INTERFERENCE | PAK YAN LAU / STRECKER / ICTUS

Pak Yan Lau has over the years established a captivating sound universe including prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, electronics and various sound objects into which she invites percussionist Anita Cappuccinelli (Ictus, TUUM) to bring in her manifold sonic agencies and specialities. Improvised music is necessarily spontaneous, and at the same time it is built on a background of personal experience, thought, experiment and aesthetic preferences. With an attitude of careful openness, they collaboratively search for the unpredictable, for whatever is endlessly variable, for a music without history, for the emergence of new atmospheres. This improvisational moment is framed with two pieces by Leonie Strecker, Interference (with Dirk Descheemaeker on bass clarinet) and chroma accuracy, in which she sounds out notions of presence, absence and the connections of memory and experience. Both pieces work with interference tones and phenomena of sonic displacement, whereby rhythmic elements are at the foreground in chroma accuracy and the space that arises between two or more sounds is central in Interference. Programme Leonie Strecker, Interference (2025) Pak Yan Lau & Anita Cappuccinelli Duet Leonie Strecker, Chroma Accuracy (2025) Artists Pak Yan Lau, prepared piano Leonie Strecker, electronics Ictus: Anita Cappuccinelli, percussion Dirk Descheemaeker, bass clarinet Alexandre Fostier, sound