21.1.2015 @ Athens: “Unending are the Mazes …” Performance by UMS & JIP

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Concert @ Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics (IEMA) | Athens, WED 21.1.2015 | 8:00pm | 

The excellent Swiss contemporary duo, UMS & JIP (Ulrike Mayer Spohn – recorders and Javier Hagen – counter tenor), are in Athens this coming week and are going to perform my work “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” in a concert that is organized by the IEMA.

The rest of the program entails works by

Georges Aperghis, Panayiotis Kokoras, Luis Codera Puzo, Chikashi Miyama, Antonis Rouvélas, and JIP.

Institute for Research on Music and Acoustics IEMA
105 Adrianou st., 105 58 Athens – Greece
Tel: +30 210-3310129

This is a presentation concert: UMS & JIP would like to meet/get to know more Greek composers who might want to work with them, i.e. they could get to know us, hear us live and discuss with us directly whether they would like to join the Greece Project (http://greece.umsnjip.ch).

14/7 – 19/7 French premier of “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” in Avignion

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ACTUAL AVANTGARDE

Theatre Notre-Dame, Avignion | 14-19 July | Monday/Wednesday/Saturday | 12:45.

French premier of “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders.” Three performances by the contemporary music duo UMS n’ JIP (Javier Hagen – tenor/counter tenor, Ulrike Mayer-Spohn – recorders).

The full program

JOAN BAGES (ESP) – meta morphé 2013
REUBEN DE LAUTOUR (NZ) – Piteous Rodents 2013
DIMITRI PAPAGEORGIOU (GR)– Unending are the Mazes it Engenders 2013
KOTOKA SUZUKI (JP) – Reservoir 2014

 http://avignon.umsnjip.ch/program.html

THEATRE NOTRE DAME AVIGNON 
Tickets +33 (0)4 90 85 06 48
http://www.theatrenotredame.com/

Performance of “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” in Istanbul

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April 13, 2013 | ITÜ MIAM Centre of Advanced Studies in Music, Instanbul| 12:00-17:00

Ums n’ Jip (Ulrike Mayer Spohn and Xavier Hagen) present “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder in their master class at the ITÜ MIAM Centre of Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul.

Performances of “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” in Zürich

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March 23 & 24, 2013 | Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland | 20:30

Ums n’ Jip (Ulrike Mayer Spohn and Xavier Hagen) perform “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder at Kunstraum Wacherturm in Zürich.

Swiss premiere of Unending are the Mazes it Engenders by UMS & JIP

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Saturday, March 20 2013 | Zeughaus Kultur Brig-Glis, Switzerland | 20:30

Ums n’ Jip (Ulrike Mayer Spohn and Xavier Hagen) perform for the first time in Switzerland “Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder, a work commissioned by this extraordinary Swiss contemporary music duo.

The work is a maze of utterances of an uncanny, palpitating sound, which unravels in winding paths, with interconnected twists and turns, through algorithmic mutations and reformulations, continuously circling back to itself by creating and not resolving the dialectics that underly its construction. Its mazing construction lacks of an entrance, a center, and possibility of escape; it is a maze without a monster and a death-defying hero . . .

The title is a quotation of a verse from the poem Everness by the Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Louis Borges:

And everything is part of that diverse
Crystal of memory, the universe;
Unending are the mazes it engenders

“Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” is part of the Greece Project by UMS ‘n JIP commissions works for either recorder, voice & electronics in any combination for 2 performers by young and established contemporary Greek composers Antonis Rouvelas, Zesses Seglias, Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Panagiotis Kokoras, Dimitris Maronidis, Haris Kittos, Michalis Lapidakis, Dimitris Papageorgiou. The program intends to introduce different contemporary Greek composer’s works which are complementary to UMS ‘n JIP’s own works and/or especially inspiring for them. It will be premiers at the Thessaloniki University in February 2013. The Greece Project will be further performed on tour by UMS ‘n JIP in 2013/14.

“Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” premier by UMS n’ JIP in Thessaloniki

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Saturday, February 23rd 2013 | Solon Michalidis Hall of the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki | 21:00

Ums n’ Jip premiers Unending are the Mazes it Engenders for counter tenor voice and tenor recorder, a work commissioned by this extraordinary Swiss contemporary music duo.

“Unending are the Mazes it Engenders” is part of the Greece Project by UMS ‘n JIP commissioned works for either recorder, voice & electronics in any combination for two performers by young and established contemporary Greek composers Antonis Rouvelas, Zesses Seglias, Leontios Hadjileontiadis, Panagiotis Kokoras, Dimitris Maronidis, Haris Kittos, Michalis Lapidakis, Dimitris Papageorgiou.

The program intends to introduce different contemporary Greek composers’ works which are complementary to UMS ‘n JIP’s own works and/or especially inspiring for them. It will be premiered in the concert series of the Contemporary Music Lab of the Department of Music Studies of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

The Greece Project will be further performed on tour by UMS ‘n JIP in 2013/14.