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ZERO TIMEComposition & Staging Christian Kesten Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop Emmanuelle Bernard, Ines Hu, Ayumi Paul, Daniella Strasfogel, Paul Valikoski, Hannah Walter—vl; Hannah Klein, Ildiko Ludwig, Yodfat Miron—vla; Tilman Kanitz, Boram Lie, Michael Rauter—vcl; Simon Hartmann—cb Concept Christian Kesten, Michael Rauter, Daniella Strasfogel Costume Design Dorothee Scheiffarth Light Design Johannes Sundrup Sound Design Matthias Erb Technical Direction Jörg Bittner Artistic Assistance Marie-Kristin Meier Production management Lisa Mitschke Project Direction Volker Hormann Radialsystem V, Berlin | October 6 & 7, 2012 Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin Listening to silence My music always needs the awareness of the space that is around it, in which it is placed. Cage called this silence. Contributions to the space, interpenetrations with the sounds that are there anyway. Inaction: doing interpenetrating with what is also there. Acting in awareness of what is also there, in awareness of the space and what is happening in it. Listening. Listening while doing. Zero Time is non-measured time. No beginning, no end: now. Time becomes a field in which one can move in different directions. A space in which events appear and disappear at any given moment. Actions produce sounds. Are sounds sounds or are they Beethoven? The sound of a string quartet and that of a toothbrush each have their own quality. For the time of their existence they exist simultaneously with other sounds and interpenetrate each other. The sounds occur at different distances, each pair of ears has an individual auditory perspective. Music that is aware of its space, outside and inside. ck 2012 A simultaneity of the following compositions: GENPEI AKASEGAWA (1937): Kompo (1966) 2' | LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827): String quartet No. 13 Bb major op. 130 (1825) [simultaneously with Kesten Untitled #13], 1. Adagio ma non troppo – Allegro (fragments) 0'10", 2. Presto 2', 3. Poco scherzoso. Andante con moto, ma non troppo (fragments) 0'10", 5. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo 7'30"; String quartet C# minor op. 131 (1825-26), 6. Adagio quasi un poco andante [sim. with Feldman Structures] 2'15" | GEORGE BRECHT (1926-2008): Concert for Orchestra (1962) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 1'; Drip Music (Drip Event) (1959-62) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 6'; String Quartet (1962) [sim. with Wolff Summer] 1'; Symphony No. 2 (1962) 1'; Symphony No. 3 (1964) 1' | GEORGE BRECHT & ROBERT FILLIOU (1926-1987): Schoenwerk (1976) [sim. with Feldman Structures] 0'30" | MORTON FELDMAN (1926-1987): Structures (1951) [sim. zu Kesten Inside Out, Brecht/Filliou Schoenwerk, Beethoven op. 131,6] 6'30"; String Quartet (1979) (fragments) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 0'05" | LEE HEFLIN: Ice Trick (ca. 1966) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13, Kesten Zahnbürsten 22] 3' | GEOFFREY HENDRICKS (1931-2018): Prelude for Trio (1964) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 4' | DICK HIGGINS (1938-1998): Constellation No. 4 (1960); Constellation for Orchestra (Constellation No. 5) (1960); New Constellation (Constellation No. 7) (1960) 0'30"; Contribution No. 1 (1959) 1'; Contribution No. 2 (1959) 2'; Contribution No. 4 (1960) 1'; Final Contribution (Contribution No. 5) (1960) 0'10" | CHRISTIAN KESTEN (1966): Inside Out (2012, Premiere) [sim. with Feldman Structures, Beethoven op. 131,6] 5'; One for Violin [Viola, Cello, Contrabass] Bow (for Paik) (2012, Premiere) 4'; Untitled #13 (Zero Time) (2012, Premiere) 70'; Variationen für Kontrabass (2012, Premiere) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 30'; Zahnbürsten 22 for Contrabass (2012, Premiere) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13, Heflin Ice Trick] 4' | ALISON KNOWLES (1933): Shoes of Your Choice (1963) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 6' | ARTHUR KØPCKE (1928-1977): Music While You Work (ca. 1963) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 5'; When This You See Remember Me (Piece No. 22) (ca. 1964) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 4' | TAKEHISA KOSUGI (1938-2018): Manodharma with Mr. Y (1964) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 2'; Micro 1 (1964) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 5' | GERHARD RÜHM (1930): Moment (gestreut) (1961) 1' | YOKO ONO (1933): Hide Piece (1961) [sim. with Feldman Structures, Wolff Summer, Kesten Untitled #13] 25'; Beat Piece (1965) [sim. with Feldman Structures, Kesten Inside Out] 2' | BENJAMIN PATTERSON (1934-2016): from Methods & Processes (close eyes/ walk to most distant visible point/ open an eye) (1962) 3' | MIEKO (CHIEKO) SHIOMI (1938): Disappearing Music for Face (1966) [sim. zu Wolff Summer] 4' | ANTON WEBERN (1883-1945): Four movements from Five Movements op. 5 (1909), Version for String Orchestra (1928/29) 7'20" | EMMETT WILLIAMS (1925-2007): Son of Man Trio (1963) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 6'; Voice Piece for La Monte Young (1963) [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 1' | CHRISTIAN WOLFF (1934): Summer (String Quartet) (1961) [sim. with Shiomi Disappearing Music for Face, Brecht String Quartet, Ono Hide Piece] 8' | LA MONTE YOUNG (1935): Composition 1960 #6 [sim. with Kesten Untitled #13] 20' |
