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BL!NDMAN [sax] 2020
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BL!NDMAN [sax] & Eric Sleichim 2020
© Guy Kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax] @ Eric Sleichim 2020
© Guy Kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax] 2020
© Guy Kokken
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Eric Sleichim & BL!NDMAN [sax] © Tanja Vrancken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2013 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2013 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2013 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2013 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2008 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2008 © kurt deruyter
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2008 © canvas
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax] brigittines
2007 © jean-pierre coppens
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BL!NDMAN [sax] , thurn & taxis, vrt panorama
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], thurn & taxis
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], thurn & taxis, vrt panorama
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], thurn & taxis, vrt panorama
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], thurn & taxis, vrt panorama
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2000© guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], thurn & taxis, vrt panorama
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], thurn & taxis, vrt panorama
2000 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax]
2003 © guy kokken
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BL!NDMAN [sax], momentum
1994 © marie-françoise plissart
BL!NDMAN [sax]
Eric Sleichim founded this contemporary music ensemble in 1988. Since 2008 the saxophone quartet shares its 20 years of performing experience with three young quartets BL!NDMAN [drums], BL!NDMAN [strings] and BL!NDMAN [vox] making it possible for the two generations to exchange ideas.
BL!NDMAN was founded in 1988 by saxophonist and composer Eric Sleichim. The saxophone quartet immediately developed new playing techniques and significantly expanded the instrument’s repertoire, by constantly exploring the boundaries with other disciplines.
Since 2008 the saxophone quartet has been sharing its more than 20 years of stage experience with the quartets BL!NDMAN [drums], BL!NDMAN [strings] and BL!NDMAN [vox]; a cross-pollination between 2 generations and four quartets that constantly conjures up new worlds of sound.
Eric Sleichim and BL!NDMAN have garnered international acclaim with their multi-disciplinary approach. Right from the start, they were offered projects from the theatre and dance world, as well as developing multi-media performances, and providing live music for a number of silent films.
They have collaborated with artists including Jan Fabre, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Heiner Goebbels and Ivo Van Hove.
In his search for the saxophone’s unexplored potential, Eric Sleichim has been focussing since 1999 on early music. First, he arranged Bach’s Chorale Partitas for saxophone quartet. BL!NDMAN plays Bach was an instant hit. Other programmes with old music then followed – often in collaboration with specialist ensembles such as Collegium Vocale Gent or the Huelgas Ensemble; Multiple Voice, Chromatic Variations, Isotropes, Contrapunte alla mente, Secret Masses, Utopia 47 and recently, Cross Talks with the 16-strong BL!NDMAN collective.
In 2013 BL!NDMAN celebrated its 25th birthday with the release of the CD 32 Foot / the Organ of Bach, which got the KLARA award for best CD production in Flanders.
MEDIA
The Tuning Path – Terry Riley BL!NDMAN (sax) from BL!NDMAN on Vimeo.
New York Counterpoint – Steve Reich
New York Counterpoint – Steve Reich BL!NDMAN (sax) from BL!NDMAN on Vimeo.
productions
ICONS
UNCUT
Stylus Fantasticus
The Damned
The Valley
MORGEN !
DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
32 FOOT / the Organ of Bach
SURREALISTIC CINEMA
SAX – 5 – SOLO
Stream of Consciousness
M!N!MAL/MAX!MAL
- there is no why here -
cross talks
kwadratur #3/cube
utopia :: 47 – a very last passion
the raft of the medusa
cage, cager, cagest
BL!NDMAN solos
contrapunte alla mente
helse tijden – chagrin d’amour
kwadratur #2/transfo
kwadratur #1/globus
critical band
20×20
secret masses
BL!NDMAN plays buxtehude
doppelquartett mit henry
isotropes
mozart machine
44 harmonies
re-max
gestimmtseit
in similar motion
men in tribulation
max!mal BL!NDMAN
BL!NDMAN & huelgas
chromatic variations
multiple voice
BL!NDMAN electr!c
BL!NDMAN plays bach
announced movements
dust makes damage
steamboat bill jr.
aleatoric variations I&II
momentum
a page of madness
verwicklungen / les anamorphoses
motus
poortenbos
five movements for beuys