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Graindelavoix

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Utrecht, Sint-Catharinakathedraal
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Graindelavoix

Forget everything you thought you knew about polyphony. Graindelavoix kicks down the doors of music history and reveals what musicologists have always kept silent about: that polyphony was not a simple art form but aural alchemy – l'art pour l'art without shame or restriction. Solage's crazy ars subtilior, Luython's hermetic experiments: these were resounding showpieces with which princes filled their cabinets of curiosities. A sonic trip through four centuries of impossible sounds: this music has teeth!

Programme

  • The programme will be announced soon.

Musicians

  • Teodora Tommasi soprano, harp
  • Florencia Menconi mezzo-soprano
  • Andrew Hallock alto
  • Albert Riera, André Pérez, Marius Peterson tenor
  • Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet bass
  • Lluis Coll i Trulls cornetto
  • Floris De Rycker lute
  • Björn Schmelzer artistic direction

About the performers

Graindelavoix is an Antwerp based, multidisciplinary company with a fascination for the voice, the genealogy of vocal repertoires and their relationships with the affective body, history and territory. The ensemble was founded in 1999 by anthropologist and ethnomusicologist Björn Schmelzer. The group does not abide by the unwritten aesthetic ‘etiquette’ of the early music world; it seeks out alternative options that enable it to give priority to expression and intensity. Björn Schmelzer was curator in residence of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2018. 

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