Alvin Curran | Inner Cities

Alvin Curran: Inner Cities for solo piano, toy piano, and MIDI keyboard

In dialogue with the exhibition Stephen Antonakos: Vectors of Time and Space, the B & M Theocharakis Foundation presents on Thursday, March 19 at 18:00, in the Foundation’s amphitheater, a concert featuring extensive excerpts from the monumental cycle Inner Cities by the American composer Alvin Curran (b. 1938), performed by pianist Daan Vandewalle. Alvin Curran is widely known for his contributions to experimental and electroacoustic music. As a member of the collective Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) in the 1960s, together with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, he developed a distinctive aesthetic that combines improvisation, environmental sounds, electronic media, and elements drawn from everyday sonic experience. Inner Cities (1993–2020) is an expansive cycle for solo piano, written in numerous sections, in which Curran explores the sonic and expressive possibilities of the instrument through repetitive structures, lyrical gestures, and moments of improvisational freedom. The work creates a sonic “mapping” of interior landscapes where minimalist thinking, experimental writing, and personal memory coexist, inviting the listener into a deep and almost meditative listening experience. The concert has a duration of 4 hours and 40 minutes. The sound of the piano from the amphitheater will also be transmitted into the exhibition galleries, allowing the audience to experience Inner Cities through a free movement between spaces, from the immediacy of listening in the amphitheater to its contrapuntal coexistence with the works of the exhibition. If Stephen Antonakos shaped space through lines of light and geometric forms, Curran’s music shapes sound in order to trace interior pathways, creating an environment where time and space converge.

March 19, 2026

Thursday, 6:00p.m.

Daan Vandewalle, piano

Free admission (seat reservation required)