{"id":698,"date":"2016-01-16T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T18:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2016-02-24T00:34:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T05:34:32","slug":"volans-asanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/volans-asanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Volans &#8211; Asanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Default\"><strong>Kevin Volans &#8211; Asanga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">The Sanskrit title \u2018Asanga\u2019 means &#8216;freedom from attachment&#8217; I wrote the piece as a gift for Robyn Schulkowsky on the death of her father. It was written with no conscious techniques or concept. The first performance was in Stockholm in 1998.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\" align=\"right\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kevin Volans<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">\u00a0Born in South Africa, but now an Irish citizen, Kevin Volans\u2019 musical idiom has been shaped by an unusually diverse range of experiences, including studies with Stockhausen in Cologne, field trips to South Africa to study traditional music, his own involvement with the New Simplicity movement, his collection of\u00a0contemporary art\u00a0and\u00a0African textiles, friendships with composers like Morton Feldman and Gerald Barry, as well as a love of virtuoso piano music which he performs, broadcasts and records. While having an easily recognised, unique voice, Volans\u2019 music resists compartmentalisation. He is as comfortable working in conventional genres as embarking on innovative collaborations with artists of other disciplines such as novelist Bruce Chatwin, choreographers Jonathan Burrows, Siobhan Davies and Shobana Jeyasingh, and visual artists William Kentridge and Juergen Partenheimer.\u00a0A committed modernist, he lives by the tenet: Nothing is given &#8211; there should be no received language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\">Annotated by WanNing Chen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Volans &#8211; Asanga The Sanskrit title \u2018Asanga\u2019 means &#8216;freedom from attachment&#8217; I wrote the piece as a gift for Robyn Schulkowsky on the death of her father. It was written with no conscious techniques or concept. The first performance was in Stockholm in 1998. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kevin Volans \u00a0Born in South Africa, but now an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}