L'Arsenale is a workshop, a music lab, whose aim is to create/perform new music through the collective experimentation of composers and players.

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06.06.2009 | Venice
Lines Towards Another Century 4 PM at Parco delle Rimembranze in Venezia

An immersive performance involving sound, movement and text

Andrew Byrne is a New York based composer and a member of the artistic programming team at Carnegie Hall; Tom Nicholson is an Australian artist who has shown internationally including at the 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, and recently in The Hague, Siena, Auckland, Berlin and Santiago.

Lines Towards Another Century is an instruction-based performance featuring the Italian contemporary music ensemble L'arsenale. The work is structured around the intoning of a vast list of national boundaries created during the 20th century. For the Venice manifestation of their collaboration, Byrne and Nicholson make use of recorded intonings of the list, disembodying the act of reading and using the recorded material as a kind of ordering system for the movement of the performers through the space of the Parco delle Rimembranze. Each performer remains silent, moving through the park, bearing the transmission of a recorded intoning, which orders, prompts and contains their movements, creating complex layers and accumulations of sound.