Sau_Rang Residence at AIM

Friday, 5 October, 2007

1:42 pm

Friday 5 October 12:30PM-1:30PM: Masterclass
Friday 5 October 8:00PM: Concert
SAU_RANG IN RESIDENCE AT THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF
MUSIC
John Painter Hall,
Building B
AIM, 1-51 Foveaux St, Sydney, Australia
Ph: (02) 92195444
TICKET PRICES
MASTERCLASS: $5 ADULT, FREE AIM STUDENTS
CONCERT: $15 ADULT, $10 CONCESSION, FREE AIM STUDENTS
www.aim.edu.au

ABOUT THE PROGRAM:

Grisey’s “Prologue pour alto et résonateurs”
(1976/2001) receives its Australian premiere on this
tour. This historically groundbreaking spectral work
is the first in the cycle of works called “Les Espaces
Acoustiques,” and utilises five resonators making the
viola into a spectral symphony of harmonic colour,
utilizing a quad surround system.

Sebastien also presents a number of his own solo
works, which have been acclaimed abroad and released
under the 12k label. He has worked closely with
Georges Aperghis at IRCAM, and William and Sebastien
present together one of the first ever realizations of
Aperghis’s “Volte-Face” for viola and electronics.

For several months in 2007 William travelled to India
on an Asialink Fellowship where he was
musician-in-residence at the ORKA-M International
Institute of Innovative Music. He also studied sarangi
under Dhruba Ghosh, one of the country’s most revered
virtuosi. The sarangi is an important bowed stringed
instrument of India’s Hindustani Classical music
tradition, with over thirty sympathetic strings. It
can also be used as a tool to explore ‘spectral’
techniques, especially through electronic means.
William and Sebastien will demonstrate how an
extremely old instrument has potential to create new
sounds, treating the instrument as a ‘found object’
and acting as a platform for intercultural dialogue.

Of all Indian instruments, the sarangi said to most
resemble the human voice and its name, “Sau-Rang”
translates as “one hundred colours” in Hindi.