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CONTEMPORALE
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Curated by Split Works
Presents: Julia Holter
“Both pristine and deranged, Julia Holter drapes herself in mystery and transforms herself when she takes to the stage” – The Guardian
Contemporale’s second performance for the 2015-2016 season sees the stark, cerebral, beautiful music of American musician Julia Holter. Following on from Ólafur Arnald’s majestic opening concert for the 2015-16 Contemporale season in the larger Symphony Hall, Julia Holter will bring her eerie serenity and triumphant crescendos to the more intimate Chamber Hall on December 3.
Los Angeles-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Julia Holter blurs the boundaries between indie music, modern composition, and electronic music in her own work as well as her collaborations. Holter grew up in a musically inclined family — her father is a guitarist who once played with Pete Seeger — and studied electronic music at CalArts.
After graduation, she began releasing music at a prolific rate: in 2008, she contributed tracks to Monika’s 4 Women No Cry, Vol. 3 as well as a Human Ear compilation and released the CD-R album Cookbook on Sleepy Mammal Sound. The following year, Holter began working with the Dublab collective, appearing on a volume of their In the Loop series of vinyl compilations and performing with the Linda Perhacs Band.
However, all of this activity was just a warm-up for her first full-fledged album, 2011’s Tragedy, which was released by Leaving Records. Inspired by Euripides’ play Hippolytus, the album melded tweaked electronics with classical and pop elements that earned critical acclaim from avant and underground music publications, both online and in print.
Soon after Tragedy‘s release came Ekstasis, a lighter and more accessible but still complex song cycle that arrived in March 2012. By the time of that album’s release, Holter already had a third album, tentatively titled Gigi, waiting in the wings. On top of her busy music schedule, she also found time to tutor teenagers in South Central L.A. as part of a nonprofit organization. Her third album, officially named Loud City Song and inspired by Colette’s 1944 novella Gigi, arrived in August 2013.
Split Works along with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra looks forward to sharing this, the second of six performances, with its audience.
Show Information
【Shanghai】
Date: December 3, 2015 Thursday
Time: 19:45pm*
*Performance will start promptly at 7:45pm. Please arrive 45 minutes prior to show time.
Location: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Hall
Address: 1380 Middle Fuxing Road, Xuhui District, near Baoqing Road (徐汇区复兴中路1380号，近宝庆路)
Price: 180/120/80 RMB
Online Booking: http://www.shsymphony.com/item-index-id-313.html
Links
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra official website：www.sh-symphony.com
Split Works official website：www.spli-t.com
Julia Holter official website: http://juliashammasholter.com/
Pitchfork review of Loud City Songs: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18378-julia-holter-loud-city-song/
About Contemporale
The Contemporale series began in the autumn of 2014 as a collaboration between the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Split Works and hosts exciting contemporary musical acts in a classical music environment, at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra’s new home in downtown Shanghai.
The 2014-15 season saw piano, guitar and strings from the Ukraine (Lubomyr Melnyk), Canada (Moonface) and the US (Bill Callahan). With fully sold out Chamber Halls across the season, Contemporale has expanded its programme for the 2015-16 season, taking in twice the number of artists and including performances in the 1,200 seat Concert Hall.
