FESTIVAL SPECTRUM XXI - 2009

Spectrum XXI international festival of Spectral Music, Fourth Edition

Presents the Hyperion Ensemble, the Bergersen String Quartet (London) and the Talea Ensemble ( New York)
Conductors:Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram
Soloists: Alice Teyssier ( flute), Rane Moore, Tim Hodgkinson (clarinets, bass clarinets), Elizabeth Weisser ( viola) David Requiro ( cello) Anthony Cheung (piano), Alex Lipowski & Gustavo Aguilar ( percussion)

music by Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, Giacinto Scelsi, Iannis Xenakis,
Tim Hodgkinson, Costin Cazaban, Horatiu radulescu, Mario Diaz de Leon.
October 12th, 13th and 15th, from 7 pm, “The Warehouse”, London ( 13th Theed st, London SE1)
October 17th, from 7 pm, “LSO St Luke’s (161 Old St. EC1V 9N6)

“Spectral music is not an epiphenomenon, an accident, an odd eccentric on the musical map, deprived of any consequences, but a vast ocean, fed by numerous rivers and brooks increasingly vigorous . Besides, spectralism comes in Romania from a natural language, at an anthropological level, directly connected to the very acoustic base of the sound” ( Harry Halbreich a o: “Spectral music at the beginning of XXI century”)


* “The death of compositional music?! Dumitrescu and Avram are successful rebuttals. Although two of the most compelling and exciting living composers...” Josh RONSEN, Austin, Texas

* "The extraordinary and uncategoriseable Dumitrescu / Avram team..." Chris CUTLER, ReR Megacorp – London

* "Iancu DUMITRESCU and Ana-Maria AVRAM. They have become leading figures in contemporary classical music, developing a musical language that sweeps boldly from very small scale insect-like sounds to vast noise laden soundscapes. In recent times they have attracted a lot of attention from musicians outside of the classical field, as the music is relevant to the post-ambient, post noise, post classical aesthetic which is the sound of the moment. “ FORCED EXPOSURE – Boston

* "Dumitrescu’s acousmatic compositions are restless, detailed forays into the aesthetic of noise, dramatically penetrating the very fabric of instruments and articulating entirely new sounds - by turns violent, reflective, impassioned and eerily disarming."
London. Royal Festival Hall, New Aura Series, LMC-BBC 3, march 1997

“Seems 
like these Romanians are engaged in a similar kind of sonic research to that which resulted on the masterpieces of Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio Morricone: collective endeavor, genuine "deep listening". The results are similarly overpowering, a million miles from the tooting inconsequence or most of what passes for New Music in the classical world." Ben WATSON - "The WIRE", London

Dumitrescu's work is a negation, from the depths, of everything in contemporary music symptomatic of distraction, of banalisation, and of a radical loss of purpose. His music is not a new convolution in the knot of modern music, but an unraveling of the curse. (...)" Tim HODGKINSON - RESONANCE Magazine - London

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