At its first stop on its first-ever European tour, Beyond This Point visits this unique concert series in Brussels to share its boundary-breaking program Musician Minus Instrument.
More details coming soon.
About Musician Minus Instrument
What does a musician become without their instrument? Can they use their skills in other ways, and still make music? What are the boundaries of what we can all agree is an “instrument”? What does musical virtuosity become if we don’t have 88 keys, 4 strings and a bow, or a polished brass tube through which to experience it?
Beyond This Point explores these questions in a concert that both breaks and expands what it means to be a musician and a performer. The musicians’ “instruments” run the gamut from a loose jack cable to an IKEA desk lamp to their own bodies and voices. Each work is suffused with musical virtuosity, but that virtuosity is brought to bear on an object or context that seems to resist being labeled as “musical”. Yet, after passing through the eye of the needle, the performers and audience alike emerge on the other side having glimpsed at a possible future where musical expression is no longer constrained to the world of instruments.
Program
Situation No. 7 — Imagination by François Sarhan
Analogy Fair by François Sarhan
Breath, Contained by Tonia Ko
Longevity of lightbulbs (and how to make them last longer) by Stefano D’Alessio
Aphasia by Mark Applebaum
Situation No. 15 — Freiheit und Macht by François Sarhan
4c0st1ctr1g3r by Kaj Duncan David
b by Simon Loffler
Please note: this program contains flashing lights and strobe-like lighting effects.
About SMOG
S M O G is the name of a series of contemporary and non-classical music concerts held in Brussels. Taking place in a chilled and lively venue, S M O G is an opportunity to get to know people’s latest works on music composition and sound research. S M O G is a space where you can approach music without prejudices, on a regular basis.
This engagement is supported in part by Mid Atlantic Arts through USArtists International, a program in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.