[CANCELLED] Sounding Limits: Pascale Criton, Silvia Tarozzi, Deborah Walker
Online: Free | In person: $15
- Silvia Tarozzi, violin
- Deborah Walker, cello
Constellation's upcoming presentation of international artists Pascale Criton, Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker on February 1 and 2 has been postponed due to circumstances beyond their control.
Since the 1980s Pascale Criton has been exploring sound variability, microtunings, multisensory reception and the spatialization of listening. Between 1974 and 1987, Criton was the music advisor of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Criton’s work focuses on the sound continuum, informed by these experiences as well as studies with microtonal pioneer Ivan Wyschnegradsky, spectralist Gérard Grisey, contemporary music composer Jean-Etienne Marie, and training in electroacoustic and musical computing. Her compositions use non-standard tunings of string instruments often referred to as a scordatura, which have become a trademark of her technique.
Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker are actively involved in the fields of contemporary experimental music and free improvisation. Together with Pascale Criton they have been exploring microtonal extended techniques and gestural processes on a violin and a cello tuned in 1/16 of a tone. The compositions that have resulted from this process are considered as corporal scripts. They challenge the perception of form and the role of interpretation, transforming it into a creative process. Time and motion are no longer defined by pitches and metrical systems but are embodied as diagrams and moods. Pascale has described that her interest in micro-intervals “goes hand in hand with my attraction to small differences: small intervals that reveal the qualities of sound, from the complex components of timbre to those of noise. They allow the introduction of minute variations in time and movement. These slight differences stimulate awareness of sensations, variations in speed, degrees of fluidity and energy involved in dynamic transformations. The microtonal tuning renews the expressive sensitivity of the instruments and calls for attentive listening to control tiny sonic variables while experiencing the limits of perception.”
In-person attendance: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required upon entry.