SMCQ : Comment vivre ces différentes temporalités?

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Dive into a phenomenal musical and visual adventure! This immersive and participatory experience blurs the lines between space and time, tying music and the visual arts together through composition and improvisation.

A performance-installation by Sandeep Bhagwati for ten musicians at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, in connection with the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec’s Homage Series.

The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) and the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) are joining forces to present this intense collision of music, poetry and the visual arts, which will simultaneously stimulate your eyes and ears, your mind and heart. Conceived and created by internationally renowned composer Sandeep Bhagwati, this immersive and participatory event transcends all temporal, artistic and cultural limits.

As you wander among the MMFA’s contemporary works, you will be immersed in the soundworld of ten soloists from various backgrounds and traditions. For this bold concert-installation, the performers will spend the entire day on an archipelago of five musical islands, relaying music back and forth, each one contributing according to their own temporality, tradition, emotion, rhythm and score. All the while, they will be weaving together a captivating musical landscape, in which you can wander and listen as long as you like, taking your cues from your curious ears and eyes.

Right by the gallery entrance there will be short poetic texts about the soloists and musicians, as well as their instruments, for you to read, explaining how each sound heard in this piece is deeply anchored in time. You will also find twelve postcards, each one bearing a different poem and tempo. These postcards are also invitations for you to participate. All you have to do is take one that speaks to you and place it down before one of the performers. Your postcard will then be added to the score: the musicians will slowly alter the tempo and style of their music in consequence. Thus, your active participation and your attentive listening will energize and transform this soundscape in perpetual evolution.

This durational performance is meant to be a sensory exploration of the idea of our relationship with the various temporalities of life on earth. It underscores how important it is for us human beings to feel, to listen and to understand the planet’s geological and biological rhythms, even when their transformations are slow and silent.

We suggest that you visit this concert-installation more than once during your Museum visit, so as to perceive the gentle changes in its musical landscape and to get the most out of each fresh encounter. What will have changed? The sounds, the speed, the mood, the timbres, the poetry?

This is the North American premiere of How to inhabit these different temporalities?. The work was first performed in August 2020, at the Gropius Bau museum, in Berlin.

Event Artists

Śabdagatitāra Ensemble :Lucy Zhao, pipa; Deniza Popova, bulgarian singing; Eva Glasmacher, soprano; Murat Gürel, Turkish violin; Klaus Janek, double bass; Gebrüder Teichmann, ready-made instruments; Sandeep Bhagwati, artistic director, metteur en musique ;Terri Hron, recorders, objects ;Reza Abaee, gheychak ;Valentina Plata, voice ;

SMCQ : Comment vivre ces différentes temporalités?

Date/Time
Saturday, April 20, 2024
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Location
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
1380, rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montréal, Québec
Canada, H3G1J5

Price
Free with purchase of MBAM admission ticket; Ages 31 and over: $24.00; Ages 21 to 30: $16.00; Ages 20 and under: Free admission; Members: Free admission; $3 discount with online ticket purchase

Phone
514-843-9305

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