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The piece POETICA is a journey of one into themselves. It is brought to life through breathing. Inhaling and exhaling serve to activate different parts of the sonic psyche, they create the micro and macro structures and they make events emerge and disappear.
This journey goes out from places where the external is present: I recorded countless demonstration sounds in Tel Aviv, in the US and in Paris, during 2023. We all live in a complex reality which nowadays seems inescapable. However, the sonic journey gradually comes to a focus with the emergence of the breathing, and with it, a discovery of what the percussion are hiding in the midst of their sound. The string tremolo emerges as a shadow to the percussion tremolo. These two types of tremolos push and pull inside their combined identity, and allow us to experience the percussion tremolo and the strings tremolo as a unified imagined field. In spite of the difficult and intrusive reality, one can still turn into their inside and find clarity and hope. Our internality is a kind of nature with its own vitality.
POETICA is the first part of the Triptych VENA, with the pieces UNHISTORIC ACTS (for choir and string quartet) and IMMATERIAL for 6 singers. (Chaya Czernowin)
EDGARD VARÈSE – Poème Électronique KAIJA SAARIAHO – Six Japanese Gardens
CHAYA CZERNOWIN – Poetica * for solo percussionist, percussion quartet, voice, prerecorded strings and electronics
* United States Premiere Written for Steven Schick Co-commissioned by Hellerau Dresden, IRCAM, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Steven Schick and Monday Evening Concerts
PERFORMERS: STEVEN SCHICK, solo percussion CATINBLACK, prerecorded strings CARLO LAURENZI (IRCAM), electronics CLEMENT CÉRLES (IRCAM), electronics
RED FISH BLUE FISH, percussion ensemble MITCHELL CARLSTROM WESLEY FOWLER KOSUKE MATSUDA CAMILO ZAMUDIO