Eitt þekktasta tónskáld Kanada, John Oswald er á leið til Reykjavíkur og kemur fram í Mengi einn síns liðs fimmtudaginn 2. júní. Hann mun flytja vel valið efni frá sínum ferli sem spannar heila fimm áratugi.
Húsið opnar kl. 20:30
Viðburðurinn hefst kl. 21:00
Miðaverð er 2.500 kr.
John er þekktastur sem faðir tónlistarstefnunnar Plunderphonics með samnefndum verkum sem komu út á 9. áratugnum, en hann var samt sem áður farinn að vinna með og þróa aðferðir sem einkenna stefnuna fyrr á ferlinum.
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www.6q.com
www.plunderphonics.com
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Wave Forms Still Lives (1973—2022)
John Oswald, solo, passing through Reykjavík from Canada, presents, in an unusual fashion, a panoply of soundscapes interwoven with a smattering of plunderphonics spanning five decades of work, from a single sound at the threshold of perception to tsunamis of thousands of layers; from quiet to encompassing and between and disappearing.
Doors open at 8:30pm
The event starts at 9pm.
Tickets are 2.500 kr.
John Oswald is one of Canada’s most internationally renowned composers, and arguably its most infamous one. Recently he’s composed new work for super-sized sinfonietta, commissioned by Turning Point and New Music Concerts, for a series of concerts entitled Zappa Varèse Oswald, and Fee Fie Foe Fum for New York’s Bang In A Can All-Stars, commissioned by Koerner Hall’s 21C Festival.
"... Oswald's art, while often playful, is a serious examination of basic elements. His influence on an entire generation of artists and his international reputation attest to his free-ranging spirit of innovation and exploration.”
His 1989 album plunderphonic is on the short list for the Polaris Heritage Prize. He is currently mixing a transcription for live performance by rock nonet of the 1994 album Grayfolded commissioned by and featuring the Grateful Dead and composing a solo piano commission for Marc-André Hamelin.
He is best known as the the creator of the music genre Plunderphonics, an appropriative form of recording studio creation which he began to develop in the late sixties. This has got him in trouble with, and also generated invitations from major record labels and musical icons. Meanwhile, in the ’90’s he began, with several commissions from the Kronos Quartet, to compose scores, in what he calls the Rascali Klepitoire, for classical musicians and orchestras.
In 2004 he was appointed as a Governor General Media Arts Laureate. He was recently a non-academic Fellow at the Marshall McLuhan Institute in Toronto.
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pfony.bandcamp.com/music
www.pfony.com
www.6q.com
www.plunderphonics.com
www.6q.com/obs