MUTED at Wonderfeel festival -- this Sunday at sunset
Sunday 21 July, 21:30 - 22:15
Podium Ongehoord
Tickets
MUTED is a collective work for violin, voice, whisperviolin, frame violins, a multitude of mutes, and light design
Composers: Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Louis Andriessen
Violins, voice: Monica Germino
Stage design & lighting: Floriaan Ganzevoort & Isabel Nielen / Theatermachine
Creators, whisperviolin: Bas Maas & Marcel Wanders
Text: excerpts from Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
"While wistful, the music shifts through moods and styles that alternately suggest tender folk songs, gently swaying dances, bursts of hushed busyness, bluesy melodies, even twangy hints of "hoedown. “Muted” may be the quietest piece ever written for violin, but it was riveting in this intimately powerful performance."
-Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
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whisperviolin in the spotlight
De Volkskrant:
"...the renowned industrial designer Marcel Wanders, a former amateur violinist, has also built a spectacular whisperviolin with luthier Bas Maas. Instead of the traditional scroll found on normal violins, the whisperviolin has a finger, as if to say: shhh.
But the music in MUTED is not necessarily extremely soft. Monica Germino: ‘It is mainly about the perception of sound and about the contrast. For example, I can start out playing with a sordino, a mute, on the violin. When I take it off the audience suddenly experiences the music as loud, but it is really not at all loud. Sound works just like light, you adapt to it.’ Read more
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mr. blue, frame violin, whisperviolin: on location at AVL Mundo in Rotterdam, ROAM Festival
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behind the scenes | the making of the whisperviolin
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more about MUTED
MUTED has its roots in the reaction from composers to my high sensitivity to sound and having to cut down the amount of decibels pouring into my ears. Many of you know that I used to play some fairly hard-hitting music, much of it newly commissioned. And as Mehitabel* would say, “I have no regrets!”* For those who want to know everything: click the button below or read more about the inside story here
*parts of MUTED borrow from the masterpiece Archy & Mehitabel by Don Marquis
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MUTED credits
Commissioners
De Doelen, Rotterdam (Neil Wallace, Executive Producer)
Oranjewoud Festival, Oranjewoud
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, New York
Music on Main, Vancouver
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Partners and presenters
Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam
November Music Festival
Korzo Theater
Wonderfeel Festival
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With thanks to:
Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Louis Andriessen
Marcel Wanders, designer
Bas Maas, luthier
MassMoCA, Massachusetts, USA
Kenny Savelson, Bang on a Can All-Stars
Phillipa Thompson, Bang on a Can Summer Festival
Vera Kuipers, Dutch Consulate, New York
Niek Versfeld and Jaap Peter Kronemeijer, Audiologisch Centrum Hilversum
Stijn Hoogeboom, Oorwerk, Hilversum
Bas Andriessen, filmmaker
Jacqueline and Serge Stam, Stam Vioolbouw
Fonds Podiumkunsten / Performing Arts Fund NL
photos Jan Gates, Anne Reinke
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