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Mozarteum University Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

International Symposium
MIKROTÖNE ~ MICROTONES
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Paper Presentations and Concerts focusing on Microtonal Music

  • An event of the International Ekmelic Music Society
  • in co-operation with the Mozarteum University Salzburg:
    • Institut für Neue Musik
    • Department Gesang
    • Department Komposition und Musiktheorie
  • and ConTempOhr.

Concept and overall charge: Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger and Agustín Castilla-Ávila


The this year's international symposium “Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful” with microtonal specialists from 16 countries is dedicated to Franz Richter Herf (1920-1989) and his wife Maria Richter-Taborsky (1928-2018). Both were teachers at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Schedule

Book

Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful 3

Mikrotöne: Small is beautiful 3

Report with lectures of the symposium 2019,
edited by Agustín Castilla-Ávila, published by Mackingerverlag, Salzburg.

Daily, – , in the Lobby

Exhibition

In memoriam Franz Richter Herf ( – )

From 1979 thru 1983, Franz Richter Herf was principal of the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and in 1981, founder of the International Ekmelic Music Society.
As from 1970, he and Rolf Maedel devoted themselves to research and systematization of microtones. This finally led to the development of the Ekmelic Music.

Lobby, Raum 2018, and Kleines Studio

Lobby

  • Arrival – Registration

  • Opening – Welcoming speech

    Prof. Elisabeth Gutjahr
    Chancellor of the University of Music, Performing and Visual Arts Mozarteum Salzburg

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Raum 2018

Presentations I

Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

  • Rūta Stanevičiūtė (LTU)

    Rediscovering the Lithuanian Microtonal Music: Jeronimas Kačinskas and the Hába School

  • Hans-Gunter Lock (EST)

    Organizing Microtonal Pitches. Tables of Pitch-Class Sets for 13 to 24 Equal Division of the Octave as a Tool for Composers

  • Manuel Dominguez Salas (MEX)

    Freedom and movement of microtones in ishini’ioni string quartet

  • Lunch Break

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Raum 2018

Presentations II

Chair: Siegfried Steinkogler

  • Coffee Break

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Raum 2018

Presentations III

Chair: Johannes Kotschy

Kleines Studio

Concert I

Iván Cipactli Hernández Espinosa (MEX) – Quarter-Tone Marimba

  • Iván Hernández

    Improvisation #1

    • quarter-tone marimba, vibraphone

    Improvisatión #4

    • quarter-tone marimba

    Amaneceres

    • quarter-tone marimba

  • Nicola Visalli

    Qidra

    • quarter-tone marimba

    Niquitoa

    • quarter-tone marimba, vibraphone, singing voice

  • Agustín Castilla-Ávila

    Canto de la Huida

    • quarter-tone marimba

    Canto a Nezahualcoyotl

    • quarter-tone guitar, quarter-tone marimba

Kleines Studio

Concert II

“Vom Leben das Beste” – Hommage to Franz Richter Herf

  • Franz Richter Herf

    Vom Leben das Beste, op. 24 (1986)

    • voice, guitar

  • Richard Cameron-Wolfe

    Kyrie (Mantra)

    • flute trio

  • Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger

    Vocalise mystique

    • voice, harp

  • Agustín Castilla-Ávila

    Dos Sonetos

    • voice, guitar

  • Zoran Šćekić

    Hybrid States

    • harp

  • Amr Okba

    Vom Leben das Beste

    • voice, harp, guitar

  • Siegfried Steinkogler

    Das Beste vom Leben

    • voice, guitar

  • Franz Richter Herf

    Vom Leben das Beste

    • voice, harp
    • Lyriel Benameur – voice
    • Olga Levtscheva – voice
    • Vera Klug – flute
    • Irmgard Messin – flute
    • Gundl Aggermann – flute
    • Katharina Teufel-Lieli – harp
    • Leonor Maia – harp
    • Yvonne Zehner – guitar
    • Siegfried Steinkogler – guitar

