Date / Place I

11 June 2017 City Studios / Restaurant Schmatz, Basel

Date / Place II

12 June 2017 City Studios / Restaurant Schmatz, Basel

Date / Place III

13 June 2017 Cave 12, Geneva

Series

Blanko

Title

“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

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