PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE WORKS OF ANTHONY BRAXTON

Tuesday 20. April at 18:00 / 6 PM (Icelandic time) Online

Dark Music Days will host a streamed performance by International Contemporary Ensemble & Skerpla Ensemble on Wednesday 21. April. The ensembles will perform works by Anthony Braxton and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, including a premiér of Bergún's new work, Ecognosis.

On Tuesday 20. April, Dark Music Days, International Contemporary Ensemble and Icelandic University of Arts will host a panel discussion in the works of Anthony Braxton, but Braxton is considered to be one of the most revolutionary composer of our times. Panelists include Darius Jones, Fay Victor, Josh Modney, James Fei, Berglind María Tómasdóttir, and Ross Karre and members of the International Contemporary Ensemble.

The panel discussion will be streamed on Dark Music Days Facebook page and access is free.

Anthony Braxton (born 1945), the Chicago-born composer and multi-instrumentalist, is recognized as one of the most important musicians, educators, and creative thinkers of the past 50 years. He is highly esteemed in the experimental music community for the revolutionary quality of his work and for the mentorship and inspiration he has provided to generations of younger musicians. Drawing upon a disparate mix of influences from John Coltrane to Karlheinz Stockhausen, Braxton has created a unique musical system that celebrates the concept of global creativity and our shared humanity. His work examines core principles of improvisation, structural navigation and ritual engagement – innovation, spirituality, and intellectual investigation. From his early work as a pioneering solo performer in the late 1960s through to his eclectic experiments on Arista Records in the 1970s, his landmark quartet of the 1980s, and more recent endeavors, such as his cycle of Trillium operas and the day-long, installation-based Sonic Genome Project, his vast body of work is unparalleled. His small ensembles of the 1970s through to the present day are considered among the most innovative groups of their respective eras, while his Creative Orchestra Music has brought together the varying streams of American jazz orchestras, marching bands, and experimental practices with the traditions of European concert music in a wholly individual compositional voice. His continuing and evolving current systems of the past 15 years, including Ghost Trance Music, Diamond Curtain Wall Music, Falling River Music, Echo Echo Mirror House Music, and ZIM Music, have served as the artistic incubators for some of the most exciting artists of the current generation.