ATTACCA – Festival for Contemporary Music

The concert presents three works.
These include solo and chamber pieces for different acoustic and electronic instruments, digital and recorded sound, with intermedial elements such as light and gesture.
One work is an attempt to condense an aspect of living.
Another takes on an alien shape in order to learn and offer farewell.
The last reveals what both were all along: a material process within nature.
These works are attempts from the past two years. Let us try to encounter them.

This note is intentionally cryptic. Ron Katzman doesn't intend to teach anything.

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

Ron Katzman (composition); Shira Soffer (flute); Ignat Khlobytsin (bass flute); Clara Gonçalves (baritone saxophone); Yoann Vogel (trombone); Yi-Chen Tsai (percussion); Brecht Valckenaers (keyboard/piano); Irene Miguel Auría (accordion); Mathias Remåd (electric guitar); Maté Tokárszky (electric guitar); Jack M. Campbell (violin); Ioanna Boultadaki (violin); Maayan Gabel (viola); TBA (cello); Helka Seppälä (double bass)

Program

Ron Katzman (*2000): «LADDER» for flute and light (2025-2026)

Ron Katzman (*2000): «Two Farewells» for ensemble, electronics and light (2025-2026)
I. «is it happening?»
II. «you don't know?»

Ron Katzman (*2000): «WORK» for amplified ensemble (2024-2025)

Info

With the kind support of the Dreyfus-Brodsky-Stipendienstiftung, the Caisse de bourses pour étudiants juifs en Suisse and the Alfred-&-Ilse-Stammer-Stiftung.

Duration

45 minutes, no break