Happy New year! May 2021 bring us live music again, please!
I was currently supposed to be performing in Annelies Van Parys’ wonderful contemporary adaptation of Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde at Vlaamse Opera, but the event had to be canceled for obvious reasons… :((
Speaking of Wagner, for those familiar with Anthony Braxton’s epic Trillium-cycle, a jump from Wagner to Braxton is not a wide stretch. Incidentally Trillium also inhabits Braxton’s lesser known recent composition system ‘Echo Echo Mirror House Music’ (EEMHM), which lets the performers interact with a sound collage of Braxton’s entire recorded output. I’ve been working with Carl Testa from Tri-Centric Foundation to bring this unique work back to the stage. Carl developed an online interface that allows performers to engage with EEMHM over the internet and so I brought a small group of local Belgian based musicians together to work on these unique, complex and multilayered compositions. A first try-out was scheduled at Articulate Research Days in november 2020 at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, but had to be canceled. Luckily we get a second shot! A new date is fixed on february 01 and will be streamed live.
performed by:
Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, guitar
Steven Delannoye, saxophone
Niels Van Heertum, euphonium
Hampus Lindwall, piano
Carl Testa, sound collage
For more info on EEMHM check out Carl Testa’s insightful article here.
Here’s a brief excerpt from an online rehearsal in november.