QUATUOR BOZZINI – LANDS WITH NO MAPS

QUATUOR BOZZINI – LANDS WITH NO MAPS

DOUBLE INTERDISCIPLINARY SCORE WORKSHOP 

 

Part One – The Music of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, and Catherine Mole

 

March 26th 2-4PM MST

Interactive Digital Presentation 

Pay-What-You-Can

  

Suggested Donations Per Workshop:

 

$0 – For those for whom attendance would not be possible without a zero-cost option. Low-income/precariously employed, Covid economic casualties, no savings and/or financial support from family; queer, trans, disabled, chronically ill, BIPOC; little to no expendable income each month.

 

$10 - For those who would need to consult their budget before attending a show or purchasing a new record: low income with some expendable income each month. 

 

$25 - For those for who can afford cultural workshops and musical entertainment without any real financial anxiety: mid- to high-income/stably employed.

 

$50 –For those for who can attend cultural workshops and musical entertainment on a regular basis with no financial anxiety, and who want to contribute a little something extra to future scholarships for low-income artists and/or audience members.

 

Income tier descriptions inspired by the work of Margeaux Feldman. 
http://margeauxfeldman.com/soft-magic

This workshop will be hosted via Zoom, with a link and password sent via email to those who register the day before the event. 

 

LANDS WITH NO MAPS 

A principle is a way to make a map where no map exists.  The landscape is there already, but a map might help you decide where to go.

Entering the landscape without a map is also fine, so long as that’s what you want to do.

- Jonathan Burrows, from A Choreographer’s Handbook (2010)

 

Join us for a unique, two-part workshop series with acclaimed Montreal-based string quartet Quatuor Bozzini. We’ll be exploring the music and scores of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, and Catherine Mole.  We’ll also be offering a workshop-rehearsal wherein QB will try out experimental scores submitted by anyone interested in trying out some new ideas with the quartet.  

 

Part One – The Music of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, and Catherine Mole

March 26th 2-4PM MST

 

In this presentation-performance, QB will break down the art of text-based scoring, the boundaries between direction and improvisation, and possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration that are present within unconventional score formats.  This workshop is ideal for students and professional (or anti-professional) artists across disciplines, as well as anyone with an interest in experimental collaboration.

 

All are welcome.

 

Part Two - Experimental Score Workshop  

 

April 9th 2-4PM MST

Workshop-Rehearsal of Submitted Scores

Pay-What-You-Can

OPEN TO ANYONE WHO HAS SUBMITTED A SCORE

 

Would you like to have an experimental piece workshopped and performed by QB?  We’ll be accepting score submissions up until April 2, 2021.  If you have an experimental score that you’d like QB to try out, please send a .PDF file, as well as a few sentences introducing yourself, to artisticdirector@newworkscalgary.ca.  Please limit your idea to a duration of five minutes (can be less ☺ ).

 

2-5 submissions will be selected, depending on duration in relation to the total number of submissions.  The deadline for your score creation, April 2nd, has been set one week before the second workshop, so that QB has time to review the scores, and communicate any questions to you in advance of the workshop.

 

We especially encourage womxn, LGBTQIA+, Black, Indigenous, and other racialized folx, and artists living with chronic illness and/or disabilities to submit a score! 

 

Please note: this second workshop will not be open to the general public, as we are working to ensure it is a safe and supportive space for everyone having their work rehearsed and discussed.  Anyone who submits a score may attend!

This workshop will be hosted via Source-Live, with a link and password sent via email to those who register the day before the event.