4 February
Grand Theatre, Groningen, Netherlands (Hearsee)
14 April
De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
(première Boot & Berg)
16 May
Concertgebouw Bruges, Belgium
(Boot & Berg)
28 September
Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium,
Festival van Vlaanderen
(Boot & Berg)
HEARSEE - FES & Film
On tour from 24 November 2011, Vooruit, Ghent
After the success of ‘The Oyster Princess’ Peter Vermeersch is again using his talent for writing film scores in a new project, called Hearsee. He collected images from a wide range of film archives.
In this case the composing of the music pieces already starts at the gathering and editing of all these fragments into an exciting whole. The result is a 75 minute non-stop soundtrack, which fully reveals the very cinematographic music of Flat Earth Society.
A coproduction between Bonk vzw, deSingel, Antwerp and Vooruit, Ghent
The Boat & The Berg
With Josse De Pauw, Rolande van der Paal and Champ d’Action
14 April 2012 De Singel, Antwerp (premiere)
On April 14th 2012 it will be exactly 100 years ago that the sinking of the Titanic occurred. The sinking of the Titanic has become a part of the collective memory, appeals to everybody’s imagination and has reached an iconic status. The sinking of the Titanic has become the almost universal metaphor for the human hubris. ‘The Titanic is unsinkable, sinking unthinkable’. We know better now, even though we seem to have learned nothing, as the metaphor now turns from the ship to the iceberg, melting slowly but decisively.
In the first part, FES plays a new composition by Peter Vermeersch for soprano (Rolande Van der Paal) and orchestra, on texts by Josse De Pauw. The public will hear the story of the iceberg through the voice of the singer, singing of her own fate. Subsequently, and as a slow sinking epilogue, Champ d’Action brings the legendary ‘Sinking of the Titanic’ by Gavin Bryars: originally written as a conceptual work, it soon became the prototype of Bryars’ elegiac meditations.
A coproduction between Bonk vzw, deSingel, Antwerp and LOD | muziektheater.
R.I.P. Funeral songs
Playing period: 22 OCtober - 11 November 2012
With the R.I.P. project FES ventures itself to a funeral repertoire; 12 newly composed farewell songs for the funeral of the musicians.They die, one by one, by disease, accidents, old age and other mishaps, pick your choice. And so, as the concert progresses, the orchestra gets smaller and smaller, a grim preview of what FES will eventually overcome if no substitutions for the dead musicians are made.
A coproduction between Bonk vzw, Concertgebouw Bruges and Vooruit, Ghent.
Flat Earth Society in concert
Release new CD in 2012
Spring 2012 will see the birth of the 11th cd, a double album with the R.I.P. project and a selection from the new repertoire.
13 years and 10 cd’s on, FES can freely draw from a vast and still enlarging repertoire. A kaleidoscope of spheres and music, making each concert a fresh and exciting experience, for both spectators and musicians.
FES ft. Ernst Reijseger
After a first acquintance at Kulturama 2011...
For the Kulturama 2011 Festival FES invited soulmate Ernst Reijseger. This Dutch musician learnt the cello handbook by heart, let it sip through each pore and then threw it out the window.
His technique is astonishing, his improvisations and compositions are ingenious. Some of his compositions were arranged for FES in an eventful encounter for both parties. This screams for more!
Open for bookings.
CONTINUOUS REPERTOIRE
FES ft. Esther Lybeert
12 years of FES: a vocal cross section
A vocal program from different projects like The Answer Songs or Benenwerk. With songs like Kiss the Pillow, Hello Skinny (The Residents), What a Wonderful World or Hiltons Heaven (dedicated to Herman Brood), and Can’t Get You Out Of Model, a combination of Kylie Minogue and Kraftwerk.
The Oyster Princess, Ernst Lubitsch 1919
Shown in a.o. New York, Mexico City, Vienna, Berlin
Flat Earth Society performs music by Peter Vermeersch in accompaniment of ‘The Oyster Princess’, a silent movie by the legendary Ernst Lubitsch.
The screening of The Oyster Princess is a co-production of the Festival of Flanders, Vooruit Arts Centre, the Flanders International Film Festival - Ghent, deSingel, Motives Festival Genk and Bonk vzw. The dvd was released in 2007 by Bonk vzw in cooperation with the Royal Belgian Film Archive.
