Arts Centre Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

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DROR FEILER - CANTOS DE LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL

Dror Feiler is an Israeli musician, artist and activist. In the early seventies, Feiler was a parachutist in the Israeli army under Ariel Sharon. However, he did not want to serve in the Gaza strip because he could not reconcile himself with the politics of his home country. He then fled to Sweden as one of Israel’s first refuseniks. It was here that he became the president of Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (JIPF) and the European Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP).

But Feiler is a musician in the first place. He plays the sax with jazz band Lokomotiv Konkret and founded The Too Much Too Soon Orchestra and Noise Orchestra. Feiler describes his music as “a filtered version of noise” and sees his compositions as a metaphor for his experiences as an Israeli immigrant is Sweden: “For me to be in exile, to be an immigrant, is like being noise in a musical context.”

On the opening day of the game is up, Feiler will take to the streets of Ghent with Basura (Spanish for ‘dirty’), eighteen short compositions for a brass band and two dustcarts. The brass band is Muziekmaatschappij Excelsior with Bart Maris and John Snauwaert. The sound of garbage being crushed in the dustcarts is part of the composition. Basura is an outcry against squandering and consumerism. Feiler sees the garbage as a metaphor for today’s throw-away society, in which not only things are disposable, but people too. The garbage stands for their pain, grief, and suffering.

KAPOTSKI – IGLO

For Ghent music collective Kapotski, every object can be a musical instrument: the trio happily uses recycled material, old appliances and modified toys.

For the game is up Vooruit asked Kapotski to think about a ‘symphony for the new world’. The Kapotskis were up to the challenge. Wild consumption, hubris, Star Wars and pure beauty will form the starting point for their new work, ‘Iglo’. Guest musicians Lander Ghyselinck, Jozef Dumoulin and Rodrigo Fuentealba will join them in the rehearsal studio. Eric De Volder (TG Ceremonia) is in charge of the lighting design.

Kapotski: “Every time the earth turns, it heats up a little more. Man seems to specialize in polluting and squandering. Sea levels are rising. Reason enough for Kapotski to deliver their ‘mijnen iglo is gesmolten (my igloo has melted) song’ in a fixed form. A three-minute pop songs preceded and followed by an improvisation set that lasts just long enough to melt the ice and chill out afterwards.”

Kapotski (Jonas Nachtergaele, Ruben Nachtergaele and Kurt Stockman) has become a household name at Vooruit. In the past Kapotski has performed improv concerts with Jean-Marie Aerts, Isolde Lasoen, Mauro and Turkish electronic artist 2/5BZ a.k.a. Serhat Koksal. The recordings of these concerts were released on vinyl for their K.I.S.R.T.S. project (Kapotski’s International Shopdrop Record Tracking System, check out http://kisrts.vooruit.be) during the game is up! Art for Sale in 2008. Kapotski distributed 500 vinyl records in record stores worldwide that were free for the lucky finder. Every album had a unique code with which you could log in to an online tracking system to follow each record’s individual trajectory.