Music in formation

Musicians involved: flexible

A different perspective on experimenting with music

The goal of this musical performance is to experiment with a format which deliberately breaks the schemes of the concert, without changing the way we musicians work on the music.

In fact, we won’t rely on adding further elements to make our music more appealing. We won’t try to modify the concert format. Instead, we will bypass it completely to design a new kind performance from scratch.

We aim to make music the usual way, without it being a concert. But how?

In order for an ensemble to present a good quality concert, we need to rehearse. Rehearsals are necessary for any concert performance, as they constitute the process of artistic creation that brings to a given result.

Our bet is to make this process the performance itself, giving our ensemble the freedom to work on refining a piece of music while simultaneously presenting it to the audience.

This way we won’t be trying to reproduce a result previously attained during a rehearsal process, but rather to shape something new, unique and perhaps surprising on the spot. By showing the audience more than just the final product, we want to let them experience the creative process itself, what is there to be refined and what it means to navigate through a sea of artistic possibilities, making choices and compromises, finding our path.

Such performance will also challenge the expectations of immediate perfection and the acquired formality which characterise the usual concert setting, making it stiff and uncomfortable to some, starting from us musicians.

The kind of concert we are accustomed to has not always been, though. While trying to develop an innovative format, we are possibly getting closer to a more historical spirit.

 Could our experiment awake the awareness of the potential of artistic individuality in music, in a time of generalized replicability? Could it instil some enthusiasm for our activity of “early music” makers, beyond the preservational task?