On Mars - Ars Musica

On Mars was a music evening at 19 November 2022 during Ars Musica.

“The journey into space and infinity, the cosmos… The ensemble Sturm und Klang, conducted by Thomas Van Haeperen, invites us to the Planetarium Hall on this voyage of discovery in an extraordinary spaceship of music and images. With arrangements by Stefan Hejdrowski,

Brian Eno's Apollo:Atmospheres and Soundtracks is presented in an unpublished version. Published in 1983, originally created for a film documentary by Al Reinert about the Apollo programme and constructed from layers of never-before-heard sound textures, Apollo remains an important composition of ambient music. Brian Eno, from visual art and then experimental rock, is partly the inventor of it.

Alongside this work, the Concerto for violin and orchestra, a creation by Denis Bosse, will be performed by Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds. Denis Bosse, composer and scientist by training, charts a sonorous exploration of our different ways of listening with the seven-part cycle Les Champs de l'inaudible (2005).

These spatial sound worlds are accompanied by projections of beautiful drawings from Travel Book: Mars by François Schuiten and Sylvain Tesson (Vuitton, 2021), an imaginary invitation to explore the planet Mars.”

Denis Bosse : Creation , World creation commissioned by Ars Musica
Brian Eno : Apollo : Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Stefan Hejdrowski : Orchestration Brian Eno
Coproduction: Planetarium of Brussels / Ars Musica
Conductor: Thomas Van Haeperen
Sturm und Klang
Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds: violin
François Schuiten: artist

Video by Michel Ballieu ¹⁾. Images by Philippe Seynaeve ²⁾ and Todor Todoroff ³⁾.

François Schuiten was interviewed by Ars Musica ⁴⁾.