Playtime: Examining microtonal practices Student-led Symposium

Conventional equal tuning with clearly defined keys in semitones – ideally embodied in the piano keyboard – is just one of many ways to organize the pitch system. It has long been expanded, researched, examined in global contexts, and questioned. The HKB has a small but fine collection of microtonal instruments, such as a third-tone grand piano and a sixteenth-tone piano and has been researching the field for a long time.

Students from the HKB’s Department of Music investigate diverse tuning systems and microtonal sound worlds and develop their own artistic and reflective responses. Through performances, premieres, and presentations, the symposium invites audiences to experience new ways of hearing and conceiving music. The event concludes with a concert with the works by Georg Friedrich Haas, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and HKB composition students.

Contributors

Besetzung

Amílcar Reyes, Jessie Chen, Samuele Donegani, Jang Hyeonyeong, Filolaos Kougias, Hekmat Homsi, Marcello Massari, Lukas Mohl, Francisco Fernandes, Lucien Palak, Samuele Provenzi, Martín Céspedes, Anna von Arx, Xuan Yao, Hoi Ching Yeung

Supervision

Leo Dick, Marc Kilchenmann, Nemanja Radivojević, Stefan Schultze
 

Programme

Georg Friedrich Haas

Guitar Quartet (2007)
Flavio Vanini, Sara Congost, Amilcar Baeza, Marcello Massari, guitars

Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf

Kurtág-Duo for 2 guitars (2002)
Maria Criscione, Flavio Vanini, guitars

Solo pieces by students in MA Composition Creative Practice

Samuele Provenzi, Martín Sanhueza, Mattia Dugheri
Guitar accompaniment: Elena Casoli