Shifting Mirrors   PHACE

New Music

The Ensemble Phace have made regular appearances at the Easter Festival Tyrol, exploring the various themes with works of the 21st century, including Tyrolean premieres. This year they are looking at expanding the potential of music by incorporating or imitating technology. The concert is dedicated, amongst others, to one of the pioneers of electronic music, Horacio Vaggione (*1943). Through his music and also as a teacher, the Argentinian composer, who has lived and worked in Paris for 40 years, has influenced and inspired entire generations. The concert includes two of his most recent works for solo instrument and electronics – playing with the constant shift of sounds in shifting mirrors, a network of unconnected mirrors, in which the performer moves. Timpani Trek focusses on expanding sound spaces and reinterpreting instruments. He is supported by young composers, who offer their own personal approaches to what is now the very advanced potential of technology: Lorenzo Troiani in search of the inner sound of shells, Helmut Oehring with his attempt at a musical rendering of the locked-in syndrome, Pierre Jodlowski on the state of timelessness in This Leads To An Emotional Stasis, and Mirela Ivičević with a premiere. Information on a second concert devoted exclusively to electronic music by and around Horacio Vaggione is available at osterfestival.at