Sonic – Festival 33,7

Francisco Alvarado (*CL, 1984)
dejar aparecer (2019) for seven instruments and electronics – 20’
“dejar aparecer” (letting appear) is an experience or an attempt to let the musical material live so that from itself new possibilities open up. In a way, it is a way of composing that operates from intuition and which then seeks to create a coherence, a form.

Mirela Ivicevic (*HR, 1980)
Subsonically Yours (2021) for ensemble – 10’
“well, almost subsonically. A sound of explosion behind thick walls. Being yourself in a constrained reality. A small space for a big bang. Darkness, a few rays of light. A tiny crack, a universe.”

Raphaël Languillat (*MAGHREB, 1989)
crucifixion (perugino) (2015) for chamber ensemble – 15’
Languillat wrote this composition after seeing Pietro Perugino’s painting of the crucifixion of Christ from 1496. While the influence of the painting is quite obvious, the composition itself focuses on visual and aesthetic questions, as Languillat explains: “How can one represent such suffering in such a peaceful scene? What is a landscape in music? What can a Renaissance fresco mean to us in the twenty-first century? And how can I reinterpret Perugino’s masterpiece in my music?” (GAUDEAMUS)

With: Winnie Cheng (violin), Renata Van der Vyver (viola), Pierre Fourcade (violoncello), Sophie Deshayes (flute), Max Mausen (clarinet), Olivier Sliepen (saxophone), Cathy Krier (piano), Louisa Marxen (percussion), Frin Wolter (accordion), André Feydy (trumpet), Julien Leroy (conductor)