Date / Place

05 June 2023 Novi Sad

Series

Blanko

Title

Blanko 2023

Program

Svetlana Maraš (*1985) “Funny obelisk” for ensemble (2023, WP, commission EPhB) – 25' Lucas Niggli (*1968) “PLAY!” for EPhB with Lucas Niggli – drums (2022, commission EPhB) – 30’

Musicians

Lucas Niggli
percussion solo
Christoph Bösch
flute
Toshiko Sakakibara
clarinet, bass clarinet
Lucas Rößner
bassoon, contraforte
Nenad Marković
trumpet
Michael Büttler
trombone
Janne Jakobsson
tuba
Maurizio Grandinetti
electric guitar
João Pacheco
percussion
Samuel Wettstein
keyboards
Aleksander Gabryś
double bass
Thomas Peter
electronics
Fabrizio Di Salvo
sound design
Christoph Bösch
artistic direction

Program description

We conclude our season with the series “Blanko”. The main focus lies in this ongoing project on discussing  the language of today’s music in a free form. Ensemble Phoenix Basel invites two experimental musicians from the fields of noise, free improvisation, sound art, etc. to collaborate. This year we are invited to play this program in the “Antifestival 2K+” in Novi Sad.

Svetlana Maraš will open the evening. The Serbian composer and sound artist works in fields between experimental music and sound art. Since 2021, she is co-director of the Electronic Studio Basel and professor of creative music technology at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW.

Lucas Niggli takes over in the second half of the concert. The Swiss drummer and sound innovator, who, throughout his career, has been an experimentalist and pioneer in the search for new musical worlds, created and performed his piece “PLAY!” together with EPhB in the “Blanko 2022” program.