Tzlil Meudcan 2019 | 29 June – 04 July

Saturday, June 29th, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

10:00 – 17:00 // Symposium – “Suppression, Censorship, Forgetting”

10:30 Tzlil Meudcan: “Curtain Up”
Reception and festival presentation with Anat Viks
Roman Haubenstock Ramati, Konstellationen #1 for 2 performers (1971)

10:45 Lecture:  “Historiographical Silhouettes, Musicological Constraints”
Dr. Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem):
Roman Haubenstock Ramati, Konstellationen #2 for 3 performers (1971)

12:15 Talk: “This machine kills fascists (and hunts rhinos)”
Yaron Deutsch talking to director, author and Journalist Haim Shadmi
Lois V. Vierk, Go Guitars for guitar & tape (1981)

14:30 Composers talk: “Working desk”
Musicologists Noam Peleg and Inbar Shifrin hosting composers Avshalom Ariel, Yair Klartag, Maayan Tsadka and Amnon Wolman.
Amnon Wolman, No Turns for four performers and four loud-speakers (2019) World Premiere

16:00 Panel: “Four observations on silence & silencing”
Panel with Uri Agnon, Uri Jacob, Torbjørn Ottersen and Rebecca Zola
Roman Haubenstock Ramati, Konstellationen #3 for four performers (1971)

Performers at the gallery: Ilan Volkov, Imri Talgam, Dennis Sobolev, Maayan Tsadka & FICTA

Also Through the Day:
Exhibition: Fragments with works by Tal Amitai-Lavie & Amir Tomashov
Film: Cut It Out – Renowned Filmmakers from 20 countries around the globe produce films against censorship.
Ruth Anderson, I Come Out of Your Sleep for four channel tape (1997)

Monday, July 1st, Hateiva, Jaffa

20:00 Diotima Quartet (France)
Bela Bartok, Fourth String Quartet (1928)
Rebecca Saunders, Unbreathed for String Quartet (2017)
Helmut Lachenmann, Third String Quartet, Grido (2001/2)

22:00 Hyper Duo (Switzerland)
Wolfgang Heiniger, Heimat 2 for keyboard and drumset (2019)
⇒ Interlude| Daniele Ghisi, Electronic Study #1, Glissando (2017)
Sarah Nemtsov, White Eyes Erased for keyboard and drumset (2014/15)
⇒ Interlude | Daniele Ghisi, Electronic Study #2, Clapping (2017)
Yoav Chorev, Heatwave for keyboard and drumset (2019) World Premiere
⇒ Interlude | Daniele Ghisi, Electronic Study #3, Money Note (2017)
Julien Mégroz & Gilles Grimaître, Cadavre exquis for keyboard, drumset and video
Simon Steen-Andersen, Difficulties Putting it into Practice for 2 performers on a table and video (2007)
⇒ Interlude | Daniele Ghisi, Electronic Study #4, Goodbye (2017)

Tuesday, July 2nd, Hateiva, Jaffa

20:00 Ensemble Musikfabrik (Germany)
Rebecca Saunders, Quartet for Clarinet, Accordion, Double bass and Piano (1998)
Mordecai Seter, The Double for Clarinet and Piano (1986)
Rebecca Saunders, Fury for Double bass Solo (2005)
Yair Klartag, Keep Cool but Care for Clarinet, Accordion, Double bass and Piano (2019) World Premiere

21:30 Quadrophonia
Steve Reich, Four Organs (1970)
Milton Babbitt, Philomel for Soprano and Tape (1964)
Ma’ayan Tsadka, Jeduah (or: The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary) for four double basses,  tuning forks and amplified leaves (2019) World Premiere

Performers:
Ulrich Loeffler, Antoine Françoise, Gilles Grimaître, Imri Talgam (REICH)
Eran Borovich, Orr Sinay, Nadav Masel, Florentin Ginot, Maayan Tsadka (TSADKA)
Juliet Fraser (BABBITT)

Wednesday, July 3rd, Hateiva, Jaffa

20:00 Nikel, Fraser, Ginot, Ariel, Sterev
Beat Furrer, Lotofagos for voice and double bass (2006)
Avshalom Ariel, Shirim for voice, e-guitar and accordion (2018) World Premiere
Bernard Lang, DW16 for voice, saxophone, percussion and piano (2004)

22:00 Shira Legmann (Israel)
Michael Pisaro, Barricades for piano and electronics (2018/19) World Premiere
In collaboration with Musica Nova

Thursday, July 4th, Hateiva, Jaffa

20:00 Ensemble Musikfabrik (Germany)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mikrophonie I for tam tam, 2 microphones, and 2 filters (1964)
John Cage, Four6 for four performers (1992)

21:30 Ilan Volkov & Ensemble FICTA (Israel)
Alvin Lucier, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Memory Space #1 for ensemble (1970)
Roman Haubenstock Ramati, Konstellationen for ensemble (1971)
FICTA – Musica Ficta No.1 for ensemble (2019) World Premiere
Jennifer Welsh, Zusammen ii for ensemble (2015)
Alvin Lucier, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Memory Space #2 for ensemble (1970)

Tuesday – Thursday 2-4 July, Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv

12:00 – 16:00 musicological seminars w. Prof. Christopher Fox (England), Dr. Assaf Shelleg (Israel)
During this year’s festival, Tzlil Meudcan will be holding musicological seminars for a selected group of graduate and post-graduate students. While these roundtables are designed for the musicological group, their discussions are open for the public. The sessions will be directed by Prof. Christopher Fox (Brunel University) and Dr. Assaf Shelleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
The musicological sessions will be held on July 2-4, 12-4pm, at the Goethe Institute in Tel Aviv. Each day will be dedicated to a different topic: The first day will deal with the notion of contemporaneity in art in general and art music in particular; the second day, in accordance with this year’s festival theme, will deal with alternative quartet while focusing on Stockhausen’s 1964 Mikrophonie I and Saunders 1998 Quarter for accordion, clarinet, double bass, and piano; the third and last day will discuss the challenge that contemporary compositional aesthetics pose to contemporary musicology. The last segment of this session will feature a guest talk by Prof. Lev Koblyakov (Parkland College) on the evolution of musical language and formal thinking in modern and contemporary musics.