Kwadratur #1
In Kwadratur Eric SLEICHIM places the four BL!NDMAN quartets in a space…
Globus is the result of the “20×20-concept” that was developed for the 20th anniversary of BL!NDMAN (1988-2008). While the ear registers indefinable sounds, the eye sees an immense globe around which a tribe is making gestures that seem to refer to an ancient rite. Sonorous textures emerge from all sides and fill the space like a whirlwind. Wonderful pearls of ancient and modern music are deduced from this bulk. Polyphony is being woven, aria’s and quartet movements glide towards a plastic gesture where the image tells us about sounds of silence.
Ballet méchanique, a dazzling collective; from Purcell to Ives, from Strawinsky to Philip Glass, the enfants terribles of contemporary music guide you along the turns of their interior world. Music as a statement, a poetic cry, a long history, their history.
Eric Sleichim: concept, direction and arrangements
BL!NDMAN [sax]
Koen Maas: soprano saxophone & sopranino, table music
Roeland Vanhoorne: alto saxophone, clarinet, noise maker, table music
Piet Rebel: tenor saxophone
Raf Minten: bass and baritone saxophone, table music
BL!NDMAN [drums]
Tom De Cock: percussion, table music
Yves Goemaere: percussion, noise maker, table music
Hannes Nieuwlaet: percussion, noise maker, table music
Ruben Cooman: percussion, keyboard
BL!NDMAN [strings]
Floris Uytterhoeven: violin, table music
Femke Verstappen: violin
Ine Kuypers: viola, table music
Joyce Kuipers: cello, table music
BL!NDMAN [vox]
Griet De Geyter: soprano
Gunther Vandeven: countertenor and flute
Kevin Skelton: tenor, noise maker
Hugo Oliveira: bass, noise maker
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Anouk De Clercq & Kris Verdonck: stage design
Mijeong Jeong*: costume design
Luc Schaltin: lighting design
Maarten Beirens: music dramaturgy
Roel Das: sound engineering
Jo Thielemans: stage technology
Brecht Beuselinck: lighting
Kwadratur #1/Globus is a BL!NDMAN production commissioned by Cultuurcentrum Genk.
Programme
Eric Sleichim: Ruisveld / 2008
James Tenney: Critical band / 1988
Steve Reich: Pendulum music / 1968
John Cage: Story / 1940
Gavin Bryars: Man in a room, Gambling / 1992
James Tenney: Having never written one single note for percussion / 1971
Felipe Perez Santiago: Infernox4 / 2007
Matthew Wright: Nocturne for BJM / 2004
George Crumb: God music / 1970
Steve Reich: Proverb / 1995
Kaija Saariaho: Trois rivières [mvt.1] / 1993
George Crumb: Sarabande / 1970
Henry Purcell: The queens epicedium / 1695
Charles Ives: The unanswered question / 1908
Terry Riley: The tuning path / 1987
Maike Nas: Calling / 2005
Eric Sleichim: Gestimmtseit / 2004
Igor Stravinsky: Gloria / 1948
Eric Sleichim: Angel / 2005
Thierry De Mey: Musique de tables / 1987
Philip Glass: In similar motion / 1973
Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Eric Sleichim: bwv 768, partita 10 / ca 1700
Press
‘Here, the stage is not only a podium, it is a space where a mise en scene is created with light and symmetric changes. The music that sounds, is amorphous, to say the least. It too has to find its contours. It also wanders. From minimal music to Helmut Lachenmann and back to Cage and Charles Ives, but also between centuries.’ Tim Gorbauch, Frankfurter Rundschau – 6 januari 2009
‘Ancient music can be boring after a while. So can new music. But joining these two worlds creates an irresistible attraction. […] As apposed to many new music concerts where man can read elaborate work descriptions in the program note […], one can experience here that new music can also be about sensually perceptible art.’ Elisabeth Risch, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung – 6 januari 2009
