handelsbeurs, gent, january 26th, 2011 | kaaitheater, brussels, february 2nd, 2011
guests : wolfgang mitterer | benjamin de la fuente | eric echampard | tomoko taguchi
Wolfgang Mitterer : Coloured Noise, Sentence 5 for violin, cello, e-bass, e-guit, drums, percussion, two flutes, electronix
Benjamin De La Fuente : Bypass, Flip, Bip & Sirene for electric violin, two drummers, flute, cello, e-bass, e-guit, sampler (premiere)
Harry Partch : The Letter + Barstow for spoken voice, microtonal guitar, zyhter, microtonal piano
Marc Monnet : Eros Machina for e-guitar, e-bass, metronomes
François-Bernard Mâche : Kengir for voice and sampler
Helmut Lachenmann : Pression for cello
Istvan Matuz : The Glizz for solo flute
Eva Reiter : Konter for counter bass flute & electronix
Interzone for japanese soprano & Fender Rhodes - Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy
Philip Glass : Piece in the Shape of a Square for two flutes
Burkhard Stangl : Creation for a quasi-rock band
Ivan Fedele : Apostrofe for solo flute
Tom Bruwier, lighting, slideshow
Géry Cambier, double bass, bass guitar
Vanessa Court, sound assistant
Benjamin De La Fuente, violon, electronics
François Deppe, cello
Chrissy Dimitrou, flute
Eric Echampard, drums
Alex Fostier, sound and digits
Wolfgang Mitterer, electronics
Gerrit Nulens, percussion
Tom Pauwels, electric guitar
Jean-Luc Plouvier, keyboards
Michael Schmid, flute, voice, bass flute
Tomoko Taguchi, soprano
ICTUS performing Harry Partch, Darmstadt, july 2010 (recorded by HR2)
Michaël Schmid, voice + microtonal piano, microtonal guitar - Arranged by Tim Mariën.
Discover Wolfgang Mitterer - here with the great Georg Nigl : Am Fenster (NOT performed in the Liquid Room)
More Mitterer : Coloured Noise (- will be performed in our Liquid Room. Here : performed by the great Klangforum)
The composer Benjamin De La Fuente, the drummer Eric Echampard + Samuel Sighicelli and Bruno Chevillon = Caravaggio, a bizarre blend between composing, improvising, editing. Here : Platz (excerpt)
(NOT performed in the Liquid Room)
By Eva Reiter, flute player, gamba player and Viennese composer : KONTER for counterbass flute and electronix _ Here the demo version (much weaker than the Michael Schmid version of course)
Discover the "Imaginary World Music" of François-Bernard Mâche. Here : Kassandra (sixth movement)
_ Ensemble du Nouvel Orchestre Philarmonique
(NOT performed in the Liquid Room)
Piece in the Shape of a Square, for two flutes : the early Philip Glass is quite crispy. No pharaoh! No elephants!
One night, four stages _ After Bruges, Brussels and Vienna, a new edition of our concert festival, with some brilliant invitees: Benjamin De La Fuente on electric violin (with the premiere of a new work in four parts, floating between Paris-Texas, Luciano Berio and King Crimson), Eric Echampard (one of the most exciting drummers on the current jazz scene), Wolfgang Mitterer (with a new arrangement of his Coloured Noise) and soprano Tomoko Taguchi.
Contemporary music, but like listening to a rock festival or a night of electronic improvisation: the audience comes in and goes out, stays standing up or sits down on the ground, a continuous flow of works, the bar stays open: in and out. Instantaneous music production (remix, improvisation), opposed to carefully preconceived works, listening from a distance or involved listening ; Lachenmann side by side with Mitterer, who crosses with Fauré, who follows from Partch, but by the end, no-one knows any more: putting it all together blurs the contours.
Careful setting, big sound, invisible shifts. Mixing everything, but saying yes to the works. Reappropriating the modern heritage, stripping it of its Messianic tension, but stripped, also, of the resentment against the 20th century: yes, the contemporary music adventure has happened. Can what was invented under the banner of radical subversion be conveyed under the sign of the fragment, through a vortex of sounds, or be scattered into pieces ? We'll see.
>HANDELSBEURS | >KAAITHEATER (coproduction : BOZAR)
