Musiques pour tuyauterie (Music for Plumbing). Concert

Urinals and fountains raise questions about plumbing, pipes and evacuation…

Musiques pour tuyauterie is a music project related to The Fountain Archives, the main work of the current exhibition Saâdane Afif. The Fountain Archives and Beyond… 

Saâdane Afif asked composer Augustin Maurs to produce ten pieces for flute and voice, based on a selection of lyrics commissioned between 2008 and 2017, in relation to the artwork The Fountain Archives. Ten flutes were custom made from the bones of different bird species according to the techniques used to make the 35,000 years old flutes found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany. Those items are considered to be the oldest musical instruments yet discovered. Each of the recreated flute has a specific shape and tone in order to interpret the single and unique text for which it was designed. Musiques pour tuyauterie excavates a time tunnel through which melodies born from prehistoric wind instruments cross paths with the songs inspired by the most controversial artwork of our time: Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp.

Four years after the first concert Musiques pour tuyauterie  at the Silencio club in Paris, the music composed by Augustin Maurs will be played by flutist Susanne Fröhlich and mezzo-soprano Claudia van Hasselt at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies.  

Composer: Augustin Maurs

Flutist: Susanne Fröhlich

Mezzo-soprano: Claudia van Hasselt