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LIVE STREAM EVENT TIM MARIËN

live stream event

Sunday 22 November 2020 - 8 pm

from the Blue Hall in deSingel for Wien Modern Festival
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Tim Mariën & Tiptoe Company

ChampdAction - deSingel - Wien Modern

Basement of Strings 2020

Tim Mariën (B)

Part 1 / Basement of Strings (2012, new version 2020)

Part 2 / Unresolved Streets (2015)

Part 3 / Tomorrow Started the Game I (2018)

Musicians

Tiptoe Company

Jutta Troch: pedal harp

Jona Kesteleyn: adapted 12-string guitar, mandolin

Pieter Lenaerts: double bass

Jasmijn Lootens: cello

Liesbeth Lambrecht: violin, stroh violin

Fabian Coomans: bass piano, harpsichord

Sara Picavet: microtonal piano

Tim Mariën: composition, adaptation of musical instruments, tuning design,

direction and conducting

Evy Vancalbergh: direction livestream

Andries Vangeel: vision mixer

Brent Van den Abbeele: camera

Pieter Hellemans: camera

Benjamin Albertijn: technical coordination livestream

Alex Fostier: sound

Istvan Leel-Össy: light, technician

Production

ChampdAction, interdisciplinary development and production platform (Antwerp)

Coproduction

Wien Modern, deSingel

With the support of the Flemish Government

Strictly speaking, the piano is the classic villain when it comes to tuning: it embodies the victory of the equally-tempered tuning of the 19th and 20th century. The piano’s 12 semitones per octave symbolised an end to the diversity of old, more differentiated instrumental tunings with, for example, 31 fine intermediate tones per octave. However, the strict and comparatively primitive corset in black and white quickly dwindles in authority when a piano happens to be tuned not so ‘perfectly’; the cool perfection of the grand piano is not immune against the shabby chic of a Honky Tonk piano in a Wild West saloon.

The Belgian Tiptoe Company brings for you "Basement of Strings 2020" by Tim Mariën. For his three-part composition, Mariën adapted and tuned two antique upright pianos and a harpsichord to play his borderline microtonal scales. Here, tuning systems become relative as Mariën reconciles just and equal tempered systems, merging the two opposite approaches through microtonal expansions. The blending continues on yet another level in his compositions, where boundaries between the pieces seem to fade away.