Stuttgart

•  Sitting in a Room: A SoundsTheatre | 02.04.2024. 20:00 | Kunstraum 34 Gallery, Stuttgart   

SITTING IN A ROOM

a soundsTheatre for parallel listening spaces

Sitting in a room, inspired by the piece “I’m sitting in a room” by Alvin Lucier, is a comparative experience of two different modes of music: improvisation and composition. While composition, as a Western tradition, provides fundamental opportunities for creating novelty and precision, it lacks the important connection between composer and performance moment. On the other hand, improvisation offers a direct link to the artist’s subjective sphere, but is extremely limited by their skills, the traditions of improvisation, and the available instruments.

The audience can choose to sit in two different listening areas. One room will host a performance of some compositions by Vahid Hosseini, an Iranian composer, while the composer himself improvises in the other room. Each space offers a different listening experience. The audience is free to make their choice and change their mind during the performance, but every decision will have consequences, just like in real life.

Curated by Vahid Hosseini

https://kunstraum34.de/veranstaltung/studio-34-3/

• SoundsTheatre03.07.2024. 20:00 Turm Konzertsaal, HMDK, Stuttgart

Guided improvisation in collaboration with Impro-Ensemble HMDK

conductor: Vahid E. Hosseini

• Studio II: A SoundsTheatre|composition for bass flute solo       Cassandra Chang

Vahid E. Hosseini (*1984)
“Studio II” – 2021 for bass flute (first ever performance)

The idea of time may be of a more human nature if one sets the defining point on a physiological phenomenon. In “Studio II” time is defined not by the metronome or clock, but by the lung capacity of the performer. Thus the flutist becomes an integral part of the composition, and the piece will be different by definition from performer to performer.

Cassandra Chong, Bassflöte