Festival Archipel, Geneva invites Louis Schild & Ensemble Proton
Louis Schild — Myriads #3 (2026)
Martina Lussi — Proximity (2024)
Louis Schild & Martina Lussi will perform live with Ensemble Proton
Bettina Berger, flutes
Martin Bliggenstorfer, oboes
Richard Elliot Haynes, clarinets
Elise Jacoberger, bassoons
Vera Schnider, harps
Coco Schwarz, keys & electronics
Maximilian Haft, violin
Jan-Filip Ťupa, cello
Louis Schild and Martina Lussi approach the ensemble from the perspective of electronic music and explore methods and techniques to fuse acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, whilst performing as part of the ensemble. The nucleus of Louis Schild's new work Myriads #3 is the recording of an electric bass solo: the gesture of moving a pick back and forth over all strings and the spatialisation of these sounds by means of a rotating loudspeaker. "The articulation of the harmonic and rhythmic results over the duration of the piece conveys both the impression of hearing a horde of small instruments scattered around the space, as well as that of a functioning machine. It is this oscillating between fragmented and unified perceptions of the sound sources that I want to empathise with the ensemble.” Martina Lussi's first piece for Proton, Proximity (2024), was created in an extensive process of mutual listening and the search for spaces of resonance between ensemble and the composer. It consists of game-like instructions, memories of sounds and a choreography in which players as well as listeners find their physical place.