Fluxus Today

negra40 Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen Club del Teatro present

Fluxus today

Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler performance Bruno Mesz piano and performance

Saturday, November 7, 2015 9:30 pm. Club del Teatro, Rivadavia 3422. Mar del Plata, Argentina www.negra40.com

Tickets $50.- (discounts for students and DNI Cultural cardholders)

Program

Before (1994). (Piano version) and Bögen (1999). For three performers. Kunsu Shim

Kokkala III (2013). For voices and toy piano. Kunsu Shim/Gerhard Stäbler

Participation (Introduction) Für Sprechen / Lautgedichte (Sound poem) for voice (1994). Josef A. Riedl. …alternating with… 30 Things (2005). For piano. Kunsu Shim

JC/NY (1992) and Tempo! (2008). Gerhard Stäbler

AugenTanz and MundStücke (1999). For one performer. Gerhard Stäbler

Cassandra for tape (1996). Gerhard Stäbler. …simultaneously with… EarPlugs (1999). Performer with audience. Gerhard Stäbler

Earotic (Ein Intermezzo) (2001). Performer with audience. Kunsu Shim

Confused Rain (II) (2012). Performer with audience. Kunsu Shim

BUCH (2006). For three performers. Kunsu Shim

Pieces for voice (1961). Scream: 1. against the wind / 2. against the wall / 3. against the sky. Yoko Ono. …simultaneously with… Drip Music (1959) and Five Events (1961/1962) George Brecht …simultaneously with… Apart, Performance (2000). Kunsu Shim …followed by… Prelude from the Suite for Cello in G Major, BWV 1007. J. S. Bach …simultaneously with… APART, Performance (2000). Kunsu Shim. …simultaneously with… Confused Rain (II) (2009). For audience and two performers. Kunsu Shim

Kunsu Shim is a composer born in 1958 in South Korea, the son of remigrants from Japan. He studied composition at Yonsei University in Seoul; after arriving in Germany in 1985, he studied with Lachenmann and Nicolaus A. Huber. Around that time he met Gerhard Stäbler, who remains to this day his partner and collaborator; since 1992 the two have organized a great number of events in the Ruhr under the names Aktive Musik and EarPort. He has been a resident artist at Djerassi, Ragdale, and Schreyahn, and has lectured at the Universities of Folkwang, Dortmund, Sungkyunkwan, and Suwon. His music has been presented at the Ultima Festival, the Kore Festival, the Boreal Festival, the University of Toronto, and Columbia University, as well as in concerts and master classes across the United States, Greece, South Korea, England, Australia, Singapore, and many German cities.

Gerhard Stäbler was born in 1949 in southern Germany, and studied composition and organ in Detmold and Essen. From 2000 to 2010, Gerhard Stäbler founded the “EarPort” Center for Contemporary Music in Duisburg (Germany), together with Korean composer Kunsu Shim. Stäbler’s works have been performed all over the world. Notable recent premieres include musical theater and orchestral work “Albert E…,” Theater Ulm (Germany) in June 2014; “SIMON,” Norwegian National Opera, Oslo, in February 2015; “El Color,” Mainfrankentheater Würzburg (Germany) in April 2015; and ”…AUSREISSEN DAMIT / ES GRÜN BLEIBT…” for soprano, solo violin, percussionists, choirs, and orchestras, ACHT BRÜCKEN FESTIVAL, Cologne, in May 2015. Gerhard Stäbler currently devotes his time to writing chamber music and stage works, premiering in Estonia and Germany and during concert tours across North and South America, along with an orchestral concerto commissioned by the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg and the Kunststiftung NRW (Germany).