Experimental Affinities in Music - Media Repository

This online repository contains complementary materials to the publication Experimental Affinities in Music. The materials include audio and video recordings of performances that took place during the Orpheus Academies 2011, 2012, 2013, and at the Orpheus Research Festival 2012. These examples should be viewed in connection with their respective chapters in the publication.

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Experimental Affinities in Music (Paulo de Assis, ed.)

Academy 2012: Experimentation versus Interpretation

Academy 2011: Aspects of Artistic Experimentation in Early Music

Videos related to Chapter Three: “Vieltönigkeit” instead of Microtonality - The Theory and Practice of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century “Microtonal” Music.

Author: Martin Kirnbauer and Johannes Keller Chapter
reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461661883.ch03

Videos related to Chapter Four: “Inscriptions: An Interview with Helmut Lachenmann”

Chapter reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461661883.ch04

Videos related to Chapter Five: Nuance and Innovation in Part I of the “48”.

Author: Mark Lindley
Chapter reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461661883.ch05

Suite in F#-minor from the Premier Livre de Pièces de Viole (1689) by Marin Marais: Prélude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue.

Performers: Dirk Moelants (viola da gamba), and Nicoleta Paraschivescu (harpsichord) | Date of recording: 04.04.2011 | Recording: Orpheus Institute

Le Labyrinthe from the Quatrième Livre de Pièces de Viole (1711) also by Marin Marais.

Performers: Dirk Moelants (viola da gamba), and Nicoleta Paraschivescu (harpsichord) | Date of recording: 04.04.2011 | Recording: Orpheus Institute

Audio related to Chapter Seven: "From Clockwork to Pulsation - Music and Artificial Life in the Eighteenth Century."

Author: Lawrence Kramer
Chapter reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461661883.ch07

Title of composition: Pulsation | Year of composition: 2010-2011 | Composer: Lawrence Kramer | Performers: Carlo-Andrea Berti (violin), Anzhim Medetbayeva (viola), Sara Verheyen (violoncello), Lucie De Ley (piano) | Date of recording: March 2013 | Recording: Orpheus Institute

Videos related to Chapter Chapter Eleven: "Testing Respect(fully) - An Interview with Frederic Rzewski"

Author: Luk Vaes
Chapter reference: http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461661883.ch11

Felix Mendelssohn, Sechs Lieder ohne Worte opus 38, #6 (Andante con moto) Performer: Frederik Rzewski | Date of recording: 27.04.2012 | Recording: Orpheus Institute

Robert Schumann, Noveletten opus 21, #2 (Äusserst rasch und mit Bravour) Performer: Frederik Rzewski | Date of recording: 27.04.2012 | Recording: Orpheus Institute