At Gare du Nord, electric guitarist Yaron Deutsch meets the legendary violinist Irvine Arditti – two exceptional musicians who have shaped the repertoire of contemporary music for decades. The title refers to gravitational waves – those disturbances in spacetime triggered by extreme cosmic events – and here symbolically evokes the intensity and radiance of this encounter. Between electrical impulses and the most delicate sonic textures, a concert unfolds that seeks the cosmic within music: movement, energy, transience.
 

Exquisite sonic gestures, dense textures, and experimental soundscapes define this evening for violin and electric guitar. The composers Rebecca Saunders, Zeynep Toraman, Kelley Sheehan, Lisa Illean, and Sarah Nemtsov open up very different perspectives on fragile energy, silence, and perception: Saunders with highly concentrated sonic precision, Toraman with conceptually finely calibrated intensity, Sheehan with expanded and impulsive layers of sound, Illean with floating, transparent spaces, and Nemtsov with strikingly structured, energetic trajectories. Together, they create a multifaceted panorama of contemporary chamber music.
 

Program:
 

• Rebecca Saunders – Hauch for violin solo (2018)

• Zeynep Toraman – New piece for electric guitar & violin (2025), World Premiere

• Kelley Sheehan – Hot guts for electric guitar & violin (2023)

• Lisa Illean – Tiding for electric guitar solo (2021)

• Sarah Nemtsov – EMP for electric guitar & violin (2023), World Premiere

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Sound Engineering: Jonas Prina