Quatuor Bozzini
LANDS WITH NO MAPS
Part One
The Music of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, and Catherine Mole
March 26th 2-4PM MST
Interactive Digital Presentation
Pay-What-You-Can
PUBLIC
Part Two
Experimental Score Workshop
April 9th 2-4PM MST
Workshop-Rehearsal of Submitted Scores
Pay-What-You-Can
OPEN TO ANYONE WHO HAS SUBMITTED A SCORE
Featuring
Quatuor Bozzini
Since 1999, Quatuor Bozzini has been an original voice in new, experimental and classical music. Their skew is radically contemporary, propelling the hyper-creative Montréal scene, and beyond. Not content to parlay received wisdom, the quartet cultivates an ethos of risk-taking, and boldly venture off the beaten track. Quatuor Bozzini stands out with their “extraordinary playing” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker). With rigorous qualitative criteria, they have nurtured a vastly diverse repertoire, unbiased by the currents of fashion. This has led to over four hundred commissioned pieces, as well as close to five hundred premiered works. A Quatuor Bozzini concert is an intensely shared experience, with meticulous and sensuous attention to detail.
LANDS WITH NO MAPS
Join us for a unique, two-part workshop series with acclaimed Montreal-based string quartet Quatuor Bozzini. We’ll be exploring the music and scores of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, and Catherine Mole. We’ll also be offering a workshop-rehearsal wherein QB will try out experimental scores submitted by anyone interested in trying out some new ideas with the quartet.
A principle is a way to make a map where no map exists. The landscape is there already, but a map might help you decide where to go.
Entering the landscape without a map is also fine, so long as that’s what you want to do.
- Jonathan Burrows, from A Choreographer’s Handbook (2010)
Part One – The Music of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, and Catherine Mole
In this presentation-performance, QB will break down the art of text-based scoring, the boundaries between direction and improvisation, and possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration that are present within unconventional score formats. This workshop is ideal for students and professional (or anti-professional) artists across disciplines, as well as anyone with an interest in experimental collaboration.
Part Two - Experimental Score Workshop
Would you like to have an experimental piece workshopped and performed by QB? We’ll be accepting score submissions up until April 2, 2021. If you have an experimental score that you’d like QB to try out, please send a .PDF file, as well as a few sentences introducing yourself, to artisticdirector@newworkscalgary.ca. Please limit your idea to a duration of five minutes (can be less ).
2-5 submissions will be selected, depending on duration in relation to the total number of submissions. The deadline for your score creation, April 2nd, has been set one week before the second workshop, so that QB has time to review the scores, and communicate any questions to you in advance of the workshop.
We especially encourage womxn, LGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous, and other racialized folx, and artists living with chronic illness and/or disabilities to submit a score!
Please note: this second workshop will not be open to the general public, as we are working to ensure it is a safe and supportive space for everyone having their work rehearsed and discussed. Anyone who submits a score may attend!
