Analyseansätze zur Neuen Musik: In memoriam Kaija Saariaho
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- Subject according curriculum
- Analytical approaches to new music
- Teachers
- Sascha Lemke
- Semester
- Wintersemester 2023/2024
- Scope
- The seminar takes place as a three-hour block seminar on the following Thursdays from 9.45-12.45: 12.10.2023 26.10.2023 09.11.2023 23.11.2023 07.12.2023 21.12.2023 11.01.2024 25.01.2024 08.02.2024 29.02.2024
- Room
- BP 11
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho passed away on June 2 this year at the age of 70. After studying in her home country, she continued her training in Freiburg with Brian Ferneyhough and Klaus Huber before moving to Paris in 1982, where she began working at IRCAM and since then has worked a lot with live electronics before finally settling in Paris for good. In this seminar, we will discuss selected works from the 1980s and 1990s in particular. Her works are characterized by a very unique approach to time, which she sometimes compared to films by Tarkovsky and experiences of nature in her native Finland. In her contemplation of sound, the inner shaping of sound and the synthèse instrumentale (the setting of sounds for instrumental ensembles analyzed with computer assistance), one can see parallels to French spectralism, which she followed closely and with whose protagonists she was friends. At the same time, her use of these means is very personal. Two of her explicit favorite instruments are the flute and the cello, partly because of her friends, but probably also because of the flexible sound modulation possibilities. A series of works was created here, which gives us the opportunity to follow the gradual development from a pure solo work to a solo with electronics to a concerto with ensemble and electronics. In addition to music by Saariaho, external influences such as films by Tarkowski or the poetic work of Saint-Jean Perse as well as music by companions such as Magnus Lindberg, Brian Ferneyhough, Gérard Grisey or Jean-Baptiste Barrière will also be addressed.
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Comments
If you are interested but cannot come to the first event, please send an email to sascha.lemke@hfmt-hamburg.de .
(If desired, the course can be held in English.)- Modules
- CoPeCo, Musiktheorie 3 Komposition/Musiktheorie, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)