Presence and resonance (four compositions 2014-2019)

This submission consists of four compositions: Prado florido (2014), Folto giardino I (2016), Folto giardino II (2018) and Apollo e Marsyas (2019). This sequence explores the co-existence of new music creation and the vast landscape of historical music – music that is at once de-historicised by participating in our contemporary culture and re-historicised by an ever-increasing awareness of practice and context. Reconciling Impett’s range of practices: composition, improvisation, sound art, contemporary and historical performance, they take their structure, material and performance dynamics (in the form of sound processing) from the music to which they refer: Prado florido (parts I & III) – Prado verde y florido (Guerrero, Lisbon, late C16th) Folto giardino I and II – Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart, Prague, 1786) Apollo e Marsyas – Paeans of Delphi (128 BCE), depicted by Tintoretto (1545) The sequence brings new light to bear on significant aspects of current musical culture: •Pan-historicity. The nonlinearity of personal and cultural memory through techniques of reference, fragmentation, mediated rehearing, interference, the re-mapping of ‘knowledge' and nostalgia. •Conceptual and technical integration of computer-assisted composition, live sound processing and physical installation. Treating materials as wave behaviours; new wave algorithms allow their interaction across both composition- and performance-time. Simulation is a key modern technology; the ‘winds’ of a meteorologically-inspired dynamical system move, energise and disperse sound and material through time, embodied behaviours, physical environments. •Current practices – exploring the ideas through detailed score, player-specific collaboration, ‘comprovisation’ and sound art approaches. •Physical environment – whether a ‘meadow’ of cymbals, a ‘dense garden’ of long wires across audience and performers or the long resonant tubes of Marsyas’ aulos, the installations are playable and function as both microphones and loudspeakers.

- (2017) Prado Florido (after Guerrero)
Ensemble La Tricotea & Jonathan Impett
Breathless
- (2016) Folto Giardino I
Solo percussionist, ensemble, installation and computers
- (2018) Folto Giardino II
Chamber ensemble, live electronics and installation
- (2017)Folto giardino: hybrid cross-pollination of score, performance, installation and technology. Leonardo Music Journal.
This article presents a series of works for chamber ensemble (incorporating both scored and improvised material), electronics and an installation of long strings.
- (2019) Apollo e Marsyas
Apollo e Marsyas. Viola d’amore, installation and computer. Marco Fusi – viola d’amore.

Venue Details

Prado florido
Location: Doopsgezinde kerk, Zaandam, The Netherlands
Dates: 17 Oct 2014