A selection of original compositions and well-arranged reprises to honor the unlikely meeting between an “untamed luthier” and the harmonies of a piano.
As an opening, the very famous Day Dream by The Wallace Collection. It will be interpreted on the “scoutophone”; a series of tuned metallic water bottles… We will then listen to a sonata for tin cans, a ragtime for two-tone car horn, an ironic blues for ironing irons, three little musical notes on disposable Bic razors, a complete rendition of the Lancers Quadrille on a four-tone musical chair, a little waltz on the bottle-phone, and a Louis Armstrong classic (mis)using a case of Maes Pils … A Duracell bunny punctuates the Salsa Boliviana, and many other surprises await you. A moment of pure musical and poetic pleasure, interpreted by a whimsical duo of accomplices.
Max Vandervorst is composer and inventor of musical instruments. Since 1988, he has put together a number of performances, showcasing instruments he created using a wide variety of objects as raw material: Symphony for Abandoned Objects, Concerto for Two Bicycles, The Man from Spa, A Hi(story) of Music(s), and This is Not a Show, have all been performed numerous times in many different countries.
credits
creation and performance Max Vandervorst
piano Marc Hérouet (creator), sometimes replaced by Frank Wuyts or Mickey Boccar
director Jean-François De Neck
sound engineer Benjamin Pasternak
technics Claire Steinfort
production Curieux Tympan asbl