Since
its inception in spring 2006, Amsterdam-based new
music ensemble Scordatura Ensemble has presented exploratory
music by a range of contemporary
composers and sound artists that looks toward new
tuning systems and microtonality as a way of expanding the harmonic
vocabulary of music. The basic sound world of female voice, viola and
MIDI keyboard is expanded by other sonorities depending
on musical context. Their concerts feature “classics” from
the worlds
of microtonal and spectral music together with new
commissions. Sometimes this crosses over into work in multimedia,
involving text, video, dance, and light. |