Word: intercontemporain
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...This can give rise to the stridency of Voodoo Child, which recalls the madwoman wailings of Yoko Ono (Lim's teenage heroine), but at its best her music communes powerfully with another realm. Commissioned by France's Ensemble Intercontemporain in 2001, Machine for Contacting the Dead was performed as part of a Paris museum show centering on the 2,500-year-old tomb of the Chinese Marquis Yi of Zeng. Among the objects excavated at his tomb in central Hubei province were 65 bronze bells as well as a courtly orchestra of drums, mouth organs and flutes...
American listeners have a chance to judge for themselves. Last week in Los Angeles, Boulez and his crack new-music group, the Ensemble InterContemporain, began a five-city U.S. tour, bringing with them a visionary 45-minute marriage of live performers and computers called Repons (response). It is the first major work by Boulez since 1974, and Repons has propelled him back where he belongs: at the center of music's creative storm...
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