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30-502: Based around the publisher Edition Wandelweiser , they also have their own record label Wandelweiser Records. Prominent members of the group include Jürg Frey , Taylan Susam and Mark So . The Wandelweiser Group was founded in 1992 by Dutch-born flautist Antoine Beuger and German violinist Burkhard Schlothauer . In 1993 Swiss clarinetist Jürg Frey was invited to join, followed by American guitarist Michael Pisaro , Swiss pianist Manfred Werder , then Austrian trombonist Radu Malfatti

60-558: A certain "someone" rather than for an anonymous "everyone." Susam's approach here has been likened to poet Frank O'Hara 's personism . Piano Other Dante Boon Dante Boon (born 1973) is a Dutch composer and pianist . A member of the Wandelweiser composers collective , he is perhaps best known as an interpreter of experimental piano music . His own music has been performed internationally to wide acclaim. Dante Boon started his piano studies at age 14, with Willem Brons at

90-421: A duration to mark, but a space to occupy". The composers John Cage and Morton Feldman are particularly influential to the group. According to Pisaro, "Beginning with the music of John Cage, it has become possible to see time as having its own structure: not as something imposed on it from the outside by music, but something which is already present, which exists alongside the music." This article about

120-536: A music organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Taylan Susam Taylan Susam (born November 18, 1986) is a Turkish-Dutch composer of experimental music . He is a member of the Wandelweiser group , which has been described by The New Yorker as "an informal network of twenty or so experimental-minded composers who share an interest in slow music, quiet music, spare music, fragile music." Susam grew up in Amsterdam, where he attended

150-403: A review of Susam's 2009 ensemble piece for maaike schoorel , adds: This music, typical of the Wandelweiser collective of composition that Susam is a member of, has a wonderful stillness to it, and yet the little islands of soft sounds that do appear, as simple as they are, seem to harbour whole worlds of sound and timbre. Daniel Barbiero, writing for Avant Music News, describes a recording of

180-548: A single wasted note or gesture to be heard." His CD clarinet (and piano) , which features clarinetist Jürg Frey, was recommended by The New Yorker ' s Alex Ross and by Andy Hamilton in The Wire ' s Top 10 albums of contemporary music. Many of Boon's works are composed so as to give players room to discover their own way through the piece. His clarinet piece 3x , for example, consists of three staves of music containing pitches in three respective registers among which

210-579: A soloist, cage.frey.vriezen.feldman.ayres.johnson manion , was met with critical acclaim. Anthony Fiumara, writing for Trouw , notes that "[i]t is striking how self-evident [John Cage's] pointillist Etudes Australes sound under Boon's fingers," while characterizing Boon's playing as "murmurous lyricism." In a review for NRC Handelsblad , Jochem Valkenburg notes Boon's "warm, shrouded tone" and, singling out his interpretation of Morton Feldman 's Last Pieces , calls it "objective yet affectionate…measured, pensive, yet vulnerable." Samuel Vriezen, writing in

240-531: A younger generation of Wandelweiser composers. Taylan Susam is also known as a performer of experimental music. He appears as a conductor on an overview CD of Philip Corner 's music on New World Records and as a clarinetist in Radu Malfatti 's düsseldorf vielfaches released through Malfatti's label b-boim. Susam organized the concert series leaf sound / wave sound (named after a Robert Lax poem) in 2007, presenting six concerts of experimental music. In

270-544: Is also known as a skillful arranger , having arranged music for The Scene and Wende , among others. Since 2016, he has taken up conducting. In November of that year, he conducted Ensemble Sisyphe in a program of music by André Cormier, Tom Johnson , Taylan Susam , and himself. He was a guest lecturer at the 13th Wiener Tage für zeitgenössische Klaviermusik hosted by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . A three-concert musical portrait of Dante Boon

300-402: Is anything but a naive response to those elements. In 2009, Susam began working on his nocturnes , composing a one-page nocturne every day. Musical Toronto describes Susam's nocturnes as follows: "The modal arc of this piece traverses the entire keyboard, note by isolated note. The meditative questioning of this night music invites an almost existential concentration." In another review,

330-970: The Barlaeus Gymnasium . He studied composition with Martijn Padding and Yannis Kyriakides at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague , and privately with Antoine Beuger and Samuel Vriezen, among others. His compositions have been performed in more than a dozen countries, at such venues as the Experimental Sound Gallery Saint Petersburg, Galerie Mark Müller, Glenn Gould Studio , Goethe-Institut Amsterdam , Grote of Sint-Jacobskerk , Hafnarborg , ISSUE Project Room , Kid Ailack Art Hall , Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Kunstraum , Magna Plaza , Maison des Jeunesses Musicales, SMART Project Space , St Anne and St Agnes , The Stone , REDCAT , and at festivals such as Ostrava Days , November Music , Dark Music Days, Transit,

