DNK Amsterdam Experimental Music Festival Weekend — Day 1
In the context of the DNK is DEAD… residency DNK Amsterdam presents a concert night with two sets of cutting edge and quite classical experimental music by a quartet of young musicians based in The Hague and an ensemble of ragtag experimentalists, professionals and hobbyists alike, from the Amsterdam region aka The Social Music Club.
Programme
Saturday 22 November
Montoriol, Eckhardt, McGuire, & De Gendt — Simultaneous / Synchronous (Song)
The Social Music Club — Stones (Christian Wolff) and The Great Learning – Paragraph 7 (Cornelius Cardew)
Afterwards music by the DNK DJ team
Roc Montoriol, Jacob Eckhardt, Lawrence McGuire, Cis De Gendt are a The Hague-based quartet, sharing an interest in perception and attention in relation to presentation formats, playback media, volumes and space-time. Their work currently utilizes amplification, sound recordings, electro-acoustic devices, objects, and voice.
For this performance at W139, they reimagine DNK ensemble’s 2017 performance: Simultaneous / Synchronous (Song) with (synthetic) voice and non-pitched sound materials layered across a range of playback devices. They take inspiration from its forming of relations, the structural repetition of re-starting and re-shifting, and the masking that occurs.
Watch a version of the original performance here.
The Social Music Club is a loose collective of musicians and non-musicians who regularly come together to listen, make sound, and talk about interaction. They try different types of text scores and exercises from the book Search & Reflect: A Music Workshop Handbook, compiled by students of the late percussionist, improviser, and teacher John Stevens.
They will perform a simultaneous performance of Christian Wolff’s Stones and Cornelius Cardew’s The Great Learning – Paragraph 7.
