and BBC Radio 3 present a two day festival based
around Stockhausen’s Aus den Sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days).
the collection of 15 textparts were composed in may 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as “intuitive music“—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer(s).
“the piece may be performed only by a special ensemble, all works without conductor, all with electroacoustic equipement. durations variable.” (k.h. stockhausen)
Cut and Splice: From the Seven Days features over 20 performers,
installations and a four day durational piece, the festival is set in
one of London’s most atmospheric spaces, Wilton’s Music Hall, the
oldest grand music hall in the world. Under the Artistic direction of
Anton Lukoszevieze performers will include David Behrman, Angharad
Davies, Rhodri Davies, Reinhold Friedl, Frank Gratkowski, Robin
Hayward, Apartment House, Seth Josel, Aleks Kolkowski, Phil Minton,
Maja Ratkje, Twentytwentyone, Mark Wastell, Marc Weiser, Nikos
Veliotis, Michael Vorfeld.
Cut & Splice is the UK’s premier annual festival of radical
electronic music and sound art, co-produced by Sonic Arts Network and
BBC Radio 3.
cut & splice festival
