Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto

  • Música

Two

The Sónar festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary and does so by closing this year’s edition with an unprecedented concert which brings two musical score geniuses back to the Grec Theatre.

This is a new chapter in the collaboration between the Grec and Sónar, which back in 2011 invited these same artists to perform together one night between the two festivals performing their latest work at the time: summvs. Now, with the title Two, they will present on the same stage a piece created especially for the occasion which, apart from new compositions, will also include a generous amount of improvisation. It will be a totally new and unique show which will be a huge privilege to see, even more so because the Grec theatre will host one of only three concerts that these artists will perform in the world this 2018.

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto have just finished editing Glass, the discographic expression of a site-specific performance that took place in a building in Connecticut (in the USA) which is the work of the architect Philip Johnson and that was built in 1949. In their hands, the building, which is made of glass, and boasts exceptional sound quality, became itself another musical instrument. It’s a new milestone for the artists who have already published four records together and who, in 2015, composed the soundtrack to The Revenant, a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu.

A meeting therefore between the piano of Ruyichi Sakamoto, a world-famous Oscar winning artist for the soundtrack from the film The Last Emperor and Carsten Nicolai, an audio-visual artist and producer (more famously known as Alva Noto), who is considered as one of the most outstanding sound researchers of the moment.

A collaboration between the Barcelona 2018 Grec Festival and Sónar 2018

Artistic card

Piano: Ryuichi Sakamoto Electronics: Alva Noto

Dates

  • Dates
  • Space

    Teatre Grec
    http://barcelona.cat/grec

    Passeig de Santa Madrona, 36, 08038 Barcelona, Espanya

  • Price
    15-40