Music for Unicorns

Dazzling, playful and idiosyncratic is how the duo frKRr present their new programme. Unicorns - aren't they those fluffy cuddly animals with hearts on their bottoms and glittery horns? Who can't help but be good? Or those fantasy creatures with the sad eyes? But there used to be these others, too. The unicorns who voluntarily left paradise. Who preferred to swim for 40 days and nights and sink at the end instead of being shipped on Noah's ark according to plan. So unicorns are not cuddly screech objects, but the real renegades of the West. «Music for Unicorns» is therefore dedicated to the rebellious heart. The rebellious heart that perhaps beats behind every rainbow mane.

With

Anne-May Krüger (vocals, performance), Andreas Eduardo Frank (synthesizer, performance, sound-design)

Program

Luc Ferrari (1929–2005):
Monologos I (1970) for voice and tape machines

Mike Svoboda (*1960):
→ Music for Unicorns (2022, UA) for voice and live electronics, synthesizer and fixed media; Text: Anne-May Krüger

John Cage (1912–1992):
→ Aria with Fontana Mix (1959) for voice and electronic sounds; new version of Fontana Mix by Andreas Eduardo Frank

Chloé Bieri (*1990):
→ Millenium Unicorn (2022, UA) for voice and synthesizer; collaborative development with the duo frKRr

Duration

80 minutes, with break

Prices

CHF 35.-/25.-/15.- (free choice at the box office or in advance)
Free admission applies to persons with residence permit N, F or S. / CHF 5.- students of the Hochschule für Musik FHNW and the Musicology Seminar of the University of Basel / CHF 10.- members Colourkey and children under 12 years.