From september until decembre 2020, INSUB. curates the Insub.distances project. It invited height composers from the experimental scene to write originial scores. These compositions were interpreted by 8 duos of musicians fully sperareted. The pieces, recorded & filmed, and broadcasted online only investigate the issues of proximity and distance in a context where artistic mobility is turned obsolete by the current crisis, highlighting the need to create and exchange, beyond masks and closed borders. The 8 dematerialized performances that will be published one every two weeks, in video & audio formats, alongside interviews in which the musical, technical, contextual and personal aspects of the performers’ work are discussed. This dematerialized proposition explores virtuality as a palliative during the current situation – but also its limits by a crude montage which underlines the separation between the performers. The simplicity of the set-up ultimately reinforces the power of the music : tender and subtle counterpoints are found side by side to interweaved humming voices, explosive bursts, pulsations, meticulous explorations, resonance activations & ethereal harmonies…

10.09 Michael Pisaro-Liu ~ d’incise & Philippe Lauzier
24.09 Annette Schmucki ~ Antoine Läng & Myriam Pruvot
08.10 Ryoko Akama ~ Rodolphe Loubatière & Bonnie Jones
22.10 Jacques Demierre ~ Raphael Ortis & Camille Emaille
05.11 Clara de Asís ~ Violeta Motta & Cristián Alvear
19.11 Christian Wolfarth ~ Alexandra Bellon & Alexis Degrenier
03.12 Sarah Hennies ~ Cyril Bondi & Mike Majkowski
17.12 Jürg Frey ~ Anouck Genthon & Pierre-Yves Martel

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"Alpha Beta Eros" (2020) __/ A composition by Michael Pisaro-Liu (USA)
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Philippe Lauzier (CAN): bass clarinet
d'incise (CH) : electronic, loudspeakers
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Opening this serie, Michael Pisaro-Liu, emminent member of the Wandelweiser composers collective & residing and teaching in Los Angeles, delivered a score where words and (love) letters transform into notes,  revealing in their dialog a delicat conterpoint, two voices slightly appart at the begining get soflty intertwined in the last third. Philippe Lauzier, clarinetist, improvisors and sound artist, from Montreal, precisely fomulated its reading on its intruments while d'incise, obstinate sound explorer and co-founder of Insub, reincarnated the score, and its electronic interpretation, by plugging it into various non-neutral, tenderly distorting, loudspeakers.
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More : http://insub.org/insub-distances/
Video : https://youtu.be/JrA0oXQGxkI
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/michael-pisaro-liu-alpha-beta-eros-insub-distances-1-8
Interview about the piece : https://youtu.be/CnlyVrooKmA
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

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Michael PISARO-LIU "Alpha Beta Eros" __/ Philippe Lauzier & d'incise (insub.distances 1/8)

"Attachment"  (2020)__/ A composition by Sarah Hennies (US)

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Mike Majkowski (AUS/DE) : double bass
Cyril Bondi (CH) : percussions, pitch pipes
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Sarah Hennies, american composer but also percussionist, combines and recombines sounds, sounds of instruments which by their assemblies create and recreate again and again small autonomous worlds.
As she states, she writes what she wants to hear, and she does it wonderfully, diluting the notion of time, as if you could listen to her music indefinitely.
Mike Majkowski and Cyril Bondi, with their usual rigor and attention to detail, are a perfect pair to bring this intention to our ears.
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More : http://insub.org/insub-distances/
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/sarah-hennies-attachment-insub-distances-7-8
Video : https://youtu.be/urxE6L8AB0E
Interview about the piece : https://youtu.be/Bz78lKBAOwQ
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

Sarah Hennies "Attachment" __/ Mike Majkowski & Cyril Bondi [insub.distances 7/8]

"Le poids d'ombre"  (2020) __/ A composition by Jürg Frey(CH)
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Pierre-Yves Martel (CAN) : viola da gamba
Anouck Genthon (CH) : violin
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With Jürg Frey, a now emblematic Swiss composer of the Wandelweiser movement, it is just the shadow of the strings that emerge from the silence, but with a lightness that does not deceive the immense depth of his music. And his piece, which concludes the "distances" serie, wonderfully abolishes the separation between the musicians by its obvious presence touching us.

Anouck Genthon and Pierre-Yves Martel are both talented improvisers, the first alongside Jacques Demierre, the other with Carl-Ludwig Hübsch and Philippe Zoubek, for instance. They give here life to the score with accuracy and to those appearances of sustained notes which sometimes become evocation of melodies that are specific to Jürg Frey's music.
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More : insub.org/insub-distances/
HD audio : https://insub.bandcamp.com/album/j-rg-frey-le-poids-dombre-insub-distances-8-8
Video : youtu.be/62G85SJg8uI
Interview about the piece : youtu.be/tbKFDvVKqvA 
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Insub.distances - a project by Insub.asso & Insub.records - 2020
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Supported by : Prohelvetia ("Close distance" programm) / Fondation Suisa / Fondation Nicati-De Luze

Jürg FREY "Le poids d'ombre" __/ Pierre-Yves Martel & Anouck Genthon [insub.distances 8/8]

INSUB. is a label, a netlabel and a concert organisation based in Geneva, CH.
It covers the fields of experimental, electroacoustic, improvised & composed musics.
The Records section, started in 2013, has the from of Pay Per Download only releases, accompanied by a physical print containing textes, scores, etc, thought has an echo, or a reminder, of the digitalised music.
The netlabel offers free download for every releases, but some are however available in classical physical format (cd, cdr, LP).
The concerts happens here and there in Geneva, and the Insub Meta Orchestra is a very large ensemble.
These activities has been develloped since 2006, formely under the « Insubordinations » label.

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