Free Radicals is an aural and visual immersion pairing short films by experimental filmmakers from the 1920s to the present with music by composers from the same eras. Films range from those of pioneer of Dada and surrealist cinema Man Ray, to the work of American experimentalists from the 1940s/50s Robert Breer and Maya Deren, to current work by internationally-recognized film and visual artists such as Barbara Doser, Tim MacMillan, Jòzef Robakowski, Peter Tscherkassky and Mara Mattuschka. Musical works, some paired with films, others standing alone, include: Arnold Schoenberg’s 1910 12-tone Three Chamber Orchestra Pieces; Harrison Birtwistle’s Tombeau composed in 1971 as a memorial to Igor Stravinsky; Iannis Xenakis’ electronic Concret PH; Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Dr. K. Sextet; and compositions by Georges Aperghis, Morton Feldman, Emilio Pomárico, Giacinto Scelsi, and David Horne. The program concept was developed by Bernhard Zachhuber and Bady Minck.

French conductor Jean Deroyer was born in 1979. At the age of fifteen he enrolled at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where he was subsequently awarded five first prizes: in conducting, harmony, fugue, counterpoint and analysis. Pierre Boulez appointed him chief assistant conductor of the Ensemble Intercontemporain for two seasons.

Klangforum Wien: Free Radicals

Jean Deroyer, conductor

Bernhard Zachhuber and Bady Minck, program concept

Bernhard Zachhuber and Andreas Lindenbaum, music selection

Bady Minck, film selection

Peter Böhm and Florian Bogner, sound direction

Raphael Barth and Matthias Smycka (Golden Girls), video projection

Victor Duran and Celalettin Er, lighting design

Thomas Faul, technical direction, stage supervision

Film: Bady Minck: Das Sein und das Nichts (Austria/Luxembourg, 2007, color, 6 min., (New York premiere) film music: Beat Furrer: Ein Lied, das über das Ende des Liedes hinaus ein anderes Ende finden wollte, 2001)

Film: Robert Breer: Recreation (France, 1957, color, film sound, 2 min)

Film: Man Ray: Le retour à la raison (France, 1923, b&w, silent, 3 min.)

Music: Misato Mochizuki: Le labyrinthe de la raison (2007) (U.S. premiere

Film: Man Ray: Le retour à la raison (France, 1923, b&w, silent, 3 min.)

Music: James Clarke: 2006-K (2007) (U.S. premiere)

Music: Arnold Schoenberg: Drei Stücke für Kammerensemble (1910)

Film: Mara Mattuschka: Parasympathica (Austrian, 1986, b&w, film sound, 3:22 min)

Music: Emilio Pomárico: In Nomine (2001)

Film: Man Ray: Le retour à la raison (France, 1923, b&w, silent, 3 min)

Music: Theo Verbey: Man Ray: Le Retour à la Raison (2007) (U.S. premiere)

Film: Peter Tscherkassky: Manufraktur (Austria, 1985, b&w, film sound, 2:58 min)

Music: Karlheinz Stockhausen: No.28 Dr. K-Sextett (1969)

Film: Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography for the Camera (USA, 1945, b&w, silent)

Music: Giacinto Scelsi: Pranam 2 (1973)

Music: Iannis Xenakis: Concret PH (1958)

Harrison Birtwistle: Tombeau in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky (1971)

Film: Jòzef Robakowski/Paul Sharits: Uwaga: Swiatlo!/Attention:Light! (Poland, 2004, color, 5 min., film music: Frederic Chopin, Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68)

Music: Iannis Xenakis: O-Mega (1997)

Film: Tim MacMillan: Ferment (Great Britain, 1999, color, film sound, 5 min.)

Music: David Horne: Disintegration II (2003)

Film: Barbara Doser: even odd even / distilled (Austria, 2007, b&w, 4 min., film music: Hofstatter Kurt & Barbara Doser)

Music: Georges Aperghis: Heysel (2002)

Film: Bady Minck: Schein Sein (Austria/Luxembourg, 2007, color, 6 min.) (U.S. premiere)

Music: Morton Feldman: Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety (1970)

Tickets for Free Radicals are priced at $30, 40 and 50 and may be purchased online at www.LincolnCenter.org, by calling CenterCharge, 212-721-6500 and at the Alice Tully or Avery Fisher Hall box offices, Broadway at 65th Street.