Ionisation
Music, Movement and Visual Aesthetics (25’)
IONISATION is a collaborative project combining sound, music, movement and visual aesthetics, namely lighting, costume design and scenography, as a way to enter inside an atomic society.
The project is based on the piece “Ionisation” for 13 percussionists and 37 instruments, by the French composer Edgard Varèse. It is one of the first pieces of art music using only percussion instruments.
ImageAll the performers, involved in both movement and music, will participate in a visual interpretation of the musical elements, such as the superposition of different rhythms and dynamics or each percussion instrument’s unique sonority.
Referring to Varèse’s first ideas, IONISATION uses the interaction between physical body and musician, in the image of the behaviour of different atomic particles: each individual is a member of a group and unique at the same time, and together, they create fusion, stability, excitation, cohesion and reaction.
The project involves over 30 people including students, alumni and teachers from various HKB departments like Art Education, Classical and Jazz Music, Composition - Creative Practice, Fine Arts, Theater, Music and Movement and Sound Arts.
Sarah Delacrétaz (BA Classical Music): artistic lead
Natacha Pensuet (BA Classical Music): artistic lead
Zhuoni Li (MA Music Pedagogy): Projektleitung
Alice Paroissien (BA Classical Music): Percussion
Anna Sofia Hostettler (Alimna MA Music Pedagogy): Movement
Aymeric Pasquier (MA Music Pedagogy): Percussion
Camille Cossy (MA Music Performance): Percussion, Costumes
Ido Chae (BA Sound Arts): Soundtracks
Irina Moser (BA Fine Arts): Movement
Larissa Durisch (BA Mediation in Art and Design): Movement
Léna Carrara (MA Music Pedagogy): Costumes
Lucas Land (BA Classical Music): Soundtracks, Video
Matthieu Hoffmann (MA Music Pedagogy): Percussion
Nathan Colin (BA Classical Music): Percussion
Nina Gafner (BA Fine Arts): Technical Assistant
Núria Carbó (MA Music Pedagogy): Percussion
Oliwia Wilczewska (BA Sound Arts): Movement
Oscar Vaurs (MA Sound Arts / Composition): Soundtracks, Videos
Patrick Herta (BA Classical Music): Percussion
Paulo Amendoeira (MA Music Performance): Percussion
Raisa Antonova (MA Music Performance): Piano
Romane Bouffioux (Alumna MA Music Pedagogy): Percussion
Sébastien Lafosse (BA Classical Music): Percussion
Stéphanie Muller Feuga (BA Classical Music): Costumes
Théo Rossier (BA Classical Music): Arrangement of Varèse’s Ionisation
Thomas Canna (MA Music Performance): Percussion
Viviane Ruof (BA Classical Music Violine): Movement
Viviane Wepfer (Alumna BA Music and Movement): Movement
Zoi Argyriou (MA Specialised Music Performance): Percussion
Supported by:
Angela Koerfer-Bürger (Dozentin, Musik) Lighting supervision
Brian Archinal (Dozent, Musik) Music supervision
Hugo Ryser (Leiter MediaLab/Dozent, Gestaltung und Kunst) Video supervision
Regine Schaub-Fritschi (Dozentin Tanz und Bewegung, Theater) Movement Supervision
