Kasper T. Toeplitz
"Vents Stellaires" (2021)
In this new work Zinc & Copper and Kasper T. Toeplitz intend to explore the many subtle gradations of noise with their instruments combined with live electronics, in collaboration with the French-Polish composer and bass player Kasper T. Toeplitz. In a series of workshops and rehearsals, the three musicsian will work together with the composer to create a new composition for brass and live electronics. The material of this composition will be the air, wind and noise sounds which are inherent to brass playing, amplified and transformed using live electronics. Previous examples of this type of exploration include Robin Hayward's "noise valve" as featured on the album "States of Rushing" (2009), as well as Hilary Jeffery and Elena Kakaliagou's work with zeitkratzer, with whom Toeplitz has worked on numerous occasions. Toeplitz is interested in how these inherent sounds of low brass can be animated from within, not creating an extra layer of music with electronics, but expanding the instruments themselves - revealing a "hidden monstrosity" which inhabits the depths of the brass tubing, activated through breath and shaped through electronic circuits. A series of sound experiments will be set up which investigate the dynamic interplay of low brass with live electronics, exploring Toeplitz's interest in the dichotomy of playing a very slow, motionless music whose result is very fast and agitated, working with materials which detoriate within themselves through distortion and wave shaping, creating a dynamic and dramatic meta-instrument.
Score:
sleazeart.com/SA_docs/SA_scores/Score_Vents%20Stellaires.pdf
Performances
Saturday 23 October 2021
"Vent Stellaire"(World Premiere)
KulturRaum Zwingli-Kirche
Rudolfstraße 14, Berlin-Friedrichshain
kulturraum-zwinglikirche.de
Kasper T. Toeplitz
Composer, electric bass player and musician who has developed his work in the no man's land between "academic" composition (orchestra, ensembles, opera) and electronic "new music" or "noise music". Has won several prizes and distinctions ; 1st prize for orchestral composition at the Besançon Festival, 1st prize at the "Opéra autrement / centre Acanthes" competition, Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (New York), grant Leonardo da Vinci (San Francisco) , Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto), DAAD (Berlin). Got numerous commissions from the French Governement, the radio and from electronic studios such as Ircam, GRM , GMEM, CRFMW, EMS. Works with experimental or unclassifiable musicians such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Tetsuo Furudate, Dror Feiler, Art Zoyd, Eliane Radigue, Phill Niblock, Ulrich Krieger, Stevie Wishart, Z'ev, others. Some of his long-term groups or projects are LE DEPEUPLEUR (with Zbigniew Karkowski), KERNEL (a trio of computer players), Basstaarang (with Philippe Foch playing taarang), Ephémérides (bass & image by Strom Varx). Has definitively integrated the computer into the very heart of his work, as a tool of thought and composition, and as a live instrument, hybridising more traditional instruments if necessary, or working on the sheer electronic noise.