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Play – breaking the boundaries between listening and performing

Featuring Joe Puglia and Cristiano Viviani
Mon 14 Oct / 18:45 - 20:30
Mon 14 Oct ’24
18:45 - 20:30
  • Mon 14 Oct ’24
    18:45 - 20:30
    Kunstenplein
    Past event

PLAY is a laboratory where we explore the different ways we listen, how audience and performers collaborate to produce musical meanings, and how, through music, we create bonds and communities.

Programme

- Introduction 
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor
- Collective Reflection
- C. Viviani – Introversion from Innerscape (E. Schild), for altered mandolin and dancer
- Collective Reflection
- C. Viviani – PL[is ten]AY (Audience is invited to participate) 
To be continued… 

In this session, we will perform works spanning genres and eras, from Bach to contemporary pieces. We will engage in listening meditations and reflect on our collective ownership of sound and musical experiences. To fully share the musicking process, audience members will be invited to actively explore music created for non-musicians.

Joseph Puglia (1984) is driven by a search for new approaches and sounds on the violin.
He is praised for the “amazing, magical moments” he creates in concert, saying that “on the way home you notice that your ears have opened – even the familiar noise of the city sounds different” (De Volkskrant). His solo debut in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw “brought the hall to a boil” (De Volkskrant), and a recent concerto performance at the Sydney Opera House was described as “breathtaking, every phrase perfectly shaped. His prowess…almost extraterrestrial, made for one of the most engaging displays of the instrument” (Limelight Magazine).

He is a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where has also researched how active audience participation can create deeper musical connections in concerts, with special focus on the music of Pauline Oliveros.

Cristiano Viviani (1988) is an Italian multi-instrumentalist, composer, music theorist, and educator devoted to the field of improvised music. Holding a degree both in Jazz and Improvised music (2014) and in Music Education (2016), Cristiano teaches in several departments of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague centring his didactic on creative collaborative music making, and interdisciplinary projects between music, dance, and visual arts. Cristiano also holds a degree in Philosophy and lectures on a variety of topics that engage and question the meaning of music-making in contemporary cultures.

He started his performance career in 2003, leading several projects in a plurality of styles and settings, from violin-guitar duo to his large ensemble. In its most recent project (ARGILLA ensemble), Cristiano performs and researches the interplay between music and dance when both engage in improvisation.