Roxy auto-config take their audience on a
trip to extraterrestrial sound worlds. Todd Harrop
(percussion, electronics) and Nora-Louise Müller
(clarinets, Bohlen-Pierce clarinets) play
their own compositions and free
improvisations in alternative tunings, and
present exotic harmonic worlds enhanced by
electronics.
The Bohlen-Pierce scale uses a different harmonic frame than the usual octave, i.e., the perfect twelfth divided into 13 steps. For this reason, the scale can hardly be played on normal acoustic instruments and needs a somewhat different compositional treatment than other tuning systems to unfurl its inherent tonal beauty. The experiment succeeds through special instruments (clarinets in Bohlen-Pierce) and electronic sounds: New sounds and harmonics create other-wordly music.
Bohlen-Pierce
clarinets are
exclusively made by Stephen Fox,
Toronto. The ensemble also presents
some works for Bohlen-Pierce clarinets
from their repertoire by Canadian and
European composers.
Popular excerpts from our current program:
Manfred
Stahnke: Die Vogelmenschen von St.
Kilda - Listen
Roxy auto-config: Serendipity - Listen
Roxy
auto-config: Thirteen-Sixteen - Listen
Roxy
auto-config: What's
Your Name? - Listen
Johannes
Kretz: Hoquetus II - Listen
More music can be found on our soundcloud page.
performances
| May
24th+25th 2014 19:30-22:30 |
Bilderfluss
- a project by Theater Combinale; Hansetag 2014 |
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Petrivision
with Viva Voce |
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| May 17,
2013 20:00 Hamburg, Jupi-Bar im Gängeviertel |
Roxy
auto-config und Carola Schaal (Klarinette) Das Konzert ist Teil von blurred edges, 16 Tage aktuelle Musik in Hamburg, 3 - 18. Mai. www.blurrededges.de blurred edges 2013 wird gefördert von der Kulturbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg und der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung. |
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| February
3, 2013 13:45 EURO Microfest Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Filzengraben 2 |
lectures
about the BP scale and music by Roxy auto-config |
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| October
12, 2012 21:00 VergilReality Montréal, Canada 4374 Saint-Laurent |
Xenharmonic
Spaces |
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| August 15,
2012 20:30 Lübeck Kulturcafé Tonfink Große Burgstr. 46 |
Xenharmonic
Spaces |
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| May 19, 2012 20:00 Hamburg Fabrik im Gängeviertel |
Blurred Edges: Roxy auto- config - Xenharmonic Spaces TinaZAHRT - Die Grenzenbegrinser |
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| October 22, 2011 21:00 Montreal, Canada Le cagibi 5490 St. Laurent |
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| October 20, 2011 21:00 Montreal, Canada L'envers 185 Van Horne |
Improvised music performance; duo Roxy
auto-config (Todd Harrop and Nora-Lousie Müller)
on Bohlen-Pierce clarinets, percussion and
electronics; also playing: Géraldine Eguiluz's Rubedo |
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| January 22, 2011 20:00 Kampnagel Hamburg, Jarrestraße |
Festival klub katarakt:
Lange Nacht artists of katarakt network Roxy auto-config feat. Arturo Grolimund |