Sounding Philosophy
by Composer-in-residence, Dániel Péter Biró
Sounding Philosophy is an interdisciplinary research project combining the fields of music, dance, visual arts, philosophy and science. The project integrates these fields, investigating how recent theories of emergence, reason and the mind can be approached from creative, metaphysical and scientific standpoints.
While philosophers have described thinking, doing and perception as different “states of mind,” scientists have not only concerned themselves with the question of how intelligence in the universe is possible, but also how intelligence plays a role in the evolution and emergence of nature. Philosophers, such as Spinoza and Kant, regarded both philosophy and art not merely as rational modes of explanation but also as expressions of spirit (spiritus) and intelligence (Geist). Such questions of spirit also relate to recent developments in emergence theories in physics and philosophy.
Sounding Philosophy explores concepts of “space and place,” dealing with questions of one’s place in the global world and how the arts inform and influence our perception of our place in this world. Integrating music composition, dance and painting, the project will exist as an analogy to the movement of the immigrant, who discovers, remembers, forgets and rediscovers places on his voyage, thereby investigating relationships to space: historical space, space of immigration and disembodied space.
The performance will be presented at the atelier of painter KjellPahr-Iversen, one of Norway’s most celebrated visual artists.
An introductory lecture will be presented by Elhanan Yakira, Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Program:
Dániel Péter Biró, (b. 1969): Ethica for voices and strings (2019) with choreography by Hagit Yakira
COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE: DANIEL PETER BIRO
CHOREOGRAPHER: HAGIT YAKIRA
PAINTER: KJELL PAHR-IVERSEN
VIOLINS: LUKE HSU AND LAURENS WEINHOLD
VIOLA: XIAOTI GUO
CELLOS: RAINER CROSETT AND CLARA LINDENBAUM
VOCALISTS: NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN
DANCERS: HAGIT YAKIRA DANCE COMPANY
