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In collaboration with composer Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir, the chamber ensemble Cauda Collective wonders what happens to creativity when it is deprived of freedom and how artists have been able to maintain a freedom within their creativity during imprisonment.

In this performance Cauda Collective will perform new and older pieces that are all connected to prisoners and lack of freedom: Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, written and premiered in 1941 while the composer was an inmate in the nazi prison camps in Görlitz; part of the piece Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski, based on texts by Sam Melville, a prisoner and one of the front man of the uprisings in the Attica Prison in 1971; and a new piece by Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir, based on real letters from an American soldier during the second world war.

 

Program:

Frederic Rzewski (1938-2021): Coming Together (1971)
II. Attica

 

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Quartet for the End of Time (1941)

I. Crystal liturgy

II. Vocalise, for the Angel who announces the end of time

III. Abyss of birds

IV. Interlude

 

- Intermission -

 

Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir (1989-): premier of a new piece (2021)

 

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Quartet for the End of Time (1941)

V. Praise to the eternity of Jesus

VI. Dance of fury, for the seven trumpets

VII. Tangle of rainbows, for the Angel who announces the end of time

VIII. Praise to the immortality of Jesus

 

Cauda Collective is a chamber ensemble consisting of classically trained performers who like to use creative and experimental methods in their music making. They seek to provoke the traditional role of the classical performer; by composing, arranging and working with other art mediums. The ensemble focuses on finding older pieces a relevance in today's performances, often by performing them in contexts with different themes or art forms. The ensemble also works closely together with contemporary composers and likes to pair new pieces with older ones. Depending on each performance, the group grows or shrinks, all depending of what serves the musical purpose. Performing in this concert are:

Grímur Helgason, clarinet

Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir, vocalist and composer

Jane Ade Sutarjo, piano

Sigrún Harðardóttir, violin

Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir, cello

 

Ingibjörg Friðriksdóttir, also known by her artist name Inki, completed a masters degree in electronic compositions and recordings from Mills College in California. She has received numerous awards for her work, and they have been performed throughout Europe and North America. Ingibjörg likes to work on the vague intersection between visual and musical art and her pieces are equally performed in galleries and concert halls. In 2021 she released her first record, Quite the Situation, with publisher Inni Music