Cats' ears can perceive frequencies up to sixty thousand hertz. In this concert, the Hague Percussion Group leaves you with the impression that you too have the same sound perception. One of their main tools is electronics: they enable us to make the inaudible audible. The Australian composer Anthony Pateras takes advantage of this fact in 'MorphusAmorphus'. One hundred and twenty tiny sounds, arranged in transparent Perspex boxes, are lightly moved by the musicians with feather-light sticks. The construction excludes all forms of undesired feedback and makes an extremely direct form of amplification possible. Other works in this adventurous programme include 'Resonant Mass' by Dmitri Kourliandski, 'Contact Theatre' by Matthew Wright and 'I Delayed People's Flights by Walking Slowly in Narrow Hallways' by the duo of Mayke Nas and Wouter Snoei. In this last work, blackboards are amplified while Wright lets six gramophone players play the lead role. In short, a programme for use in the home, garden and kitchen.
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