Luciano Berio: Différences
Workshop Angela Ida De Benedictis, Ulrich Mosch & Kilian Schwoon
Description
At the end of the 1950s, aesthetics and technology were ready – music recorded on tape met live instruments in concert. Whether Bruno Maderna’s Musica su due dimensioni (1958; a first version was created as early as 1952), Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte (1958–60) or Luciano Berio’s Différences (1958–59): In new works that have long since become classics of New Music, similarities in sound were heard and differences explored while the possibilities of reproduction were still in their infancy.
In their workshop, Angela Ida De Benedictis (Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel | Centro Studi Luciano Berio), Ulrich Mosch (Université de Genève) and Kilian Schwoon (Hochschule für Künste Bremen) will provide an insight into the existing sources of Différences for five instruments (flute, clarinet, harp, viola, violoncello) and stereophonic tape, thus tracing the conditions under which a fascinating chapter of European music history came into being. The workshop aims to sensitize musicians to a more conscious performance practice and to contribute to a deeper understanding of the interpretation process by examining the underlying sources and materials.