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October 2018
MikroFest Helsinki 2018
Two concerts, nine lectures and a panel discussion exploring new music in alternative tuning systems. Finnish Microtonal Society, Ears open society and the faculty of composition and music theory of the Helsinki University of the Arts present the MikroFest Helsinki 2018, a three-day microtonal music festival held from Oct 17th to 19th. All events will be held in central Helsinki, Finland. Program Wednesday, October 17th – Seminar Day 1 – TUNING IN 10.15-16.00 Microtonal talks. Venue: Auditorium of the Helsinki Music Centre. • Juuso Kunttu: Differentiating tuning systems and harmonic systems…
Find out more »May 2019
FLASH FLASH
THE TWO DEATHS OF ANDY WARHOL FLASH FLASH is a portrait of the American artist Andy Warhol – a lonely man surrounded by the masses. Warhol’s various existences – always scandalous – as a painter, filmmaker, media personality, and a thinker, crystallise many of the cultural and societal changes that characterise the most recent iteration of the Western cultural paradigm. Also insinuating their way into the picture are the United States and the Western way of life, along with their engine –…
Find out more »Three Dream Songs in 31-tone temperament by Joel Mandelbaum
The featured work will Joel Mandelbaum's Three Dream Songs in 31-tone temperament. Performing will be JinXiang Yu, soprano, with Teresa Pietromonaco and Nicole Triandafilos, violins. Joel Mandelbaum will be playing the microtonal keyboard of the Scalatron. The program will also include excerpts from The Village, Mandelbaum's 1995 opera which was performed at the College when it was first written. There will a concentration on sections of the expanded portions never heard before at the College. Present students who will be singing are Jessica…
Find out more »EuroMicroFest 2019
EuroMicroFest 2019 – Microtonal Talks April 30, 2019 MICROTONAL TALKS Elisabeth-Schneider-Stiftung, Saturday 25, May, 2019, 2pm – 4.30pm As is usual at EUROMicroFest, we ask a small number of distinguished guests to present an insight into their work. 2.00pm || Historical Tunings and Temperaments on Guitar: An Introduction to their Realisation with Modern Microtonal Fretboards with Michael Kudirka (USA). 2.30pm || Composer Matthias S. Krüger presnts his piece ‘Arkadische Botschaften I’ – after Peter Kees – for microtonal guitar with prepared…
Find out more »September 2019
The Brook of No Return
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