Opening Concert
Friday, 16 October 2020
KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Am Sudhaus 3, 12053 Berlin
Please note : due to COVID19-related travel restrictions, Helge Slaatto and Frank Reinecke were unable to perform live at Harmonic Space 2020
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
SET 1
Part 1
For Ann (rising) (1969/2020) | James Tenney
M.O. Abbott, Tomoko Ono, Thomas Nicholson, Marc Sabat (continuum fingerboard)
Harmonium #7 (2000) | James Tenney
The Harmonic Space Orchestra:
M.O. Abbott (trombone), Johnny Chang (violin), Sam 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)
with 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)
Jonathan Heilbron (double bass)
II. A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROUND for Philip Corner – March 1970
Stine Janvin (voice)
Part 2
Postal Pieces (cont’d)
III. (night) 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)
Marc Sabat (violin)
V. MAXIMUSIC for Max Neuhaus – 6/16/65
Hannes Lingens (cymbal)
with the Harmonic Space Orchestra
VI. Swell Piece for Alison Knowles – 12/67
The Harmonic Space Orchestra with Tomoko Ono (continuum fingerboard)
SET 2
Part 1
Postal Pieces (cont’d)
VII(a). Swell Piece No. 2 for Pauline Oliveros – March, 1971
VII(b). Swell Piece No. 3 with respect to La Monte Young and his COMPOSITION 1960, No. 7 – March, 1971
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)
Part 2
’Scend for Scelsi (1996) | James Tenney
Philipp Gerschlauer (alto saxophone)
with the Harmonic Space Orchestra, Elena Margarita Kakaliagou (horn), Sam Stoll (horn), Matthew Conley (trumpet), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), Frank Reinecke (double bass), Helge Slaatto (violin)