No book has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A little life from American author Hanya Yanagihara. Ivo Van Hove made a translation for theatre and created a penetrating performance with music from Eric Sleichim, played by BL!NDMAN [strings]. The string quartet is live on stage and supports the theatrical action with classical string repertoire and Eric Sleichim?s compositions. |
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A production by ITA in co-production with BL!NDMAN, Comédie-Française and Het Amsterdamse BostheaterIn the summer of 2022, the ITA ensemble performed a major production in open air for the first time in its history. At the Amsterdam Bostheater, they performed the Dutch version of Les Damnés, the play directed by Ivo van Hove at the Comédie-Française, France’s most famous company. At Het Bostheater, BL!NDMAN [sax] performed Eric Sleichim’s music live. |
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BL!NDMAN [hybrid] in the realm of Russian Futurism! |
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music: H.Schütz & E.Sleichim |
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Marathon-performance directed by Ivo van Hove, with fifteen actors of Toneelgroep Amsterdam & BL!NDMAN [drums]. |
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silent film by Jean Epstein from 1928 with live accompaniment – Eric Sleichim solo & electronics |
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An encounter of experimental cinema and instrumental inventiveness |
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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. |
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Program with new pieces for BL!NDMAN [sax] + [drums] |
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In view of the tradition is Cage, Cager, Cagest a true happening at which various instruments as well as a lot of ‘objects trouvés’ are being used to make sounds. |
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This program, conceived by Eric Sleichim & Matt Wright (UK), focuses on the use of turntables. With a video by Olga Mink (NL). |
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Iconoclasts Eric Sleichim and Marnix De Cat take on works from the Petrus Alamire Complex with the organ, saxophone and live electronics. |
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Haendel’s most iconic works by organ and saxophone quintet ! |
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Five saxophones play the monumental organ music of J.S. Bach. |
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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. |
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location-project |
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contemporary program with soloists from each BL!NDMAN-quartet |
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music theatre based on Don De Lillo’s famous novel |
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Schaubühne Berlin. Text: Christopher Marlowe. Direction: Ivo van Hove. Music: Eric Sleichim |
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Münchener Kammerspiele. Direction: Ivo van Hove. Music: Eric Sleichim |
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Kaleidoscope of sounds and tastes |
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program with American minimalist pieces |
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7th module out of the temporary autonomus zones created for Brussels 2000 inspired by Hakim Bey. |
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Suite in 9 “gateways” and 3 mouvements for saxophone quartet |
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