Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter: with Britten Sinfonia at Barbican Hall, London on Wednesday 23rd October 2019

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Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter

with Britten Sinfonia

Part of the Britten Sinfonia 2019-20 Season

Add to my Calendar 23-10-2019 21:30 23-10-2019 23:30 36 Steve Reich/Gerhard Richter 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. Barbican Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Barbican Hall
Silk Street
Barbican, City of London
London
EC2Y 8DS
England

Wednesday 23rd October 2019
9:30 PM

Programme

Steve Reich – Runner (2016)
Steve Reich – Reich / Richter

Performers

Colin Currie – Conductor

Britten Sinfonia

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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.

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