Ordine e Fragmente

On the tenth anniversary of the inauguration of the exhibition at the Victory Monument, Transart will land for the very first time in this place steeped in both past and recent history. During this evening of music, the exhibition spaces will be filled with the sounds of three compositions, each of which enters into dialogue with this architecture in a different way. The voice of the man behind the construction of this monumental marble complex resounds in the crypt: the unmistakable timbre of Mussolini is the foundation of ‘Il Duce’ for Tape by Louis Andriessen. Recorded on magnetic tape in 1973, it is an experimental electronic piece with a profound symbolic meaning: a looped fragment of Mussolini's speech is overlaid and distorted until it becomes completely unrecognisable. Slightly later but profoundly different in its essence is Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima by Luigi Nono, written for string quartet, with long pauses, sustained chords, and fragmentary, suspended, dream-like islands of sound. The composer Iris Ter Schiphorst brings us back to the present with Struktur und Ordung, which explores a dimension that is as pertinent as it is unexplored, that of Parkinson's disease, leading into a world that can only be vaguely imagined.

Programme

Louis Andriessen
'Il Duce' for Tape (15 minutes)

Iris Ter Schiphorst
Struktur und Ordnung (13 minutes)

Luigi Nono
Fragmente - Stille, an Diotima (40 minutes)

There will be two runs of this programme at both 19:00 (tickets) and 20:30 (tickets).