Trio Accanto

THE LAST OF THEIR KIN(D)

How much biodiversity will there be in 200 or 300 years? What species will adapt successfully to new ecological conditions? Ten contemporary composers (themselves somehow members of an endangered species) have each taken an extinct or threatened species and given it voice, in the form of the saxophones, percussion and keyboards of Trio Accanto, assuring them at least musical perpetuity. This performance, with video by Georg Lendorff, gives the prospect of musical immortality to a wide variety of species, from the mountain gorilla to the monarch butterfly, and the ‘immortal jellyfish’ (Turritopsis dohrnii) to the black tree kangaroo.

Co-presentation Rainy Days, Gare du Nord Basel, Ultraschall Berlin, Acht Brücken

With support from Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Pro Helvetia, Fondation SUISA, UBS Culture Foundation