Avec Boulez, Mallarmé, et Foucault
for ensemble
Duration: 45'
Date: May 2022Location: Cambridge, UK
Saman Samadi's Avec Boulez, Mallarmé, et Foucault is a piece operating an experimental space for problematizing past musical and literary works as well as scholarly texts, through experimentation — by a critical reflection on Boulez’s Notations pour piano, poems by Mallarmé, and scholarly texts by Boulez & Foucault, and discovering new potentials and common threads between them; deconstructing these existing works and utilizing them through performative approaches, through new modes of interpretation and communication, and reconstructing them through a creative assemblage in performance. More information is provided below, in the video recordings of the performances by the Cambridge University Experimental Music Ensemble, directed by Saman Samadi.
Creator and Director: Saman Samadi
Coby O'Brien, flute
Ella Nixon, clarinet
Eric Petzoldt, saxophone
Valentina Ciniglio, saxophone
Dan Phillips, violin
Alice Drury, violin
Emily Abbott, violin
Bethany Norman, violin
Nicky Swett, cello
Gregory May, double bass
David Cotter, guitar
Kristin Barone-Samadi, piano
Lea Luka Tiziana, voice
Reuben Bance, voice
PERFORMANCES
Cambridge University Experimental Music Ensemble (dir. Saman Samadi) cam.cueme.uk
MAY 10, 2022, West Road Concert Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. VIDEO
MAY 14, 2022, Lee Hall, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. VIDEO