Leonardo Melchionda, POSTCONTEMPORARY BAROQUE
Tom Pauwels
Joris Blanckaert
Tom De Cock
Joost Vanmaele
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Phantasmagorical, still alive, the Baroque repertoire is being newly discovered into different lights, performed with ultramodern musical instruments, and heard with new ears.
Program
1- #998, for electric guitar, Leonardo Melchionda
2- Non Mesurés, for electric guitar, recorder and live electronics, Leonardo Melchionda and Lieve De Sadeleer
Date and Location
27th June, 20:00
Miry Concertzaal, Biezekapelstraat 9, 9000 Gent
Free entrance
The love for baroque music, free impro and electronics inform the composition of new music.
The Baroque repetoire is being newly discovered into different lights, performed with ultramodern musical instruments, and heard with new ears.
Bach’s masterpiece Prelude, Fugue and Allegro and Louis Couperin’s Préludes non mesurés are on the table, phantasmagorical, still alive.
Deconstructing the original material and translating it into modern musical languages, the original outcome presents music in new shapes and dramaturgies.
Long sustained tones, overdubbing delays and progression of tonal chords interact on many levels. The sound progresses into a new counterpoint filtered through the recent experience of avantgarde and post-minimalism in music.
Program
First part
#998, for electric guitar (2022-20)
Me, my electric guitar, and Bach. My very personal journey through a masterpiece originally written for lautenwerk. Respecting the structure of the original, #998 has three parts: PRELUDE, FUGUE and ALLEGRO.
Leonardo Melchionda, composition and performance
Second part
Non Mesurés, for electric guitar, recorder and live electronics (2023)
Sound artists Leonardo Melchionda and Lieve De Sadeleer reinvent Louis Couperin’s Préludes non mesurés. Defined as a composition form that was very popular until the XVII century, the unmeasured preludes are declamatory outbursts of extraordinary irregular phrases: no rhythm nor dynamics indications, just a stream of notes written as a flow of sounds. From the Prelude in A major, Leonardo and Lieve are carrying Couperin’s unexpected harmonies and recitative-like melodies through a distorted soundscape built up in five movements: Prelude, Breath, Free Impro, Loops, Long Tones.
Leonardo Melchionda, composition and performance
Lieve De Sadeleer, composition and performance
Duration 60 min
