François Sarhan and Zafraan Ensemble present LOG BOOK, an event that combines the card game and concert formats. The composer François Sarhan has been keeping a sound diary since 2019. Not in the sense of an intimate journal, but a logbook, like that of a captain who notes down the events of the day.

The material is either voices – his own or those of other people -, his surroundings, conversations, radio snippets, stolen fragments of conversations, field recordings, jingles, personal compositions, weather forecasts, graphic scores, transcriptions of famous songs or other things. Sarhan is interested in the forgotten, the very small, and – following Georges Perec – the unusual. Through these micro-events, we try to make sense of the situation in which we currently find ourselves; the collective memory is mixed with the individual memory of the spectator.

To accompany this musical collection, François Sarhan has designed 80 motif cards that form the basis of the card game. The ensemble performs the musical diary entries and the audience debates various connections between the cards and the music before ultimately selecting the card that they think best represents the performed entry. In doing so, they act out a dynamic game of listening, meaning making, and persuasion.

Programme:
François Sarhan LOG BOOK (2019- today )

With:

Liam Mallett (flute)
Martin Smith (cello)
Clemens Hund-Göschel (keyboard)
Daniel Eichholz (percussion)
Jakob Krupp (double bass& electric bass)
François Sarhan (composition and speaker)
Emil Vijgen (moderator)

More info and tickets: https://minufestival.com/prog_LOG_BOOK

Supported by Art Music Denmark.