Pulsating Skin (2021) in Shanghai
Eklekto, a contemporary percussion collective from Geneva, takes part in International Percussion Competition Shanghai, 2023. On the 2nd of October Eklekto will give a concert EKLEKTO FLASH SHANGHAI:
Justina Repečkaitė - Pulsating Skin (2021) for 4 snare drums & electronics
Alexandre Babel - Snare Counterpoint (2020) for 4 snare drums
Ryoji Ikeda - Music for Percussion (2016)
Eklekto rehearsing Pulsating Skin (2021) in Geneva.
Eklekto commissioned Justina Repečkaitė a new piece to be performed in 2025.
Eklekto (artistic co-director & organiser Yi-Ping Yang, co-director Dorian Fretto, Louis Delignon, Nikolay Ivanov) playing Pulsating Skin (2021) in Shanghai.
Presentation of the concert EKLEKTO FLASH SHANGHAI (in French)
“The musical program builds on the association’s history and landmark collaborations, including those with Mio Chareteau and Ryoji Ikeda, visual artists whose compositions Play and Music for Percussion I have been performed by Eklekto in Switzerland and internationally.
The piece Snare Counterpoint by Alexandre Babel, former artistic director of Eklekto and winner of the Prix de la Musique Suisse 2021, will also be performed: written for four snare drums and strobes, this work particularly symbolizes the porosity between music and visual art that is unique to Eklekto.
Finally, Pulsating Skin (2021) by Justina Repeckaite opens onto a post-instrumental world where four percussionists interact with an electro-acoustic device composed of transducers and resonant instruments.”
