DESCRIPTION:
_Keitaro Takahashi (*1986)
_surge I, 2013
_for amplified male voice
_and amplified subbass recorder in F
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_17 / May / 2013
_Schloss Leuk (Switzerland)
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_world premiere performed by
_UMS 'n JIP
_Swiss Contemporary Music Duo
_Ulrike Mayer-Spohn, recorder/electronics
_Javier Hagen, tenor/countertenor/electronics
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_editing: UMS 'n JIP
_video by courtesy of Contemporary Music Festival
_Forum Wallis & Marie N. Guex
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_http://umsnjip.ch
_http://japan.umsnjip.ch
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_UMS 'n JIP ['umsnjip] is one of the most innovative and accomplished Swiss contemporary music ensembles. Founded in 2007 by Ulrike Mayer-Spohn [UMS] and Javier Hagen [JIP], it is, alongside Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Kronos Quartet and Ensemble Recherche, one of the most active contemporary music ensembles worldwide commissioning around 10-15 works and performing more than 100 international concerts annually, including mobile chamber operas & multimedia performances. UMS 'n JIP explore new musical and scenic settings for voice, recorders and electronics ranging from live to digital performance as well as European to non-European music. Since their studies (composing, audio design & musical performance) in Holland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, UMS and JIP have been invited for guest lectures at the music universities of Paris, Moscow, Istanbul, Adelaide, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Riga, Rostov, Taganrog, Barcelona, Basel as well as to prestigious contemporary music and theatre festivals on 4 continents where they have premiered more than 200 works as soloists and as a duo, collaborating with both world famous and aspiring young composers such as Goebbels, Rihm, Kagel, Reimann, Eötvös, Stefan Pohlit, Huang Ruo and Guo Wenjing.