Friday, November 22nd, 2013, 21.30
John Cage: ASLSP
Manon Liu Winter, piano
John Cage: ASLSP
ASLSP consists of pointillist melodies played along with long-sustained notes whose open
strings resonate with new tones to create a faint halo to the music. In its tendency towards
extreme slowness, sparse textures and great delicacy, ASLSP looks towards the visionary and
lonely works of Cage's late period.
[Mode Records, USA]
In 1987 Cage created a new version for organ, entitled Organ²/ASLSP, which eventually led to
a long term project at a church in Halberstadt, Germany, with a calculated performance
duration of 639 years. The documentary film (JC {639}) by Sabine Groschup, concerned with
this ongoing presentation of Organ²/ASLSP, is also featured as part of SUAL 2013. A short
rendition of the current 'audio state' of the Halberstadt project will also be presented in the
course of the concert evening.
Manon Liu Winter
Manon Liu Winter lives and works in Vienna. Her performances have taken her all over Europe
as well as to the United States, China, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand. Her intensive
study of 20th and 21st century music has led to close collaboration with composers such as
Luca Lombardi, Christian Wolff, Peter Ablinger, Dieter Schnebel, Katharina Klement, Klaus
Hollinetz, Christoph Herndler, Konrad Rennert, Olga Neuwirth and many others. In the course
of her work, she has performed numerous solo recitals, world premieres and Austrian
premieres. Manon Liu Winter’s concert activities include performances in the Wiener
Konzerthaus at the festival Wien Modern as well as at festivals and venues such as the Festival
Hörgänge, Fast Forward, TonART Bern, turning sounds Warsaw, Studio Akustische Kunst WDR
Köln, Kalleidophon Ullrichsberg, Wien-Berlin Festival, Osterfestspiele Innsbruck, Ars
Electronica Linz, Donau Festival, Porgy&Bess, Radiokulturhaus Wien, MAK-Wien, open music
Graz, art acts St Johann, Brucknerhaus Linz, e-may Festival, Dampffabrik Bern, Studio
del´Arte, Roma, Congresscenter Brno, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Nownow Festival Sidney
2007 and many more. Broadcasts of her performances can be found, notably, on SWR II (the
German radio station Südwestrundfunk II) and among numerous radio, television and CD
productions by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). In her improvisation work, Manon
Liu Winter has collaborated with musicians such as Robin Hayward, Juun, Franz Hautzinger,
Clayton Thomas, Christian Wolff, Isabel Duthoit, Peter Herbert, John Tilbury, and many more.
Manon Liu Winter is a member of the Ensemble EIS, deepseafish K and Franz Hautzinger’s Poet
Congress. She is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has
taught at the Impuls Academy since 2011. Manon Liu Winter’s compositions have been
commissioned by TanzHotel, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the City of Vienna,
RSO, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna (mumok) und Jeunesse Musicale.
http://www.manonliuwinter.at
strings resonate with new tones to create a faint halo to the music. In its tendency towards
extreme slowness, sparse textures and great delicacy, ASLSP looks towards the visionary and
lonely works of Cage's late period.
[Mode Records, USA]
In 1987 Cage created a new version for organ, entitled Organ²/ASLSP, which eventually led to
a long term project at a church in Halberstadt, Germany, with a calculated performance
duration of 639 years. The documentary film (JC {639}) by Sabine Groschup, concerned with
this ongoing presentation of Organ²/ASLSP, is also featured as part of SUAL 2013. A short
rendition of the current 'audio state' of the Halberstadt project will also be presented in the
course of the concert evening.
Manon Liu Winter
Manon Liu Winter lives and works in Vienna. Her performances have taken her all over Europe
as well as to the United States, China, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand. Her intensive
study of 20th and 21st century music has led to close collaboration with composers such as
Luca Lombardi, Christian Wolff, Peter Ablinger, Dieter Schnebel, Katharina Klement, Klaus
Hollinetz, Christoph Herndler, Konrad Rennert, Olga Neuwirth and many others. In the course
of her work, she has performed numerous solo recitals, world premieres and Austrian
premieres. Manon Liu Winter’s concert activities include performances in the Wiener
Konzerthaus at the festival Wien Modern as well as at festivals and venues such as the Festival
Hörgänge, Fast Forward, TonART Bern, turning sounds Warsaw, Studio Akustische Kunst WDR
Köln, Kalleidophon Ullrichsberg, Wien-Berlin Festival, Osterfestspiele Innsbruck, Ars
Electronica Linz, Donau Festival, Porgy&Bess, Radiokulturhaus Wien, MAK-Wien, open music
Graz, art acts St Johann, Brucknerhaus Linz, e-may Festival, Dampffabrik Bern, Studio
del´Arte, Roma, Congresscenter Brno, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Nownow Festival Sidney
2007 and many more. Broadcasts of her performances can be found, notably, on SWR II (the
German radio station Südwestrundfunk II) and among numerous radio, television and CD
productions by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). In her improvisation work, Manon
Liu Winter has collaborated with musicians such as Robin Hayward, Juun, Franz Hautzinger,
Clayton Thomas, Christian Wolff, Isabel Duthoit, Peter Herbert, John Tilbury, and many more.
Manon Liu Winter is a member of the Ensemble EIS, deepseafish K and Franz Hautzinger’s Poet
Congress. She is a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and has
taught at the Impuls Academy since 2011. Manon Liu Winter’s compositions have been
commissioned by TanzHotel, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), the City of Vienna,
RSO, the Museum of Modern Art Vienna (mumok) und Jeunesse Musicale.
http://www.manonliuwinter.at