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360-550: The ISCM Festival, cafe OTO , dotolim, Ftarri Festival, Musica Sacra Maastricht, Gaudeamus Muziekweek , De Link, Paradiso , and regularly at Amsterdam's underground venue Zaal 100 and Klangraum in Düsseldorf. Boon has also been active as a concert organizer himself. He was one of the young composers who organized the Amsterdam concert series for new music Concerten Tot en Met between 1997 and 2004. He has also co-organized

390-636: The ISCM Pan Music Festival , and the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival. Performers of Susam's music have included Quatuor Bozzini , Asko Ensemble , Ensemble Chronophonie, Ensemble Sisyphe, Incidental Music, Nordic Affect, S.E.M. Ensemble , Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble , Dante Boon , Erik Carlson, Eve Egoyan , Eva-Maria Houben , Radu Malfatti , Michael Pisaro , Taku Unami, and Daan Vandewalle. Along with colleagues Daniel Brandes, Johnny Chang and Sam Sfirri, Susam belongs to

420-721: The Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam . He studied composition with Diderik Wagenaar at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague . At the age of 24, he joined the Dutch rock band The Scene as a keyboardist and arranger . A champion of experimental piano music and of Wandelweiser in particular, Boon has premiered over 100 works, many of which written specifically for him. He has performed at such venues as Constellation Chicago , Spectrum, Studio Z, Jeunesses Musicales du Canada,

450-424: The 2014 piece tombeau , dedicated to the memory of his friend Martijn Teerlinck and commissioned by November Music , consists of slow, downward arpeggiated harmonies , out of which fragments of melody seem to emerge. Many of Susam's titles are dedications to specific individuals (among them, Blinky Palermo , Sesshū Tōyō and Louis Couperin ). This is meant, in part, to reflect his commitment to composing for

480-485: The British label Another Timbre and a new recording of his solo piano music has been announced by pianist Dante Boon . His music was also included in mixtapes released by FACT Magazine and WQXR (both compiled by Julia Holter ). In her 2016 study Experimental music since 1970 , musicologist Jennie Gottschalk interprets Susam's use of silence as "a potentiality that includes all sounds." Critic Richard Pinnell, in

510-954: The Unstable Media , Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ , the Royal Academy of Dutch language and literature , Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival , The Wild Beast, Kultur & Kongresshaus Aarau, UCSB , and REDCAT . Performers of his music have included Ensemble Sisyphe, the Barton Workshop, the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble , The Same Ensemble, Diana Plays Perception, de ereprijs, Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium, Ensamble NEO, Antoine Beuger, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro , Samuel Vriezen, Andrew McIntosh, Taylan Susam , Irene Kurka, Erik Carlson, Denis Sorokin, Carson Cooman , Luca Massaglia, Huw Morgan, Nicolas Horvath and Sergej Tchirkov. His scores are published by Edition Wandelweiser . He

540-437: The clarinetist is free to move. In a program note, Michael Pisaro describes Boon's piano piece 14x as follows: Although the piece is quite slow, and is seemingly a simple series of sustained chords with an occasional beautiful melodic gesture, the technique employed is actually very challenging. No pedal is used, therefore, in order maintain the mostly 10-note sounds all fingers of both hands are employed, holding down keys for

570-475: The concert]". Jay Batzner, writing for Sequenza21 , describes Boon's recordings of Tom Johnson 's music as "a delight to listen to." The New Yorker called him a pianist with an "uncommon affinity for music that demands patience, steady hands, and a subtle touch." National Sawdust 's Steve Smith listed one of Boon's 2018 solo recitals in New York in his top 10 of memorable musical events. Boon's debut album as

600-708: The following year, then American trombonist Craig Shepard , and others. The group runs its own publishing operation, Edition Wandelweiser , and its own record label Wandelweiser Records. The music of the Wandelweiser collective is characterized by sparse, quiet, fragile soundscapes incorporating frequent silences. According to Radu Malfatti, Wandelweiser music is about "the evaluation and integration of silence(s) rather than an ongoing carpet of never-ending sounds." Michael Pisaro suggests that Wandelweiser works, which often involve extended durations of hours or longer, offer an alternative relationship to time; these pieces "become not

630-452: The liner notes to the album, similarly observes: Two poles are important for Dante's playing. On the one hand he is drawn towards the musical discipline of the Cageian tradition and its concern with objectivity in sound. On the other hand, early Romanticism, particularly German song repertoire, is important to him. For many listeners, these poles may seem like opposites. For Dante, however, there

