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sound & vision

focus on audiovisual collaborations

Koen Plaetinck, Wim Van Hasselt, Alice Van Leuven, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Frederik Croene, Vessel, Guy Vandromme
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timing

20:00 

 

musicians

Koen Plaetinck, percussion and electronics
Wim Van Hasselt, trumpet, piccolo trumpet and flugelhorn
Alice Van Leuven, violin
Diamanda La Berge Dramm, violin
Frederik Croene, piano
Vessel, electronics
Guy Vandromme, piano

 

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13 March is coming closer. Two weeks until Klarafestival 2021: the digital experience takes off. This year we will bring Klarafestival to you.
Jan Raes

video series: unanswered questions

A few days before Klarafestival 2021, we’d like to get you in the mood with our new video series ‘Unanswered Questions’. Five people, somehow connected to the festival, reflect on the theme ‘es ist noch nicht alles verloren’. What power do they draw from music? What is their source of hope? Listen to their story
brussels philharmonic

klarafestival — the digital experience

With the upcoming spring, Klarafestival 2021 is quickly taking shape. A little while ago we promised – with Es ist noch nicht alles verloren! (All is not lost!) – a reassuring and hopeful festival with the relationships between people and their environment at its heart. So it’s time for an update!  

programme

 

Wim Henderickx / Lieven Vanhove

Sacred Places III: Parvati, the Remover of bad Energy

 

Nicole Lizée

Televisioniist / Season 1 Episode 1

 

Frederik Neyrinck / Peter de Bruyne

Echo de Clèves

 

Saskia Venegas Aernouts / Nele Fack

The air we breathe

 

Frederik Croene / Karl Van Welden

Diamond Princess, 17/02/2020, Yokohama - Japan

 

Anouk De Clercq / Vessel

We’ll find you when the sun goes black

 

Eva-Maria Houben / Isabella Soupart

Drei Choräle (penser à Satie)

 

about

Do musicians have the last word on the creation of a film, a music video, a digital concert, or do the visual artists have the final say? Klarafestival has created a unique experiment, commissioning four duos, each consisting of a composer and a visual artist, to create a new work.

Saskia Venegas Aernouts, a Spanish-Belgian composer, forms a duo with video artist Nele Fack. Pianist-composer Frederik Croene works with visual artist Karl Van Welden. Multimedia-artist Anouk De Clercq calls on the British music producer Sebastian Gainsborough (Vessel). Guy Vandromme (piano) and the choreographer Isabella Soupart bring the evening to a close with a composition by German composer Eva-Maria Houben.

Sound & Vision also comprises two compositions that would, under normal circumstances, have premiered at Klarafestival 2020: Parvati by Wim Henderickx (with visuals by Lieven Vanhove) and Televisioniist by the Canadian composer and visual artist Nicole Lizée. Echo de Clèves, a composition written last summer by Frederik Neyrinck as part of Festivals for Compassion with visuals by photographer Peter De Bruyne, will also be performed.

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extra information about the compositions

 

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From March 13 until 22, we will present forgotten gems, great Romantic classics, plenty of new creations and also new, young talent. You’re welcome on our website to explore this digital experience. If you want to enjoy the free digital concerts, please don't forget to register in advance. Register via www.klarafestival.be/live and watch the entire festival in optimal audio and video quality for free.

credits

commission

Klarafestival

 

production

Klarafestival

 

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