Detalk show with Charles Quevillon and extra pieces of repertoire
winner of call to project IGNM Bern
PROGRAMM
Jannik Giger MAESTRO (arrangement KIT)
Léo Collin GES(CH)ICHT(E)
Jennifer Walshe LANGUAGE RUINS EVERYTHING
Mauro Lanza LA BATAILLE DE CARESME ET DE CHARNAGE
Charles Quevillon face a face V
KIT was a guest at IGNM Bern and produced a very special concert situation called FAKE ORIGINS. Talking about origins, identity, knowing what makes us, that is a minefield - especially in these difficult times, when trends oscillate between the two extremes of nationalism and globalization. Musicians are under the pressure of unification in their self-perception, driven by a global economy and its lobbies that allow the new - cosmopolitan - technologies to intervene and change their lives. This affects health as well as food, communication and travel. In the face of the perceived "imperial" power of the economy, artists find strategies to convey the traditional flavors of their local culture without being conservative: they do not compress their microtones, dialects or songs/instruments, they do not flatten their melody into a commercial rondo structure, but they present it in its authentic complexity. Nevertheless, they use the contemporary tools of their generation - especially technical tools to extend their instruments - and connect to mass culture by appropriating its codes in a transformed way. This aims to bring them out of isolation without creating distance from their cultural origins. Kollektiv Totem offers a program in which the five composers Jennifer Walshe, Mauro Lanza, Jannik Giger, Charles Quevillon and Léo Collin have tried to define their paradox of being citizens of the world and witnesses of their own (false) culture.
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MUSICTHEATRE Plankton
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PERF Blind test / HyperDuo
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REPRISE Baleen on a boat
CONCERT Endless2 L.Huber
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Workshop Tracy September
SHOW Electric Unconscious
REPRISE baleen Hong kong
REPRISE corals Geneva
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Workshop cinna peyghamy
SHOW: music für narben bern
Workshop viviane wang
PORTRAIT lara stanic
MUSICTHEATRE Corals zürich
SHOW hamster and the dame
SHOW le grand plongeon tour
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CONCERT sonic-matter
PORTRAIT kaspar könig
CONCERT passagen
Workshop lukas huber
Workshop aio frei
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Workshop ko-operator
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CONCERT florent caron darras
CONCERT charles quevillon
CONCERT at numu
MUSICTHEATRE baleen
CONCERT Tour tilde
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SHOW pinyin
CONCERT the riot
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2025
MUSICTHEATRE Plankton
2024
PERFORMANCE Blind test (Hyper Duo)
Workshop Melia Roger
REPRISE See the whale (baleen)
CONCERT Endless2 L.Huber
2023
Workshop Tracy September
SHOW Electric Unconscious
REPRISE baleen Hong kong
REPRISE corals Geneva
2022
Workshop cinna peyghamy
SHOW: music für narben bern
Workshop viviane wang
PORTRAIT lara stanic
MUSICTHEATRE corals zürich
SHOW hamster and the dame
SHOW le grand plongeon tour
2021
CONCERT sonic-matter
PORTRAIT kaspar könig
CONCERT passagen
Workshop lukas huber
Workshop aio frei
CONCERT M. witcher
2020
MUSICTHEATRE medusen
PERFORMANCE festival rümlingen
Workshop charles kwong
Workshop ko-operator
CONCERT antoine chessex
SHOW simone keller
2019
CONCERT florent caron darras
CONCERT charles quevillon
CONCERT at numu
MUSICTHEATRE baleen
CONCERT Tour tilde
2018-2015
SHOW pinyin
CONCERT the riot
Email us
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