Niemandslandhymnen
Sound Design and Live Electronics
@Montreal(2017)
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Niemandslandhymnen [ni:-mants-lant-hʏm-nən]
"..a ritual performance for 10 singers and musicians, live-electronic sounds, ambient light and new technologies. Based on 13 poems in which [Bhagwati] explores no man’s lands of different kinds — winds, algorithms, clouds, radiations, diasporas — he creates “trans-traditional” and “trans-sensory” anthems that explore the many resonances in our globalized existence — and invites the audience to roam, to listen, to imagine and commune in a wondrous space that reflects on our world at once so strange — yet so familiar." Suzie LeBlanc, soprano Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano Sameer Dublay, khyal singer Gabriel Dharmoo, experimental vocals Nicholas Isherwood, bass-baritone Guy Pelletier, flutes Wu Wei, sheng Lori Freedman, bass clarinet Felix Del Tredici, bass trombone Aiyun Huang, percussion Joseph Browne, electroacoustics Sandeep Bhagwati, conductor |
Research for this pluridisciplinary artwork was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, the Conseil des Arts et Lettres de Quebec and the Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art. The show was a joint production by the SMCQ and matralab at Concordia University Montréal.
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