UMS ‘n JIP
Swiss Contemporary Music Duo voice, recorder & electronics
SILENCE
DIETER SCHNEBEL
from: Redeübungen für Hand und Mund, 1984/5
LUCIANO BERIO
Gesti per flauto dolce, 1966
JOHN CAGE
Lecture on Nothing, 1950/61 (English: J.Cage / French: M. Fong / Gerrnan: E. Jandl / arr. JIP)
MAURICIO KAGEL
Atem (für einen Bläser), 1969
GEORGES APERGHIS
from: récitations pour une voix seule, 1977/8
UMS ‘n JIP ['umsnjip]. Founded by Ulrike Mayer-Spohn [UMS] and Javier Hagen [JIP], UMS ‘n JIP is with more than 600 concerts and 150 commissioned works since 2007 one of the most active contemporary music ensembles worldwide performing >100 international concerts annually, including mobile chamber operas & multimedia performances. Since their studies (composing, audio design & musical performance) in Holland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, UMS and JIP have been invited to prestigious contemporary music and theatre festivals (Avignon, Paris, Strasbourg, Marseille, TKF Zürich, TKF Lausanne, Lucerne, Basel, Bern, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Ulan Bator, New York, Donaueschingen, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Adelaide) where they have premiered more than 200 works as soloists and as a duo, collaborating with both world famous and aspiring young composers such as Goebbels, Rihm, Kagel, Reimann, Eötvös, Luis Codera Puzo, Stefan Pohlit, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Chikashi Miyama, Huang Ruo, Wen Deqing and Guo Wenjing. UMS ‘n JIP explore new musical and scenic settings for voice, recorders and electronics ranging from live to digital performance as well as European to non-European music. Pluriannual collaboration providing common research, rehearsals and recordings with the concerned composers as well as an exceptionally high amount of performances all around the world do result the works commissioned by UMS ‘n JIP to be among the most often performed compositions of each composer. UMS ‘n JIP are also involved in the direction of the Swiss Contemporary Music Festival Forum : : Wallis, chaired by the International Society for Contemporary Music Wallis/Switzerland IGNM-VS. JIP is the actual president of ISCM Switzerland and board member of the UNESCO Commission for the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Canton of Valais. Within these structures, UMS ‘n JIP have initiated more than 200 additional projects and commissions. Since 2013 UMS ‘n JIP take part in two international research projects: The Recorder Map and i-Treasures. UMS ‘n JIP is coached by Irvine Arditti. Http://umsnjip.ch
UMS ́n JIP
Switzerland
Ulrike Mayer-Spohn & Javier Hagen, associate artistic directors
Youtube: http://youtube.com/umsnjip / Facebook: http://facebook.com/umsnjip
‘Silence’ represents one of the pathbreaking works of the 20th century: John Cage’s famous ‘Lecture on Nothing’ adapted by JIP making the structural elements of the piece audible and visible in a playful way. In a Cagelike style, pieces by Kagel, Schnebel, Aperghis und Berio are presented before, during and after the Lecture, works that are also technically, formally and in sound terms important in the musical history of the 20th and 21st century. Cage’s piece itself is seldom heard live and in UMS ‘n JIP’s performance is presented in a particularly exciting version. The program was given its premiere in 2007 at the Schweizerischen Tonkünstlerfest (Swiss Sound Artists Festival) at the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee in Zurich. So far it has been performed 50 times in 10 countries and almost all continents.
