Why Can’t Minimal: Do This?
Program, P.2393
- Identifier
- P.2393
- Category
- New Music
- Location
- Open Space, 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor
- Date
- September 30, 2016
- Description
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On Friday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m. the Victoria Composers Collective will come together to present Why Can’t Minimal: Do This? a concert of new works that explores minimalism in music. Inspired by John G. Hampton’s exhibition Why Can’t Minimal, the Victoria Composers Collective has carefully crafted compositions that reflect upon minimalism in music and respond to artworks included in the exhibition.
“In music, minimalism seems to have a response that is either hot or cold,” according to Christopher Reiche, Open Space’s New Music Coordinator. “People either love it or they hate it. Due to the diverse compositional styles of the members of the Victoria Composers Collective, their response to minimalism and the exhibition will result in anything but a standard minimalism concert.”
The Victoria Composers Collective has been very active locally in recent years presenting a diverse range of new music. In June and July of 2015 they toured a concert of experimental and new music on tour through the interior. Earlier this year they presented a concert of new compositions for rock band.Victoria Composers Collective: David Reidstra, Alex Jang, Hollas Longton, Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins, Nathan Friedman, and Lynne Penhale