anthony fiumara

upcoming

sound- and lightscape in progress

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In October this year I am going to make a soundscape installation for the Nederlandse Muziekdagen, for the concert hall of the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. I am working together in this project with light artist Jaap van den Elzen, who is going to make a lightscape with the LED-walls in this hall. Las month Jaap and I went to see the amazing and endless lighting possibilities in the Muziekgebouw.

We were told that it will be the first time the light installation is used for such a light- and soundscape. Electric lutenist and improvisor Jozef van Wissem will be the living component in the installation. The mixed media work currently goes under the working title Waxing, Waning.

graduales revisited

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I wrote my first two Graduales in 2007, as Verwandlungsmusik between the different parts of the Missa Prolationum of Johannes Ockeghem (ca.1410/30-1497) - an example of strict canon writing from the Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance .

The title Graduale refers to a missing Mass movement in Ockeghem's work – and to the minor-scale ( ‘Gradus’ meaning scale in Latin) on which both Graduales are built. They use the principle of change ringing: a maximum of combinations with a limited number of bells.

After hearing Graduale 1 & 2, Rotterdam Doelen programmer Neil Wallace asked for two new works in this series, which I finished in February. The four Graduales are going to be performed in the new Red Sound Festival, by VocaalLAB Nederland (who super-performed my 7 Interludes last year).

In Graduale 3 the same scale is used in a process in which the three top voices gradually draw closer to each other. Graduale 4 is a kind of procession that recalls the 7 Interludes – related vocal works that I wrote a year before.