HERMESensemble / ChampdAction / Koen Kessels
Aurora Electronica
Dates
wed 19 oct 2022 - 20:00
location
Blauwe zaal
price
€ 10 → € 27
duration
2h interval
ca. 20:45
Extra info
talk Yves Knockaert, Serge Verstockt and Daan Janssens / 19:15 / Blue bar
Accessibility
During the composite programme Aurora Electronica, HERMESensemble and ChampdAction take you with them on an exciting journey through three sound landscapes.
How do the polar lights sound? Kaija Saariaho gives shape to the immaterial in Lichtbogen. In 1986 this was a milestone in the repertoire for ensemble and stereo-electronics. With Daan Janssens things move towards a threatening darkness with the electronic instrumentation of (…sans rien dire…), a contemporary response to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s iconic Kontakte. The final piece in this sonorous trip is Serge Verstockt’s Les nymphéas digitales, a collision between digital glitches and impressionistic sound clouds. The audience take their seats in the midst of the sound clash: escape is impossible.
part of ARTICULATE – Art & Research Days (16 > 28 October 2022)
During the annual research festival ARTICULATE, the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy
of Fine Arts Antwerp open up their artistic research to students and an external audience. This year,
ARTICULATE is in search of electricity – of high voltage, electric charge and crackling interaction.
The artist-researchers activate the students in workshops, research classes and artistic presentations.
Thanks to a collaboration with BOEM (translated freely as the Belgian Assembly for Electronic Music),
this year’s programme includes concerts, performances, lectures and an algorave in which
electroacoustic music, sound art, image and movement come together. ☞ more info
How do the polar lights sound? Kaija Saariaho gives shape to the immaterial in Lichtbogen. In 1986 this was a milestone in the repertoire for ensemble and stereo-electronics. With Daan Janssens things move towards a threatening darkness with the electronic instrumentation of (…sans rien dire…), a contemporary response to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s iconic Kontakte. The final piece in this sonorous trip is Serge Verstockt’s Les nymphéas digitales, a collision between digital glitches and impressionistic sound clouds. The audience take their seats in the midst of the sound clash: escape is impossible.
part of ARTICULATE – Art & Research Days (16 > 28 October 2022)
During the annual research festival ARTICULATE, the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy
of Fine Arts Antwerp open up their artistic research to students and an external audience. This year,
ARTICULATE is in search of electricity – of high voltage, electric charge and crackling interaction.
The artist-researchers activate the students in workshops, research classes and artistic presentations.
Thanks to a collaboration with BOEM (translated freely as the Belgian Assembly for Electronic Music),
this year’s programme includes concerts, performances, lectures and an algorave in which
electroacoustic music, sound art, image and movement come together. ☞ more info
Works
Lichtbogen
(…sans rien dire…)
Les Nymphéas digitales
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Tijdens de pauze in de Muziekstudio
'Sequenza II' for harpe
Credits
musical performance
mezzo-soprano
fluit
clarinet
cello
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