Open Circuit Festival - Gildas String Quartet

7:00pm - 8:00pm / Friday 4th March 2016 / Venue: Waterhouse Cafe Victoria Gallery & Museum
Type: Music / Category: Department
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The Open Circuit festival begins with the brilliant Gildas String Quartet playing an exciting set of American music in the VG&M’s downstairs Waterhouse Cafe. Ben Hackbarth’s piece Liquid Study 1, for string quartet and electronics, explores the relationship between acoustic and electronics forces, as he explains, the two “behave much more like oil and water - two distinct entities which share a diaphanous boundary, inherently responsive to each other, yet stubbornly separate and divisible.” Ben’s piece is followed by George Crumb’s atmospheric Black Angels, a seminal work for amplified string quartet. Each of the four string players perform on additional instruments, including wine glasses and tam-tams, to create an ethereal and haunting music inspired by the Vietnam War.