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CARAVANSERAIS

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Research


Project 1
Sonic Ecology
  1. Curatorial Statement
  2. Listening to Ecosystems from Interdisciplinary Perspectives
  3. Music and Activism
  4. The Vigil of Debris
  5. The Recycling Concerto
  6. The Unexpected Guest


Project 2
Music & Moving Image
  1. Curatorial Statement
  2. Water, The First Body
  3. Light in Infinite Darkness
  4. Kyager
  5. The Moments


Project 3
Naamyam Creative Research 
南音創意研究
  1. 策展人的話
  2. 南音的互動
  3. 戲台南音賞析
  4. 南音創意研究〈客途秋恨〉MV創意對談: 許敖山x杜泳
  5. 南音飄揚未定
  6. 香港南音之永劫回歸？
  7. 南音︰起點抑或歸處？──「南音新創作展演」的兩種實驗
  8. 傳統音樂的突破？南音未來之路——「南音研究計劃」


Project 4
Contain
  1. Genesis
  2. This is water
  3. Modul-ation
  4. Often easy, sometimes impossible
  5. Sensations of getting lost





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Mark

回收協奏曲
視頻演講及訪問


Gregor A. Mayrhofer
作曲家兼指揮家



簡介

環境破壞是這個時代難以避開的議題。尤其值得關注的是，我們必須盡快決定如何處理我們丟棄的垃圾、廢物和有毒物質。


作曲家兼指揮家Gregor A. Mayrhofer將此議題視為用音樂解決社會問題的一個契機，並為年輕的打擊樂手Vivi Vassileva創作了一首以回收為主題的打擊樂及管弦樂協奏曲：《回收協奏曲》。


他利用回收物品製作了各種創新的打擊樂器，而表演所用樂器均非購買而來 —— 所有打擊樂音都是利用原本會丟掉的廢棄物料所創造出來的。獨奏樂器的「聲音物料」包括箔片、塑膠、回收玻璃、廢金屬 —— 這些只會為地球帶來負擔的廢棄物竟然在《回收協奏曲》中獲得了新的生命和意義！


舊塑膠容器被改造成實用的架子鼓，廢棄的玻璃杯和瓶蓋變成了美妙的沙筒，用過的咖啡膠囊則變成了沙沙作響的管鐘。顯然，這些我們一般認為是垃圾的材料，不僅可以透過擊打來產生音樂節奏，甚至可以變成樂器奏出旋律。用過的塑膠瓶可以利用蓋子上的閥門調節瓶內氣壓，變成一件由回收材料製成的馬林巴琴。


《回收協奏曲》旨在讓音樂會主辦城市和地區參與到音樂的創作過程，以將當地的廢物問題融入到每場演出當中。在舉辦音樂會之前，可以安排透過當地的回收站來收集材料，用於改裝各種樂器並用於音樂會上。


協奏曲裡有幾個部分可以讓擊打樂器來進行獨奏表演，並在學校或教育活動中演出，以為廢物回收的議題賦予教育意義。年輕人可以向《回收協奏曲》的獨奏演員學習如何利用廢棄物製作自己的樂器，同時還可以拓展他們對各種音樂的認知。



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Biography

Gregor A. Mayrhofer - Portrait nah - © Urban Ruth 2019

"Composed by the conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer himself, his music is a wonderfully differentiated woven cosmos in four movements that merge into each other; it could not be any clearer, more differentiated, more economic and more beautiful.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Klaus Kalchschmid, March 2018)

Mayrhofer has conducted the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, SWR Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Belgrade Philharmonic and Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked with ensembles such as Ascolta, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern Academy, Ensemble Nostri Temporis Kiev, Ensemble Proton Bern, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble and the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker, as well as with soloists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Georg Nigl, Daniil Trifonov and Julian Prégardien.

He assisted Sir Simon Rattle at the Festival Aix-en-Provence for a production of Tristan with the London Symphony Orchestra and assisted Kirill Petrenko, Teodor Currentzis, Michael Boder at the Vienna State Opera and Matthias Pintscher at the Berlin State Opera „Unter den Linden“ . In the years 2015-2017 he was assistant conductor of the Ensemble Intercontemporain with whom he made his debut at the Philharmonie de Paris in 2016, standing in at short notice for Pablo Heras-Casado. In 2017, Mayrhofer conducted premiere performances of his commission for the Ensemble Intercontemporain in the Kölner Philharmonie.

As a composer Mayrhofer has received commissions from the Bavarian State Opera, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio), Biennale Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, State Opera Hanover, the Scharoun Ensemble of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Tyrolean Festival Erl. The last couple of years have seen premiers of his children’s opera Die Drei Spinnerinnen (The Three Spinners, 2018), his Insect Concerto (2018) with the Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Lageder Oktett (2017) with the Scharoun Ensemble.

He regularly performs as a pianist in jazz concerts with his brother Raphael as part of their duo Imbrothersation, first-prize-winner of Süddeutsche Zeitung‘s Tassilo Kultur Preis in 2009/2010.

Gregor A. Mayrhofer was born in Munich in 1987. He studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (with Jan Müller-Wieland), the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique Paris (with Frédéric Durieux) and at the Robert-Schumann Hochschule Duesseldorf (composition with Manfred Trojahn and conducting with Rüdiger Bohn). In addition to Alan Gilbert, who oversaw his studies for a Master’s degree in conducting at New York’s Juilliard School, Mayrhofer has also studied with James Ross and received lessons from Bernard Haitink, Fabio Luisi and Johannes Schläfli. Furthermore, he assisted Peter Eötvös, Iván Fischer, Daniel Harding, Susanna Mälkki, François-Xavier Roth, Marc Minkowski, Andris Nelsons, Sir George Benjamin, Gustavo Dudamel, Paavo Järvi, Andrés Orozco- Estrada, Matthias Pintscher as well as Sir Simon Rattle.

Among many prizes and scholarships, Gregor A. Mayrhofer has been awarded with the Bavarian Art Sponsorship, the Bruno Walter Memorial Scholarship and the Charles Schiff Conducting Award.

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