| Makers | Avenue Azure |
| Duration | 60 min |
How do we experience things we can’t see?
Try letting someone near you hear what the colour ‘red’ sounds like. Or tell someone with a visual impairment what the colour ‘green’ looks like. Only then will you discover how personal an experience of something you can’t see is. Composer Pete Harden and pianist Saskia Lankhoorn envelop us in the dark with Lightness. Follow the remarkable story about an exhibition of the famous artist Cézanne that was forever lost, but was fortunately still described by those who saw it.
Lightness contains music with influences from alternative music, folk and dreamy pop. And not entirely unimportant: Hollands Collectief. A choir of singers with a visual impairment, who show us the way in a landscape where our senses are reinvented.
Avenue Azure is the duo Saskia Lankhoorn & Pete Harden, known for their atmospheric ‘almost-songs’. Saskia is the new classical music programmer at Amare and was once hailed as a virtuoso in contemporary music by the New York Times. Pete Harden won prizes as a composer at a young age (Pro-Arte Guitar Trio Composition Competition) and founded Ensemble Klang together with Saskia, among others. Lightness is Avenue Azure's latest performance.
Lightness is a co-production of Big Sing Festival (Haarlem) and Stichting Ensemble Klang. Music: Pete Harden & Avenue Azure Dramaturgy & text: Tomas Serrien Performers: Avenue Azure, Hollands Collectief, Choir of singers with a visual impairment
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