Shakespeare Kunst & Kulinarisches, Hubert-Sattler-Gasse 3, 5020 Salzburg

Concert III

“MAR” – Performance

  • TRAK Dance Ensemble

    Irina Repey – live Video Painting

    Agustín Castilla-Ávila – microtonal guitars

Shakespeare Kunst & Kulinarisches, Hubert-Sattler-Gasse 3, 5020 Salzburg

Concert IV

Microtonal Jam Session

Bösendorfersaal

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Presentations IV

Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

  • Johnny Reinhard (USA)

    128 Tuning – or 8th Octave of the Overtone Series (Harmonic Tuning)

  • Lunch Break

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Presentations V

Chair: Johannes Kotschy

Concert V

Laurent Estoppey (CHE) – Microtonal Saxophone

    • Laurent Estoppey – alto saxophone

  • William Anderson

    J’entends le moulin (2019) *

    • William Anderson – guitar

  • Donald Bousted

    Four comedic studies (2001)

  • Maurizio Guerandi

    My Love is a Journey without End (2019) *

  • Aaron Bachelder

    Four miniatures (2019) *

  • Agustín Castilla-Ávila

    Day out of Time (2019) *

    • Yvonne Zehner – electric guitar

  • Navid Bargrizan

    Pictures at the Micro-exhibition (2018)

  • William Anderson

    Ziguezon (2019) *

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Presentations VI

Chair: Siegfried Steinkogler

Concert VI

Johnny Reinhard – “The microtonal Bassoon”

  • Johnny Reinhard

    Dune (1990)

    • bassoon

    Kindergarden Blues (2018)

    • singing voice, soprano recorder

  • Аnton Rovner

    Ballad (2016)

    in 128 tuning

    • bassoon

  • Johnny Reinhard

    Zanzibar (1993)

    • bassoon and morphings

    Eye of Newt (1993)

    • alto recorder

  • Georg Friedrich Haas

    For Johnny Reinhard (2014)

    • bassoon

  • Juhani Nuorvala

    Toivo 128 (2017)

    • bassoon and pre-recorded material

Bösendorfersaal and Solitär

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Presentations VII

Chair: Johannes Kotschy

  • Iván Cipactli Hernández Espinosa (MEX)

    Expansion of the microtonal marimba

  • Elisa Järvi (FIN)

    Performing on the Quarter-Tone Piano, Re-Discovering Repertoire

  • Lunch Break

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Presentations VIII

Chair: Agustín Castilla-Ávila

  • Eleni Ralli (GRC)

    Harry Partch’s “The Letter”, a Comparison of the three existing versions (1943,1955,1972)

  • Coffee Break

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Presentations IX

Chair: Siegfried Steinkogler

  • Georg Vogel, David Dornig, Valentin Duit (AUT)

    Presenting the instruments of the ensemble Dsilton, the 31-tone keyboard M-Claviton & an 8-string 31-tone guitar, the repertoire & techniques of improvisation in 31-EDO

  • Katarzyna Bartos (POL)

    Hidden mathematical processes? “Stimmung” by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Solitär

Concert VII

Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Stimmung”

“Stimmung” is a piece for six vocalists and six microphones, written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale Köln. Its average length is seventy minutes.

The composition is based entirely on the production of vocal harmonics over a B Major Seven Nine Chord and uses overtones as a primary element. By gradual transformation / assimilation of 51 rhythmic models the singers weave a rhythmic polyphonic sound texture.

    • Lucia Hausladen – soprano 1
    • Lisa Fornhammar – soprano 2
    • Gertraud Steinkogler-Wurzinger – alto
    • Roman Stalla – tenor 1
    • Konstantin Riedl – tenor 2
    • Jeffrey Herminghaus – bass

Performers: Students, alumni and teachers of the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

  • Performance and overtone coaching: Angelika Luz, Natascha Nikeprlevic, Anna Maria Hefele
  • Sound director: Ruben Hawer
  • Stagecraft and Sound: Jan Fredrich, Andi Greiml, Mathias Maedl
  • Institut für Neue Musik: Achim Bornhöft, Alexander Bauer

End of the Symposium