KRISTIAN IRELAND

La Biennale di Venezia | Biennale Musica 2013: Altra voce, altro spazio.

Kristian Ireland

clearing (I)

for string quartet

year of composition: 2007

duration: 13m

performance: Sala delle Colonne, Ca’ Giustinian | Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy. 6 October 2013.

performers: Quartetto Maurice
Georgia Privitera, violin
Laura Bertolino, violin
Federico Mazzucco, viola
Aline Privitera, cello

Organisation: La Biennale di Venezia. Collettivo /nu/thing.

From the programme note for the collettivo /nu/thing concert, 6 October 2013.

“Ireland stops time as he brings colour to rough and unstable surfaces; he constrains the potential of the instrumental technique by specifying long stubborn bowing that produces metallic collisions in the upper registers, producing ripples that are the result of rigorous and detailed writing.” Maurizio Corbella, Collettivo /nu/thing, Venice Biennale. Biennale Musica 2013 (Italy, October 2013), p. 62.

“Ireland arresta il tempo affrescando superfici ruvide e instabili; restringe le possibilità della tecnica strumentale prescrivendo lunghe arcate ostinate che producono collisioni metalliche nel registrato acuto, le cui screziature sono il risultato di una scrittura rigorosa e dettagliata.”
Maurizio Corbella, Collettivo /nu/thing, La Biennale di Venezia. Biennale Musica 2013 (Italia, ottobre 2013), p. 61.

Full text / testo intero

Maurizio Corbella, Collettivo /nu/thing, La Biennale di Venezia. Biennale Musica 2013 (Italia, ottobre 2013), p. 61. (Italiano)

Maurizio Corbella, Collettivo /nu/thing, La Biennale di Venezia. Biennale Musica 2013 (Italy, October 2013), pp. 62-3. (Italiano / English)

Ca’ Giustinian is an historical palace (circa 1471) situated at the Grand Canal in Venice. Ca’ Giustinian now houses the head office of the Venice Biennale, performance and exhibition spaces, and restored original palace interiors. More information on Ca’ Giustinian is provided at the website of La Biennale di Venezia.

A promotional video for the collettivo /nu/thing concert (6 October 2013) can be seen here. An image of Ca’ Giustinian is shown.

Following is a view from the terrace of Ca’ Giustinian looking across the Grand Canal. Santa Maria della Salute, the Grand Canal and gondolas. Venice, Italy, October 2013.

Photograph by Kristian Ireland.