Last week tonight was THE night – had the outmost chance of listening live performance of Milica Djordjevic’s “Pomen II” for solo viola, played by Paul Beckett (ensemble recherche) at Ultraschall Berlin.And boy oh boy what a performance it was! Milica Djordjevic leads us into the intriguing coquetry of life and death. Celebration and grief.…
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Migration into eternity
As the Darmstädter ferienkurse für neue musik 2018 continues to unwrap its treats, quite a special ear-candy was on the menu on this fourth to last day! Among the pieces on the program on this Wednesday 25th, Centro de Experimentación y Producción de Música Contemporánea played a piece “Migracion” by Marisol Jimenez. And her sensibility and…
Atlas of the Sky. Atlas of us.
“Atlas of the Sky”… One of those magical pieces one simply must try to catch and experience live! Liza Lim‘s sound is always special. It is different. It is one of those things that seems you have never heard before, even if you might have. But you haven’t really. As if it has never been…
Living Madness with MITRA
So… tonight was the dress rehearsal, the pre-premier if one will, of MITRA. And well… [this] had to happen. ‘Cause… so much thoughts and emotions…Enter the madness of other. To understand the madness. Of other. Of self. To understand the fight for the right and justice. While we walked down the narrow yet illuminated path,…
Liquid State of Being: LiquidRoom#8
One of the things that definitively makes end of January be awaited anxiously and with excitement is the fact that this is when ICTUS ensemble‘s LiquidRoom often happen (or, at least in my few+ years of experience they do. In Brussels at least. Well… I guess the exact time of their happening, like most of…
Liquid State of Being: LiquidRoom#7
If you ever wondered if, and how, it would be if your senses would feel+perceive the stimulating triggers in inverted way… wonder no more! Right from the start, unnoticeably yet convincingly, soft beating of a tam-tam will get your heart, body and being into the right frequency, groove and mood… Your ears, and eyes, will…
When the Sideshow is the main show
Have you ever thought anout what do all the manmade creatures of the amusement parks do at night?Do they come to life? Would they, do they, get upset? Of how they are treated. Do they have feeling and thoughts of rebellion and overtaking their “masters”, the human? How loud, or how silently and steely creepy…
Reiter’s “Lichtenberg Figures”
Have you ever thought how would it be if you could see the process of thought, the process of thinking? How would it feel? To be inside a brain. To see it in all its glorious action. Experiencing the performance, looking and listening, of the “Lichtenberg Figures” it was as close to this experience. The…
Art of Performance: Liquid Room #6
Boy oh boy oh boy! If in Berlin, or anywhere near and around, don’t miss the chance to experience ICTUS ensemble‘ Liquid Room VI! Pointing out possible variations for perception of temporality, this 4 hour multiple stage spectacle is just perfect for those who see, listen and feel music as possibility to combine experiencing pleasure+thought……