{"id":9366,"date":"2018-05-07T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2022-06-02T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:35:24","slug":"elision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/blog\/elision\/","title":{"rendered":"ELISION"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Collaborations between composers and ensembles can begin in many different ways. The collaboration between Richard Barrett and\u00a0ELISION<\/a>\u00a0began nearly thirty years ago with Australian composer Michael Whiticker, freshly returned from the Darmst\u00e4dter Ferienkurse, presenting Daryl Buckley with a cassette containing works by Barrett. The cassette was delivered with a warning: no one in Australia would ever be able or willing to play such \u2018heavy dots\u2019. A warning on these terms was of course the perfect way to excite Daryl\u2019s curiosity (indeed it still is!), and before long the first letter suggesting a collaboration was on its way. The result was the trio\u00a0another heavenly day<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 horrendously difficult at the time (and playing havoc with Buckley\u2019s wedding preparations\u2026) but by far the most modest of the many works by Barrett ELISION has commissioned over nearly three decades.<\/p>\n

Many of these works involved collaborations between ELISION and other performers: sometimes guest performers of particular importance to Barrett\u2019s work (Mary Oliver, Ute Wassermann, Barrett himself), sometimes entire ensembles (the cycle\u00a0Dark Matter<\/em>\u00a0combined ELISION with the Norwegian ensemble Cikada). It is thus entirely appropriate that we combine members of two ensembles, ELISION and Ensemble Musikfabrik,\u00a0this evening\u00a0\u2013 not least because the ensembles share a surprising amount of membership given that they reside on opposite sides of the planet.<\/p>\n

Paul Jeukendrup, Richard Barrett and Hannah Weirich preparing for the world premiere of\u00a0<\/em>natural causes I, IV, X, XIV\u00a0at the\u00a0WDR Funkhaus<\/a>\u00a0(Copyright: Klaus Rudolph)<\/em><\/p>\n

Such combination has indeed long been central to Barrett\u2019s compositional practice itself.\u00a0Another heavenly day<\/em>\u00a0remains a purely free-standing piece but practically everything else Barrett has composed for ELISION (and not only for ELISION) forms part of one modular cyclic work or another. The guitar solo\u00a0colloid<\/em>\u00a0acquired an accompanying ensemble part to become\u00a0colloid-E<\/em>, and was then combined with four other sections to form the cycle\u00a0negatives<\/em>.\u00a0World-line\u00a0<\/em>is made up of split and recombined versions of five smaller works. And as its title makes clear,\u00a0natural causes I, IV, X, XIV<\/em>\u00a0(Musikfabrik\u2019s Barrett commission from 2017, first performed almost exactly a year ago, in our\u00a0WDR concert series<\/a>) is both a combination of smaller parts (two of which are heard this evening for the first time in their independent form) and part of a larger whole \u2013 whose premiere some day would certainly be a more than fitting subject for a subsequent meeting of my ensembles on a much larger scale.<\/p>\n

Carl Rosman<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Rosman writes about the collaboration between ELISION and Richard Barrett. The Australian ensemble will visit us soon for our Monday Concert with pieces by Barrett on May, 14. Admission free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artikel","tag-montagskonzert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}