KLARA ON TOUR — A concert marathon on 21 June with Klara’s most important partners. Six half-hour concerts will be held at six locations throughout Flanders and Brussels, in collaboration with twelve partners from the music sector and home-grown musicians.

*There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now.*
— Walt Whitman

Festival ‘Drumming’, De Warande, Turnhout
A percussion concert around one idea: minimalism. Or rather minimalisms, in the plural –
they come in all sorts, for there is always something to subtract.
There is nothing sad about subtraction, nor is it a penance.
Rather, it is like children, who discard their expensive array of toys to play all day with three pebbles, a piece of string, or a reed.
To strip everything bare – what a joy!
Inventing a new virtuosity, like archery, precise movements, careful aim – you only have one chance.

The furious repetitions in Steve Reich’s Drumming, the phase-shifting in his Marimba Phase, the metallic drone on Julia Wolfe’s ‘dark full hi-hats’, the filter effects Alvin Lucier applies on amplified triangles, the art of development, re-invented by Kaj Duncan David using vintage rhythmbox samples, Thierry-De Mey’s poetic-percussive gestures: yes, everything’s there, in plain sight, on the table — and yet everything seems new…