Ars Acustica’s monthly platform, varying from experimental improv to acousmatics, from sound and radio art to composed contemporary music. Also, often a look at special festivals and own recordings. Tonight, a festive broadcast of Café Sonore in between Sinterklaas and Christmas. This time, a broadcast with few explanations, because we play a long collage of a lot of acoustic music. And that’s pretty special for a Café Sonore, where usually electronic music can be heard.
Electro has however not completely disappeared from the collage. There is algorithmic music for piano and sampler by Michael Peters and laptop manipulations of percussion sounds by Alessio Riccio. But apart from that, this December broadcast is all acoustic. Much of the material comes from recent CDs that have come in at the Concertzender. For example, of singer-songwriter music of Anja Kowalsky.
But also Nakes Wolf with Luc Ex, Gerrie Jager and others, the song ‘Obama’ by cultband Anohni, pure improv by Ada Rave, Nicolas Chientaroli, and Raoul van der Weide, and te saxophone earns its plays through an improvisation on folk music from Calabria by Christian Ferlaino. And for all the lonely folks during the holidays, the wondrous song of Albert van Veenendaal and Rutger van Otterloo, aptly called ‘Sad and Lonely’.
There is also some hardcore composed music with the works of Canadian composer Marc Sabat and ‘Lying in the gras’ from the cycle ‘In memory of John Cage’. This work is performed by ensemble Contrechamps with Daan Vandewalle at the piano. We conclude our night with serene piano music of Florian Wittenburg.
01. A. Alberts. tune Café Sonore (A. Alberts). 01:00.
Album: n/a (own recording composer).
02. Napoli Mandolin Orchestra. Amacord. (Nino Rota). 02:38.
Album: Mandolin al Cinema. Label: Felmay / fy 7048.
03. Alessio Riccio & Musicians. Sull’afanno dell’uomo. (Alessio Riccio). 05:50.
Album: Ninshubar. Label: Unorthodox recordings / UNHX011CD.
04. Michael Peters & Matthias Ebbinghaus. Alhambra Algebra. (Michael Peters). 04:21.
Album: impossible music. Label: IAPETUS / hyperfunction001CD.
05. Ada Rave, Nicolas Chientaroli, Raoul van der Weide. Lonely Beings. (Ada Rave, Nicolas Chientaroli, Raoul van der Weide). 02:32.
Album: The Moonlight Nightcall. Label: Casco Records / CR 003.
06. Christian Ferlaino. Le Cativa Abitudini Dello Zampognaro. (Christian Ferlaino). 06:13.
Album: Bad Habits. Label: Autrecords / AUT 032.
07. Anja Kowalsky. Nebelland. (Anja Kowalsky). 05:57.
Album: Wolke. Label: NAFF Records / naff-009.
08. Rutger van Otterloo & Albert van Veenendaal. Sad & Lonly. (Albert van Veenendaal). 04:09.
Album: No Trace. Label: brokkenrecords / BR 008.
09. Naked Wolf. Umpteenth. (Luc Ex). 04:32
Album: Naked Wolf. Label: El Negocito Records/ eNR 025.
10. Anohni, Hudson Mohawke, Oneotrix Point Never. Obama. (Anohni). 04:11.
Album: Hopelessness. Label: Anohni / RTRADCD823.
11. Ens Contrechamps & Daan Vandewalle. frg Lying in the Grass. (Marc Sabat). 15:46.
Album: Musicworks summer 2016. Label: Musicworks / MW 125.
12. Florian Wittenburg. Eagle Prayer. (Florian Wittenburg). 04:16.
Album: Eagle Prayer. Label: Florian Wittenburg / nurnichtnur 116 01 20.
