Asko|Schönberg opens cultural season 2022/2023 with festival Words & Music

cut-ups & fuck-ups, Berio & Burroughs

Saturday, September 3

Asko|Schönberg serves you up with Words & Music an afternoon and evening full of cut-ups & fuck-ups. A rush of sensations; fantastic, stark, absurd, disruptive and with humour. A festival full of cut-up, sliced-up and brand-new performances, installations, film and more, inspired by the cut-up techniques of composer Berio and writer Burroughs.

After the successful first edition in 2020, Asko|Schönberg once again brings together makers and performers from different disciplines in unexpected ways. Words & Music is this time inspired by composer Luciano Berio (1926-2003) and literary enfant terrible of the sixties William S. Burroughs (1914-1997). Both applied the cut-up technique in their own unique way: they used fragments of existing and new material to create new work.

Festival

Words & Music presents musical theatre, do-it-yourself cut-ups, brand new music, installations, film and more.

The festival route runs through various areas of the Muziekgebouw. On show will include the performance Lunch Music, inspired by the book Naked Lunch by Burroughs. Composer Yannis Kyriakides creates a hallucinatory result with fragments from the book, live electronics, the virtuosity of Slagwerk Den Haag and the singers of Silbersee. In Berio's Recital I (for Cathy) A singer is slowly going insane and Genevieve Murphy presents her show I Don't Want To Be An Individual All On My Own; a sonic tale of pop, spoken word and sound sculptures about the search for real connection in an individualised world. Performer Akim Moiseenkov pops up between different parts of the programme.

Expect during Words & Music experimentation, (un)sense and sheer beauty.

Get in the mood with Cut-Up TV

Get the Words & Music flavour in advance and let yourself be unsettled with the online series Cut-Up TV. To be seen from 10 May via a.o. wordsandmusic.nu and youtube!

M.m.v. makers and performers Akim Moiseenkov, Asko|Schönberg, Slagwerk Den Haag, Silbersee,Genevieve Murphy, Eléonore Lemaire, Yannis Kyriakides, Pete Harden, Luke Deane, Arnold Marinissen, Jan van de Putte, Luciano Berio, Lise Morrison, Koen Kaptijn.

NB Words & Music was originally scheduled on 12 February last but was cancelled due to the corona measures in place at the time. The programme has changed slightly and the festival will now take place at 1 venue.

Practical information

Words & Music

Za 3 Sept, 15.30 - approx 23.30

Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Day ticket: € 39.00

Wordsandmusic.nu

Words & Music Comes about with support from:
Fonds Podiumkunsten, Dioraphte, Reinbert de Leeuw Fund, Fonds voor Hedendaagse Muziek, Fonds 21, Société Gavignies, Mauricio Kagel Muziekfonds, Pro Helvetia, Ministry of OCW and Gemeente Amsterdam.