ATTACCA – Festival for Contemporary Music

The concert «Drops» explores the musical and conceptual dimensions of falling and the tension of gravity as an elementary, playful yet fundamental, and sometimes violent force. All connected by the same idea, three pieces – differing in instrumentation, medium, and format – will be presented: «Hängt Talui Ab» for ensemble and shadow theatre; «Sustain, Release, Attack» for five flutists, video, and electronics, a collaborative work with Daniel Fill; and «For now, time is a duration of a thought» for extended piano and electronics.

The concert connects visual movement with musical anticipation and with the sonic characteristics of a dropped or falling object – on piano strings, on water, and on other surfaces. It asks what it might mean, musically, to overcome gravity.

As part of «ATTACCA – Festival für aktuelle Musik» at the FHNW Academy of Music in Basel, students from the fields of audio design, composition, open creation and contemporary music will present their current artistic projects. The programme includes original compositions, performances, improvisations and works by contemporary composers. The concerts will take place over several days in various formats and with different line-ups.

With

Carmel Curiel (composition); Maud Niklas (soprano); Seraina Ramseier (flute); Ignat Kholbystin (flute); Isabelle Meraner (flute); Phoebe Bognar (flute); Emma Muñoz López (flute); Ioanna Boultadaki (violin); Maayan Gabel (viola); Maksim Barbash (cello); Helka Seppälä (double bass); Raphaëlle Proust (piano); Daniel Fill (video)

Program

Carmel Curiel (*1998): «Talui, Abhängig» for ensemble (2026)

Carmel Curiel (*1998): «Sustain, Release, Attack» for five flutists, video and electronics (2026)

Carmel Curiel (*1998): «For now, time is a duration of a thought» for prepared piano and electronics (2025)

Carmel Curiel (*1998): Small installation at the entrance, before and after the concert

Duration

60 minutes, no break

Links

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