LIM 60 – Konzert und Podiumsgespräch mit Liza Lim

In the organizer's words:

In this seventh program of its work in progress 51% - Fantastic Music by Women, which has been running since 2022, the Kairos Quartet celebrates the 60th birthday of Australian composer Liza Lim - one of the most important female composers of our time, with whom the quartet has been working since 1998. Lim is internationally recognized as a key figure in the combination of contemporary music, cultural hybridity and ecological thinking. Her compositions explore the materiality of sound and the poetic power of threads, knots and weaves - symbols of relationships, memory and transformation. In addition to two central works by Lim, the program brings together other important contemporary voices that represent an unmistakable wealth of sound languages.

In Weaver's Knot and String Creatures, Lim combines complex tonal processes with powerful images of interweaving, tension and transformation - the quartet appears as a living, multifaceted creature. Both pieces are also influenced by folk music playing techniques, namely those of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and the "chopping" technique of bluegrass. In Sentire con tatto, Terranova creates a sensual, haptic sound world in which the finest textures, layering and noise qualities transform the string quartet into a breathing organism. Vrhunc presents the Kairos Quartet with two "composed interpretations" of Bach's works in the form of miniatures; they will intensify, alienate and condense the original affect and thus bring it into our time. Vrhunc's sonority preserves Bach's essence in a reminiscent way.

DANIELA TERRANOVA [*1977, Italy] Sentire con tatto (2017)

LARISA VRHUNC [*1967, Slovenia] N.N. [2 new miniatures as re-compositions of music by J. S. Bach, 2026, commissioned by Kairos Quartet] UA

LIZA LIM [*1966, Australia] The Weaver's Knot [2013]

String Creatures [2022]

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