Work of the Week - Chaya Czernowin: Sheva
Open-ended Experiments – That’s what the Donaueschinger Musiktage stand for. This year Chaya Czernowin is part of an exceptional festival project: The Dialogue Experiment. On 19 October, Ensemble ascolta is performing a full evening program which is the result of a dialogic process between seven composers. The septet Sheva (Hebrew for seven) is Czernowin’s contribution to this collaborative composition.
The other composers - Rick Burkhardt, Peter Edwards, Michelle Lou, Chris Mercer, Ming Tsao and Rob Wannamaker - are former students of Czernowin's. Not the individual, finished work is in focus but the dialogue between the participating composers during the process of composition as well as the collaborative realisation by the musicians.
For quite some time Czernowin has been interested in musical forms, which originate from the confrontation of existing material. She describes Sheva: 'In this piece fragile lines connect very differing instances of "sound clumps“. This is done in the same way in which the interstitial materials connect our individual pieces in the large collaborative piece, “The Dialogue Experiment”. Further, I dedicated some of the sound clusters as a small homage to the musical voices of the other participating composers. Each composer has a few sound clumps dedicated to him / her. In this way, Sheva is a bit of a reflection on the whole “Dialogue Experiment”.’
On 15 November there will be a revival of the Dialogue Experiment at Festival Wien Modern 2008 in Vienna.
(10/17/2008)
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