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660-596: The others ( for blinky palermo ). The score of his for louis couperin , inspired by the tradition of the unmeasured prelude , consists of nothing but two rows of numbers indicating the fingerings to be used by a keyboard player. According to composer and musicologist Daniel James Wolf , [t]he notation in [Taylan Susam's] pieces is radically concentrated, often to just a bit of prose and a field of random numbers or single pitches on staves. He's interested in some very basic elements of music—intonation, continuity, contrasts between sounds and silences—and this radical concentration

690-423: The piece is said to "[defy] the daily movement we experience toward and away from nighttime, as if night simply were, unchanging and unrelenting in its night-ness." Susam himself has described this piece as a musical exploration of "how our souls are affected by our sometimes faint and doubtful perception of the world." In contrast with the nocturnes' s descending melodic lines suggestive of harmonic modulation ,

720-500: The same piece as an "[embodiment] of an almost metaphysical dialogue between activity and non-activity." Susam's earlier work is marked by the use of random numerals as a means of notation. In these scores, such numerals have served to indicate anything from the number of sounds to be played within a span of time ( for maaike schoorel , for anthony fiumara ) or the duration of a rest or an unspecified pitch ( for sesshū tōyō ), to which player should play ever so slightly louder than

750-533: The same title . In the same year, he was invited, along with John Lely , to work with Fluxus artist Ben Patterson to curate a night of performances in Ostrava 's Philharmonic Hall. He has also collaborated with poets Oswald Egger and Samuel Vriezen. A retrospective of Susam's work was presented in 2013 at the Los Angeles performance space the wulf. Recordings of his compositions appear on three CDs released by

780-418: The same year, he performed Tom Johnson 's Kirkman's Ladies on a positive organ in the foyer of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague . In 2014, Susam delivered a version of John Cage 's Lecture on Nothing in Amsterdam 's Perdu theater. In 2007, he collaborated with dancer-choreographer Katharina Maschenka Horn to create the performance triptych august 1973 , based on painter Francis Bacon 's work of

810-1245: The series The Workshop/Maximum Clarity (with James Fulkerson ) at Zaal 100, and since 2007 (with Stevko Busch) Pianolab Amsterdam , a showcase for Amsterdam pianists and their guests, at the Goethe-Institut . In 2017, Boon organized the Amsterdam Wandelweiser Festival , a four-day festival of Wandelweiser music. A second edition of the festival, again curated by Boon, was held at the Amsterdam venue Het Orgelpark in 2022. He has recorded music by composers such as Tom Johnson , Philip Corner , Rozalie Hirs , John Cage , Jürg Frey , Antoine Beuger , Jack Callahan , Samuel Vriezen, Morton Feldman , Richard Ayres and Michael Manion. With pianist-composer Samuel Vriezen, he recorded Tom Johnson's Symmetries for piano four hands . In 2004, he premiered Johnson's Same or Different , commissioned by VPRO Radio . Boon's compositions have been performed internationally, at such venues as Museo Reina Sofía , Goethe-Institut Amsterdam , Kunstraum, Alte Jazz-Schmiede, Old Stone House (Brooklyn) , Willow Place Auditorium, Orgelpark, Stedelijk Museum , V2 Institute for

840-630: The voice and guitar met in unison a new cycle would start. His vocal piece Mirte , a setting of the first three stanzas of Antoine Beuger's translation of the Spiritual Canticle by John of the Cross , has been described as an "inward psychological turn of a voice trying to sing to itself." Dante Boon has been called a "magnificent" and "idiosyncratic" pianist, known for his "delicate touch" and "calm control." His performances of Komitas 's piano music have been called "quieting" and "the highlight [of

870-408: The whole piece. What at first seems nearly impossible reveals itself to be ingeniously composed to be just possible. In a review of Boon's 2 Delen (after Sam Sfirri) , Paul Muller writes the following: [A] subtle work featuring electric guitar and voice. The guitar plays a slow ascending scale and at certain points the voice joins. The pure pitches made for some beautiful sounds and overtones. When

900-534: Was presented in 2012 at Düsseldorf's Klangraum. In 2013, he was a special guest at Michael Pisaro 's Dog Star Orchestra festival of experimental music. In the same year, a retrospective of Boon's music was presented at the Los Angeles performance space the wulf. In 2016, Boon was featured as a composer and performer at Quatuor Bozzini 's Performer's Kitchen. He is married to Dutch actress Sytske van der Ster . John Eyles, writing for All About Jazz , has described Boon's works as "exquisite throughout, without

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