La Nuit n'est pas un Chocolat

Swedish edition
Paradiso Amsterdam, 9 March 2004

This was a more modest Nuit, during which the audience listened very quietly and hardly wandered about. Perhaps this was because it was a Tuesday evening, or because the Asko-Ensemble has an attentive following, or perhaps because the music commanded it. The hall was cosily decorated; the audience was seated amid houseplants, a fishbowl, floor lamps and a cage of budgies. With the Swedish folk singer Lena Willemark as leitmotiv, a veritable cornucopia of entertainment flowed from various points in the audience, including intimate songs, spatial sound sculptures, electronic music and the contemporary dance of Sawami Fukuoka (Emio Greco|PC).
In the middle of the hall, in a complex installation with over 100 pots and pans, which sometimes doubled as percussion instruments, the cooks prepared supper. The climax of the evening was Karin Rehnqvist�s performance of the piece "Solsangen". Afterwards DJ Sjam joined the musicians to create a live soundtrack to a piece of video art.