To the Kaaitheater this evening for the fourth in the ever-rewarding series of Liquid Room ambient concerts. It was an extraordinarily rich collection of pieces, including Karl-Heinz Stockhausen’s Freude (2005), John Cage’s Amores (1943), George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique (1924), accompanied by the film he made together with Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy, and Steve Reich’s Four Organs (1970), all of this (and much more, as they say) being performed with technical excellence and artistic brio by members of the Ictus Ensemble. Also of note were the ‘lecture-performances’ of choreographer Xavier Le Roy, who seeks to synchronise body, sound and image, to fascinating and at times very witty effect (you can see him having fun with Stravinsky here, for example).
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