Flux + SK Kakraba + Pak Yan Lau
Samedi 28 Novembre @ les ateliers claus
Flux (feat. Yann Gourdon from France) + SK Kakraba (Awesome Tapes of Africa) + Pak Yan Lau playing toy piano's.
FLUX est un projet du collectif La Nòvia qui souhaite questionner et explorer des similitudes esthétiques et acoustiques inhérentes aux musiques traditionnelles du Massif Central et aux musiques contemporaines. Dès le dix-neuvième siècle des compositeurs1 issus des musiques occidentales dites savantes ont reconsidéré les musiques traditionnelles dont ils ont largement été influencés.
SK Kakraba is master of the gyil, a Ghanaian xylophone made of 14 wooden slats strung across calabash gourd resonators. The buzzy rattle emitted with each note comes from the silk walls of spiders’ egg sacs stretched across holes in the gourds, called paapieye in Lobi language. The gyil’s earthy sound can be heard in parts of Upper West and Northern Regions of Ghana, as well as Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and beyond, where it goes by other names.
Pak Yan Lau (be/hk) is an artist born in Belgium, with origins from Hong Kong. Her love for curious sounding objects, toys, and toy pianos in particular, is demonstrated in her delicate sound mosaics. Pak Yan will be presenting her piece 'Book of Toy'; a solo composition for four toy piano's, pendules, and electronics.