VNM 2019 Festival - Resonances

airborne extended (Austria)

Friday, October 18, 2019

Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor, Vancouver, BC)

Founded in 2013, airborne extended is an all female contemporary music ensemble featuring harpsichord/keyboard, flutes, recorders/Paetzold flutes, with and without electronics. This unusual instrument combination creates possibilities for a wide range of inspiring new sounds and tonal colours.

For Resonances, airborne extended’s program selections playfully explore musical transformations and transcriptions – “an exact musical transcription of a person’s irritation” (Alexander Kaiser, The difficulty of crossing a field); “the transformation of the baroque piece´s harmonies into wild frequences” (Matthias Kranebitter, pancrace royer – the harpsichord pieces); “transformation of the textures of an ancient, fragile jewellery method into music” (Aya Yoshida, filigree); and more.

airborne extended acknowledges the support of the Austrian Embassy Ottawa and Budeskanzleramt.

airborne extended is
Elena Gabbrielli, flutes; Sonja Leipold, harpsichord/keyboard; Ruth Dyson, recorders/Paetzold

PROGRAM
0:00 Aya Yoshida, filigree, trio, 2019
• transformation of the textures of an ancient, fragile jewellery method into music
7:14 Onur Dulger, La résistance sert le son – une histoire de métamorphose, harpsichord solo +live-el, 2018
• the transformation of a harpsichord into a sound-machine of screaming tyres.
19:03 Hannes Kerschbaumer, not.to, duo for piccolo-fl and Paetzold-keys, objects, transducers and live-el, 2017
• a transformation of instruments: Paetzold played with sand paper, styrofoam, piccolo and Paetzold-Kontrabass only heard through pick-up-mics.
29:48 Alexander Kaiser, The difficulty of crossing a field, trio, 2016
• exact musical transcription of a person´s irritation.
33:44 Dmitri Kourliandski, parasite pieces: maps of non-existent-cities. Moscow, trio, 2018
• invading an existing piece as a parasite

Video documentation by Mingtao Kong.
Audio documentation by Ira Levison.