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…
Home contemporary music 25 posts
Sound’s Coming of Age
The lights dim. The piece starts. The setup seems to be clear. House left Yaron Deutsch. House right Tom Pauwels. Two electric guitars. It will be only at the end that you will realise: this was not a duo. This was a solo. Where the Sound appeared from its future to its past, only to…
Searching the beginning of time… [though Bryn Harrison’s “Receiving the Approaching Memory”]
It is difficult to “simply put” all the aspects of fascination with and by Bryn Harrison’s music, but one thing is certain – it is an absolute beautiful invasion of mind/soul/body. Especially when it comes to the piece for violin and piano. “Receiving the Approaching Memory”. Somehow, it feels like while listening, one is reminiscing…
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…
The Force of Fure
Have you ever been inside of a glacier? How about being a Turritopsis dohrnii frozen within an iceberg of a glacier. An iceberg that is further going to melt. That is melting. And when absolutely melted, you, this practically immortal jellyfish, are ready to restart the new cycle of your life… with taking a breath. …
Left Breathless In the Heights of the Air
Have you ever stood in the middle of the air? Starting from the ground, and being elevated. Higher and higher. Feeling as if the air is getting thinner. And while rushes of grasps for air are occupying your thought and body, you realise that yo are not flying after all. But rather being elevated by…
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…
A different kind of Vortex
So this curious speckle was on Friday at WIELS for Rosas+ICTUS’ Work/Travail/Arbeid. Although I could only spend couple of hours, in a way I think I had the luck to experience to quite an extent the piece. The work. Coming to the exhibition, I tried having as little expectations possible – as difficult as that…
Wrapped in Sound
Have you ever wondered how it would be if you could see a sound and all its spectra… How would it look if you could be wrapped in it and by it and while being in this sonic whirlwind see it, in pixels… Listening to Cindy Castillo and Aurélie Franck, in Claude Ledoux’s “Notizen-Fragmente” and…