Gestenstücke

Gestenstücke ["Pieces with gestures" or "gesture pieces"] is a key work by Argentine-born composer Juan María Solare for four performers (mimes). In this piece, mute gestures are ordered with musical rules, following Solare's main conception of Neues Musiktheater: "To order non-musical elements (even non-sounding ones) with musical rules". [Quotation needeed]

The work was composed in a hurry in the train Berlin to Bremen on 13 April 2008 (Solare needed urgently new material for his seminar on music theatre at the University in Bremen) with a total duration of about 13 minutes. Its parts are:

I - Canon a 4. [3'00] Premiere: Ensemble Neues Musiktheater (Wolfgang Dürr, Mauricio López, Lidia Revina, Nalini Bhat; conductor: Juan María Solare), University of Bremen, 12/JUN/2008.
II - Acumulación-Desacumulación 1. [2'00] Premiere: Ensemble Neues Musiktheater (Wolfgang Dürr, Aylin Leysieffer, Joaquín Buitrago & Mauricio López; conductor: Juan María Solare) on 5/FEB/2009 at the theatre of the University of Bremen.
III - Tutti unisono. [3'00]
IV - Acumulación-Desacumulación 2. [2'00]
V - Gruppendialog. [3'00]

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