Sat 4.September

From 09:00

Fresco/Summer

Fresco/Sommer are realizing one of their "Found Sounds" installations in the glass and porcelain section of the Brockenstube Gais, in which they work with found sound material. The Brockenstube will thus become a kind of off-space for the festival in the village. The Brockenstube (Schopf #13) is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Fresco / Summer CH

Brockenstube Gais

Open until 16:00 Admission free Masks compulsory

11:00

From one mop of hair to the next

Guided tour with Patrick Kessler, the artistic director of the festival. Background information on the installations and the artists.

Festivalzentrum Piccolo Arsenale Meeting point:

Duration: 60 min. 10.

12:00

Artist Talk

Cathy van Eck (B, NL)

The composer and sound artist Cathy van Eck, who teaches at the Bern University of the Arts, will present her installation on site and answer questions from visitors. Moderation: Philipp Rhensius, sound artist, musician and Norient curator.

Cathy van Eck NL/BEL

Schopf #2

Duration: 30 min. Admission free

→ Website Cathy van Eck

13:00

Philipp Längs Merkstatt (CH)

There is nothing that the Biel-based artist, theater musician, sound inventor and experienced music mediator Philipp Läng cannot make sound. With his self-invented instruments and sound machines, he has created a unique universe of sound. In his participatory family workshop, young and old sound researchers are invited to explore this universe with their eyes and ears: Guided by Philipp Läng and stone sculptor Esther Schmelcher, participants will learn how their own tape recordings and sounds become images and how the images become new sounds. The workshop concludes with a joint concert.

Schopf #10 Cultivation

Duration: 2 hours Children 10 / adults 20 Participation of adults only with Covid certificate

15:30

Merkstatt mini-concert

With the participants of the family workshop "Merkstatt" by Philipp Läng.

Schopf #10 Cultivation

Duration: 20 min. Admission free

From 15:30

Festival Archipel, Geneva

A team from the Geneva festival Archipel is at the bar counter in the gastro tent today. The festival has curated tonight's event as part of a carte blanche. See below for more information.

From 15:45

Festival Archipel , Geneva

In the current edition of KLANG MOOR SCHOPFE, a similarly oriented festival or music club from French-speaking Switzerland is invited to organize an evening and thus promote the exchange between the experimental music scenes of Eastern Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland. This year it is the Geneva festival Archipel. Since 1992, Archipel has presented a multifaceted program of international sound art and musical research over ten days and is one of the most important platforms in Switzerland for new and experimental music.

→ More about the Festival Archipelago

16:00

Archipelago I Workshop

Céline Hänni (CH): Happy new ears!

How do we listen? What place does listening have for us? How can we cultivate wonder and enter into a resonant relationship with the world around us? Harpist, singer and improviser Céline Hänni from La-Chaux-de-Fonds dedicates her two-part workshop entirely to listening. In the first part, everyday sounds are discovered, explored and reflected on together. Following this exchange, the participants will go on a listening walk through the moor.

Festivalzentrum Piccolo Arsenale / Festival site

Duration: 2 hours (1 hour indoors, 1 hour outdoors) Workshop language: English 20.- / Legi 10.- Participation only with Covid certificate

→ Website Céline Hänni

18:15

Archipel II double concert

Anne Gillot (CH) / Duo Abdelnour-Schild (LB, FR/CH)

Anne Gillot: Wild Broadcasting Radio play inspired by "L'Almanach de plaies insensées" by Gregory Withehead (2016) Since 2017, Lausanne flutist and radio producer Anne Gillot has been developing a concertante form that brings together her two favorite fields: Wind instruments and radio practice. In her artistic work, she passionately explores the relationship between wind playing and the spoken voice, creating experimental "radio plays", among other things. Inspired by the writings of the American sound artist Gregory Whitehead, "Wild Broadcasting" assumes that the sounds that enter our bodies through our ears create spaces and volumes within us. Anne Gillot takes us to the edge of these spaces, where our own hearing encounters ghostly figures made of wood, feathers and vocal chords: phantoms born of the listener's imagination, wandering souls reduced to schizophony Christine Abdelnour & Louis Schild The interplay between Christine Abdelnour (saxophone) and Louis Schild (bass) is characterized by their openness to microtonalities and contemporary techniques, while at the same time thriving on improvisational elements such as listening to each other and the availability of the moment. Christine Abdelnour has been working with experimental music for over 20 years. She has developed a unique musical language. On her purely acoustic instrument, she creates sounds that come close to those of electro-acoustic music. For her, sound is a malleable material, rich in concrete textures that combine breath, silence and countless acoustic distortions.

Festivalzentrum Piccolo Arsenale

Duration: 2 x 30 min. 10 - Admission only with Covid certificate

→ More about Anne Gillot
→ Anne Gillot live
→ Website Christine Abdelnour
→ Interview with Christine Abdelnour (English)

19:30

Archipel III double concert

Céline Hänni (CH) / Antoine Läng (CH)

Céline Hänni: Orlando "Orlando" is a folk song project for voice and harp composed by improvisational musician Céline Hänni to poems by Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, Fernando Pessoa and Henry David Thoreau. She writes: "'Orlando' was born out of the desire to make the invincible power of these voices heard, especially the voices of women who carry me through my daily life and whose creative energies are great invitations to disobedience and uniqueness and give us a view of a very wide horizon." Antoine Läng (CH) Fascinated by the plasticity of the human voice and the diverse roles it can play in electro-acoustic and experimental music, the Geneva-based vocal artist explores this "instrument" on various levels. In his solo, he uses a prepared Jew's harp, which is amplified and manipulated to accompany the richness of its vibrations and certain harmonic variations of the instrument, while at the same time expanding it polyphonically with random effects. His approaches to the original folk instrument are part of his research into listening to places and sound gestures: "The Jew's harp only requires that you lend it a mouth to make your own voice audible. It appropriates the lips, teeth, tongue and breath of its host and turns him into its instrument. Two songs mingle at the mouth, hers and mine, my outside becomes her inside".

Festivalzentrum Piccolo Arsenale

Duration: Hänni 20 min. / Läng 15 min. 10.- Admission only with Covid certificate

20:15

Archipel IV Concert

Louis Schild (CH): Le recueil des miracles

What kind of experience do we have when we listen? For 30-year-old Louis Schild from Lausanne, sensory and cognitive aspects of music are inextricably linked. He takes a holistic approach to sound, music and its context. In his "intoxicating" works, his aim is to create sounds that enable the audience to have a listening experience. As a fellow of the Fondation Leenaards, Schild traveled to southern Europe in 2020, where he explored magical-religious rites. "Le recueil des miracles" (The collection of miracles) is influenced by the southern Italian folk dance Tarantella. The performers are: Louis Schild (harmonium, percussion), David Meier (drums), Antoine Läng (voice, harmonium), Anne Gilot (flutes), Laurent Estoppey (saxophone) and Anouck Genthon (violin). Choreography: Claire Dessimoz. Sound engineering: Caspar Pahud.

Festivalzentrum Piccolo Arsenale

Duration: 60 min. 10 - Admission only with Covid certificate