PULSAR 2015

PULSAR 2015 has invited the French Ensemble Alternance to pay homage to this year's guest composer, one of the pioneers of the avant-garde, that are seldom heard in this part of the world, the Swiss Klaus Huber (b. 1924).

Alternance has with a series of concerts in Europe in 2014 celebrated its close artistic relation through more than twenty years with Klaus Huber and his music. It is particularly the later years' deeply inspired works, of which several are transcription to the ensemble's musicians with flutist Jean-Luc Menet in the centre, where Klaus Huber combines music with literary and poetic references to his intellectual models and inspirational sources. Among these you find Mahmoud Darwich, Roberto Juarroz and Ossip Mandelstam, that are praised in the work Plainte, lieber spaltet mein Herz, to be heard in a number of versions during PULSAR 2015.

During the years after the Gulf War – “a period of devastating re-militarization of our minds, and destructive for my creativity” Klaus Huber has turned his interest towards Arabic Music. This has led to the use of micro intervals like third part tones and new experiments with harmonics, polyhony and form. As a passionate player on the present music scene and as composer with a extraordinary weighty production Karl Huber, as a humanist and learned person, wishes with his music to invite us to reflection and appeal to our human conscience.

At two concerts the ensemble will focus on works that exploit the instruments theorbo and viola d'amore, their crisp sounds that are particularly connected with the early music. -Four of RDAM's young composers have written new works for this instrument combination and had the opportunity to work with the musicians of the ensemble up to the concerts.

Ensemble Alternance:
Elodie Adler, harpe; Caroline Delume, theorbe; Antonin Faure, viola d’amore; Jean-Luc Menet, fløjte