MEMORY AND INVENTION

The music already exists, unwittingly, in our memories. It reappears unexpectedly, triggered by strange associations of which we are scarcely aware. We are bound to recollections images, impressions that mostly occur in our childhood and adolescence and that alter with new experiences, in permanent renewal. At some point a forgotten memory, an image, a sound, or a phrase we recorded reappears in the process of every project: an indication that guides us, toward a certain path: Sampling.

WALK ACROSS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN BAROQUE AND TODAY

In the recent years, the boundaries between musical genres have become increasingly invisible. More and more the artists are mixing up early music and jazz, classical music and pop, improvisation and rock or all in one pot with their grand vision and virtuosity. 

In the project Sampling Baroque Burak Özdemir and artists of ensemble Musica Sequenza introduce themselves to the dialogue of genres and styles, developing a new kind of music that is free of ideology, curious, sound-oriented and beyond the respective musical origin. Where baroque meets contemporary sounds, historical instruments of 18th century resonate beside synthesizers and digital sonic elements, promising their musical expeditions to be the undiscovered world of Electro-Baroque; a genre being defined through Özdemir’s latest avant-garde.

Co-producer of the project, the New-York based Swedish Dj and producer Van Rivers is influenced the current underground and Electro-pop scene decisively. When these two far poles of music meet, all adjustments and merging take place organically; the confrontation of the sounds follows a skillful dramaturgy and is ingeniously coordinated. The timeless feelings of ancient centuries can be heard in a dialogue with today’s technologies.