Details
Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England
Programme
Steve Reich – Runner (2016)
Steve Reich – Reich / Richter
Performers
Colin Currie – Conductor
Britten Sinfonia
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Steve Reich and Gerhard Richter – two giants of contemporary culture – come together in a major new collaboration.
Steve Reich: the composer who redefined the very concept of rhythm – and whose vitality interrogates and transforms everything it touches. Gerhard Richter: a titan of contemporary art, a master of light capable of charging abstract forms with intense emotional power.
Together with Britten Sinfonia they’ve combined original music and digital visuals, algorithmically derived from Richter’s painting “946-3”, to create an artwork that is boundlessly more than the sum of its parts. “A stream of images, its rhythmic flow interpreted by music and, at the same time, a musical composition visualized by film images” is how Richter describes a collaboration that’s likely to be one of the most significant moments in contemporary art this year.