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Carte Blanche Linda Vogel

Brigitta Grimm10-26-20232 min. read

A harp between samplers, synthesizers and small, computer-controlled hammers – the first Moods Carte Blanche concert by harpist and singer Linda Vogel, to which she invited her brother Lukas, lets us dive deep into electroacoustic seas of sound. A brief insight from a conversation with the two Zurich musicians.

"Yes, at every family celebration," Linda and Lukas Vogel answer the question whether they had already played music together as children. Linda was fascinated by the harp from an early age, and it has been impossible to imagine life without the instrument since she was six. Lukas, on the other hand, was first enthusiastic about the accordion and only switched to a larger keyboard instrument, the piano, in high school, but what always interested him most was the technical aspects of the instruments and the synthesis and production of his own sounds.So after completing their Matura, their paths diverged. Lukas moved to Düsseldorf for his studies, where he soon met the pianist Erol Sarp. With Grandbrothers, Erol and Lukas now share 12 years of band history, during which they played their way into the very big concert halls internationally with innovative means of production. In the middle of the stages: A single concert grand piano equipped with a self-developed apparatus of small hammers that strike both the strings and the piano body as a whole, thus producing the unique Grandbrothers sound.Linda studied classical harp in Lucerne, but she wanted to go far beyond the common classical repertoire and the sought-after, lovely harp literature of the Fin de Siècle. Through her close connection to the jazz school, she soon came into contact with the possibilities of improvisation, which opened up completely new worlds of sound for her. "I was always interested in what else you could get out of the instrument. That's when I started experimenting, for example with pickups and guitar pedals. I realised that this body of sound is like a set-up piano that you can experiment with," says Linda. So after her studies, she set out on the hardly trodden paths in the Swiss "free scene".A first collaboration with Lukas resulted from the development of his own hammering apparatus for Linda's harp. The mechanism that plays the low strings is probably a unique player extension worldwide and it will - this much in advance - also be on show at Moods on 29 October 2023.Work on the sibling's current project began in February this year. It was finally time, Linda and Lukas explain. A lot of creative energy had been discharged. All the experience they had gathered over the past few years would complement each other wonderfully and form a real breeding ground for the new collaboration. A lot was tried out, adapted, improvised. The result was a complex set-up of harp, samplers, synthesizers and more, and above all, completely new music."It's become quite a thing now," Linda laughs and answers the question of what the audience can expect at the concert: "The whole thing is very fun. I hope we can convey that joy." The music goes from sombre to light and joyful and one can expect to set out on a real sound journey.

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