ZKM | Musik Aktuell

Juni / Juli 2016

Slot 1: Portrait Gilles Gobeil

Der kanadische Komponist Gilles Gobeil ist von Juni bis August 2016 wieder einmal zu Gast am ZKM, um ein neues Werk fuer den ZKM_Klangdom zu komponieren. Aus diesem Anlass senden wir drei Stücke, die Gobeil in den Jahren 2005-2007 am ZKM produziert hat.

01. Entre les deux rives du printemps (2006)(18:07)
02. Ombres, espaces, silences (2005)(22:45)
03. Le miroir triste (2007)(13:42)



Slot 2: Sean Reed: Oracle Sequence 01-16

01. Oracle Sequence 01 / 07:16
02. Oracle Sequence 02 / 07:11
03. Oracle Sequence 03 / 07:13
04. Oracle Sequence 04 / 07:10
05. Oracle Sequence 05 / 08:08
06. Oracle Sequence 06 / 07:26
07. Oracle Sequence 07 / 07:13
08. Oracle Sequence 08 / 07:07
09. Oracle Sequence 09 / 07:20
10. Oracle Sequence 10 / 07:08
11. Oracle Sequence 11 / 07:05
12. Oracle Sequence 12 / 07:10
13. Oracle Sequence 13 / 07:08
14. Oracle Sequence 14 / 07:31
15. Oracle Sequence 15 / 07:33
16. Oracle Sequence 16 / 07:52


The music for these "Oracle" pieces came about as part of an audio-visual-text project produced in collaboration with Robert Darroll for the ZKM PanoramaScreen in 2007. The original installation allows the user to enter a question through a type-screen interface and be presented with an immersive audio-visual sequence in response. Each sequence consists of 10 segments, and every time a sequence is requested, it is constructed anew from a pool of up to 8 possible sound and image clips designated for each segment.
One structural goal of this collaborative work was to create ten groups of sound and image files - one for each segment - that were interchangeable with any of the other files from that given group, such that every resulting sequence would maintain the same overall form and effect while still being an independent, individual construction, much like the concept behind Mozart's Musical Dice Game.
The 16 pieces in this playlist are 16 possible constructions resulting from this modular approach to compositional form, each resulting piece having a duration of between 7 and 8 minutes. Although the original sound for the Oracle/Orakel installation contained three elements of spoken voice per sequence (the oracular statements spoken to the user), the speech component has been left out of the versions presented here for the sake of a purely "concert" variant of the electro-acoustic composition.
Sean Reed

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