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.