Kwadratur #3

Cube

[hybrid] + [strings] + [sax] + [drums]

In Cube the final part of the triptych Kwadratur, sound, light and architecture become interwoven. Music deliberately plays on the perception of time and space as something purely sensory. The listener follows an auditory route and is alternately the observer and the observed. The whole building reveals its secrets and every part of it shall be thoroughly redefined.

Eric Sleichim: concept, direction and e-guitar

BL!NDMAN [sax]
Koen Maas: soprano- tenor and baritone saxophone
Roeland Vanhoorne: alto and tenor saxophone
Piet Rebel: tenor saxophone
Raf Minten: baritone saxophone

BL!NDMAN [drums]
Tom De Cock: percussion
Yves Goemaere: percussion
Hannes Nieuwlaet: percussion
Ruben Cooman: percussion

BL!NDMAN [strings]
Floris Uytterhoeven: violin
Femke Verstappen: violin
Ine Kuypers: viola
Joyce Kuipers: cello

BL!NDMAN [vox]
Griet De Geyter: soprano
Gunther Vandeven: countertenor
Kevin Skelton: tenor
Tiemo Wang: bass-baritone

Luc Schaltin: lighting design
Hans Peter Kuhn: composition and light design
Bart Bouckaert: repetitor
Peter Quasters: video
Brecht Beuselinck: realisation cube, stage manager
Karel Marynissen: sound

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KWADRATUR #3/CUBE is a BL!NDMAN-production, coproduced by Concertgebouw Brugge, deSingel, Ars Musica / Kaaitheater. With thanks to Muziektheater Transparant, Joost Fonteyne, Rik Beuselinck, Guy Danel and Tom Pauwels.

Programme

Javier Alvarez: Temazcal
Pier Luigi Billone: Mani.mono
Benjamin Britten: Elegy
John Cage: Aria
Raphael Cendo: Scratch data
Morton Feldman: Only
Daniele Ghisi: Comment pouvez vous lire à present? Il fait nuit
Gilles Gobert: Pièce pour violon et électronique
Klaus Huber: Traumgesicht
Helmut Lachenmann: Pression
Roderick De Man: Case history
Kaiuja Saariaho: Lonh
Salvatore Sciarrino: 6 caprices (nrs. 2 & 5)
Eric Sleichim: Angel
Georgia Spiropoulos: Saksti
Matthew Wright: Ithaca blog
Iannis Xenakis: Hibiki hana ma
Hans Peter Kuhn: String quartet
Fabrizzio Cassol: String quartet nr. 2
Oscar Bettison: O death – Bone chapel
Annelies Van Parys: Passagen/aphorisme
Philip Glass: Music with changing parts

Press

“BL!NDMAN strips contemporary music of its holy seriousness and invites the audience to an adventure. […] During this experiment, the weirdest sounds constantly follow you. You leave the building with freshly washed ears.” – Geert van der Speeten, deStandaard (10.02.2012)

“BL!NDMAN leads the Way” – G*iorgio Valentino, The Bulletin (09.03.2012)*