Time & Date
Information
Duration
1 hour and 20 minutes
Tickets
Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 12 FEB 2019, 12:00
General presale: from 19 FEB 2019, 12:00
Full price: 7, 12 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 10 €
Groups 10+ people: 9 €
Νeighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 7 €
Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org
Introduction
A unique musical quintet. Compositions that seek to liberate musical expression and enjoyment, with rhythms and sounds of volcanic intensity, from the most daring representative of contemporary French improvisation.
French pianist and composer Eve Risser is one of the most distinctive and authentic creators of contemporary French improvised music. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences and images, she transforms the interior of a piano into a peculiar, mystical instrument, which sounds sometimes like a trumpet or saxophone, and other times like drums.
In “L’Ensemble ensEmble,” Risser is surrounded by four notable musicians of different geographic and aesthetic backgrounds.
The electronic experiments and Norwegian folk of Mari Kvien-Bruvoll (vocals) and Kim Myhr (guitar), encounter the improvised jazz of Romanian composer Georges Dumitriu (violin) and the inventive style of Toma Gouband (drums), in a heterogenous aural amalgamation.
Their collaboration creates enigmatic compositions, whose rhythms and harmonies are based less on the classical rules of music, than on a sense of collectivity, one whose moving intensity electrifies the atmosphere.
Photo: Sylvain Gripoix
John Cage first came up with the idea of the prepared piano in 1938, when he was asked to prepare percussive music to accompany Syvilla Fort’s choreography “Bacchanal.” Entering the room where the performance was to take place, he discovered only a large piano on stage, with no room for drums. Cage began to consider whether a pianist could replace an entire orchestra by using the interior of a piano, attaching various objects to its chords.
