Festival rainy days
In a Large, Open Space
Today’s music is overly intellectual? The 2025 festival rainy days grabs this cliché by the throat, choosing «bodies» as its theme.
Bodies and physicality have always interested the arts. Especially in music, the subject is ambiguous, the idea that the body cannot do without spirit, nor the spirit without the body, more than a bon mot. The multitude of approaches to the body and bodies is reflected in the festival’s programme, once again designed for diehard fans of contemporary music and those who are simply curious alike, offering something for almost all age groups.
As part of the rainy days festival, taking place from 19 to 23 October 2025 at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, United Instruments of Lucilin will present the concert titled In a Large, Open Space: A carefully selected set of sound stations deployed in the reverberant body of the Philharmonie’s Foyer, in which the audience can move around freely and discover, one by one, a high-energy work of Iannis Xenakis, the meditative spectralism of Gérard Grisey and Giacinto Scelsi, the gestural music of Jessie Marino and high-intensity performances of Laura Bowler and Helmut Oehring – all culminating in James Tenney’s work In a Large, Open Space for twelve musicians.
Programme:
Iannis Xenakis, Okho (1989)
Giacinto Scelsi, Arc-en-ciel (1973)
Jessie Marino, YjQzljv1uFQ– For Toshi Makihara (2020)
Gérard Grisey, Nout (1983)
Helmut Oehring, ὀξύμωρον (Oxymoron) (2025)
Laura Bowler, Wicked Problems (2020)
James Tenney, In a Large, Open Space (1994)
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Photos: © Eric Engel