Agenda

Jazz on the Roof: Heribert Leuchter Sounds of Science

The Heribert Leuchter Trio is a classical jazz trio including saxophone, Hammond organ and percussion. Heribert Leuchter, Gero Körner and Stefan Kremer perform jazz in which concept and improvisation go hand in hand.

Within the context of the John Cage exhibition at SCHUNCK* and in conjunction with the monthly event, Jazz on the Roof, Heribert Leuchter will perform the project Sounds of Science, a piece that takes an artistic approach to the examination of human existence in an environment with a high technology content. How do we cope with this? Where do the boundaries lie, and what are our limits? In this artistic study, the trio opens the stage in typical Cage form: “Artist and audience, performer and consumer are all trapped in the same space. Together, they must find their way by changing traditions to get from the present to the future.”

The musical works are based on sounds produced in factories and laboratories (including that of the Aachen University  in Germany). Heribert Leuchter has the following to say in this regard: “Close your eyes and sharpen your hearing. Behind all the pounding, hissing, bubbling, sanding and squeaking which initially only comes through as a cacophony of noise, you will hear the sounds that form pure music.” 

11 september / 21:00 / Jazz on the Roof: Heribert Leuchter Sounds of Science / SCHUNCK* +5 / € 7,50 

This concert is part of the programme:

John Cage, Of what is and what might have been

Of what is and what might have been is the title of the programme to be presented on the occasion of the exhibition The Anarchy of Silence - John Cage and Experimental Art in SCHUNCK* Heerlen which will open on 3 September 2010. As a musician, writer and philosopher, Cage strived to push back the boundaries of the accepted, not only in music, but in other art forms as well. This approach formed the cornerstone of a philosophical exploration of an aesthetic free from conventions, taste, and traditional ways of looking at subjectivity. In a series of concerts, installations, readings, lectures and performances, various contemporary artists provide their interpretation of Cage’s oeuvre: they present what is there, and what it might have been.