Air Sensible

Air Sensible - 01

Concert for duo accordion & live electronics

'removing the borders between the electronic and acoustic'

With every breath of air, you exchange something with your surroundings. It’s the most intimate, direct and immediate way of communication with the world around you. This is the concept Air Sensible is evidently based on. It’s a project by composers Rob van Rijswijk and Jeroen Strijbos in cooperation with accordion players Pieternel Berkers and Renée
Bekkers (the Toeac duo).

This cooperation is based on the exchange of information and sound material. Air Sensible is a spatial work wherein the electronic sounds are created on the spot through the music played by the accordionists. As in the act of breathing, what is taken in is retained, transformed and then, in a different form, returned; and there are points where the two
worlds merge into each other, removing the borders between the electronic and acoustic.

Once again, the accordion proves to be one of the most versatile acoustic instruments, both in a melodic and incidental sense. You can make it whisper and scream, shudder, dance and cajole; you can make it breathe with a sigh.

This is what happens in Air Sensible, a spatial musical experience full of contrast, mood variations, to sounds of a fragile beauty, but also with overwhelming power.