Arnaud Lechat

Le Rêve Album Announcement

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It is time to round up some support for our next album project. Below you can red how to suport our album, but first some more on the genesis of this music and dance piece. Over the last 12 months or so I played quite a few iterations of Arnaud Lechat’s wonderful cycle of compositions called Le Rêve, based on the painting by Henri Rousseau. Arnaud recorded his own parts for flutes, percussion and voice on one afternoon, a year ago or so. He send me the tracks and soon after I came over to play parts on voice, flutes, mouth-harps and effects, the way he had it in mind. It fitted seamlessly so we did several performances with a dancer. Each time it was different. Some things got better, some things failed or were less interesting. Each time we had Zhan Yachun dancing with us.
The new challenge was to play the music without her dancing. We tried several times. Each time it was different, very different. But the shape became sharp. This year on Fools’ Day, we committed our audio-only version to the recording machine of French recording expert Yannick Dauby. The result was beyond our expectation. We are really excited to put this album into the world: for musicians this is always a special process and event. And not without obstacles. I have had long discussions with Arnaud about the question: to print or not to print? Fewer and fewer people have CD players. Even the car, which was the last bulwark of CD players for many people, is changing to audio and video streaming now. For decades – what I say? – for a hundred or more years, selling records was a means of generating an income for musicians.

The 1910 painting by Henri Rousseau which inspired Arnaud to write his new work

With that epoch coming to an end, one of the ‘traditional’ ways for a musician or record label to recuperate the cost of recording, desiging, printing, distributing and promoting an album is challenging. For 20 years or so we enjoyed the ability to record cheaper, in high quality, and produce small print-runs of CDs. But now physical things are harder to sell. Arnaud tried making an album with a beautiful booklet with poems and art work and a download code – no CD inside. It did not work: buyers still wanted a CD, not just the booklet with download code. But as time goes on, even our CDs are selling fewer and fewer at concerts.
And yet, being musicians, produce we must. The physical CD, a digipack or something similar in carton, without booklet, is taking shape (see the top of the message to get an impression of where the design is going at the moment).
Watch an excerpt from one of the live performances we did of this album, when it was still primarily a music & dance performance (which it also will be: we will do sections of Le Rêve in an entirely new setting in the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in september).

I will spare you the details of why and how we came to the conclusion to put out a physical album in 2024. You can read that in my newsletter if you like (sign up if you like). Here is how you can support us, in order of urgency (most urgent support comes first):
1. Pre-order the album in the making from us, so that we can get part of the production cost together instead of investing our savings. Pay to my bank account or Paypal (see below).

2. Pre-order the album when we (Arnaud and Mark) put it on our Bandcamp pages. Bandcamp is a fantastic medium which pays a very large share to musicians. Compared to Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube it is a musician’s heaven, and a place where fans can express their interest in a very concrete way. Bandcamp is right when it claims that “artists receive 80-85% of every dollar a fan spends” and they pay very soon too, not after 6 or 12 months.

3. Buy the album when it is out, from us or from Bandcamp, or at a concert. You might never play the actual CD, we know, but you can get a download code and we can plan our next album, because people like you bought this one!

 

One last option: if there hides a philantrope in you, if you like to support the arts and other causes, and if you can easily spend some more, consider to pay more than just the album price. Basically, this is like tipping a waiter, or even sponsoring a project. Bandcamp too has this function to pay more than the set price, and in the last two years I noticed every once in a while fans do indeed pay extra! Every bit counts and the gesture itself is already very encouraging. If you pay more than the album price we have more chances to do more promotion, put out more albums, etc. If you want to support in a more substantial way and are interested in return-favors (a dedication in the album sleeve, a concert at home, etc.), please let us know by sending an email.

 

Pre-order Le Rêve now!

1. Make your choice:

CD with download code € 15,- + worldwide shipping € 10,- = € 25,-

CD with download code € 15,- + europe shipping € 7,- = € 22,-

CD with download code € 15,- + Netherlands shipping € 5,- = € 20,-

CD with download code NT$ 500,- + Taiwan shipping NT$ 80,- = NT$ 580

Ask us for special rates, for example sending to Japan from Taiwan.

