To hear on Sunday 16. and 23. January 2011, 2 pm - 9 pm:
Rothko IV (German Premiere)
by Germán Toro Pérez
Germán Toro Pérez on his piece 'Rothko IV' (2008):
From the perspective that time has give us on his whole work, Rothko appears to me as an Artist who followed over the years a path towards abstraction to express the fullness of his subjects through space and color in a deep personal way, independent from daily ephemeral necessities of art business.
In Rothko’s work what is been shown acts likewise than what remains concealed. Form and color language rise from the reflection about his subjects: the Greek myths, the origin of tragedy, the structure of the psyche, the surrealism, the fresco paintings from Fra Angelico, etc. Those are not aesthetical end in itself. That, what after slowly distillation remains, contains the essence of its origin. Not only that, what is being seen is thus present but also that, what became outward dispensable.
'Rothko IV' defines a clear syntax based on composition models that combine continuous and discontinuous elements. Discontinuous elements have the quality of recognizable sound objects that are combined in sequences leaving open spaces to perceive the sounds behind. Continuous sounds appear as surfaces and as a fluctuation processes. The piece is a further attempt to approach the idea of space as a superposition of layers that enter and leave the sound space covering and discovering further sound layers existing in the background and suggesting a process that continues beyond the limits of conscious perception.
Germán Toro Pérez
Geboren 1964 in Bogotá. Musiktheorie Ausbildung sowie Privatunterricht in Komposition in Bogotá. Kompositionsstudium bei Erich Urbanner an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien. Danach ergänzende Studien in Dirigieren sowie in Elektroakustik in Wien und am IRCAM in Paris.
Seine bisherige Arbeit besteht aus Kompositionen für Orchester, Instrumentalensemble, Kammermusik mit und ohne Elektronik, elektroakustische Musik, Klangkunst sowie Arbeiten in Zusammenhang mit grafischem Design, Video, Film und bildender Kunst.
Texte und Publikationen im Bereich Künstlerische Forschung, Kompositionstheorie und Ästhetik der Elektroakustik sowie Geschichte und Identität der lateinamerikanischen Musik.
Seit 2007 ist er Leiter des ICST – Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology und Dozent für Elektroakustische Komposition an der ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology
Mica-Interview mit G. Toro Perez