Cambridge
University
Experimental
Music
Ensemble
avec Boulez, Mallarmé, et Foucault
Saman Samadi creates a piece operating an experimental space for problematizing past musical and literary works as well as scholarly texts, through experimentation — by a critical reflection on Boulez’s Notations pour piano, poems by Mallarmé, and scholarly texts by Boulez & Foucault, and discovering new potentials and common threads between them; deconstructing these existing works and utilizing them through performative approaches, through new modes of interpretation and communication, and reconstructing them through a creative assemblage in performance. More information is provided in the recordings below.
Creator and Director: Saman Samadi
Coby O'Brien, flute
Ella Nixon, clarinet
Eric Petzoldt, saxophone
Valentina Ciniglio, saxophone
Dan Phillips, violin
Alice Drury, violin
Emily Abbott, violin
Bethany Norman, violin
Nicky Swett, cello
Gregory May, double bass
David Cotter, guitar
Kristin Barone-Samadi, piano
Lea Luka Tiziana, voice
Reuben Bance, voice
10 May, 1:10 PM
Cambridge University Lunchtime Concert Series
West Road Concert Hall, Faculty of Music
14 May, 1:30 PM
Wolfson College Music Society
Lunchtime Concert Series
Lee Hall, Wolfson College
Photo Credits
Pierre Boulez: Joost Evers/Anefo/Nationaal Archief
Stéphane Mallarmé: Paul Nadar/Sotheby's
Michel Foucault: Alexis Duclos/AP/REX/Shutterstock.com
Header photo: Sylvano Bussotti, Piano Piece #3, 1959.