With Songs Of Disconnection, Maarten Seghers explores the potentially tragic relationship between entertainer and spectator, in accordance with the irresistible urge to share and the impossibility of doing this. The piece searches for meaning in ‘unintelligibility’. These new songs are a confused outburst, because everything ‘could be’ and nothing ‘is’; they are a generator that concocts the absurd idea known as ‘together’.
Songs of Disconnection investigates the combination of music, words, sounds and movement in a complex and inventive fusion. Composer and director Maarten Seghers (vocalist) is accompanied by an ensemble consisting of Simon Lenski (cello), George van Dam (violin), Michael Schmid (flute) and Aya Suzuki (vibraphone / percussion). Seghers has always been keen on challenging accepted forms of musical and performative expression, seeing how they can potentially interact while exploring their alternate states of tension and cohesion. A source of inspiration for this show was a simple fragment of a wall painting, displaying a duck on water. Lurking behind this serene image, Maarten conjured up a backdrop of division and conflict. And so began the process of transforming this seed into a vibrant, collaborative, contrastive musical performance. The title of the piece, Songs of Disconnection, prompted the association with William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’, in which the radical visionary artist explored what he called the “two contrary states of the human soul”.

Doors 20:00 – Concert 20:30
Access :  Rue de la Truite 4 bis, 1205 Genève - bus/tram stop « Jonction », no parking

Songs Of Disconnection
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14h - 16h : Workshop of Eli Wallace (prepared piano, improvisation)
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Doors 16:30 – Concert 17:
Access :  Rue de l'Athénée 4, 1205 Genève

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