„Ich spiele nicht mit meinen Fingern, ich spiele mit meinem Körper“, erklärt Melnyk, der sich durch den live nie abreißenden Klangfluss in einen meditativen Zustand spielt. Mit durchgetretenem Pedal spielt er einen konstanten Fluss rasend schneller Arpeggios, erzeugt ambientartige Texturen voller Obertöne.
Der 1948 in München als Sohn ukrainischer Eltern geborene Musiker und Komponist Lubomyr Melnyk wuchs in Kanada auf. Er arbeitete in den 1970 Jahren als Pianist der Choreografin Carolyn Carlson an der Pariser Oper, und lebt heute in Schweden als einer der bedeutendsten und aufregendsten Gegenwarts-Pianisten und Komponisten.
Insgesamt hat Melnyk über 120 Werke komponiert, viele davon für Soloklavier, und dabei mit der „Continuous Music“ eine Form und Spieltechnik entwickelt, die einen ununterbrochener Fluss aus Tönen entstehen lässt, der unendliche akustische und emotionale Räume öffnet. Zu seinen wichtigsten Werken zählt das gemeinsam mit Nils Frahm und Produzent Peter Broderick eingespielte Album „Corollaries“ (2013).
Bild von Yuliia Bahniuk
Lubomyr Melnyk is one of the most exciting pianists on stage today — and in spite of his age, he constantly enthralls his audiences with magical atmospheres from the piano ! ….. and this is due, in part, to his amazing piano virtuosity …. NO ONE in the world can play his concert pieces .. they are just beyond the scope of everyone else !
He is also the pioneer of Continuous Piano Music … which in itself is a great milestone in piano history … where the piano was given a New Voice to create sonorous and emotional Soul-Scapes that take the listener deep into another world !
Some consider him to be THE greatest pianist alive today ! —- Why? because he uses his extraordinary speed and virtuosity to create effects on the piano that no one has ever been able to do before — seemingly electronic sounds out of the piano!
His piano technique demands elements of the Martial Arts, Tai Chi and Kung Fu. … and over the years, his “devotion to perfection” has taken the piano into completely new dimensions, He is duly called “The Prophet Of The Piano” !
Between 1980 and 1990, he released six albums, two of which were double lp-s, and his “The SONG OF GALADRIEL” was listed as „one of the 10 most important albums of our time “ by the New York STEREO REVIEW MAGAZINE…. Since 2002 he has released about 16 new digital albums /vinyls including „Illirion“ on SONY Classical, as well as on Erased Tapes (four albums!), Unseen Worlds and more.
You can be sure that this pianist will provide you with a concert event you will remember !
Recorded Home (Lyon)
Modelbau (Nijmegen)
[ B O L T ] (Duisburg)
Orphax (Amsterdam)
murmer (Metsküla)
Bei fuenf Kuenstlern/Bands gibt’s diesmal einen Zeitplan:
Einlass 19:00
Recorded Home (Lyon) 19:30
Modelbau (Nijmegen) 20:10
[ B O L T ] (Duisburg) 20:50
Orphax (Amsterdam) 21:40
murmer (Metsküla) 22:30
Außerdem wird es einen kleinen Plattentisch von Auf Abwegen geben!
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murmer’s work is about small discoveries and concentrated attention; it focuses on the framing of the sounds around us which normally pass through our ears unnoticed and unremarked, but which out of context become unrecognisable, alien and extraordinary: crackling charcoal, a squeaking escalator, a buzzing insect, or one’s own breath. he works equally with spaces, objects, resonances, and people, in composition, performance, or simply collective action and experience, in exploration of perception via attentive listening.
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Recorded Home: Projet solo ambient de Jean-Sébastien Nouveau (Les Marquises)
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Emerging out of oppressive silence and ending up in ecstatic noise and drone, [ B O L T ] create waving sounds and crushing riffs. [ B O L T ] takes you on a ride across a pitch black meandering river of drones, doomed out riffs and haunting soundscapes. [ B O L T ] plays a musical style that takes black, drone and doom metal and mixes them together to create a sound of their own: A set in between the genres of instrumental drone, doom and metal.
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Modelbau is Frans de Waard (Kapotte Muziek). Started out in 2012, operating small electronics, shortwave radio, iPad synths, Walkman and whatever else.
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Amsterdam based musician and trained drummer Sietse van Erve (Orphax) was introduced to electronic music in the early nineties. After playing around with tracker software for a couple of years, he eventually recorded his first more serious attempts of music with beats and melodies in 1998, though soon lost interest in both these.
He started researching new sounds and new ways of working – always with an organic touch, often incorporating sounds that would be regarded by others as errors or mistakes. Considering life isn’t without errors either. During this search, he found his way into drone and microtonal music. As a result in his most recent work, time and spatiality become more important factors. The goal of the music is for the listener to lose the sense of time and place.
Live this is combined with room for improvisation. This way of working results often in an organic form of drone and minimal music.
Kulturausbesserungswerk Opladen
10.6.2o22
18h – 5 Euro
A benefit compilation for Japan. Nearly two years after the dreadful incidents in east Japan, nothing has really changed. Musicians all around the world participate on this non-profit double CD (in a beautiful colored cardboard), whose proceeds will be contributed to ‘KIZUNA – Heart on coin’, a project for schools in the earthquake and tsunami devastated prefecture of Miyagi.
Please don’t hesitate to get in contact, if you would like to support us and buy a copy or even help us with distributing the compilation. Thank you very much!
