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Arturo Fuentes: Poème Maudit

Cursed poem

His genius was his curse, for many this phrase means what it is to be an artist: a creator who is misunderstood by his contemporaries, rejecting established norms, the rules of art and social conventions. So it was for Arthur Rimbaud, a poet of transgressive subjects who influenced modern literature and the arts. Jim Morrison, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, André Bretton, Henry Miller, Pier Paolo Pasolini and many more were influenced by his poetry. For us, as artists in the composition and the music, it would be pertinent to ask: How much are we transgressors of established aesthetic norms?

Poème maudit is a sound work and a staging as if we were entering a Rimbaud dream, ecstatic by opium and Absinthe, with an expanded time and space such as his Illuminations or A seasson in hell. Young actress Alice Crepaz-Fuentes declaims the poetry of Rimbaud and other cursed poets such as Verlaine, Baudelaire and Trackl; her voice is modified electronically and mixed with the effects of the ALEPH Gitarrenquartett and the members of the Jugend-Gitarrenorchester Baden-Württenberg. Poème maudit (Cursed poem) is a scenographic concert that incorporates the microtonal, the minimalist and the spectral sonorities, and as in other of my scenic works, here we discover the dark psychology of a character, Rimbaud, on a sound journey.
Arturo Fuentes

Biography

Arturo Fuentes

His musical path has taken the Mexican/Austrian composer Arturo Fuentes (*1975 in Mexico) from Milan to Paris, Innsbruck and Vienna. His catalog, published by LondonHall Editions, includes a hundred works, from solo pieces to orchestral works and operas. Over the course of 25 years, various “exploratory phases” from the complexity of composition to harmonic-spectral form to a microtonal-minimalist sonority have shaped and enriched his style. Composing, he says, is like “getting lost in a labyrinth”; like Paul Klee, he wants to let “the line determine his path” in order to discover a “dramaturgy of sound.” His music, including works with live electronics, is “kaleidoscopic and colorful.” His theoretical research includes music informatics and the philosophical aspects of the act of composition, based on Wittgenstein and the hermeneutic critique of representation. Fuentes also directs his own musical theater, opera, and dance pieces, developing concept, script, and dramaturgy, and designing lighting and set in keeping with the musical idea. He also produces and directs his own videos and short films, establishing a link with his photographic work.

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aleph Gitarrenquartett

Andrés Hernández Alba, Tillmann Reinbeck, Wolfgang Sehringer und Christian Wernicke arbeiten seit der Gründung des Aleph Gitarrenquartetts 1994 in intensiver Zusammenarbeit mit Komponist:innen, Toningenieur:innen und Akustiker:innen daran, die musikalische Sprache und die Spieltechniken des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts für ihre Besetzung voranzubringen. Mittlerweile ist so ein umfangreiches, neues und zukunftweisendes Repertoire für klassische Gitarre entstanden, das fortwährend erweitert wird. Viele Werke, u.a. von Mathias Spahlinger, Nicolaus A. Huber, Bernhard Lang, Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Zeynep Gedizlioglu und Irene Galindo Quero, wurden dabei eigens für das Aleph Gitarrenquartett geschrieben. Das Quartett gastiert bei den großen Festivals zeitgenössischer Musik und in den wichtigen europäische Auditorien, oft auch in Zusammenarbeit mit Gästen wie Sarah Maria Sun und Daisy Press. Workshops und CD-Einspielungen ergänzen regelmäßig die Ensembletätigkeit.

Biography

Arturo Fuentes

His musical path has taken the Mexican/Austrian composer Arturo Fuentes (*1975 in Mexico) from Milan to Paris, Innsbruck and Vienna. His catalog, published by LondonHall Editions, includes a hundred works, from solo pieces to orchestral works and operas. Over the course of 25 years, various “exploratory phases” from the complexity of composition to harmonic-spectral form to a microtonal-minimalist sonority have shaped and enriched his style. Composing, he says, is like “getting lost in a labyrinth”; like Paul Klee, he wants to let “the line determine his path” in order to discover a “dramaturgy of sound.” His music, including works with live electronics, is “kaleidoscopic and colorful.” His theoretical research includes music informatics and the philosophical aspects of the act of composition, based on Wittgenstein and the hermeneutic critique of representation. Fuentes also directs his own musical theater, opera, and dance pieces, developing concept, script, and dramaturgy, and designing lighting and set in keeping with the musical idea. He also produces and directs his own videos and short films, establishing a link with his photographic work.

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Arturo Fuentes: Poème Maudit

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