‘WORP’ is an cross-media improvising collective, combining musicians, visual artists and dancers. Through each performance, they explore the borders of the different media involved.
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Signale zur Invasion (1992) is performed simultaneously with Octophonie (1991), both pieces are part of Dienstag from Stockhausen’s monumental Opera Cycle Licht. The trombonist plays and walks a parcours amongst the audience whilst the video-artist divides it into equal protanganists.
Read More »Octophonie & Signale zur Invasion | Karlheinz StockhausenDebussy has created a new kind of musical drama with Pelléas. The text, by the Belgian Nobel prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck, is incorporated word for word. The play is a high point in symbolism and explores psychology, humankind’s deepest nature and feelings. Read More »Impressions de Pelléas | Claude Debussy
Still from the concert visuals for Trixie Whitley ’s Porta Bohemica tour.
On-screen visuals are developed in close colaboration with Victor Robyn .
Salvatore Sciarrino schreef de dertiendelige liedcyclus Quaderno di strada in 2003. De teksten zijn kort: spreuken, aforismen, zelfs graffiti en losse regels uit een tijdschrift – onderweg gevonden, zoals de titel aangeeft.
‘It was pain itself, singing behind a smile,’ wrote Federico García Lorca, outwardly happy, inwardly torn. Read More »Federico García Lorca
De muziek is vaak verstild, zelfs fragiel. Op andere momenten creëert Nono door elektronische manipulatie van de instrumenten een mysterieus, soms verontrustend klankgeweld dat via een hele reeks luidsprekers de luisteraars sonisch inkapselt.
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In Morton Feldman’s music, silence plays a prominent role, thanks to the hushed volume and the interval between sounds.
Read More »Crippled Symmetry | Morton FeldmanPierrot Lunaire, composed by Arnold Schönberg in 1912 on poems by the Belgian symbolist Albert Giraud. The music of Arnold Schönberg, especially ‘Pierrot Lunaire’, is a hallucinatory masterpiece and an absolute landmark of musical history.
Performed with the Belgian ensemble Het Collectief.Read More »Pierrot Lunaire – Opus 21 | Arnold Schönberg
Tom lanoye declameert met verve – in de hem zo eigen stijl – een avondvullende, aangrijpende theatersolo.
‘Niemandsland/Overkant’, Gedichten uit de Groote Oorlog.
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