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Festival Suoni per il Popolo
Quatuor Bozzini avec Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides
June 22, 5pm
Artist Talk with Yannis and Andy (free)
Casa del Popolo (back patio)
4873 St-Laurent
June 23, 7pm
Concert
La Sala Rossa
4848 St-Laurent
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In coproduction with Suoni per il Popolo Festival, we re-invite Yannis Kyriakides et Andy Moor (The Ex) to perform alongside .
Programme:
Hypnokaséta (2020)
Quatuor Bozzini, Andy Moor & Yannis Kyriakides
Rebetika (2006, 19)
Andy Moor (guitare) and Yannis Kyriakides (electronics)
Hypnokaséta
After several performances in Canada and in Europe, the artists present Yannis Kyriakides’ Hypnokaséta at Suoni per il Popolo Festival. It is a continuous set of 16 pieces for string quartet and electronics based on dreams that he had during the first few months of lockdown, April-June 2020. Accounts of these dreams are encoded in the music that is played by the quartet and also encrypted in the sound textures that surround this. The pieces alternate between quartet as the foreground and electronic interludes, where solos or duos underpin the soundscape. The name ’cassettes’ refers to a theory of dreams proposed by Daniel Dennett, that says that dreams are loaded into consciousness like a cassette tape, just before waking.
Rebetika
Andy Moor (guitar) and Yannis Kyriakides (computer) lovingly deconstruct and reassemble their favorite rebetika music in a set of nine pieces that encompass a wide scope of musical vision. This is an unusual and original take on the so-called "blues" music of the Greek diaspora of the early 20th century. Composer Yannis Kyriakides and guitarist Andy Moor offer their own avant-garde take on this music over the course of the piece. The starting point for these songs is a series of scratchy old bouzouki recordings, which are then sampled and manipulated while real-time guitar is overlaid. This meeting of old musical styles, decrepit recordings and very modern string experiments results in an often very emotive blend, effectively re-writing the past with a combination of reverence and adventurous Tetuzi Akiyama-like musicianship, sounding like an angular, Eastern European Charley Patton on the especially haunting 'Minores’. |
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Concert Bozzini Lab
works by Hannah Barnes, Franki Dodwell, Joseph Graydon, Kalaisan Kalaichelvan, Ryder McGinnis, James Preller
June 20, 5pm
Espace Ste-Hilda
6341, avenue De Lorimier
Montréal, Quebec H2G 2P5
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Suggested contribution at the door $20
No one turned away for lack of funds
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The public is invited to an informal meet-and-greet with the artists following the concert
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Hannah Barnes 📷 Lisa-Ann Barnes
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Franki Dodwell 📷 Karen van Gilst |
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Joseph Graydon 📷 Olivia Da Costa |
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Kalaisan Kalaichelvan 📷 Rita Taylor
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Ryder McGinnis 📷 Amasha Nayakaratna |
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James Preller 📷 Joel Bell |
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The Bozzini Lab, little brother of the Composer's Kitchen, is an intensive string composition workshop for young composers at the beginning or middle of their studies or artistic development. A fusion of laboratory, playroom and masterclass concepts, the workshop aims to improve technical skills in writing contemporary music for string quartet instruments, and to nurture creative ideas in an open and stimulating environment.
The Bozzini Lab Montréal 2026 edition takes place with composition mentor, Yannis Kyriakides (Royal Conservatory Hague) from June 15-20. Special thanks to Concordia University.
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Yannis Kyriakides 📷 Bart Grietens
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Great Spring Sale
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Until June 28, CDs and vinyls are 20% off at actuellecd.com and on Bandcamp (coupon code: cqb20). Consider gifting one of your favourite Quatuor Bozzini albums to a friend or discovering some older discs from our catalogue:
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Alvin Lucier: Navigations (CD/NUM)
“… the group’s razor-sharp precision and empathy helps bring the gripping psychoacoustics of his research into dynamic relief.”
Peter Margasak, The Wire
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Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4 (CD/NUM)
“The Bozzini’s precise execution amplifies the music’s mesmerizing qualities, highlighting why they’ve become one of contemporary music’s most significant ensembles…”
Lawrence Peryer, the tonearm
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Michael Oesterle: Quatuors(CD/NUM)
"Quatuor Bozzini has energetically championed the newest in classical music since 1999 in their Montréal hometown, on tour and on outstanding albums. […] This album’s four substantial string quartets offer an appealing balance between musical straightforwardness and complexity" Andrew Timar, The WholeNote
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Phill Niblock: Baobab (CD/NUM)
"This version of Disseminate stands among the mightiest episodes met over decades of acquaintance with Niblock’s material. Its character is extraordinarily “in your face”
Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes
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Tom Johnson: Combinations (CD/NUM)
"Formation québécoise partiellement dédicataire de ces partitions, le Quatuor Bozzini en fait valoir l’objectivité par une intonation impeccable et une rythmique de bronze sans oublier qu’il n’est pas un synthétiseur mais la réunion de quatre musiciens. Gérard Condé, Diapason
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