Liza Lim, Roda - the living circle, 
Performed by Marco Blaauw, recorded during lockdown on December 13th, 2020
at Ensemble Musikfabrik, Cologne

Liza Lim, Roda-the living circle (Marco Blaauw)

Liza Lim
"The Tailor Of Time" (extrait)
pour hautbois, harpe et ensemble 

Philippe Grauvogel, hautbois 
Valeria Kafelnikov, harpe 
Ensemble intercontemporain 
Enno Poppe, direction 

04.11.2023, Cité de la musique 
Enregistrement Cité de la musique -Philharmonie de Paris

Liza Lim, The Tailor Of Time (extrait)

Global Breath, Gesprächskonzert während der Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik am 4. Mai 2024, Uraufführungen von Liza Lim "shallow grave" und "buzzing" von George Lewis, aufgeführt von Marco Blaauw, keramisches Horn, F Trompete und Doppeltrichter Trompete.
Interviews mit Marco Blaauw und George Lewis. Moderation Theresa Beyer.

Global Breath, Gesprächskonzert, Liza Lim, George Lewis, Marco Blaauw

Liza Lim, "Shallow Grave" solo for neolithic horn and F trumpet
premier performance by Marco Blaauw at Eclat festival, Stuttgart, February 2024
There’s an image that sticks in my mind: March 2022, 12 days into the war in Ukraine, a military brass band plays, standing around a crater made by a Russian bomb. The image echoes on in our times of extreme and often incomprehensible violence and I’ve been thinking a lot about music’s power to address and reach into a hole in the ground and pull back up some life energy from what has been destroyed. The power of music to speak to the dead, to reach back in time and unwind something; to make passages for the living; music as a living knot in time between the ancestral and the unborn—these are some basic themes of recent work.
Shallow Grave is in two parts. In the first part, Marco Blaauw plays a ‘Neolithic’ horn, a replica of a 3,000-year-old ceramic horn excavated from a rock shelter in Vallabrix, Southern France and recreated by André Schlauch as part of the European Music Archaeology project. It’s shaped like an animal horn but I think of it as a lump of earth with a mouth. The second part of the piece is for solo trumpet; music of bitter and ironic humour, an imaginary ‘Punch and Judy’ show of stupid sock puppets bashing each other with sticks and rocks until the puppets bleed.

Liza Lim, Shallow Grave, performed by Marco Blaauw

The Ensemble intercontemporain is a music ensemble of 31 soloists dedicated to the performance and promotion of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
For almost 40 years, this permanent ensemble of highly professional musicians has been performing a demanding repertoire of orchestral music in all its diverse forms. Under the artistic direction of Matthias Pintscher  they are united by a shared passion for new music. 


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