Open Space: chamber vocal ensemble Antiphonus
08.05. /17h / Open Space: chamber vocal ensemble Antiphonus @ French Pavilion (20′)
Antiphonus are: sopranos Monika Cerovčec, Ana Lice, Marta Lončar and Ani Vuletić, altos Martina Borse, Vesna Matana and Vesna Batistić, tenors Ivan Bingula, Siniša Galović, Veton Marevci and Želimir Panić, basses Matija Meić, Leon Košavić, Tomislav Fačini and Alen Ruško, under the artistic guidance of the conductor Tomislav Fačini.
The specific acoustics of the French Pavilion, in the classical sense, is very limiting, unfitted for placing any music programme that requires “normal” concert venue. But, precisely because of its specific qualities, it is very inspiring, interesting and even perfect for the site-specific art projects that take the Pavilion’s acoustics as a starting point of their artwork. Continuing the artistic acoustic experiments from December 2014 as a part of Fair of Culture, the Showroom will open the French Pavilion’s doors in the afternoons for an acoustic exploring through shorter improvisations by the guitarist and electronic musician Miodrag Gladović and the Vocal Ensemble Antiphonus.
The members of Antiphonus interwined after a long period of singing and music-making in various groups. Educated musicians of various profiles, they finally crystallised in a homogeneous group in 2006. Nourishing the sound that aims at a melange between the tradition of a full bodied eastern Eiropen vocal sound and the western balance and purity, they are building a wide-range repertoire, from the plainchant to the recently written, cross-over, or commissioned works. Paying special attention to the Croatian contemporary music, Antiphonus premiered pieces of the Croatian foremost authors, but also gave the first contemporary performances of the newly emerged works from the dusty libraries. As a part of the Open Space (artistic acoustic experimenting) at the Showroom of Contemporary Sound, the Antiphonus ensemble will improvise, thus exploring the options and correlations of human voices at the hyperacoustic space of the French Pavilion.