Open Form Festival
What is Open Form - The Elastic Festival?
In The Elastic Festival, concerts and seminars
are held over a longer period, instead of assembling them in a few days, as a conventional festival.
In this way, performers are able to get into the slow process of interpreting Open Form works, and to let each work mature between the different performances. The audience is
allowed to participate in this process by invitations for seminars and workshops in advance of the concerts start. Through Open Form - The Elastic Festival, a continuity between the work, the performers,
and the audience is established.
What is Open Form?
Open Form works are notated with unconventional notational techniques. It may be graphic, numeric or text instructions, or extended conventional notation. Many of the choices that traditionally has belonged to the composer are in Open Form left to the performer.
Open Form originates from the New York School, in this context represented by composers such as John Cage, Earle Brown and Christian Wolff.
Metaphorically the performer gets in a conventional work the task of conveying a rose the exact way I received it from the composer. In Open Form what I get from the composer is only a seed. I do not know what kind of flower that will grow out of it.
