Angharad Davies & Werner Dafeldecker || Duthoit – Berthelot – Sakai I exploratorium berlin

Angharad Davies & Werner Dafeldecker Angharad Davies (UK): violin | Werner Dafeldecker (AT/DE): double bass Duthoit – Berthelot – Sakai Isabelle Duthoit (FR): voice, clarinet | Pascale Berthelot (FR): harpsichord | Atsushi Sakai (JP/FR): viola da gamba The violinist Angharad Davies and the double bassist Werner Dafeldecker bring together their long-standing practice in the field of experimental and improvised music. Both are internationally known for their precise, differentiated sound language and their fine-grained sensitivity to microtonal processes. In their collaboration, they explore the acoustic potential of their instruments in direct dialogue. At the centre is the investigation of transitions between just intonation and microtonal beating, between controlled gesture and spontaneous sonic development. Extended playing techniques meet a deliberately reduced sonic palette. Davies and Dafeldecker transfer their individual artistic research into an open shared process – an acoustic exploration beyond fixed stylistic categories, at the intersection of composition and improvisation as well as structure and openness. The singer and clarinetist Isabelle Duthoit, the pianist and sound artist Pascale Berthelot, and the gambist Atsushi Sakai form a trio situated between early and experimental music – under the motto: Puissance de la douceur, the power of gentleness. In this formation, voice, viola da gamba, and harpsichord come together to open a shared field of sonic exploration. At its core is the investigation of plucked, bowed, blown, and vocal materials – ranging from archaic, rough sonic gestures to refined, reduced, and transparent textures. Baroque performance practices and contemporary improvisation enter into an open dialogue. The trio understands its work as a process in which individual musical experiences, historical references, and present-day sonic research overlap. Music emerges as a trace of encounter – between body, instrument, and space, between past and present, between strength and softness. https://exploratorium-berlin.de/en/ev... (c) exploratorium berlin