Lensemble]h[iatus is an international ensemble of new music created in 2006 at the initiative of the cellist Martine Altenburger and percussionist Lê Quan Ninh.
Modular and variable geometry, its peculiarity is that its members have both experience as interpreters and as improvisers.
The projects presented by this formation fully reflect this reality: more than interpreting pieces from the repertoire of the 20th and 21st century, it is for the whole to propose paths combining written pieces and improvisations in a permanent oscillation between the two disciplines highlighting the coherences or ruptures of artistic practices which are all too often considered to be antinomic. The long-tested experiences of interpretation and improvisation underpin the unique vision of contemporary music that the ensemble wants to share: music not only from those who write but also from those who play it, who are, in a way, daily on the sound field, who experience its transformations due to a patient proximity to the musical material and instrument.
Interpret / Improvise
For each of the members of the ensemble]h[iatus, interpret and improvise are two essential disciplines nourishing one another and between which they stand as artists.
The oscillations that allow this work do not describe a hesitation but rather the assertion that a true musical art lies in the hiatus between the two disciplines. In this hiatus there is not only an aesthetic and artistic questioning but also and especially the people who live it. They finally claim a pride to be a musician, i.e. to be at the service of music whether it comes from writing or from their own abilities to build in the instant with sound and silence. These oscillations – these explorations of one in between – become for them the music itself.
Members
Martine Altenburger, cello
Tiziana Bertoncini, violin
Fabrice Charles, trombone
Isabelle Duthoitclarinets
Carl Ludwig Hübsch, tuba
Géraldine Keller, votes
Lê Quan Ninh, percussion
Thomas Lehn, piano & analog synthesizer
Angelika Sheridan, flute
Other artists participated in the ensemble]h[iatus:
Pascale Berthelot, piano
Laure BerettiHarp
Hubertus Biermanndouble bass
Thierry Madiot, trombone and trunks
Theo Mérigeau, percussion
Hélène MourotOboe
Joris Rühl, clarinet
Hélène Fauchère, votes
Laurent Gitton, tuba
Alessandra Rombolà, flute
Directory
Georges Aperghis
Four Recitations for Cello (1980)
Luciano Berio
The words "S" are Allé... Recitativo (1978)
O King (1968)
Pierre Boulez
Fields (1968)
John Cage
No. 2 (1962)
4’33″ (1952)
59 1/2′′ For A Thong Player (1953)
Branches (1976)
But What About The Noise Of Crumpling Paper What He Used To Do In Order To Paint The Series Of « Frozen paper » Gold Tearing Up Paper To Make « Dechire paper? » Arp Was Stimulated By Water (Sea, Lake, And Flowing Waters Like Rivers), Forests (1985)
C Composite Improvisation For Snare Drum Alone (1990)
Ccomposed Improvement (For One-Sided Drums With Or Without Jangles) (1990)
Child Of Tree (1975)
Southern Studies (#1) (1975)
Five (1988)
Oven6 (1992)
Inlets (1977)
Reading On Nothing (1950)
Music For Amplified Toy Pianos (1960)
Nowth Upon Nacht (1984)
One (1987)
One10 (1992)
One13 (Ryoanji For Cello) (1992)
One4 (1990)
One7 (1990)
Radio Music (1956)
Ryoanji (1983)
Musical sculptures (1989)
Seven Haiku (1952)
Song Books (1970)
Suite For Toy Piano (1948)
Three2 (1991)
Two5 (1991)
Changes II (1961)
Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs (The) (1942)
Marco Döttlinger
Impossible Artists feat. (2022) *
Jean-Christophe Feldhandler
De Grands Z (2010) *
Woman (2005) *
Brian Ferneyhough
Lemma Icon Epigram (1981)
Joshua Fineberg
Paradigms (1993)
Vinko Globokar
Damdaj (2009) *
Laboratory (55 pieces) (1985)
By Symbol Forest (1987)
Hans Joachim Hespos
Nai (1970)
Tom Johnson
Counting Duets (1982)
Tilework for Percussion
The Vaches of Narayana
György Kurtàg
Kafka-Fragmente (1985)
Helmut Lachenmann
Allegro Sostenuto (1988)
Pressure (1970)
Alexander Martinz
Brauchen (Pausen) (2022) *
Anthony Pateras
As Long As Breath Or Bow (2013) *
Steve Reich
Clapping Music (1972)
Giacinto Scelsi
Taiagaru (1962)
Salvatore Sciarrino
Per Mattia (1975)
James Tenney
Having Never Writen A Note For Percussion (1971)
LaMonte Young
Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc (1960)
Carola Bauckholt
Geräuschtöne (2003)
Polizeitrieb (1989)
Tiziana Bertoncini
Nero Lento (2010)
Earle Brown
Folio (1952)
Four Systems (1954)
Cornelius Cardew
Treatise (1967)
Morton Feldman
Bass Clarinet And Percussion (1981)
Duration 1 (1960)
Duration 2 (1960)
Four Instruments (1965)
Trio For Piano, Violin And Cello (1984)
Why Patterns? (1978)
Luc Ferrari
Monologos (1972)
Jürg Frey
I leave to Night His Weight of Shadow (2020)*
Elisabeth Harnik
Presences and Absences (2025)*
Carl Ludwig Hübsch
Ngc 2279: Soloist At Fringe/Horizon In Dawn (2004)
Peter Jakober
Beneden (2009) *
Mehr, Ein Wenig (2008)
Puls 2 (2005)
Weit Beisammen (2010)
Brauchen (2022) *
Probenstück (2022) *
Steffen Krebber
Aufstieg Und Fall Ausseweltlicher Flug- Und Kriechtierattrappen Im 27. Und 28. Jahrhundert (2008)
Nichtsattrappen 0 » (2009)
Nichtsattrappen » (2010) *
Lê Quan Ninh
aWoman (2006)
Spectral Music Small Budget (1996)
Oscille (1997)
Helmut Lachenmann
Pressure (1969)
Guero (1970)
Alvin Lucier
Charles Curtis (2002)
Sitting In A Room (1969)
In Memoriam John Higgins (1984)
Music For Cello With One Gold More Amplified Vases (1993)
Music For Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillators And One Of More Reflective Surfaces (1990)
Silver Streetcar For The Orchestra (1988)
Still Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas Vespers (1968)
Wind Shadows (1994)
Arnaud Petit
Adonis (2008)
Kaija Saariaho
Mirrors (1997)
Petals (1988)
Dieter Schnebel
Handwerke-Blaswerke (1977)
Nc (Nuova Consonanza) (1995)
Sysiphos (1990)
Zack Settel
Hok Pwah (1993)
Jason Treuting
Nine Numbers 2 (2016)
Jennifer Walshe
1984 Is Ok (2015)
Hygiene (2011)
Metta (2011) *
My Dog And I *
Nature Data (New Version) (2019) *
Syncretsmus Hypothesi (2021) *
Thelma Mansfield (2008)
Wash Me Whiter Than Snow (2013) *
Younghi Pagh-Paan
Bi-Yu (1999)
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