van Houdt plays Chiari and Baroni
Schedule
Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
KM28 | Berlin, BE
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Claudio F. Baroni, Re-Genetic Mutation for piano and tapeperformed by Reinier van Houdt with Claudio F. Baroni
Giuseppe Chiari, INTERVALLI
Reinier van Houdt, piano
Wed Apr 29 | Doors 20:00 | Start 20:30
KM28, Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin
Re-Genetic Mutation (released on Unsounds in 2025) is part of Baroni's recent series on the spoken word, incorporating voice and lyrics from Robert Ashley's Love Sure Is a Good Example (1991). Baroni sets recorded speech against acoustic and electronic pitched sounds. The instrumental material emerges entirely from digitally aided speech analysis, which identifies occurrences of Western scale pitches within the natural intonations of speech. From these pitches, Baroni selects and assigns certain tones to instruments and electronics.
Giuseppe Chiari's Intervalli (1951-58) might be the first truly minimalist piece in music history. There are no themes, motifs, sequences, or sets in this piece—not even patterns: only intervals, conjugated in various movements—movements of expansion, contraction, addition, subtraction, etc. In each of the 12 parts, 12 intervals are processed in various ingenious, breakneck ways that amaze with their diversity, timbre, and movement.
Reinier van Houdt is a leading contemporary pianist with a fascination for matters that escape notation: sound, timing, space, physicality, memory, noise, and environment—that which exists beyond composition, interpretation and improvisation. Aside from his own music, he has premiered works by Robert Ashley, Alvin Curran, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Francisco López, Christian Marclay, Charlemagne Palestine, Petra Strahovnik, Arnold Dreyblatt, Maria de Alvear, Jerry Hunt, Michael Pisaro, Walter Marchetti, Jürg Frey, Nomi Epstein, and Lucie Nezri. He has also worked with Annea Lockwood, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, Luc Ferrari, Peter Ablinger.
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