A cross-section of the complex art of Klarenz Barlow will be presented at the concert evening with a selection drawn from the artist’s early and current works. In addition to ensemble works and solo pieces, the program also covers recordings of electronic and instrumental pieces. Certainly one of the highlights is two automatic grand pianos with the help of which some of the composers other pieces are also presented.
The concert evening, to take place in the presence of Klarenz Barlow, comprises part of a week-long workshop with public lectures in which Klarenz Barlow composes on software-supported programs and draws on algorithms and numerics in the design of music, but also shows the connection between music and the visual.
Klarenz Barlow
Born in Calcutta, Barlow studied both Indian art music as well as composers at the Cologne Academy of Music under Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He began composing electro-acoustic pieces as early as the 1970s, and lectured at Darmstadt Holiday Courses from 1982 to 1994. He taught computer music at the Cologne Academy of Music until 2006. In addition, Klarenz Barlow held a Guest Professorship for composition and radio plays at Folkwang University Essen, and was Artistic Director at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. He is currently Professor and Director of Composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Program
Four pieces for Disklavier by Klarenz Barlow (16 min)
| »or a cherish'd bard...« (1998) |
| »Les Ciseaux de Tom Johnson« (1998) |
| »Kurti Suti Bekar« (1998) |
| »3:4:5« (2004) |
Three short instrumental pieces by Klarenz Barlow (11 min)
| »25 anéis« (2010) |
for flute, clarinets, cello and piano |
| »Pinball Play« (2010) |
for four clarinets (alternative viola) |
| »KQJZ« (2013) |
for piano |
Three pieces of electronic musix by Klarenz Barlow (24 min)
| »Sinophonie I« (1970) |
| »Sonbird’s Hour Octasected« (2011) |
| »Für Simon Jonassohn-Stein« (2012) |