About Split Works:
Split Works is a Beijing and Shanghai based concert promotion agency. Since 2006, we’ve been putting on killer parties and shows throughout Asia, working with brilliant artists from across the globe. In 2009, we launched JUE | Music + Art and also produce branded campaigns through our sister company, communications agency Splatter. We love China, we love music, we love you.[:zh]
上海交响乐团和Split Works开功 联合呈现
CONTEMPORALE当代变奏系列演出 2015-2016
美国氛围电音才女Julia Holter
“舞台上的Julia Holter变得全然不同，她将自己包裹在神秘中尽情表演，质朴而疯狂。” ——《卫报》
2015年秋冬之季，由上海交响乐团与Split Works开功联合呈现，共同带来新一季“当代变奏”演出系列，将世界独立音乐人的独特声音带到庄严恢宏的音乐厅，让特立独行的当代流行与古典音乐碰撞出惊艳的火花！12月3日，“当代变奏”第二场演出将由美国音乐人Julia Holter带来用电子氛围铺垫的神秘实验之旅。这位来自洛杉矶的唱作人擅长使用多种乐器，无论在自己的作品还是合作作品中，她都将独立音乐、现代作曲和电子乐完美融合。
Julia Holter成长于一个音乐之家，她的父亲是一名吉他手，曾与美国民歌之父Pete Seeger有过密切合作。毕业之后，她开始进行大量的音乐创作，2008年，她在Monika的《4 Women No Cry, Vol. 3》专辑以及Human Ear厂牌合集中发表歌曲，并被收录于Sleepy Mammal Sound自主出版的CD《Cookbook》中。次年，Holter开始与Dublab Collective合作，其作品被收录在《In the Loop》黑胶合集中，并曾与Linda Perhacs的乐队同台演出。
然而， 这些仅仅是她出版第一张成熟专辑之前的热身，2011年她在Leaving Records旗下发行了首张专辑《Tragedy》。专辑灵感来自于希腊悲剧大师欧里庇得斯的《希波吕托斯》，她将古典与流行音乐的元素完美地融合进电子乐，获得前卫、独立音乐圈及媒体的一致好评。距离二专《Ekstasis》发布不到一年，2013年8月，Hotler正式发行第三张专辑《Loud City Song》，灵感来源于法国女作家Colette 在1944年出版的小说《Gigi》。继备受好评的前三张专辑之后，Holter去年在家乡录制的第四张全新大碟《Have You In My Wilderness》于今年九月发行，这是她目前为止最个人、最私密的一张专辑，她时而突出时而湮没的唱腔带领听者进入到下一个梦幻的层次——直至她的内心。
能将这位才华横溢的音乐艺术家邀请到上海交响乐团音乐厅演出，让我们感到无比激动。感谢上海交响乐团的远见，让当代流行的独立音乐响彻典雅的音乐厅。让我们在第二季“CONTEMPORALE当代变奏”的演出上见！
演出信息
【上海】
日期：2015年12月3日 星期四
时间：19:45（请提早45分钟入场）
场馆：上海交响乐团音乐厅 演艺厅
地址：徐汇区复兴中路1380号，近宝庆路
票价：180/120/80元
官网预售：http://www.shsymphony.com/item-index-id-313.html
相关链接
上海交响乐团官网：www.sh-symphony.com
Split Works开功官网：www.spli-t.com
Julia Holter官网：http://juliashammasholter.com/
Pitchfork对《Loud City Song》的评论: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18378-julia-holter-loud-city-song/
关于CONTEMPORALE 当代变奏 系列活动
“当代变奏”是始于2014年秋天，由上海交响乐团和Split Works开功联合呈现的系列活动，致力于将独特的当代旋律带入到古典音乐的环境中。演出场馆则是位于上海市中心，拥有优雅环境和完美音效的上海交响乐团音乐厅。
在2014-15年度的“当代变奏”系列活动中，我们献给观众的是来自乌克兰（Lubomyr Melnyk）、加拿大（Moonface）和美国（Bill Callahan）的钢琴、吉他和弦乐演奏，受到了大家的热烈追捧，票房火爆到一票难求的空前局面。在新一季的“当代变奏”系列演出里，我们将邀请到更多的国际优秀独立音乐人，将在拥有12,00坐席的的音乐厅上演最完美的作品。
关于Split Works
Split Works是一家基于上海和北京的外资音乐演出公司，一直和诸多国际品牌进行合作，始终围绕音乐、品牌、创意和青年文化组织和推广各类活动。2006年成立至今，Split Works已为Sonic Youth、Diplo、Owl City、Jose Gonzalez、Ghostface Killah、Andrew Bird等众多艺术家举办过中国及亚洲地区的演出，并成功举办了2007年 “十跃”音乐节以及2011年在北京上海跨城上演的黑兔音乐节。从2009年起，Split Works每年主办《觉》音乐+艺术节，今年六岁的《觉》是一个为期三周的，将北京和上海的创意艺术家和爱好者聚集在一起的开源城市音乐艺术节。[:]