T. Gowdy pres. Trill Scan + Alexandra Grübler

silent green presents

T. Gowdy
The music presented here represents a cross pollination between distinct traditions of polyphony, specifically drawn from the 12th century Notre Dame School and the 17th century early baroque style. The two language archetypes have contrasting ontologies, reflecting notions of domination and order on one hand, and on the other, a liberated interplay between selected pitch entities.

In Mysterium Coniunctionis, C. G Jung examines a number of texts taken from the library of alchemical classics, finding important parallels in the psychology of the unconscious with alchemical principles. If the ethos of the alchemists was the conjunctio, founded in synthesizing and separating matter, then Jung’s bridge to the psychic realm retains coherence when writing that the “polaristic structure of the psyche is shared with all natural processes.“ Natural processes are phenomena of energy, constantly arising out of a “less probable state of polar tension, however the  conscious mind is usually reluctant to see or admit the polarity of its own background, although it is precisely from there that it gets its energy”. Contrastingly, post-Jungians will dissolve Jung’s structuralist viewpoint and suggest that alchemy is rather a metaphor for our own transformative psychic journeys, stripping away the heaviness of accumulated experiences into more refined emotional states.

From this it could be suggested that polyphony and inter-tone relationships are not only systems of culture but that they also draw from the unconscious, suggesting that there are forms of resolution that rest in transformation and tension.


Alexandra Grübler
Alexandra Grübler is a Berlin-based composer, producer, musician and performer of electroacoustic music. She is especially interested in the alchemical properties and speculative spaces of autonomy in sonics, voicing and rhythm. Primarily through the solo project Baal & Mortimer, her artistic practice employs a dialogic interaction between various processed instruments such as the psaltery and bagpipe, electronics, acoustic artefacts and poetics. 

 

Friday, March 21
Kuppelhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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