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Emerging Ensemble: Black Page Orchestra

12/10/2024

Organised by Mixtur, Spain

The Viennese ensemble Black Page Orchestra performs a program that includes Black Flowers by Chaya Czernowin, inspired by a text by the philosopher Gaston Bachelard: “In the depths of matter a dark vegetation grows; black flowers bloom in the darkness of matter.” Halucinatio, Jung An Tagen’s psychoacoustic work composed with electroacoustic practices but performed with live instruments and loosely inspired by Yugoslav folk songs. Combative Music And Its Algorithmic Demystification, by Matthias Kranebitter, a quasi quadruple-concerto where every musician is playing against its own orchestra in each speaker, a desperate competition in virtuosity and energy against the machine. Pierre Jodlowski’s work Vanitas, which evokes the relationship between artists and nature in our contemporary period. Additionally, the concert includes the Mixtur commission to composer Isandro Ojeda, and some Miniatures from the students of the Mixtur 2024 Composition and Sound Experimentation Workshop.

About Black Page

Black Page Orchestra is an ensemble founded in Vienna in 2014 for radical and uncompromising music of our times. Named after Frank Zappa’s “The Black Page”, known for its dense notes, the ensemble has set significant new aesthetic impulses in the Viennese music scene in its 10 years of existence. Numerous composers, whose works are at the interface of music, technology and media art, were introduced by the ensemble to the local audience for the first time. In addition to numerous guest performances (Märzmusik Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, PAN Seoul, Wien Modern, i.a.), the ensemble also has its own concert series in Musikverein Vienna since 2020.

Alessandro Baticci, flute / Florian Fennes, saxophone / Ruben Mattia Santorsa, e-guitar / Alfredo Ovalles, piano / Eland Behkam, piano / Igor Gross, percussion / Kaja Farszky, percussion