Thursday October 3rd 2024
tcrps prsnts
an evening of electro-acoustic and synthetic sounds
featuring
THOMAS LEHN & TIZIANA BERTONCINI [violin and analog synthesizer duo: Austria/Germany]
with
CHIFFCHAFF TRIO [Abalos/Gamble/Weidenhof: Pittsburgh]
and
BRIAN RIORDAN [audiovisual feedback synthesis]
doors open at 7:30pm
21+
$15 advance
$20 at the door
no one turned away for lack of funds
supported by Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) Austria.
Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
USA
TIZIANA BERTONCINI & THOMAS LEHN
Tiziana Bertoncini and Thomas Lehn have been collaborating since 2002. The special feature of the duo is the alchemy created by the meeting of the classical and the electronic instrument. The different nature of sound, the characteristics and histories of violin and analogue synthesizer could recall a friction. Actually, what happens is a sort of mirror game, in which the roles of the instruments are continuously exchanged. Bertoncini and Lehn move in an abstract territory, their approach to sound is contemporary. Nevertheless their consideration to music is quite classical insofar as based principally on tension/release, rupture, intensity and expressivity in all its facets.
Their first CD Horsky Park, was released in spring 2011 on British label Another Timbre. They have been performing together in Austria, Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovakia and The Netherlands.
Beside their duo work, they play in larger or extended constellations, like the ensemble]h[iatus, an international ensemble with an extensive experience in the field of improvisation and interpretation of contemporary pieces. With this ensemble they played in numerous festival of contemporary music and premiered works by young and established composers like for example Vinko Globokar, Peter Jakober and Jennifer Walshe.
Bertoncini and Lehn have been part of multimedia projects, in which they were involved as musicians and performers.
In collaboration with ZAM Zentrum für aktuelle Musik they initiated comprovise, a festival for contemporary composed and improvised music, which took place first time in June 2009 in Cologne supported by the german Netzwerk Neue Musik project. In 2016 and 2021 the 2nd and 3rd edition followed in co-curation with Nina Polaschegg and Bruno Strobl, produced by IGNM and co-produced by Wien Modern.
In 2024 they created together with Austrian composer Peter Jakober the concert project samen which embraces both practices of contemporary music: compositon and improvisation.
http://www.thomaslehn.com/read/info_tnt_e.html