18:00 | Doors Open – Visual Installation

Light rope spiral | Mareike Yin‑Yee Lee & Catalina Fernandez

Inspired by Catherine Lamb’s work with spiral visualisations of harmonic space

Phases (detail) | Mareike Yin‑Yee Lee

Site specific installation

Postal Pieces (1965–71)

Projections of James Tenney’s scores

18:30 | Set 1a

For Ann (Rising) (1969/2020) | James Tenney

M.O. Abbott, Tomoko Ono, Thomas Nicholson (continuum fingerboard)

Harmonium #7 (2000) | James Tenney

M.O. Abbott (trombone), Johnny Chang (violin), Samue Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jonathan Heilbron (double bass), Catherine Lamb (viola), Rebecca Lane (quartertone bass flute), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Marc Sabat (violin), Chiyoko Szlavnics (soprano saxophone), Frank Reinecke (double bass), Helge Slaatto (violin)

Postal Pieces (1965–71) | James Tenney

I. Beast for Buell Neidlinger – 7/30/71

Frank Reinecke (double bass)

II. A Rose Is A Rose Is A Round for Philip Corner – March 1970

Stine Janvin (voice)

Pause*

19:45 | Set 1b

Postal Pieces (cont’d)

III. (night.) “for percussion perhaps, or ....” for Harold Budd – 7/30/71

Johnny Chang, Catherine Lamb, Fredrik Rasten, Hannes Lingens

IV. KOAN for Malcolm Goldstein – 8/16/71

Helge Slaatto (violin)

V. MAXIMUSIC for Max Neuhaus – 6/16/65

Hannes Lingens (cymbal)

VI. Swell Piece for Alison Knowles – 12/67

M.O. Abbott (trombone), Johnny Chang (violin), Samue Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jonathan Heilbron (double bass), Catherine Lamb (viola), Rebecca Lane (quartertone bass flute), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Marc Sabat (violin), Chiyoko Szlavnics (soprano saxophone), Tomoko Ono (continuum fingerboard)

Pause*

21:15 | Set 2a

Postal Pieces (cont’d)

VII(a). SWELL PIECE NO. 2 for Pauline Oliveros – March, 1971

M.O. Abbott (trombone), Johnny Chang (violin), Samue Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jonathan Heilbron (double bass), Catherine Lamb (viola), Rebecca Lane (quartertone bass flute), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Marc Sabat (violin), Chiyoko Szlavnics (soprano saxophone),

VII(b). SWELL PIECE NO. 3 with respect to La Monte Young and his COMPOSITION 1960, No. 7 – March, 1971

M.O. Abbott (trombone), Johnny Chang (violin), Samue Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jonathan Heilbron (double bass), Catherine Lamb (viola), Rebecca Lane (bass flute), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Marc Sabat (violin), Chiyoko Szlavnics (soprano saxophone),

VIII. August Harp for Susan Allen – 8/17/71

Marta Garcia Gomez (harp)

IX. CELLOGRAM for Joel Krosnick – 8/17/71

Judith Hamann (cello)

X. HAVING NEVER WRITTEN A NOTE FOR PERCUSSION for for John Bergamo – 8/6/71

Hannes Lingens (tam-tam)

Pause*

22:30 | Set 2b

Phases for Edgard Varèse (1963) | James Tenney

electronic

’Scend for Scelsi (1996) | James Tenney

Philipp Gerschlauer (alto saxophone)
with M.O. Abbott (trombone), Johnny Chang (violin), Samue Dunscombe (clarinet), Judith Hamann (cello), Jonathan Heilbron (double bass), Catherine Lamb (viola), Rebecca Lane (bass flute), Thomas Nicholson (viola), Michiko Ogawa (clarinet), Lucy Railton (cello), Fredrik Rasten (guitar), Marc Sabat (violin), Chiyoko Szlavnics (soprano saxophone), Elena Margarita Kakaliagou (horn), Samuel Stoll (horn), Matthew Conley (trumpet), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), Frank Reinecke (double bass), Helge Slaatto (violin)

* in accordance with Berlin's COVID19 restrictions and regulations, the space must be vacated and ventilated for 30 minutes during each pause