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V.SESSION#3 - BL!NDMAN pictures & excerpt

The live session with BL!NDMAN sax quartet is now available on-demand at http://theVsessions.com

Click here to watch the excerpt (containing Bach and Sleichim music) of this thrilling moment.

V.SESSION#2 - HERREWEGHE pictures & excerpt

The live session with Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent is now available on-demand at http://theVsessions.com
Click here to watch the excerpt (Emendemus in melius) of this intimate event.

V.SESSION#1 - FENNESZ pictures & excerpt

The live session with Fennesz went perfect and is now available on-demand at http://theVsessions.com

"Entering the studio was like going on stage, said Fennesz, and I felt so carefree that I transformed my set spontaneously, frequently using totally new material. Great experience."

A trailer playing the first three minutes of Fennesz set can be seen on the Archives page. The same video excerpt is also available in a very compressed version on  youtube or vimeo.

Preparing for the upcoming sessions

To watch The V. Sessions, you will need to install the free Silverlight 2.0 player. It is the most stable software for live webcasting and it allows multicamera shooting.

Once you have installed Silverlight, you should try the video test [or now, the excerpts of the available sessions] to see if everything works fine on your computer. Normally you just need a modern computer with an updated internet browser (Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Safari...). In some regions of the world, the "buffering" phase at the beginning can take some 10 seconds before playing.

If you are convinced, fill up the registering formula on http://theVsessions.com  

 

Try it, and make your friends try it !

V.SESSION#1 - FENNESZ

This Austrian musician was once a lead guitarist with a post rock band. Then he turned to electronic music and acoustic research. Now he uses all his influences during his performances, alternating solo gigs with collective improvising. You can't easily define the genre of music he plays — good for him, good for everyone. Lately, he presented a show with Mike Patton.

I hate the idea of repeating myself, he said in an interview. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem.

And let's guess some new people, through this challenging project, will be introduced to his world made of noise and melody.

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V.SESSION#2 - HERREWEGHE

If you like ancient music, you probably heard of Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale Gent. He recorded one of the most oustanding collection of Bach's cantatas. Very inspired by polyphonic music, he works on vocal music with great care, able to make a choir sing so that you can hear every voice. His tastes favor pure and mineral voices, without vibrato, and above all musical rhetoric, a deep relation between text and music.
For some years now, he chose fantastic and not very well known vocal masterpieces and interpreted them with his own choir in a smaller and intimate formation (10 singers). As one of his choices, he picked up this dark mass from the Spanish Renaissance.
Be ready for the experience !

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