Echoes from the Moon. Im memoriam Pauline Oliveros

Program

Herbert Lacina: Vom Wasserspeicher zum Mond … und zurück. Hommage an Pauline Oliveros (2021 UA)
Pauline Oliveros: Sonic meditations (1971)

Cast

One.Night.Band: Ensemble Mia Zabelka, Andreas Bosshard, Herbert Lacina, Zahra Mani
Mia Zabelka: Violine, E-Violine, Stimme, Elektronik
Andres Bosshard: Elektronik (über Live-Schaltung)
Herbert Lacina: 12-String Bass, Shruti-Box, Elektronik
Zahra Mani: E-Bass, Field Recordings, Elektronik (über Live-Schaltung)

Pauline Oliveros, born 1932 in Houston, Texas, died 2016 in New York City, is an inspiring exception in the context of this year’s festival theme ‘Stimmung’. As composer, accordeonist, director of the Center for Music Experiment at the University of California San Diego from 1967 to 1981 and as initiator of ‘Deep Listening’, she has developed a very personal perspective on the musical process of tuning: what needs to be tuned exactly and attentively, first and foremost for her, is the human. No wonder that her Sonic Meditations brought together over 4 600 participants/listeners from over 30 countries on all continents on Zoom during COVID lockdown in April 2020. As former companions, Mia Zabelka, the Swiss sound artist Andreas Bosshard and Zahra Mani as well as Herbert Lacina create a very personal homage in what remains the smallest venue of Wien Modern. In addition to the Sonic Meditations, they will reflect on Pauline Oliveros’ experiment with audible echos from the surface of the moon, presented at the Salzburger Festspiele 1997.

The originally announced premieres by Zahra Mani and Mia Zabelka & Andres Bosshard have sadly been postponed as of the 24th October, 2020. Andres Bosshard and Zahra Mani cannot travel to Vienna at the moment due to health reasons. Their participation in the concert is planned via live connection, the two pieces, however, are not realisable under these circumstances. The premieres are planned for November 2021.

Pauline Olivieros

Photo: Jack Mitchell (Getty Images)

Im Rahmen von Brandstätte Improvised Music Club, kuratiert von Mia Zabelka und Herbert Lacina
Produktion SFIEMA
Koproduktion Wien Modern