Cooperation: Festival Archipel
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Both Louis Schild and Martina Lussi view the ensemble from the perspective of electronic music and explore methods and techniques to fuse the sound of acoustic and electronic instruments, thus exploring the possibilities of constellative hybridity. Themselves well-versed performers, they become part of the ensemble.
The nucleus of Louis Schild's new work is the recording of an electric bass solo: the gesture of moving a pick back and forth over all strings and its spatialisation by means of a rotating loudspeaker. «The articulation of the harmonic and rhythmic results over the duration of the piece conveys both the feeling of hearing a horde of small instruments scattered in space, as well as that of a compact, functioning machine. It’s this oscillating between fragmented and unified perceptions of the sound sources that I want to bring out with the ensemble. A wild, staggering, archaic kind of dance is created.»
Martina Lussi's first piece for Proton, «Proximity» (2024) was created in an extensive process of mutual listening and the search for resonance spaces between ensemble and composer. It consists of game instructions, memories of sounds and a choreography in which players as well as listeners are physically present. Together, we pass through synthesised soundworlds inspired by the elements wind, fire, water and earth.
