THE QUANTUM CHOIR
The Quantum Choir is a vocal ensemble I have founded in 2021, walking on the rickety bridges between liturgical music of different traditions and a repertoire of a dark and heavy aesthetics. The choir's repertoire includes original arrangements and interpretations to works ranging from Late Medieval and Renaissance Polyphonic Motets and Provoslavic music to metal, drone, folk, and experimental music.
As the artistic director and conductor, I take a "leading through singing" approach, which makes the choir function more like a band than a traditionally-conducted ensemble. The members come from different backgrounds: performance and theater, literature, electronic and metal music, cultural work and more. Some are former students of mine, some artists and researchers, and all are collaborators who generously gathered around my humble offer to create intense musical experiences for non-classical audiences. Without formative choral experience and guided by a rigorous passion for collective processes, we wonder about the functions of vocal music in defining moments of human existence and gather our performative resources from the unknown depths of consciousness.
Since its establishment, the choir has performed in venues of art (The Israel Museum, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam, The Museum of Italian Jewish Art), theater and dance (Autumn Cult Festival, HaZira; Diver Festival TLV), music (Het Bos & DeSingel, Antwerp; Orpheus Institute, Gent) and recorded for international collaborations (Ars Electronica, Linz; BBC Radio 4).
The most recent iteration is the Antwerp-based Quantum Choir: a heavy-folk ensemble dedicated to dissecting folk songs and ancient texts both liturgical and profane, with a repertoire that includes radical interpretations of devotional music from various cultures. The group, newly formed in the context of my artistic research project The Voice of Many Waters, is a hub for diverse performers curious about the clash between tradition and experimentation, and driven by the sonic spell of languages. Together we contemplate and co-create an idiosyncratic sound with uncompromising performative energy.
As the artistic director and conductor, I take a "leading through singing" approach, which makes the choir function more like a band than a traditionally-conducted ensemble. The members come from different backgrounds: performance and theater, literature, electronic and metal music, cultural work and more. Some are former students of mine, some artists and researchers, and all are collaborators who generously gathered around my humble offer to create intense musical experiences for non-classical audiences. Without formative choral experience and guided by a rigorous passion for collective processes, we wonder about the functions of vocal music in defining moments of human existence and gather our performative resources from the unknown depths of consciousness.
Since its establishment, the choir has performed in venues of art (The Israel Museum, MoBY: Museums of Bat Yam, The Museum of Italian Jewish Art), theater and dance (Autumn Cult Festival, HaZira; Diver Festival TLV), music (Het Bos & DeSingel, Antwerp; Orpheus Institute, Gent) and recorded for international collaborations (Ars Electronica, Linz; BBC Radio 4).
The most recent iteration is the Antwerp-based Quantum Choir: a heavy-folk ensemble dedicated to dissecting folk songs and ancient texts both liturgical and profane, with a repertoire that includes radical interpretations of devotional music from various cultures. The group, newly formed in the context of my artistic research project The Voice of Many Waters, is a hub for diverse performers curious about the clash between tradition and experimentation, and driven by the sonic spell of languages. Together we contemplate and co-create an idiosyncratic sound with uncompromising performative energy.
COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS
SUNKEN SUN, SUNKEN SOUL: Lament for a Hebrew Tune
EX PROFUNDO (AUTUMN CULT FESTIVAL, 2021)
EN TEHOM: ARS ELECTRONICA
LUSUS
