Jakob Ullmannsolo I (1992/93-2010) und Solo IV (2013/14) – Simultane Realisation
Viertel-Ton-Flöten, Kontrabass und Zuspielung
A rare evening-length simultaneous performance of Jakob Ullmann’s ‘Solo I’ and ‘Solo IV’. In Ullmann’s music, subtle gradations of sound and noise are located on the periphery of perception. His complex, palimpsest-like scores, played softly, encourage delicate and inward-looking performances which draw on subtlety and fragility.
“For me, it is a central point in my work that the performer and the listener are both free to play and hear the music without backgrounds, environments, or other ideas outside of music […] The piece should become so alien to me that the performance is of sound and not of ideas or, even worse, ideology […] The decision should be a decision of the ear, but it is also important for me to embed traditions of faith, of culture, of thinking and acting in a time shaped by the political circumstances of oppression and wars that result in a great loss of cultural heritage […] The listener is confronted with the fragility of memory so that they can reconstruct their own memories and their own traditions.” (Jakob Ullmann, 2018)
The duo project of Berlin-based Australian musicians Rebecca Lane (quarter-tone flutes) and Jon Heilbron (double bass and organ), features two instrumentalists at the forefront of microtonal and Just Intonation music renowned for their “precision, concentration and sympathy” (Gramophone). Their recording of Catherine Lamb’s Muto Infinitas (Another Timbre, 2021) was named as one of WIRE Magazine’s “Top Ten Contemporary Classical Albums”, and the duo has premiered new works for their unusual instrumentation at festivals and venues across Australia and Europe. Recent and current collaborators include Catherine Lamb, Cenk Ergun, Thomas Nicholson, Alyssa Aska, and James Rushford. Both are members of the Berlin-based Harmonic Space Orchestra, a performance and research collective focusing on extended Just Intonation and the quartet ‘Asterales’ with Leo Dupleix and Fredrik Rasten.
Beteiligte Artist(s): Rebecca Lane | Viertel-Ton Alt- und Bass-Flöten
Jon Heilbron | Kontrabass