Nou Ensemble. Technics

Nou Ensemble presents with Technics a reflection on the concepts of technique and technology applied to the musical creation of our decade to offer a concert between sound installation and musical theater.

General admission: 12 and 8€.

THE CONCERT

Technics is the result of a reflection on the concepts of technique and technology and their application in musical composition. In the case of music, technique is understood as the rules on how to play an instrument, in its physical and intellectual variants.

In Technics the members of Nou Ensemble must develop a new tekné, in the senses of skill development and adaptation to reality: this is the case for example of the work Todos Caníbales [trio; 2016] by Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca in which the performers from a dramatic sense surround different instruments (cello, bass clarinet and electric guitar) performing them simultaneously thereby producing new sound relationships.

On the other hand, Technics presents the use of technology as a result of the practical application of technique in various ways: either from the electronic transformation of the sound of a traditional instrument -the violin in the work of Simon Steen-Andersen-, the inclusion and foregrounding of non-sound elements -the light in the work of Íñigo Giner-, the video as a main part of the musical discourse -Screen Sketch IV by Oscar Escudero- the use of everyday electronic objects such as the neon tubes requested by Simon Loeffler in his piece b or the conversion of metronomes into musical instruments as in the work of Jose Pablo Polo, where the learning of the "instrumental" technique is simultaneous to the composition-performance process.

PROGRAM

Approximate duration 70 minutes

Offstage:

ALBERTO BERNAL

Impossible music #33 "Silent scream"

Interactive video installation

On stage:

FRAN MM CABEZA DE VACA (1976-)

All Cannibals [trio; 2016].

Clarinet, cello, electric and electronic guitars

SIMON STEEN ANDERSEN (1976-)

Study for string instrument #2

Violin and whammy pedal

ÓSCAR ESCUDERO (1992-)

Screen Sketch IV

EWI 5000 and video

JOSE PABLO POLO (1984-)

no-Tune / no-Tempo

Digital metronome, delay pedal, whammy pedal, and loop pedal

IÑIGO GINER (1980-)

een beetje licht voor T

 Bass clarinet, violin, cello and led lights

SIMON LOEFFLER (1981-)

b

3 neon lights, effects pedals and jack cable.

ARTISTIC FILE

Georgia Privitera: Violin

Myriam García: Cello

David Romero - Pascual: Clarinet

Jose Pablo Polo: Guitar and metronome

NOU ENSEMBLE

Nou Ensemble is an instrumental ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary music. In order to expand the traditional concept of concert, Nou Ensemble bases its proposals on the thematic and aesthetic coherence of the same, in the commitment to experimentation and the promotion of interdisciplinary projects.

Since its formation in 2011 it has performed more than 50 concerts throughout Europe in halls and festivals such as Unerhörte Musik (Berlin), Festival Teatro in Prossimità (Italy), Huddersfield University (UK), Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid, L ?Auditori de Barcelona, Festival Escena Contemporánea de Madrid, Series XX-XXI CNDM, XV Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tres Cantos, Sirga Festival, Festival Vertixe Vigo, Encontre Internacional de Compositors de Mallorca, Festival Smash de San Sebastián, Festival Bernaola de Vitoria, Festival Zemos98 de Sevilla, Festival de Música Contemporánea de Córdoba, Mostra Sonora de Sueca...

He has premiered works by composers such as José María Sánchez-Verdú, Íñigo Giner, Alberto Bernal, Jose Pablo Polo, Abel Paúl or Joan Bagés, as well as the opera Todos Caníbales by Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca.

The members of Nou Ensemble collaborate annually as teachers at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Córdoba teaching a course of composition and extended techniques.

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