rsvp – year 2 concert

rsvp – piano, toy piano, electronics, & actions

in this concert, we will explore different ways to experience music together:
collaboration, participation, listening to each other, listening to oneself.

Friday 28 March, 20:30 – 21:40 (Central European Standard Time)
Gunnar Sævigs Sal
The Grieg Academy
Lars Hillesgate 3
Bergen, Norway
Free

PROGRAMME

Aviva Endean – A face like yours. video, audience

Michael Pisaro – Akasa. piano

Sara Carvalho – Occupied mirrors. toy piano, video, audience

Daniel Puig – gosto de chuva. piano, toy piano, hand bells, live electronics (World Premiere)

Alwynne Pritchard – Hecate writes. video, piano (World Premiere)

John Cage – 4’33’’. silent piano, audience

Miriama Young – Grey Ghost. piano, playback (played by the audience’s mobile phones).

the programme features the premiere of Hecate writes, a video and piano piece created by Alwynne Pritchard with teenage girls from Brazil, France, Norway, and the UK, specially for Késia’s “music as an invitation” postdoc project. The participants in this piece are: Angel Batista Lorenção, Elizabeth Hayes, Emma Monteiro, Gaia Cicarelli, Iara Martinez D’Ippolito and Olivia Davison.

this concert will be live streamed through the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@musicasaninvitation

if you are watching it remotely, please have with you: ear plugs, a plastic bag and a small piece of bubble wrap, so as you can also join the participatory works from wherever you are.

for the in-person attendants, refreshments will be served after the concert.

this concert is part of the Marie Słodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Research Project “music as an invitation”, led by Késia Decoté, funded by the European Union.