Programme
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Neil Luck, Production Apocrypha [provisional title] (15′)
Performer, clarinet, viola, cello, electronics, video
An excerpt from a larger multimedia work commissioned by lovemusic in 2026. It combines live performance, text, video and electronics to dismantle the myths of cinematic production and to question how contemporary culture constructs spectacle, authority and authenticity. -
Helmut Oehring, AUGE / ZUNGE (6′)
Bass flute and SignMimoChoreography
A dialogue between sign language and bass flute, placing visual communication at the centre of musical expression.
- Kuba Krzewiński, Contre 1 (15′)
Violin and cello
An exploration of the physicality of instrumental gesture, in which the instruments act as extensions of the performers’ bodies and gesture becomes musical material. - Tine Surel Lange, Byen (7′)
Clarinet, cello, MIDI piano/live electronics and video
An abstract portrait of the contemporary city, in which processed instrumental sounds and urban imagery merge into a shared sonic landscape. - Finbar Hosie, The Future of the Illusion (7′)
Flute, video and electronics
Hosie, a Franco-British composer and Diaphonique laureate, continues his multidisciplinary work around image and technology. This piece turns to the intimate aesthetics of screens and ASMR, exploring the blurred relationship between technology, everyday life and listening. - Mathis Saunier, lava_cycle. (9′)
Four performers, lights and audience participation with phones
The performance extends beyond the stage: through their own phones, the audience is drawn into a shared environment of colour, light and sound.
To go in depth
How do we listen when sound is inseparable from image, gesture, language and technology?
This programme brings together six works that challenge the boundaries of musical performance, inviting audiences to experience music as something that is not only heard but also seen, embodied and mediated.Across the programme, instruments become extensions of the body, gestures become musical material, and video, electronics and light reshape the concert experience.
Helmut Oehring’s unique dialogue between sign language and bass flute places visual communication at the centre of musical expression, while Kuba Krzewiński transforms violin and cello into living, physical extensions of their performers. Tine Surel Lange offers an abstract portrait of the contemporary city, where processed instrumental sounds and urban imagery merge into a shared sonic landscape. Finbar Hosie’s work turns towards the intimate aesthetics of screens and ASMR, exploring the increasingly blurred relationship between technology, everyday life and listening. Mathis Saunier expands the performance beyond the stage, drawing the audience into a shared environment of colour, light and sound through their own mobile phones. Neil Luck’s Production Apocrypha closes the programme with an excerpt from a larger multimedia work that dismantles the myths of cinematic production, weaving together live performance, text, video and electronics to question how contemporary culture constructs spectacle, authority and authenticity.Rather than presenting technology as an addition to music, these works reveal it as part of the way we perceive, communicate and imagine. Together, they explore performance as a space where bodies, images, sounds and media continually shape one another, inviting audiences to reconsider what it means to listen in an increasingly visual and interconnected world.
Based in Strasbourg, lovemusic has developed a sustained artistic relationship with the United Kingdom, nurtured in part through the close ties several of its members maintain with the British contemporary music scene. This dialogue has led to numerous collaborations with UK composers and artists, as well as regular exchanges between France and the UK. The ensemble has received the support of Diaphonique for five projects: Everything Starts Elsewhere, Heart of Light, The Sad Album, (L) AUTRE, and WACK x lovemusic. The latter gave rise to Neil Luck’s Production Apocrypha, commissioned by lovemusic in 2026, of which the performance presented in this programme is an excerpt.