SEMIBREVE 2023 – 29 outubro

Main Room 5:00 PM 

We met him in person in the 2022 edition, when he went onstage with Stephen O’Malley to interpret “Cylene”. François J. Bonnet returns to the Semibreve festival as Kassel Jaeger — his often used work alias — challenged to present his latest, “Shifted In Dreams”, in an expanded and audio-visual version, like the soundtrack of a premiering film. He called it, quite a propos, “Shifted in Dreams – Redreamed”, as evidence of the multiplicity and flexibility of the original work, with the composition having had as its north star the tradition of concrete music that François J. Bonnet knows, understands, and takes part in so well. For the big screen in Theatro Circo, the musician has invited Eléonore Huisse, creator of the visual image of the record release of “Shifted In Dreams” on Shelter Press, and author of the celebrated documentary “Eliane Radigue – Echos”.

Main Room 6:10 PM  

In 2012, at only 18, Kali Malone moved from the United States to Sweden where, in Stockholm, she entered the renowned Royal College of Music to study electroacoustic composition. In 2019, three years after starting to release her music, “The Sacrificial Code” put her name in lights as she recorded an extensive repertoire for tube organ. From composition to the recording process, Kali Maline beautifully ilustrates the degree of detail placed upon her art, listening to the smallest detail, eschewing the superfluous, and making us focus on the essential, the acoustic purity, as if we were part of the instrument, of the music sheet or the physicality of the sound. After all this time, we know very well that each of Malone’s works is guided by this commitment to honour, summoning us to be part of a whole, in a sharing of a collective listening, ceremonial and ritualistic. Let us then enter this circle of absolute ecstasy.

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