| Duration | 90 min |
| Part of | Musical Utopias |
Finale full of new discoveries
‘The final evening of the festival gathers my absolute stand-out listening discoveries from the last 12 months. Three of the artists I encountered for the very first time, either by word-of-mouth recommendation or by sheer luck of stumbling in to a gig. With all of them, the experience of first contact was, for four very different reasons, truly thrilling. I can't wait to share this evening of dreaming, of kindness, of discovery, and of raucous chaotic vitality!’, says Pete Harden, artistic director of Ensemble Klang and curator of Musical Utopias.
· 19.30 Korzo Club – Ensemble Academy of Royal Conservatoire (Cecilia Arditto, Robin Fiedler & Antek Cholewinski)
· 20.15 Grote Zaal - Ensemble Klang (Friendly Piece van Andrew Hamilton, Without Papers van Karen Willems)
· 22.15 Korzo Studio - Mariam Rezaei & Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Cecilia Arditto's anti-concerto for percussion and ensemble is performed by the Ensemble Academy of the Koninklijk Conservatorium with Joey Marijs. Praised by The Guardian as ‘the most effective [...] stylishly executed’ it places found objects and everyday sounds in the starring role, from brooms, to electric fans and tin cans. The programme is completed by two new works by students from the composition department, Robin Fiedler and Antek Cholewinski.
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Andrew Hamilton joins Ensemble Klang in an extended line-up for his deeply personal work Friendly Piece, presented with new lighting design by Pavla Beranova (Associate Maker with Ensemble Klang).
Andrew on his work: ‘The sound of a bird's wings flapping in Monaghan, a sacred text that helped so much to get through dark times, memories of a childhood obsession with The Sound of Music and much more are cut up and thrown into a grid to allow all these elements to intermingle - simplistic answers to be destroyed. Can music be kind? I set that as an impossible question at the beginning of the process, it is good to have no idea what you are doing sometimes. It allows room for freedom and the expanded heart to seep in when your back is turned.’
A brand new commissioned work by Belgian maker and performer Karen Willems, performed by herself and a trio from Ensemble Klang consisting of Saskia Lankhoorn, Pete Harden and Michiel van Dijk.
Forged in the crucible of turntablist Mariam Rezaei's residency at London's Café Oto, The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters is an incendiary new quartet. Their punk approach to free improvisation draws on elements of jazz, noise, hip-hop, techno and new music to create a thrilling sonic maelstrom that is beyond category or convention. With Mariam Rezaei (turntables), Mette Rasmussen (alto sax), Gabriele Mitelli (piccolo trumpet, electronics), Lukas Koenig (drums).
Korzo Zaal