Sound : N-Collective

	N-Collective is an international network of musicians and composers, a conglomerate of groups and ensembles made up of people from many different countries (Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands, America, Switzerland, Germany). They develop, support and promote new, adventurous music in different genres such as electro-acoustic improvisation, electronic composition, noise/rock and contemporary music. Now, after a two week residency at Netwerk, the N-collective plays 'Music Performs'. Music performs displays three different answers of young composers/musicians to the challenge of how to interpret the theatrical and performative aspects of concert situations as an integral part of music. Headstrong pieces located in the grey areas between music and performance, their highly individual styles and methods leading to new ways of expression.
	Petros Ovsepyan – I, II, III (1999-2000) I-II-III is a trilogy for piccolo/flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello. The work is based on sound compression, that is, sound “trapped” in a body of the performer for various period of time, and thus becomes “compressed.” The element of timing in this work is immensely crucial, as the skeleton of the entire work is formed on “memory and anticipation” interchange, requiring active or even interactive listening as performed sounds are internalized and their development imagined through the long silences.
	David Helbich– Haltungsschaden (2005/07) Haltungsschaden was written for Ensemble Maulwerker and performed in TESLA-Kubus in Berlin in October 2005. David Helbich composes movements and gestures visibly suggesting musical experience. Three performers show movement material, snapping fingers, clapping, using sign language – occasionally making sound. At times the material touches meaning, sometimes it’s just formal structure.
	TAPE THAT – Mozart Takes (1788/2007- premiere) Mozart Takes encompasses recording a live performance of a Mozart string-trio. The recording is instantaneously manipulated and remixed by means of connecting and disconnecting the microphones, moving them around the concert-hall, filtering them with hands and body cavities, close- and far-miking different instruments, different objects and people around and outside the concert-hall. In the second part of the piece TAPE THAT reconstructs the concert experience by juxtaposing the recorded materials and remixing it by means of yet different manipulations on the equipment. The audience experiences the same events (the stringtrio concert, the actions of TAPE THAT) from many different perspectives and levels of perception. What was seen now becomes audible, what was heard, now first passes through the recording equipment and is heard again, recontextualised. "Is it live, or is it TAPE THAT?"

02/03/07 - 8 pm
entry: € 10 / 7
info & tickets: 053 70 97 70

presale:
Fnac 0900 00600 - online ticket sale by Fnac
Le Bonheur (Brussel)
Musicmania (Gent)
Feedback (Aalst)

website:
www.n-collective.com

with the support of
Netwerk vzw
f,r,o,g,s OS / KunstWerk
nadine
Groep Damp/ Michael Bussaer