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Harry Partch / Tim Mariën : The Wayward NL FR ENG

Sebastian Rivas, Esteban Buch : Aliados, Un opéra du temps réel - Thatcher/Pinochet 1982/1998

Jérôme Combier / Pierre Nouvel : Looking for Sebald (after Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, for actor, video, six musicians

François Narboni : Standards

Feb 2nd, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam

Opera songs by Kurt Weill and Tom Waits, featuring Judith Vindevogel and Kris Dane. Arranged for a twelve musicians big band by François Deppe, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Fabian Fiorini.

... after Brugge Amiens Strasbourg Reims Brussels Lille Clermont-Ferrand Rouen Bergen(N) Saarbrücken Luxembourg Paris Tongyeong (Korea) Marseille Torino Oostende Grenoble Groningen Middelburg Kortrijk Gent Hasselt Dijon ...

... read much more on this site, including an ugly clip

Gent, Handelsbeurs, January 6th

François Sarhan + Willima Kentridge

Go tho the Telegrams page, NL FR ENG | Video |

OPERA DE LILLE, March 12th
KAAITHEATER, Ars Musica, March 22th

An evening with Riccardo Nova,
three indian music virtuosos and electronics

In his recent work, the Milanese Riccardo Nova (1960) has developed his own sound where traditional music, contemporary music and experimental noise meet. His compositions sound as psychedelic as those of his old friend Fausto Romitelli and are permeated with electronic anamorphoses. They integrate the esoteric element of the classical music of Southern India: a great rhythmic virtuosity based on a sacred science of numbers. The title of this new full-length performance, Primes, also refers to this.

On stage there are three Indian musicians (a violinist and two percussionists, including B.C. Manjunath, master of the mrigandam), and five Ictus musicians whose instruments are duplicated using MIDI-relays and loop machines.

| Computer music assistance : Patrick Delges for the CRFMW (Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie) |

Here : a live version of Ma Sequence for trumpet and 3 percussions, followed by 13 for ensemble

07.03.2010: MOT SOUFI #2
Flagey, Studio 1, Ars Musica, Brussels

Ensemble and chamber pieces by Jean-Luc Fafchamps, including two new works. Conductors : G-E Octors, François Deppe.

Computer music assistance : CRFMW (Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie)

Fafchamps manages to maintain the impression of a mysterious order in even the most exuberant cacophonies. You still feel the underlying presence of a "ringmaster", a hint of Stravinskyism. This is a truly original, very controlled, poetic and funny style, and whatever the case, an excellent surprise.

Jacques Amblard, le Monde de la Musique

(Maarten Beirens, De Standaard, 6 mei 2002)

In their work, the arrangers have respected both the anarchic nature of Waits’ songs and Kurt Weill’s acerbic tone. But the true challenge is in the singer’s rendering. This challenge was taken up by Judith Vindevogel, who proved to be a phenomenal singer of Weill’s music. Her broad expressive palette - she is as much at ease in the lyrical legato as in the ironic parlando - gave Kurt Weill’s best-known airs (such as in Sabaya Johnny or, more particularly, in Seeräuber-Jenny) a most incredibly powerful impact. The rock singer Kris Dane had the ungrateful task of making us forget Tom Waits’ inimitable sand-paper voice. He carried this off quite well by at times singing into the microphone and a megaphone simultaneously, which gave his voice all the cutting edge that it required. Backed up by a wild ensemble, Dane proposed a rendering that Waits would without a doubt have approved of. His version of ‘ I’ll Shoot the Moon’ is even better than the original, in my opinion.