BRAC – Exploratorium – Berlin – novembre 2023

BRAC – Ausland – Berlin – 2022

BRAC – Chamber Remix – Cologne – 2021

BRAC – Ulrichsberg – 2019

BRAC – Moers – 2018

In the Quatuor BRAC, four virtuoso string instrumentalists have come together: the Italian Tiziana Bertoncini, Soizic Lebrat (who replaced Martine Altenburger , the »A« in BRAC’s original line-up), Vincent Royer and Benoît Cancoin from France. Improvisation is both the core competence and the preferred repertoire of this string quartet. The English description »string quartet« fits much better to the playing style of the Quatuor BRAC, as the instruments are plucked, stroked, rubbed, knocked – and the voice is used again and again alongside the instruments.

Quatuor BRAC loves the confrontation with and the challenge of the unforeseen, exploring spatial acoustics, the performance situation and the interaction with the environment. The willingness to take such risks seems to stem from their shared self-confidence to forge new musical pathways in any given moment, giving the quartet a wonderfully scrappy brand of clarity.

In the fall of 2021 in Cologne, the Quatuor BRAC shared a performance with the electronics duo Lehn/Schmickler. In this concert the quartet played the first set followed by the duo using the recording of the quartet as audio material.

In December 2022, this had lead to a performance in Berlin at the reknown ausland where the quartet had been extended to a quintet byThomas Lehn joining the acoustic ensemble with his EMS analogue synthesizer.

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 Le Quatuor BRAC réunit quatre instrumentistes à cordes virtuoses : l’Italienne Tiziana Bertoncini, et les français.es Soizic Lebrat, Vincent Royer et Benoît Cancoin.

L’improvisation est à la fois le coeur de métier et le répertoire de prédilection de ce quatuor à cordes. Le quatuor aime la confrontation et le défi de l’imprévu, explorant l’acoustique spatiale, la situation de performance et l’interaction avec l’environnement.

La volonté de prendre de tels risques a été expérimentée d’une manière totalement nouvelle, lorsque le Quatuor BRAC a partagé une performance avec le duo d’électroniciens Lehn/Schmickler à l’automne 2021 à Cologne. Lors de ce concert, le quatuor a joué le premier set suivi par le duo utilisant l’enregistrement du quatuor comme matériel audio.

En décembre 2022 à Ausland à Berlin, le quatuor BRAC poursuit sa recherche sonore et invite Thomas Lehn au synthétiseur analogique EMS, à performer en quintet.