“…strange sounds from a strange, disjointed year…”: Ricardo Eizirik reflects in his work Placeholder on the difficulty of a creatively productive “carry on” that he has felt in the past year. Matias Vestergard describes a “pathological amnesic state that can last for several months, during which a person suffers from memory loss, often starts a new life, and after recovery remembers nothing from the amnesic phase.” For Anda Kryeziu, on the other hand, the gloomy midwinter in the hardest time of the pandemic is an occasion to travel “back to the foundations” together with ensemble recherche. There she creates a playground for herself and the musicians, a playfulness in which the identities of the instruments are detached from their idiom by imitating each other’s characteristics and physically connecting them. Together, they create a hybrid sound result, a listening theatre, as it were, which – given a good pair of headphones – reveals a sound universe to us.
ensemble recherche
Ensemblehaus
Schützenallee 72
D - 79102 Freiburg