CONTRE

Saturday 15 February 2025 – 18:00 
Lieu d’Europe
8 Rue Boecklin – 67000 Strasbourg France
Free entry

Concert by the lovemusic collective celebrating a new generation of artists
As part of Poland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union

With Contre, lovemusic is highlighting the musical creation of young artists from north-east Europe, mainly from Poland – the country that will hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union from January to June 2025.

Borrowing the title of his piece Contre from Kuba Krzewiński, this programme presents five works for violin, viola, cello and electronics, based on this word which can mean opposition as well as proximity and contact. Whether through the de(con)struction of a Polish folk song in Anna Sowa, the friction of sonorities and textures in the pieces by Martyna Kosecka and Aleksandra Słyż, the bow hairs taped directly to the musicians’ arms in Asia Ahmetjanova’s trio or even the interplay of the body as instrument and the instrument as body by Kuba Krzewiński, all these approaches and aesthetics play on distance and rapprochement, opposites and similarities.

Contre offers an immersive experience in which the works unfold contrasting tableaux between minimalist, repetitive, electronic music and physical performance, transforming listening into a multi-sensory experience. Resolutely experimental, Contre invites us to break away from convention and enter a liberating interlude, far removed from the rhythm of everyday life.

Programme:
Anna Sowa (Pologne) – Variations on the folk song ”The mazurka from Tymbark”
Asia Ahmetjanova (Lettonie) – string trio « tuvak kermenim »
Martyna Kosecka (Pologne) – Illud Tempus. Movements for violin and viola
Kuba Krzewiński (Pologne) – Contre no.1
Aleksandra Słyż (Pologne) – Iridescence II

lovemusic:  
Emily Yabe – Violin 
Léa Legros Pontal – viola
Céline Papion – Cello
Finbar Hosie – electronics

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