NIK BÄRTSCHS MOBILE RITUALS

A non-stop multiple-hour “Ritual Groove Music” multi-arts performative instalation.

Pianist/composer Nik Bärtsch leads his acoustic quartet MOBILE in a “Ritual Groove Music” performance installation, organically weaving textures from jazz, funk, new music, and minimalism with ritual and sacred music. This site-specific, multi-venue, non-stop multi-media performance will feature a series of formal concerts and extended musical bridges throughout the night and day, with a visual installation designed by Daniel Eaton. 

The audience is invited to join the intense core performance, to relax and dream in the ambient majlis in the foyer, or to visit the companion Project Space exhibition to learn more about the history and context of Nik Bärtsch’s MOBILE’s Rituals. The acoustic, visual, and social resonance reverberates around the main performance to create a vibrating community connection.

This site-specific, multi-venue, non-stop, multi-media performance will feature a series of Main Ceremony ‘concert moments’ at certain times, each approximately one-hour long, amidst the extended musical modular bridges throughout the night and day.

Nik Bärtsch MOBILE is:

• Nik Bärtsch, piano

• Sha, bass clarinets and alto sax

• Nicolas Stocker, drums, tuned percussion

• Daniel Eaton, visual design