SAT NYC: iO Quartet performs Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram
PARISLONDONWESTNILE presents
iO Quartet performs Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-Maria Avram
with interludes by Mario Diaz de Leon and Doron Sadja
curated by Mario Diaz de Leon
“Dumitrescu’s music has a visceral, untidy force rare in classical music – the textures of Xenakis pared of the later’s Beethovenian ambition, made more focused and linear….overpowering.”
Ben Watson – “The WIRE”, London
Saturday May 16th, 2009
matinee show, 4PM Sharp
285 Kent Ave #2, Brooklyn 11211
www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/
$5
The New York based iO String Quartet perform the works of Romanian composers Dumitrescu (b. 1943) and Ana-Maria Avram (b. 1961). Their work of the last 30 years often finds favor with fans of noise and drone oriented music, given it’s focus on raw intensity and uncovering inner worlds of sound. iO recently performed this music on the Spectrum XXI European tour, where they worked daily with the composers, and performed as part of the 20-person “Hyperion Ensemble” (Bucharest). A rare opportunity to hear these amazing works in the USA, in the intimacy of West Nile – Brooklyn’s donation based center for experimental performance and art.
Program:
Dumitrescu
Perspectives Au Movemur (1976) for string quartet
Holzwege (1981) for solo viola
Avram
Ikarus (1995) for string quartet and electronic sound
Axe (1998) for solo cello
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“Dumitrescu is someone who hit me in the face in a big way when I first discovered him.”
Stephen O’ Malley of Sunn 0)))
“Dumitrescu’s music has a visceral, untidy force rare in classical music – the textures of Xenakis pared of the later’s Beethovenian ambition, made more focused and linear….overpowering.”
Ben Watson – “The WIRE”, London
“The music of Iancu Dumitrescu explores the ultimate sense of sound guiding the listener through new spheres of sonic adventure, a kind of cryptic music…”
Robert Zank, Edition RZ , Berlin
“The extraordinary and uncategoriseable Dumitrescu / Avram team. Pursuing the intimate grain of sound through the directed inspiration of performers who somehow produce music while uncovering it, escape control by going through it.”
Chris Cutler, ReR MEGACORP, London
http://www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon
http://www.ioquartet.com
West Nile
285 Kent between South 1st and South 2nd, Willamsburg
L to Bedford
JMZ to Marcy
B61
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