Marcel Saegesser – electronics, composition
Florine Juvet – accordion
Katryn Hasler – baritonviolin
Anne Schölß – installation/video
In the dim light of the room you can barely make out a number of tent-like objects which, after looking at them for a while, reveal themselves to be sculptural screens with colour painting on them. In combination with a poetic video, they form the room installation named INTENTS. Scattered between the tent sculptures, three musicians perform THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) with utmost concentration. Through their strong and almost motionless scenic presence, they become an essential part of the installation.
With THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) the Bern-based composer Marcel Saegesser creates a fragile sound landscape, which moves familiar things into a surprising light. The deliberate surrender of virtuosity and melody puts the focus entirely on the inner self of the sound and the rhythm that is derived from prime numbers. Subtly handcrafted electronic sounds mix inseparably with the baritone violin and accordion. THE LAST PLACE (LEFT) is at the same time machined poetry and groovy sound carpet.
The artist Anna Schölß from Munich uses these sounds as a backdrop to place her nomad-inspired tent objects labelled INTENTS in the concert room. These objects have been generated from abstract colour painting and drawing; they make the tent – the oldest human mobile form of living – the central theme as a place at which the internal and external room are divided only by a thin membrane. Short video cuts of nature and light studies, made visible on a transparent tent membrane, amplify the installation. In combination with the music, this poetic place becomes a concert stage. The sound structures amalgamate with the shapes, colours and surfaces of the tent objects and become for the audience a projection screen of their own associations.
CD Release in October 2011 by Tonus Music Records
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