I'm not sure I'll be able to resist making the cold trip up north for this one. Substance & Vainqueur team up with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra to present Scion Versions Live on October 16. Full event release follows, links and all:
‘Stirred by the desire to present a concert in an unusual setting and context, Kent Nagano has conceived the brand new series LES CONCERTS OSM ÉCLATÉS. Since his arrival in Montreal, Kent Nagano has been interested in the city’s historical structures, and had the idea of matching up the universes of orchestral music and the industrial world. The OSM and Kent Nagano will be performing works from the orchestral repertoire and will be bolstered, thanks to a collaboration with MUTEK, by the talent of practitioners of electronic music. This concert will be presented by Molson M in artistic partnership with MUTEK on Saturday, October 16, at 10 p.m. in a prominent place in the history of Montreal, the Molson Coors brewery.
KENT NAGANO, conductor
ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL
guests of MUTEK:
THOMAS FEHLMANN
SUBSTANCE & VAINQUEUR, SCION VERSIONS LIVE,
BAYA CARDELL & FILS, videographers
PROGRAM
Pierre Boulez: Messagesquisse
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1, “Titan”
First-time performance by Thomas Fehlmann with OSM musicians
Solo performance by Thomas Fehlmann
Substance & Vainqueur present Scion Versions Live
Tickets at a cost of $25 (plus taxes and service charge)
Information : 514-842-9951 or 1-888-842-9951 orwww.osm.ca
The experimental Kyiv-based avant-folk arts collective DakhaBrakha mesmerized fans at the 2009 Gogol Fest celebrating the bicentennial of the legendary Ukrainian author's birth. Here's a video playlist I've compiled of their groundbreaking performances this year --
For all their studied eclecticism & avant-garde sensibilities, the group remains steeped in the various musical traditions of their native Ukraine. Their music has been described as Ethno-Chaos, for its dark, turbulent themes and often wild syntheses of folk musics from every corner of the world. I've been into this group for awhile, and it's exciting to see recently their effortless incorporation of new media into their performances.
Check out more DakhaBrakha, and if you're in the NYC area, you can see their US premiere July 23rd at Joe's Pub.
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