Songs of Reeds

New pieces of Mike Svoboda, Helga Arias, Pedro García-Velásquez & Arturo Fuentes

Tour 2024
Switzerland & France

Songs of Reeds
TOUR 2023

Bern, Luzern, Basel, Olten, Genève, La Plata, Santiago & Caracas

Music by Pablo Garretón-Izquierdo, Manuela Villiger, Vi Weimann, Daniel Zea, Asía Ahmetjanova & Cristiana Palandri

Thanks a lot to La Pataconera & Erwin Fonseca

Songs of Reeds TOUR 2023 SONGS OF REEDS ist eine Gelegenheit zum Träumen und Schaffen im Kontext eines noch nie zuvor gekannten historischen Wendepunkts. Angesichts einer komplexen S...

SONGS OF REEDS
Tour Switzerland 2023

New Pieces by Asia Ahmetianova, Daniel Zea, Manuela Villiger, Pablo Garretón, Vi Weinmann & Cristiana Palandri.

Vicente Moronta, Performer
Erwin Fonseca, Electronics

Songs of Reeds ist ein Projekt zur Erforschung alternativer Konzertformate unter Einbezug von Performance und neuer Medien. Das Ziel des Projektes ist die Entwicklung ein interdisziplinäres Konzert für Oboen. Dazu setzt sich das sechsköpfige Team bestehend aus Komponist:innen diverser Genres in thematischer Perspektive mit „Filterblasen” und „Echokammern“ im Internet auseinander.
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Songs of Reeds es un proyecto que explora formatos de concierto alternativos en los que intervienen la interpretación y los nuevos medios. El objetivo del proyecto es desarrollar un concierto interdisciplinar para oboes. Para ello, el equipo de seis miembros, formado por compositores de diversos géneros, explora temáticamente las "burbujas de filtro" y las "cámaras de eco" de Internet.

Gitbi Kwon
“Schlaf-los” für Englischorn, Zuspielung und Video (2021)

Vicente Moronta, Permorfer
Roya Noorinenezhad, Visual Artist

World Premiere
10.10.2021
Ackermannshof
Basel
Switzerland

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Description.-

Everyday life, which used to flow, was suddenly blocked by Covid 19 as if by a rock, but somehow it kept flowing slowly. Everything was slower and had to go differently than before. All my senses expanded during this slow time due to the isolation. There I was listening to the birds singing that I had missed before, breathing the air so clean and feeling the smallest sounds that filled the silence. I could fully feel time, and every moment seemed like an eternity. Some senses seemed to be maximized with physical isolation. A bit like the enhanced sense of hearing of the blind, it was an experience that surpassed all existing limits for me.
Strangely, during this period of isolation, I was finally able to exist as myself. Isolation is a limitation. Ironically, people can become freer through limitations. Just as the body is indispensable to the existence of the self, just as the rights of the individual are free within the framework of society, just as the limitations of life can be eternally released through death.
This period of isolation, in which the senses are heightened, is linked on a metaphorical level to the moment of insomnia. It reminds me of a sleepless night that is quiet on the surface but noisy inside. Outside the window, there is only a faint sound that I don't know where it comes from. During this time, everything seems to float freely in the darkness, although I feel as if I am isolated in my body. You never know when it started or when it ends, it has no direction, no speed, no meaning, no purpose. It is completely free and isolated.

From Composer.-

Gitbi Kwon - “Schlaf-los” für Englischorn, Zuspielung und Video (2021) Gitbi Kwon“Schlaf-los” für Englischorn, Zuspielung und Video (2021)Vicente Moronta, PermorferRoya Noorinenezhad, Visual ArtistWorld Premiere10.10.2021Ackerma...