Garth Erasmus

In the organizer's words:

Garth Erasmus (voice, alto sax, bow)
with
Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet)
Ruth May (violin)
Peter Thiessen (cello)
Stefan Schneider (electronics)

Admission 18:30
Start 19:00

Garth Erasmus is an artist and musician living in Cape Town, South Africa. Threnody for the KhoiSan is his first album under his own name. Since 1985 his artistic interests have expanded to making music, designing and building his own instruments based on indigenous KhoiSan knowledge. From 1999 to 2012, he was a member of the South African activist group KhoiKhonnexion.

His musical works are characterized above all by a restless search for alternative forms of expression and materials such as self-made instruments, field recordings or various electronic music devices. In this context, the music on Threnody for the KhoiSan takes on an original and metaphorical meaning. "When I started making my own instruments in the 1980s, my intention was to create art objects, but when I discovered the sound they made, a door opened that led me on my quest to the realization that I was on the right path." In fact, all of the instruments featured on Threnody for the KhoiSan are products of a discovery process that started from scratch, based on the beauty and simplicity of the single-string Khoisan musical bow and arrow as a trance musical instrument.

In his concert he will be supported by Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet), Ruth May (violin), Peter Thiessen (cello) and Stefan Schneider (electronics).