Editorial Issue n°13
Dear reader,
Do you know the moment during a show when you distance yourself from the music? It’s usually after you’ve recognized the main beat or rhythm and before the trance takes over. Three possible scenarios:
a) You can’t resist the music and the show is super good. Nodding heads, maybe a mosh pit. Raving reviews.
b) You go to the bar for a beer or join the smoking pack outside. “I didn’t feel the vibe”.
c) You’re not convinced, but you dive back into the music until the end of the show or until the next pivot point.
05 December 2018 |
AG 13
Festoen
Music takes on different forms, moods and characters. As the second decennium of 2000 moves on, the strict borders between art disciplines have been evaporated. In the current avant-garde, it might that reinventing music is not always happening within itself.
As Festoen, the young theatre duo of Linde Carrijn and Laura Vroom push music into the field of body movement and contemporary theater and the other way round. They strip it down to an abstract mass of detached emotion, creating an immersive and devastating experience unlike any other. The project’s name might hint towards classicistic and baroque methods. Back then, painters picture seemingly banal props and decoration to create a heightened symbolic context for the action or the scene.
14 February 2017 |
AG 9
Sanskriti Shrestha
Sanskriti Shrestha is a descendant of a highly illustrious Nepalese family of professional musicians and regarded as as one of Nepal’s youngest leading tabla players. Playing since the age of 4 and currently residing in Oslo, she has developed into one of the most exciting percussionists of the moment. Fusing Eastern and Western music, incorporating the principles of free improvisation and experimenting with a non-traditional extended setup. For Eastern Daze III she will do a set on tabla tarang - a melodic percussion instrument that includes up to 16 tabla’s - supported by Indian lehara player Tejaswinee Kelkar on harmonium.
In an article for Dawn.com Pakistani author Uzma Aslam Khan asks herself where the women tabla players are.Well, here’s one: Sanskriti Shrestha. She plays in the ensembles Avatar and Moksha as well as performing solo. Growing up in Nepal, she took her tabla and the traditionial music she was raised on and ventured out for the North.
10 November 2016 |
AG 8.1
Yeah You
I don’t know what you do with your dad while driving around in his car, but Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi started a band. It’s called Yeah You and their music sounds like you threw a bunch of pop records in a concrete mixer. But better.
24 February 2016 |
AG 7
