Concert NAMES (AT)
PROGRAM
Giovanni Falascone – Still things move
Parham Behzad – Team CEO
Jorge Villoslada Durán – Collateral #1
Aurélie Ferrières – filigrane
Ynyr Pritchard – angels prey over sparse architectures
NAMES – New Art and Music Ensemble Salzburg (AT)
Alexander Bauer (E-Organ, Keyboards)
Marco Döttlinger (Electronics)
Marina Iglesias (Flutes)
Matthias Leboucher (Piano, Keyboards)
Giovanni Falascone - Still things move
In “Still things move”, attention is focused on the quality of movement both required of the musicians and inherent in the sound they create. The exploration moves toward a single fused sound — still at first, inviting the listener to immerse in it, but gradually revealing its vitality through motion. The diversities within it emerge, showing all their nuances, yet at the same time blend together, appearing without asserting themselves. Meanwhile, the performers generate and explore this sound through diverse instrumental actions: the body is not merely a tool but becomes a protagonist, defining different sections of the piece through its movement (or stillness) — an active vehicle of energy and form, a conscious part of the sound’s genesis, yet never placed under a spotlight.
Parham Behzad - Team CEO
Team CEO explores a fragile hierarchy between acoustic origin and technological mediation. The result is a corporate ecology: the flute supplies, the keyboards demand. They control, they consume, they manage, they profit.
Jorge Villoslada Durán – Collateral #1
Aurélie Ferrière - filigrane
filigrane (for bass flute, electric organ and keyboards/electronics) builds up parallel discourses, each iteration of a phrase calling for echoes of previous ones, in a fragile architecture of memory and resonance. In the final section, all discourses are heard simultaneously, becoming unintelligible, yet still revealing fleeting traces of what was once said—en filigrane.
Ynyr Pritchard - angels prey over sparse architectures
The work’s main inspirations stem from the research and artworks of Alex Quicho, Noura Tafeche and Zein Majali. Their analyses dissect the intersection between internet cultures, personalities and genocide. The title owes a concrete debt to two sources: Bogna Konior’s lecture ‘Angels in Latent Spaces’ which examines Artifical Intelligence erotics and Afra Wang’s interview with an Artificial General Intelligence engineer in China. Wang’s interviewee argues that AGI can not supersede humans as it does not posses the ‘sparse architecture’ of our brain function. The title is also hugely inspired by Tafeche and Quicho’s (especially) discussions of the drone—an all-seeing weapon hovering over civilians before committing a barbaric act of violence—and the distance inherent in drone warfare: a drone operator can shoot a nurse in the head through a hospital window without actually being in the area. Quicho and Tafeche look at how fifth-generation warfare is being staged, not one of combat but of suggestion. It is warfare fought in the bedroom, warfare of artificiality and propaganda during a genocide. The gamer’s chair is that of the drone operator, the e-girl’s TikTok dances those of the soldier.
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