ON THE FRINGE: More Mouvements für Lachenmann

Lachenmann's music is spare and concentrated, reducing each instrument to its essential sonic properties.

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ON THE FRINGE: More Mouvements für Lachenmann

POSTED: Monday, September 19, 2011, 11:00 AM

Filed Under: Arts On the Fringe

Choreography typically involves coupling movement with music, but Xavier Le Roy’s More Mouvements für Lachenmann was far more often about subtraction than addition. Lachenmann’s music is spare and concentrated, reducing each instrument to its essential sonic properties: the scrape of strings, the resonant knock of wood. Le Roy’s three pieces, co-presented by Bowerbird, experiment with stripping even those elements way to focus on gesture and intention. During cellist Andreas Lindenbaum’s solo performance of “Pression,” the lights fade out, leaving only sound; the entire last third of the string quartet “Gran Torso” is performed with instruments laid aside, leaving the audience to imagine the sound that each waved arm or scratched knee implies. It also leaves a great deal of uncomfortable silence for frustrated festgoers to vent their indignation — fascinating in itself.

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