Salon of Touch

Aviva Endean: A Face Like Yours

“A Face Like Yours” invites the audience to take part in a sonic exploration of their own face; the experience “amplified” by inserting foam earplugs into their ears. Following the visual instructions from the performer on screen, the audience are led through a series of actions to create a soundscape that only they can hear. The piece leads the player through a series of thuds, flickers, hums, squishes, tingles, powerful bass tones and miniature sounds, as they explore the varied textures and sonic landscapes of their own head. “A Face Like Yours” uses the medium of silent film to create a visual score, requiring the active participation and imagination of its viewers to sound the work. – Aviva Endean


Kuba Krzewiński: Contre No. 1

contre (Fr.) – against, versus

Piece about points and lines, points of contact and counterpoints, positions and oppositions. – Kuba Krzewiński


Jeppe Ernst: Offertorium: Behandling B

“Offertorium: Behandling B” is music for physical touch and is to be performed by two male performers. The piece is composed for the torso and the two male performers should therefore be naked from the waist up. The two performers are sitting on two chairs facing each other. When the hands are not in motion they should be resting on the thighs with clenced fists. The piece is the second in a cycle consisting of four pieces with the overall title “Offertorium”. Since the musicians won’t have the score in front of them during the performance, the piece is to be memorized. – Jeppe Ernst


Kuba Krzewiński: Listen with your hand

Let your ears rest. Refocus your hearing to a palm, a fingertip, the back of your hand. Listen directly. From up close. Hear a surface, feel a texture, sense vibrations through your bones. Touch. – Kuba Krzewiński

 

Programme

Aviva Endean

A Face like yours

sound work for video, foam earplugs and viewer (2015)


Kuba Krzewiński

Contre No. 1 

for violin and cello (2016)


Wojtek Blecharz

blacksnowfalls

for timpano solo (2014)


Jeppe Ernst

Offertorium: Behandling B

for two performers (2016/17)

German premiere


Kuba Krzewiński

Listen with your hand

for three string instruments and one performer (2025)

Commissioned by MaerzMusik

World premiere

 

Cast

• Kuba Krzewiński – composition, concept
  
• Bastian Zimmermann – dramaturgy, concept
  
• Aliénor Dauchez – direction, stage, concep
  

Performers

• Mia Bodet – violin, timpano
  
• Kuba Krzewiński – violin
  
• Sophie Notte – violoncello
  
• Michał Pepol – violoncello