Ictus takes over the Lille operahouse with "Secret Garden" a nocturnal journey through the music of Joanna Bailey, Jean-Luc Hervé, Morton Feldman and Terry Riley as well as "Breathcore" an immersive breathing sound-piece by Michael Schmidt.
I'm happy to be part of this event in a performance of Terry Riley's "A Rainbow of Curved Air", preceded by a solo-improvisation in the Foyer of the opera house.
Zwerm just released its latest album "Wandering Rocks" on the French Alamuse label. The CD contains material from two recent projects with French composer François Sarhan: Wandering Rocks and Commodity Music, both created in collaboration with La Muse en Circuit.
Wandering Rocks is a composition by François Sarhan, an immersive piece for four electric guitars and 16 speakers, which was premiered at Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2014.
Commodity Music is an installation/music theater work created by François Sarhan and Zwerm for the 2016 Darmstadt festival for new music.
The CD contains material from both works in one 40-minute track and was released on december 10th after a performance at Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil in Paris.
for more info click here!
I'm happy to share "The Byrds" a new piece I made for Zwerm's "Electric Consort" program, live performed last may at Festival Sonik, Théâtre Cornouaille, Quimper!
The piece is loosely based on William Byrd's "In Nomine" for consort of viols. Enjoy!
(recorded by Johan Vandermaelen)
Last week Zwerm played a performance at Oortreders Festival, which took place in the church of Neerpelt, under Luke Jerram's giant "Museum of the Moon" installation. Here are some very nice foto's of the event!
I'm very happy to be back in Darmstadt for the biannual new music festival! Aside from meeting many old and new friends. I have two performances lined up during the festival:
Zwerm will create, Commodity Music, an evening long performance/installation by François Sarhan at a site specific location (the Darmstadt Design house near Mathildenhöhe), in collaboration with La Muse en Circuit:
For the Darmstadt Summer Course 2016, Sarhan and the belgian electric guitar quartet ZWERM will present a house full of music: An installation concert with live music, pre-recorded music, some pre-recorded images, and a combination of them all. Commodity Music is centered around the fact that the separation of tasks and competences in our society has reached a point never seen before. In music, this phenomenon could be caricatured this way: music is composed by people who don't play, performed by people who don't compose, and listened to (in case) by people who neither compose nor play. Instead of bringing (in an idealistic way) the community of listeners towards music, Commodity Music proposes different attempts of bringing performers back to useful and reasonable tasks that could be of some use for the community.
Then it's off to Frankfurt to join Ictus for a performance of Eva Reiter's fantastic work Lichtenberg Figures at Frankfurt LAB:
The second guest appearance by Ictus at this year’s Summer Course will bring The Lichtenberg Figures to Darmstadt – the latest, evening-long work for voice and 11 instruments by the Austrian composer Eva Reiter. In this highly energetic piece, Reiter opens up a musical space populated, in a very personal and idiosyncratic manner and a sometimes bizarre concentration, with sounds both acoustic and electronic, distorted and defamiliarized, processed and natural, vocal and instrumental. Although the composer, in her cycle of seven songs, six interludes and a prologue, sets up a frame of reference rich in metaphors and images by nameing and incorporating Ben Lerner’s cycle of poems The Lichtenberg Figures(published in 2004), she is ultimately concerned with a musical-sonic “social psychogram” (Eva Reiter). Thus the highly complex and highly virtuosic Lichtenberg Figures operate on the dark threshold of our perception of the world, where hallucinations, deprivations, abysses, despair and aberrations are an entirely natural part of things…
Maybe see you at one of these events!
