MUSIC FOR BARITONE VIOLIN, ACCORDION AND ELECTRONICS // 2010
THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) / INTENTS
Baritone Violine Katryn Hasler
Accordion Florine Juvet
Electronics/Composition Marcel Saegesser
Art Installation/Video: Anna Schölß
In the dim light of the room you can barely make out a number of tent-like objects which, after looking at them for a while, reveal themselves to be sculptural screens with colour painting on them. In combination with a poetic video, they form the room installation named INTENTS. Scattered between the tent sculptures, three musicians perform THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) with utmost concentration. Through their strong and almost motionless scenic presence, they become an essential part of the installation.
With THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) the Bern-based composer Marcel Saegesser creates a fragile sound landscape, which moves familiar things into a surprising light. The deliberate surrender of virtuosity and melody puts the focus entirely on the inner self of the sound and the rhythm that is derived from prime numbers. Subtly handcrafted electronic sounds mix inseparably with the baritone violin and accordion. THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) is at the same time machined poetry and groovy sound carpet.
The artist Anna Schölß from Munich uses these sounds as a backdrop to place her nomad-inspired tent objects labelled INTENTS in the concert room. These objects have been generated from abstract colour painting and drawing; they make the tent – the oldest human mobile form of living – the central theme as a place at which the internal and external room are divided only by a thin membrane. Short video cuts of nature and light studies, made visible on a transparent tent membrane, amplify the installation. In combination with the music, this poetic place becomes a concert stage. The sound structures amalgamate with the shapes, colours and surfaces of the tent objects and become for the audience a projection screen of their own associations.
CD-RELEASE
The CD THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) was be released in October 2011 by Tonus Music Records. Photographs of the installation INTENTS by Anna Schölß are shown in the CD artwork.
It can be ordered at www.tonus-music-records.com
Text: Marcel Saegesser and Anna Schölß
The music was premiered in 2010 in Basel, Switzerland.
Premiered with INTENTS in June 2011
PAST SHOWS
Fr 24 Sep 2010, 9 pm
Raum33, Basel/Switzerland
Sa 25 Sep 2010, 9 pm
Tonus Music Labor, Berne/Switzerland
Fr 8 Okt 2010, 9 pm
Caveau du Cœur d’Or, Chexbres/Switzerland
Sa 6 Nov 2010
LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg/Germany
Tu 16 Nov 2010, 8 pm
Burgbachkeller, Zug/Switzerland
Fr 3 Jun 2011, 9.45 pm
Festival OUT NOW!, Bremen/Germany
Su 12 Jun 2011, 5 pm
Festival FIMU, Belfort/France
Mo 13 Jun 2011, 2 pm
Festival FIMU, Belfort/France
Su 16 Oct 2011, 8.30 pm
i-camp, München/Germany
Tu 20 Oct 2011, 8.30 pm
Metallgarten, Worb/Switzerland
Sa 22 Oct 2011, 9 pm
Tonus Music Labor, Bern/Switzerland
Su 23 Oct 2011, 6 pm
Caveau Oxymore, Cully/Switzerland
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