On Tuesday the 23rd of Jan I had a concert at Sound of Mu here in Oslo with a fantastic saxophone player from China: Li Tie Qiao and with Alex Gunia (Germany) on Guitars and electronics We performed a selection I did from the piece TREATISE by composer Cornelius Cardew.
originally a 193 pages long Graphic score. We performed the pages 1-3 and 67-74. and the instrumentation was:
me on Bass,gongs,cymbals,radio and electronics. Tie qiao on Alto & Tenor saxophone and flutes. and Alex Gunia, Extended guitar and electronics.And we projected the score pages on to the wall,so that the audience also was invited to interpret what they saw and heard.
I got the score some time ago,and thought it would be cool to perform this some day, and finally it happened as I got the chance to perform it together with Alex and Tieqiao.
About the piece: The score is freely interpreted and all the symbols and graphics are to interpreted according to each performers creative instincts, Cardew based his concept behind this piece on the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgensteins ideas about the philosphy of logic in the book "Tractatus" ( (hence the name TREATISE) Wittgenstein ideas in Tractatus is in short: It is in the language, the limits of thought is drawn and how the forms revealed by logic are embedded in the world of facts and, therefore, in the language that we use to describe it. Cardew applied this idea into a compositional and performing practise and he started to work on this in 1963 finished the piece in 1967.
some photos from the performance (photos by Kathinka)
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