3/04/2025 – 19:30
Klankhaven / Rataplan
After the notable Oorstof passages by harpists Marjolein Vernimmen and Jenna Vergeynst: Outdoor Hiking with Sound & Other Fireworks in Antwerp’s Middelheim Park and Echo Yes No (Svoboda) and Refraction (Van Esser) during Ruiskamer #6 at Ghent’s Miry, Vernimmen and Vergeynst bring the fascinating, West African Kora-inspired composition You, me, in trees by Haroun Iqbal to the stage.
Composer, guitarist, and musical world traveler Iqbal wrote this composition for Vireo after an in-depth study—featuring inspiring musicians such as Derek Gripper and Bao Sissoko (Baaba Maal, Zap Mama)—into the fascinating world of the West African Kora. For this new Oorstof/Klankhaven edition, Iqbal joins the harp duo live on stage for what promises to be a unique rendition of this enchanting piece.
Ilaria Orlandini (dance) and Andrés Navarro García (percussion) live in Brussels. They are interested in contemporary artistic creation and work on the border between instant and choreographic composition.
For this new Oorstof/Klankhaven collaboration at Rataplan, Orlandini and Navarro Garcia will present Zaman. This dance and percussion duo is an invitation to lightness and simplicity, a call to act without pretension or calculation, a touch of childhood. Together, they explore their authenticities and individual singularities.
Zaman, Turkish for Time, is a duo of dance and percussion. Movement and sound are composed instantaneously. Two independent entities coexist, never glancing at each other, yet they meet in the action of time. A simple communication between the dancing gesture and the musical gesture. How to hear dance, how to see music? A dynamic of the moment, which leaves room for the appearance of memories in dialogue with what will be the future gesture.
The music platform Klankhaven and Sound in Motion’s Oorstof concert series are joining forces for a monthly program at Rataplan. As purveyors of adventurous and challenging music, they pair pioneers and key figures from various genres with young talent from both home and abroad.