2. Choose a payment method:

A. by bank:

M.C. van Tongeren

BIC/Swfit code: ASN BNL21

IBAN: NL50 ASNB0708027512

THE NETHERLANDS

B. by Paypal: use paypals@fusica.nl

 3. Let us know you ordered / paid:

Return this newsletter to mark@fusica and cc to Hsi-Yin (hsiyin724@gmail.com) with ‘DreamOrder’ in the subject header or title. Make sure to leave your name + full address + phone (optional) and also let us know your banking name / last 3 digits (for Taiwan).

4. In the planned release month September or October we will send you the album as soon as it is out!

Recording in progress

Autumn-Winter Program 2024-2025

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Concerts, workshops and other upcoming events.

Details below

近期音樂會、工作坊與活動

                   

Weekly Voice Yoga classes will resume again in September in Taipei. Get on the LINE list to be up to date about dates, changes and other notices.

每週聲音瑜伽課程將於九月在台北重新開始。加入我們的LINE群組，以便隨時了解課程日期、變更和其他通知。

 

九月20日晚上｜September 20, evening

高雄美術館音樂會｜Concert in Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts

with trio aLLsymT

Pianist Lee Shih-Yang, clarinet, flute and frame drum player Arnaud Lechat (FR)

and Mark van Tongeren (NL) continue from now on as trio aLLsymT.

鋼琴家李世揚，豎笛、笛子和框鼓演奏家貓阿諾（法國）、馬克（荷蘭）從現在起以三重奏aLLsymT繼續演出。

 

九月22-25日(週日至週三）｜September 22 – 25 (Sunday – Wednesday)

聲音的海洋工作坊｜Ocean of Voices with the Bunun

Without question a highlight for those who take part in it. Details:

毫無疑問，這是對參與者的一大亮點。詳情如下：

https://www.fusica.nl/ocean-of-voices-with-the-bunun-feb/.

 

十月6日(週日）｜ October 6 (Sunday)

Nokyo 唱誦週末一日工作坊 Nokyo Chanting 1 day (Weekend)

Mark’s groundbreaking work, expanding daily, in contemporary reciting,

chanting, singing of texts, prayers, mantra’s and sutra’s beyond meaning.

Sunday 6 and Monday 7 is the same workshop introducing nokyos.

Details coming soon.

 

Mark在現代朗誦、吟誦、唱誦文本、祈禱文、咒語和經文等方面的開創性作品正在日益擴展，超越了其本身的意義。

星期日（6日）和星期一（7日）將舉辦同樣的工作坊，介紹 Nokyos。

詳情即將公布。

 

十月7日(週ㄧ）｜ October 7 (Monday)

Nokyo 唱誦週間一日工作坊｜Nokyo Chanting 1 day (weekday)

Sunday 6 and Monday 7 is the same workshop introducing nokyos.

Details coming soon.

星期日（6日）和星期一（7日）將舉辦同樣的工作坊，介紹 Nokyos。

詳情即將公布。

 

十一月22-24日｜November 22-24

ICTM原住民音樂與舞蹈研究小組會議

Conference of the ICTM Study Group for Indigenous Music and Dance Conference

嘉義，台灣｜Chiayi, Taiwan

More info on the Study Group website.

更多資訊在官網

 

十一月22-24日｜November 22-24

台灣世界口簧琴音樂節，苗栗

Taiwan International Jew’s Harp Music Festival, Miaoli

 

 

十月27-28日(週三、週四）｜Wednesday 27 + Thursday 28 November

唱入當下｜Catch the Spirit of the Moment          

The ever amazing improv workshop is back! This time on weekdays to enable busy performers to sharpen their skills outside the weekend hours.

Details coming soon.

令人驚嘆的即興工作坊又回來了！這次安排在平日進行，以便忙碌的表演者能在週末之外提升技能。

詳情即將公布。

 

 

December 21 – 24 ｜12月21-24日

Voice Yoga Winter Retreat  聲音瑜伽：冬至療癒假期

The. Classic. Retreat.

經典的療癒假期！

 >>>> Learn more/活動詳細資訊 <<<<<<

Read all about it here.

 

 

 

聲音的共鳴 年度團體 第一部分｜R E S O N A N C E   YEARGROUP  PART  I

一月2-5日 （週四 – 週日）Thursday January 2- Sunday 5 2025

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聲音的共鳴 年度團體 第二部分｜R E S O N A N C E   YEARGROUP  PART  II

三月6-9日 （週四 – 週日）Thursday March 6 – Sunday March 9 2025

The finest and most complete in-person introduction to overtone singing and overall

resonance of voice, mind and body, running as an 8 day course for over ten years.

 

 

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