World Premiere, commissioned by CONTAINER // FOUR project
The experience of learning an instrument in the academy – the violin in my case – is often infused with strict discipline and obedience: an effort associated with suffering. Do(u)ble quartet. A queer treatise on violin playing, Vol. 1 takes the canonical violin treatises (Germiniani, Mozart, Herrando) as a starting point to subvert the normativity of directive pedagogy and proposes an alternative manual, an exercise in deviation in which four performers experience the possibility of expanding and subverting the instrument: a single electric violin.
ON PROGRAM
do(u)ble quartet (2023)*
Fran MM Cabeza de Vaca (1976-)
Black Horizon (2009)
Marko Ciciliani (1970-)
Table book (2023)*
Svetlana Maraš (1985-)
TOUR DATES:
May 16th 2023 – Walcheturm, Zürich 20H
May 17th 2023 – PROGR, Bern 19H
May 19th 2023 – Kaserne, Basel 20H30