A new concert venue!

Thursday, March 29, 2007, at 8:00 p.m.
Zipper Concert Hall in the Colburn School of Performing Arts (venue info)

Iannis Xenakis, Palimpsest (1979)

Dan Hosken, World Premiere, written over Xenakis' Palimpsest

Arnold Schoenberg, Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (Arr. Felix Greissle)

other works TBA

Tickets available by phone (818) 591-0232,  $35 in advance, or $40 ($10 students) at the door.


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The Nimbus Institute/Exploring Ideas in the Arts and Sciences

“Building, Destroying or Ignoring: Examining Creative Relationships to a Past—Palimpsest as Metaphor.”

Saturday, March 24, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Gallery 6, UCLA-Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

In tandem with the Ensemble’s March 29 concert, the Nimbus Institute presents three renowned scholars exploring intriguing aspects of the past present relationship.  These stimulating lectures will will examine how substrata from a past interacting with present surface features informs our understanding and aesthetic responses.

Widely known for her seminal work in electronic contextuality, UCLA Distinguished Professor N. Katherine Hayles will discuss "The Palimpsest in Electronic Literature: Creative Ambiguities." (see here for related information)

Architectural Historian and head of special collections at the Getty Research Institute, Wim De Wit brings his focus to design implications of the palimpsest metaphor.

Composer and head of CSUN’s music technology studio Dan Hosken will explore his creative use of Iannis Xenakis’ Palimpsest as the basic building material for his new composition, featured in the Ensemble’s March 29 concert. In “Erasing Xenakis: Creating a Palimpsest of Palimpsest” Dr. Hosken will bring us inside his richly layered compositional process.

Young Riddle, Music Director and Conductor

The Nimbus Ensemble explores the future in the presence of a faintly lingering past.

A palimpsest is a manuscript on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible. This phenomenon has been viewed metaphorically by various artists and intellectuals, giving rise to intriguing compositional schemes and rich levels of analysis. Iannis Xenakis' unique, quintessentially formalist compositional logic was hugely influential across several fields. His 1979, self-referential Palimpsest is especially striking, and forms the centerpiece of our March concert.

Extending the metaphor, the Nimbus Ensemble has commissioned a new composition from Dan Hosken. A palimpsest of his own, Hosken's technologically sophisticated piece is built atop the faintly visible remnants of Xenakis' Palimpsest, which we hear dissolve and reappear before our eyes (ears).

Together with compelling works from more familiar style periods, these works call out for engaged and open listening.

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