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) |
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music: H.Schütz & E.Sleichim |
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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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contemporary program with soloists from each BL!NDMAN-quartet |
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Eric Sleichim presents a unique program for saxophone quartet and voices based on the forbidden masses and gradualia of William Byrd (1543-1623) |
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Marathon-performance directed by Ivo van Hove, with fifteen actors of Toneelgroep Amsterdam & BL!NDMAN [drums]. |
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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 American minimalist pieces |
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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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7th module out of the temporary autonomus zones created for Brussels 2000 inspired by Hakim Bey. |
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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. |
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An encounter of experimental cinema and instrumental inventiveness |
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