Kontakte
Les 6 toits
Laboratoire des arts vivants
Geneva
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Program
Julie Semoroz
HAI (Human-Animal
Interaction) (creation)
for one voice, strings
percussion and electronics
Matteo Gualandi
Sun songs, for a bird (premiere)
for voice and ensemble
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kontakte (1958-1960)
for piano, percussion
and tape
Cast
Borbála Szuromi, voice
(Contrechamps Price HEM)
Antoine Françoise, piano
Thierry Debons, percussion
(Stockhausen)
David Poissonnier,
computer music
producer
(Stockhausen)
Christophe Egea,
computer music
producer
Ensemble Contrechamps :
Maximilian Haft,
Violin
Juliette Dournaud
Piano
Hans Egidi
Viola
Martina Brodbeck
Cello
Partners
Ville de Genève
Haute école de musique
de Genève-Neuchâtel
Les 6 toits
Le Courrier
Pro Helvetia
Fondation SUISA
Lombard Odier
In a fjord in northern Norway, a contact microphone placed against the artist’s vocal chords captures her voice before it becomes underwater sound. A hydrophone records human/animal interaction in the form of sound waves that can’t be heard at the surface. Julie Semoroz captures this nascent contact music, further elaborating it by virtue of the common ground she shares with scientists on the NCCR evolving language program. Stockhausen’s Kontakte is on the opposite end of the spectrum, culminating in explosions of sound and fury emitted by a three-pronged entity amplified by four rotating loudspeakers surrounding the audience for an immersive sonic roller-coaster.
