Ligeti–

 

Ligeti is a 45-minute performance installation created for three performers that examines a series of piano études by Gyorgi Ligeti. This performance attempts to call into question the relationship between musical experience and the mediation of this by interpretive materials, the relationships between written text, spoken text and authority. The performance area provides a space for a micro-polyphonic reworking of writings about the composer and his compositions, the performance of several of the composer’s piano études, and a thick amalgam of overlapping movement and spoken word related to the themes of precision and chaos. These elements are submerged within a mode of performance that oscillates between academic lecture and game-play.