Date / Place I
02 June 2023 Gare du Nord, BaselDate / Place II
03 June 2023 Gare du Nord, BaselSeries
BlankoTitle
“Blanko 2023”Program
Svetlana Maraš (*1985) “Funny Obelisk” for ensemble (2023, WP, commission EPhB) – 25’ Fred Frith (*1949) “Energy Crisis” for ensemble (2023, WP, commission EPhB) – 35’Musicians
- Fred Frith
- guitar solo
- Christoph Bösch
- flute, artistic direction
- Toshiko Sakakibara
- clarinet
- Lucas Rößner
- bassoon
- Nenad Marković
- trumpet
- Michael Büttler
- trombone
- Janne Jakobsson
- tuba
- João Pacheco
- percussion
- Maurizio Grandinetti
- electric guitar
- Samuel Wettstein
- keyboards
- Aleksander Gabryś
- double bass
- Thomas Peter
- electronics
- Fabrizio Di Salvo
- sound design
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.
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.
Fred Frith takes over in the second half of the concert. The English multi-instrumentalist is best known for his guitar playing and likes to use all kinds of everyday objects to make his instruments sound. From 2011 to 2020 he taught improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik Basel.