Saturday, September 6th, Rosenborg Slot, Riddersalen
Performers
Flutist Pierre Hamon
Percussionist Ananda Brendão
Program
Anonymous (Paleolithic, ca. 20,000 BC) – Hymn to the Wind
Improvisation on a vulture bone flute (replica from Isturitz, Basque Country)
Anonymous (Traditional, South America) – Hymn to Heaven
Improvised ritual dance on a pan flute made of condor feathers
Guiraut Riquier (13th century, Occitania) – Creire m’en fach
Frestel (medieval pan flute)
Anonymous (14th century, Italy) – Lucente Stella
Ballata
Anonymous (14th century, France) – Sexte Estampie Royale
Double recorder and drum
Anonymous (14th century, Italy) – Chominciamento di gioia
Istanpitta, recorder
Anonymous (14th century, Italy) – Belicha
Istanpitta, recorder and drum
Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300–1377, France) – Se ma dame m’a guerpi
Virelai, voice and transverse flute
Anonymous (13th century, France) – Lai du Chèvrefeuille
Pipe and tabor
Traditional (Wiwa & Kogui peoples, Colombia) – Ritual I / Omaggio Kogui
Improvisation on melodic and rhythmic ritual patterns, gaita and drum
Traditional (Peru, late 19th century) – Aa, Sumak Kancakchaska
Hymn to the Sun, Huánuco region
Traditional (Peru, collected by Luis Girault, 1954) – El Baile del Inca
Traditional dance music, Copacabana
Traditional (Bolivia) – Oraison pour la Terre Mère
Sicuri music, sicu (Andean pan flute)
Traditional (Pueblo Laguna, New Mexico) – The Butterfly Song
Native American flute (Siyotanka)
Traditional (Lakota Sioux) – Lakota Lullaby
Voice and shamanic drum
Anonymous (Pre-Columbian, Central & South America) – Improvisations
Various instruments from pre-Columbian civilizations
Instrumentarium
Replica of a Paleolithic vulture bone flute found in the cave of Isturitz ( Basque Country)
medieval recorders, pipe and tabor, double recorder, frestel ( medieval Pan flute), bansuri transverse flute
drum, shamanic drum, Bombo and various pre-colombian percussions
Colombian gaita
Siyotanka – Lakota love flute
Sicu – Andean Pan flute
Condor feathers Pan flute
Little aztec flute
Ocarinas and multiple flutes from the ancient civilisations of the Gulf of Mexico
Quena Chincha – terracotta notched flute from Chincha civilization – Peru
Triple snake flute – Mexico – Gulf civilization
Antara Nazca – ceramic pan flute from Nazca civilization – Peru.
Death whistles – Aztec civilization
Whistling vases ou singing vessels – Vicus civilization – Peru – Ecuador.
An invitation to meditation and dream, but also to rituals and dance, this program offers you a journey through the breath, throughout rhythm of skin and wood percussions, in the sound universe of the ancient European and American civilization’s flutes : from medieval double flutes, direct descendants of Greek and Roman Antiquity flutes and Aulos to the double and triple flutes of the ancient civilizations of Central America, from medieval minstrels’ pipe and tabor which has survived in several French and Spanish traditions but also in several native communities of Mexico and Peru to countless types of flutes, made of bone, feathers, clay, reed, bamboo, wood, elderwood…to seduce the living or communicate with spirits.
This project is a modest questioning on the original power of music generated by this breath and this ancestral rhythm, which can lead to trance, meditation or jubilation but it is also a wonderful moment of complicity between a father and his daughter.