{"id":132821,"date":"2025-02-15T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T01:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=gig_review&#038;p=132821"},"modified":"2025-02-15T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T01:05:16","slug":"new-european-ensemble-open-the-12th-edition-of-m-nm","status":"publish","type":"gig_review","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/gig_review\/new-european-ensemble-open-the-12th-edition-of-m-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"New European Ensemble open the 12th edition of M \/ NM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Netherlands-based New European Ensemble kicked off this year\u2019s 12th edition of the Montr\u00e9al Nouvelles Musiques Festival. The opening concert titled \u201cDynamite Barrel\u201d showcased the work of innovative contemporary composers whose pieces on the night would adhere to this year\u2019s theme: the marriage of music and images.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Heading into this concert with little information, I assumed that this meant music that\u00a0<em>evokes<\/em>\u00a0imagery but that ultimately each listener was to be responsible for their own imaginations. As I would soon see, each of the featured composers would run with this theme slightly differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The pieces are set out to represent locations, sonic evolution, historical periods, or a mixture of the three. Sometimes this was done, as it routinely is when it comes to new chamber music, by pushing the limits of textures and timbre; meaning that they contained all the florid passages, extended techniques, mixed orchestration, and meterless moments you would expect. For those who found this fatiguing, the piece Cyan Saturn, inspired by Miles Davis\u2019\u00a0<em>Bitches Brew,<\/em> provided some nice contrast as it contained some compositional conventions of jazz fusion which made for something a bit different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Regardless, most of the pieces of the night would couple their music with images projected onto a screen and essentially require the players of the New European Ensemble to \u201cscore\u201d the images live. In one piece this meant recontextualizing old Looney Tunes scenes; on another occasion, a Bollywood film; and at the very end, a surf rock piece superimposed with Thai music set to shadow puppetry.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" data-id=\"132828\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/478501105_1183183243817013_289204135836159132_n-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/478501105_1183183243817013_289204135836159132_n-2.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/478501105_1183183243817013_289204135836159132_n-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/478501105_1183183243817013_289204135836159132_n-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"132830\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480425671_1183183163817021_4766428792649713850_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480425671_1183183163817021_4766428792649713850_n.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480425671_1183183163817021_4766428792649713850_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480425671_1183183163817021_4766428792649713850_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" data-id=\"132832\" src=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480311480_1183183343817003_4662602534800603180_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480311480_1183183343817003_4662602534800603180_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480311480_1183183343817003_4662602534800603180_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/panm360.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480311480_1183183343817003_4662602534800603180_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">When the musical scoring lapsed into what I would consider dense, pointillistic, or meterless soundscapes, I was much more tolerant of any shrieks and squeals when I could see they were in accordance with what was happening on the screen. The brain is funny that way.\u00a0\u00a0At other moments I felt some dense soundscapes overstayed their welcome. I can wholly admit that contemporary chamber music asks important questions of established practices when it goes down this route; my gripe is that it always seems to be the\u00a0<em>same<\/em>\u00a0questions. And they\u2019ve been asked for more than a few decades at this point. Overall I would say the New European Ensemble interpreted for us some very interesting music, but I wasn\u2019t about to rush to the merch\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">photos: Marie-\u00c8ve Labadie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Netherlands-based New European Ensemble kicked off this year\u2019s 12th edition of the Montr\u00e9al Nouvelles Musiques Festival. 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