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INLAND 24.2THE LONG FORM
7pm & 9pm Saturday 13 April 2024
The Eleventh Hour Theatre, 170 Leicester St, Fitzroy VIC 3065
TICKETS: $30/$20/$15
7pm
Catherine Lamb "Muto Infinitas" (2016/18) &
9pm
Jakob Ullmann "Solo I" (2010) for flutes and "Solo IV" (2014) for double bass [simultaneous realization]
Jonathan Heilbron (double bass) &
Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone flutes)
Two concerts, at 7pm & 9pm.
Tickets $30/20 both or $20/$15 each.
Supported by the Goethe Institut
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About Jakob Ullmann’s Solo I (2010) and Solo IV (2013-14):
“For me, it is a central point in my work that the performer and the listener are both free to play and hear the music without backgrounds, environments, or other ideas outside of music [...] The piece should become so alien to me that the performance is of sound and not of ideas or, even worse, ideology [...] The decision should be a decision of the ear, but it is also important for me to embed traditions of faith, of culture, of thinking and acting in a time shaped by the political circumstances of oppression and wars that result in a great loss of cultural heritage [...] The listener is confronted with the fragility of memory so that they can reconstruct their own memories and their own traditions.” (Jakob Ullmann, 2018)
About Catherine Lamb’s Muto Infinitas (2016/18):
What matters are the links that may be discovered between the present and the absent space, between the included and the excluded space, between the consonant and the dissonant space, between the inner and the outer space…” (Mani Kaul, Seen from Nowhere. In: Kapila Vatsyayan: Concepts of Space: Ancient and Modern. New Delhi 1991)
Catherine Lamb’s long-form duo Muto Infinitas is an example of Lamb’s interest in the perception of space in an unfolding composition, a concept developed by her former teacher, Mani Kaul. In Muto Infinitas, bass flute and double bass intertwine to form an ever-expanding sequence of harmonic development from which a melody ever so gradually unfurls. Continually fusing and shifting, the two instruments emphasise what Lamb describes as a palette of ‘saturated sevens’ in which distinct harmonic relationships are continually reinforced suggesting an 'ultimate quality in attention'.
About The Long Form:
The Long Form is the duo project of Berlin-based Australian musicians Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone flutes) and Jon Heilbron (double bass and organ), two instrumentalists at the forefront of microtonal and Just Intonation music renowned for their “precision, concentration and sympathy” (Gramophone). Their recording of Catherine Lamb’s Muto Infinitas (Another Timbre, 2021) was named as one of WIRE Magazine’s “Top Ten Contemporary Classical Albums”, and the duo has premiered new works for their unusual instrumentation at festivals and venues across Australia and Europe. Recent and current collaborators include Rohan Drape, Catherine Lamb, Thomas Nicholson, Alyssa Aska, and Cenk Ergun.
Lane and Heilbron are in demand composer-performers within the fields of contemporary and experimental music and are both members of the Berlin-based Harmonic Space Orchestra, a performance and research collective focusing on extended Just Intonation.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Eleventh Hour Theatre, 434 Gore St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia,Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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