CAST
PONY SAYS
Felix Nagl: piano, keyboards
Lucas Gerin: percussion
Thilo Ruck: e-guitar
ICTUS
Theresa Dlouhy: voice
Andres Ruiz Gonzalez: trumpet
Nabou Claerhout: trombone
Dirk Descheemaker: clarinet
Eva Reiter: viola da gamba
Tom Pauwels: guitars
Jean-Luc Plouvier: keyboards
AND
Svetlana Maraš: electronics
WORKS
Panayiotis Kokoras: Mutation
Martin Schüttler: Doppelgänger
Jürg Frey: Cadillac
Bernhard Gander: Darkness awaits us
Svetlana Maraš: Improvisation
Jürg Frey: 24 Wörter
Simon Steen-Andersen: MONO
Bernhard Lang: The Cold Trip (part 2)
Martin Schüttler: Leiermann
Jürg Frey: Abendlied
John Dowland: Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled
John Dowland: What if A Daye
Bernhard Lang: DW6c
Tristan Murail: Atlantys
Francesco Filidei: And here they do not …
Jürg Frey: Fleetingness
Enno Poppe: Arbeit (I)
Enno Poppe: Arbeit (III)
Svetlana Maraš: solo als Prologue zu Firekeepers
Jürg Frey: No.32
Burkhard Stangl: Nights
Burkhard Stangl: With you
Jürg Frey: 60 Pieces of Sound
SOBS & SHIVERS
Curated by Eva Reiter, this 4-stage Liquid Room in our dear Bern will be as usual a one-day festival, a firework display of short, unique pieces of music.
It will also be our second experience with Svletana Maraš and Pony Says. Svletana has developed a very particular style that could be described as “modular improvisation”, where composition and improvisation intertwine. A world of immense sonic richness. The Pony Says trio, which possesses all the keys to Maraš's music, is perfectly representative of a new generation of contemporary music ensembles: rather than presenting themselves as excellent and neutral performers, exclusively at the service of composers, the trio develops a completely personal “sound”, made up of written music, free improvisation and pop culture.
Eva Reiter has followed this guiding principle of a new redistribution of roles between performers, composers and improvisers, adding the most intimate of her own experience and subjectivity. From a very young age, Eva has experienced music as a perpetual journey between experimental and early music. How can we revive the pathos of pre-modern and romantic songs, make their sobs and shivers felt, distil them like a strong alcohol in a new aesthetic compatible with our present? It is basically Luigi Nono's question that she brings up to date, but in a less ascetic way than the old Venetian, and without fearing the warm and cosy sounds of pop music refrains and minimalist daydreams.
Agenda for this project
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Wed 03.09 Liquid Room No. 11: Scattered Songs - Bern - Switzerland