Festival

zone expérimentale basel

Alena Verin-Galitskaya voice | Raphaëlle Proust piano | Alexandre Tavares piano | Yi-Chen Tsai percussion | Ioanna Boultadaki violin | Yu-Yun Peng viola | Pietro Elia Barcellona double bass

Daniele Di Virgilio conductor*

 

 

Laila Arafah Confabulations with an A.I. Bot, for soprano, violin, viola and doublebass (2024, Austrian premiere)

I     Can music be pleasing?

II    What do you think art is?

III   Is it ok to copy other people' s art without crediting it?

 

Love Carbin Åter, Nära, for viola and two pianists (2024, Austrian premiere) **|***

 

Changjin Ha Croquis de Courbe I: If you gaze long enough into that red flower on the street… , for soprano, violin, viola, double bass and piano (2024, world premiere) ***

 

Floriana Provenzano What we'll always have is something we lost in the snow, for soprano, viola and percussion  (2024, world premiere of new version)

 

Haodong Wang Shallow Wounds, for prepared violin, prepared double bass, piano and percussion (2024, world premiere) ***

 

Daniele Di Virgilio Oikonomia, for soprano, violin, double bass, piano and percussion (2024, world premiere)*|**

With zone expérimentale basel, an ensemble comprising students of the Masters course for contemporary music at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel/sonic space, Switzerland will be present at the impuls Academy and Festival in 2025 anew.

zone expérimentale comprises a group of students who have distinguished themselves both as exceptional artistic personalities as well as virtuoso instrumentalists. zone expérimentale is not a classical ensemble: it rather creates a framework for discovery, both for the players themselves and the audience. The focus therefore is on the discovery of different possibilities for musical expression in contemporary music, but also on the works of the ‘parents’ of today’s music. Chamber music programmes are therefore alternated with installations or improvisational work. The ensemble’s programmes deal with a wide range of subjects and span from solo works to pieces for a large ensemble of up to 16 players.

Aside from working with various coaches at the Academy in various constellations, a Call for Scores was set up by impuls, to interconnect the ensemble with young composer participants of the impuls Academy. Laila Arafah, Love Carbin, Daniele Di Virgilio, Changjin Ha, Floriana Provenzano and Haodong Wang are amongst the selected composers, who contributed brandnew pieces for the ensemble, to be worked on intensively and be presented tonight.