Partitions And Resonances - Frederic Rasten + Clara Levy

Partitions & Resonances present a listening series of compositions by Wandelweiser and related composers/artists/sound artists at Audio Foundation.Curated by composer-performer Johnny Chang, the series aims to re-focus the action of
listening in the context of the performance space and will take place on the last Saturday of the month.

Tunings (1)
Fredrik Rasten: Dyads for solo violin (2020, world premiere)
Clara Levy: 13 Visions after Pauline Oliveros” & Hildegard von Bingen

Clara Levy
Clara Levy (BE/FR), graduated in violin performance at The Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (2016), under the guidance of Naaman Sluchin. She completed an « Advanced Master » in Contemporary music at Kask, mentored by Ictus & Spectra musicians and also has a violin teaching degree from Conservatoire Royal de Mons. She now dedicates her time to contemporary music, performance and improvisation. She plays with ensembles such as Hanatsu Miroir, Ictus, Nemo, Contemporary Insights and co-funded two collectives : Hyperborée and C_IME. She is a regular collaborator of the Düsseldorf based performance collective Rotterdam Presenta. Since March 2022 on, she is the co-curator with Yann Leguay for the SMOG concert series in Brussels.



Fredrik Rasten (b. 1988)
Fredrik Rasten is a guitarist and composer working in the field of experimental music, both improvised and composed. His main focuses are exploring and utilizing the acoustic possibilities of the steel string guitar, motivated by a fascination for the almost tactile experiences of acoustic phenomena. In recent years he has been working extensively with just intonation, taking an extended concept of consonance as a point of departure. He has studied in this field with Catherine Lamb and Marc Sabat in Berlin. In his work he is also inspired by wandelweiser music, traditional british folk and early music.

http://fredrikrasten.com/

JOHNNY CHANG
Composer-performer Johnny Chang engages in extended explorations surrounding the relationships of sound/listening and the in-between areas of improvisation, composition and performance.

Johnny has been a part of the Wandelweiser composers collective since 2012 and in 2018, initiated a new framework for the presentation of creative research and performances, Partitions & Resonances, aimed at encouraging new and ongoing collaborations between the varied disciplines of composition, musicology, historical research and performance. He currently collaborates with: Antoine Beuger, Phil Dadson, Sam Dunscombe, Keir GoGwilt, Catherine Lamb, Klaus Lang, Mike Majkowski, Phill Niblock, Derek Shirley, Taku Sugimoto, Eric Wong.

As composer and performer, his articulated performances have been featured in: Staatsoper/ OperaLab//DAAD Mikromusik/MaerzMusik (Berlin), Donaueschingen Musiktage, DNK Days/Sonic Acts Festival/Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Gaudeamus (Utrecht), Insub.Festival/cave12 (Geneva), Cafe OTO (London), Moment Musicaux (Aarau), Dampfzentrale (Bern), Q-O2 workspace (Brussels), Wandelweiser Klangraum (Düsseldorf), Klang im Turm (Munich), Minimal Jukebox (Los Angeles Philharmonic), Pardon To Tu (Warsaw), Umlaut Festival (Berlin & Paris), Audio Foundation (NZ) to various music series/venues in Berlin such as Staatsoper unter den Linden, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, KINDL Centre for contemporary art, ausland, Labor Sonor, Sophiensaele, KM28.

https://www.wandelweiser.de/johnny-chang.html