Date / Place I
11 June 2017 City Studios / Restaurant Schmatz, BaselDate / Place II
12 June 2017 City Studios / Restaurant Schmatz, BaselDate / Place III
13 June 2017 Cave 12, GenevaSeries
BlankoTitle
“Blanko 2017”Program
Jonas Kocher (*1977) “Rough” for 10 instruments (2017, WP, commission EPhB) – 27’50’’ eRikm (*1970) “Particules” music for ensemble (2017, WP, commissiob EPhB) – 41’Musicians
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, artistic direction
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet
- Sebastian Pottmeier
- saxophone
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet
- João Pacheco
- percussion
- Maurizio Grandinetti
- electric guitar
- Samuel Wettstein
- synthesizer
- HannaH Walter
- violin
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
- Gaudenz Badrutt
- electronics
- Christof Stürchler
- sound design
Program description
What does a performer of electronic music do when he is entrusted with an ensemble for contemporary music? An ensemble that has been cultivating at least one cross-scene and cross-genre programme for years, open and genuinely capable of new things: the two experimental musicians, the young Swiss Jonas Kocher and eRikm, are certainly offered an exciting ‘carte blanche’ here.
Accordionist and composer Jonas Kocher moves between the focal points of composed music and improvisation. His main compositional interest is the relationship between sound, noise on the one hand and silence on the other, as well as the associated specific process of listening.
eRikm, a world-class sound artist, is extremely difficult to classify or categorise; widely recognised as an extraordinary DJ and video artist, eRikm moves virtuously in a wide variety of genres, driven by inventiveness and poetic curiosity.
A la tombée des flamants
En équilibre sur une patte
Le mistral souffle au sein des salins
Pris en étau par les glaces
Au bout de leur sommeil paradoxal
Je voie sous un ciel d’acier
S’effondrer leur pigment vertical