5 years Toplocentrala! Songs of disconnection

With Songs of Disconnection, Maarten Seghers searches for meaning in ‘unintelligibility’;

“The abstract-sounding libretto at the heart of Songs of Disconnection oscillates between involvement and indifference and explores what intensity this clash can elicit. The libretto becomes tragic in its unintelligibility, a central idea in my work: communication only becomes clear when it fails.

These new songs are a confused outburst, because everything ‘could be’ and nothing ‘is’; they are an exuberant statement that originates from an excited illusion of unattainable places and incomprehensible times; they are a generator that hatches out the absurd idea known
as ‘together’.”

In addition to their virtuosity in their grasp of, and performance of, musical writing, Aya Suzuki, Simon Lenski, George van Dam and Michael Schmid are also autonomous artists who - in their own work, each in their own way - fundamentally question music in order to arrive at sound and music as physical material. Seghers’ mainspring is to convert not only their profession, but also themselves and their bodies into matter.