Event overview
Portraits for a Study - a multi-venue simultaneous performance
Taking place on Saturday 22 February 2014 from 7.30pm the simultaneous performance will occur between Cornwall and London, at Falmouth University’s Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, the Royal Academy of Music, Goldsmiths University and Yamaha Music London.
The concert will involve four Yamaha Disklavier pianos separated by 300 miles and remotely controlled by a parent Disklavier at Falmouth’s Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA), which will be played by just pianist Roderick Chadwick. In addition, the same music re-composed by Jim Aitchison for the strings of the Kreutzer Quartet, will be performed back from The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) to all the other venues (including Goldsmiths) via audio link.
This large-scale project is supported by Arts Council England, the PRS for Music Foundation, Yamaha Music Europe GmbH (UK), Falmouth University’s Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, the Royal Academy of Music and Goldsmiths, University of London.
The project aims to translate paintings by Gerhard Richter into new musical responses for solo piano and string quartet. With music and technology at its heart the multi-venue simultaneous performance event will seek to evoke qualities of disturbance, blurring, erasure and absence, chance, multiples, sequences and memory; all qualities found in the paintings by Richter.
During the first part of the event, pianist Roderick Chadwick will perform Jim Aitchison’s Portraits for a Study on a Yamaha Disklavier at AMATA in Falmouth, triggering the three remote Disklavier pianos in London to perform by themselves (via data transfer over broadband), to their respective audiences, precisely what he plays, exactly as performed, the keys and pedals moving, conveying the performer's original expression and phrasing. This, and projection of images from Richter's 2012 Tate Modern show, will appear in real time before those present.
In the second part of the event, Richter's practice of passing the same images through different processes will be evoked further when the same musical responses for piano are themselves passed through the filter of being re-composed for string quartet, which will then be performed by the Kreutzer Quartet at the RAM and transmitted back to all of the other venues via an audio link.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Feb 2014 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
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