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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In our deliberately open blank program, we hope once again to make the boundaries of the genres perceptible and tangible, to transcend them and to interweave different genres of contemporary artistic creation more closely.
With Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje we have invited an immensely versatile artist: The composer and vocal artist with an unmistakably unique voice moves in a wide variety of fields between composition and improvisation, from music theater to installation works. In collaboration with us, in this concert, she appeared as both composer and performer.
The Basel based composer Lukas Huber has been familiar with new media for years and is well versed in various contemporary styles. With this commission, he ventures into an area beyond conventional “academic” composing. In order to succeed, Huber has decided not to approach the ensemble as an individual – because adding a composer would already serve a setting typical of New Music – but to work with his band “UFO”: Through the confrontation of a “free improv” band and an ensemble for contemporary music, automatisms should be made visible and broken up more quickly.