Eric Sleichim, housecomposer of the Antwerp MAS (Museum aan de Stroom), presents us the world of his BL!NDMAN-collective through four solo pieces (saxophone, elektronics, turntables and electric guitar)

music: H.Schütz & E.Sleichim
text: inspired by G.Grass, I.Calvino, H.Bey, J. Gray and the 'Manifests'

This program, conceived by Eric Sleichim & Matt Wright (UK), focuses on the use of turntables. With a video by Olga Mink (NL).

contemporary program with soloists from each BL!NDMAN-quartet

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Helse tijden is a new series of programs by Behoud de Begeerte.
Eric Sleichim & BL!NDMAN provide musical comment.

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Theaterperformance of Ivo van Hove based on Teorema, a film and novel by Pasolini in collaboration with BL!NDMAN [new strings]. With music by Eric Sleichim, Webern and Beethoven.

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Eric Sleichim and Matt Wright (UK) - concert for saxophone, turntables and laptop

Eric Sleichim presents a unique program for saxophone quartet and voices based on the forbidden masses and gradualia of William Byrd (1543-1623)

Marathon-performance directed by Ivo van Hove, with fifteen actors of Toneelgroep Amsterdam & BL!NDMAN [drums].
Music by Eric Sleichim

Georg W. Pabst made the movie ‘Secrets of a Soul’ in 1926, three years before his major success ‘Pandora’s Box’. Eric Sleichim is the first composer to create a contemporary soundtrack to this film.

program with American minimalist pieces
Eric Sleichim + BL!NDMAN [sax]

BL!NDMAN plays the concert space as an instrument, a ‘listening room’ that reveals even in its furthest corners the sound of a music that was written to serve the word. The composers of the ‘Seconda Prattica’ (second half of the 16th to the 17th century) made extensive use of chromatics in order to transpose the expressiveness of the words as well as possible.
The quartet, ranging from sopranino to bass sax, blends with the voice of the countertenor to give its own form to this mannerist style, partly by the use of electronics.

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Helse tijden is a new series of programs by Behoud de Begeerte.
Eric Sleichim & BL!NDMAN provide musical comment.

7th module out of the temporary autonomus zones created for Brussels 2000 inspired by Hakim Bey.
The texts of Peter Verhelst are at the same time speed-poetry and acid-fiction. Peter Missotten is constantly perverting the medium of video and light while the sound or non-sound operated by Sleichim have a deep physiological objective.

On the stifling images of Epsteins masterpiece, Eric Sleichim wrote a 3-D soundtrack for alto saxophone, generating electronic effects. Parallel with the freakish hallucinations of the main character Roderick, he moulds the sound of his saxophone until one barely recognises the instrument.
The intense dialogue between musician and image submerges the public thus completely in the eccentric world of Edgar Allan Poe.

An encounter of experimental cinema and instrumental inventiveness