harold schellinx & diktat --> OPEN RESIDENCE SHOW
friday 12 may 2023
harold schellinx
diktat --> OPEN RESIDENCE SHOW
diktat sprang up 17 years ago in a basement in montmartre in paris, where a trio of speculative dictaphonists formed the vertices of a triangle, with a double bass player as a kind of fermat's point. the dictaphone players were harold schellinx, emmanuel rébus and rinus van alebeek. the double bass was in the hands of jean bordé.
as part of a three-day residency at the ateliers claus, diktat gives a warm welcome to brussels friends and lovers on friday evening, 12 may, from 7.30 p.m., to the 42nd performance of this 'band without properties', which all these years has only worked on one single contingent of music: a chance serenade without beginning and without end, an aleatory-iterative deconstruction of the renaissance madrigal, of cantata and counterpoint.
a web of voices and outside sounds that all once, elsewhere, far away, found their physical-vibratory origins, and now entangle themselves here in baroque ribbons of time, thinning and thickening in the tracks of a swarm of schizophonic mosquitoes flitting around the bass line, light buoy and beacon on the bars of an acousmatic sea. possibility music. in which this time the double bass will be wielded by brussels-based taiwanese musician shih-wen lee.