Modernity merges with Tradition
"Artist in Residence"
"silent key"
New Program 2025!
21.08.2025 I 12.30 & 20:30
Druckereihalle im Ackermannshof, Basel
Participatory concert featuring the program "silent key" with Ilze Grudule (baroque cello, voice, electronics), Vincent Flückiger (live sampling, electronics), and Jocelyn Raphanel (bells, electronics, sound). With the participatory concert "silent key," the electroacoustic improvisation group "Magnetic Bach" invites attendees to search for sounds together to create their own new, unique soundscape. Or simply to be there as a witness.
"waves 3" (2024)
The program harks back to the beginnings of this music project, when the first show was being prepared in 2020. Wave 3 in 2024 will show where the musicians stand after a time in which the perception and role of all the arts in society has changed so much. "Waves 3" will present instrumental dialogues between baroque cello, Nepalese singing bowls, and Swiss mountain bells.
"Tikko"
Tikko, in Latvian: new, just recently, recently. The program is conceived as a whole, in which the individual pieces are linked together through electroacoustic improvisations. Music by Vivaldi, Praulins, Cage, Müthel, and Latgalian and Lithuanian folk songs.
"Nelist"
29.05.2024
TheoSounds Basel, Theodorskirche
5.06.2024
Kultur & Kongresshaus Aarau,
The title of the program “Nelist” comes from the Latvian summer solstice song “Rain, do not pour!”, which prays that the life-giving sun, as a symbol of benevolence, may reign everywhere. As a counterpoint to Praulins' contemporary music, pieces by Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Zamboni, Christoph Demantius, and Latvian folk songs will be performed.
"unexpected" (2022, 2023)
10.09.2023
Festival „Radviliada 2023“, Kėdainiai, LT and
27.11.2022
Lūznavas muiža, LV
The program focuses on two works by contemporary Latvian composers dedicated to the musicians of "Magnetic Bach": a cycle for voice and cello by Anna Veismane featuring poems by Emily Dickinson, and a work by Uģis Prauliņš for solo baroque cello, inspired by the extravagant music of the Riga baroque composer Johann Gottfried Müthel. The program alternates musical compositions with electroacoustic improvisations.
"waves" (2020)
In 2020, an online concert featuring the program "Waves" by the "Magnetic Bach" trio, based on the Suites for Solo Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach, took place in Riga instead of a concert in the concert hall. Bach meets sampling, cello in dialogue with the Moog synthesizer.
"magnetic bach"
Created through the collaboration of the original ensemble with three video artists: Lionel Wirz (Switzerland), Moen Bourdeau (France), and Vincent Flückiger.
