Utopie 1: Garten der Lüste

In the organizer's words:

Utopia 1: Garden of Delights

While consord looked into a possible dystopian future in several concert formats last year, it is now devoting itself to the supposedly ideal, the non-place (ou-topos) and opening doors to parallel worlds: It does this with, among other things, the ghost trance music of Anthony Braxton, which is collaborative, multi-layered, extremely variable and inspired by the ghost dances of Native Americans; and with music by Alex Paxton, which knows no genre boundaries and is as rich and fantastic as a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. The compositions are complemented by field recordings by Ronan Whittern and Constantin Herzog.

Program:

Alex Paxton: Music for Bosch People

Liza Lim: Microbiome

Iannis Xenakis: Épéi

Anthony Braxton: Ghost Trance Music

sponsored by: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW, Kunststiftung NRW

further information at: consord.net