Jan 22nd 2020

Peter Ablinger: Sidebar: Music/Language/Thought/Noise

@ Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry

929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Wednesday, January 22nd, from 6PM - 9PM

Peter Ablinger and Winfried Ritsch in conversation with UChicago professors Alan C.L. Yu & Itamar Francez (Linguistics) and Jennifer Iverson (Music). Moderated by Gray Center Director Seth Brodsky (Music).

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The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry is thrilled to kick off the inaugural week of Gray Sound with Peter Ablinger’s first visit to Chicago. Complete schedule of events here:
https://graycenter.uchicago.edu/projects/gray-sound

For decades, Ablinger’s work has been forcing open fault lines in the topography of the audible. His vast output of scores, electronic pieces, installations, and conceptual works consistently finds ways—funny, pointed, disturbing—to put the ear’s organization of reality in doubt. Is that a voice, and what is a voice? When is something newly or no longer music? Noise? Information? In Ablinger’s cunning scramble of sonic categories, listening loses its lay of the land. Concepts come unmoored from sounds, and the land changes shape.

In partnership with Goethe-Institut Chicago, Gray Sound hosts a nine-day residency from Sunday, January 19 — Monday, January 27, 2020. The residency will thread a series of talks, composition seminars, and experimental discussions in between multiple performance events featuring world premieres and internationally renowned ensembles, who will render Ablinger’s work alone and alongside other artists who enjoy his influence.

Performances by Fonema Consort, Wet Ink Ensemble, and a•pe•ri•od•ic, featuring two world premieres by Ablinger as well as works by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Fernanda Aoki Navarro, Sam Pluta, and others.

* Part of experimental composer Peter Ablinger’s 9-day residency at the Gray Center*

 

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