BL!NDMAN Collective

Category:ensemble (instrumentaal), kwartet, hedendaagse muziek
1988
Genre(s):20ste eeuw, 21ste eeuw / hedendaags
Contact of:Eric Sleichim
Actual/previous members:Piet Rebel, Raf Minten, Eric Sleichim, Koen Maas, Ine Kuypers, Tom De Cock, Yves Goemaere, Hannes Nieuwlaet, Griet De Geyter, Gunther Vandeven, Roeland Vanhoorne, Chris Saris, Diamanda Dramm, Mariana Hutchinson, Hélène Koerver, Suzanne Vermeyen

Biography

Eric Sleichim’s contemporary music ensemble BL!NDMAN is not just another saxophone quartet, but the name of a lab that houses a continual working process since 1988. In 1988 Eric Sleichim founded BL!NDMAN, a saxophone quartet with a traditional line-up, which develops new performance techniques and substantially expands the repertoire for the instrument by continually exploring the boundaries with other disciplines and early music.

In 2008 BL!NDMAN became a collective in which the 20 years of stage experience accumulated by the original quartet – BL!NDMAN [sax] – is shared with three young quartets: BL!NDMAN [drums], BL!NDMAN [vox] and BL!NDMAN [strings]. In 2014 the vocal quartet was replaced by BL!NDMAN [hybrid], a mixed quartet. A collective composed entirely of quartets: unique in the music world.

Four quartets, countless possibilities for ’unheard of’ cross-fertilisation. A highly individual repertoire of old and new. As always, BL!NDMAN embraces other artistic disciplines, delights the eye, questions the ear and considers experiment of paramount importance.

Selective discography

Vierkant Muziek - 2002Vierkant Muziek - 2002 (2002)
Jazz, classical
Beethoven Academie, Pianoduo Kolacny, LOD, BL!NDMAN Collective, Prometheus Ensemble, Ben Sluijs Quartet, Erik Vermeulen Trio, Collegium Vocale Gent (...)
Vierkant Muziek - 2001Vierkant Muziek - 2001 (2001)
classical
Greetings from Mercury, Boenox, Flat Earth Society, Oxalys, Prometheus Ensemble, BL!NDMAN Collective, LOD, Spiegel Strijkkwartet (...)
Terry Riley: in CTerry Riley: in C (2000)
21st century / contemporary, 20th century
Ictus, BL!NDMAN Collective, Terry Riley
Bl!ndman plays BachBl!ndman plays Bach (2000)
20th century
BL!NDMAN Collective, Eric Sleichim, Johann Sebastian Bach
Dust makes DamageDust makes Damage (1998)
20th century
BL!NDMAN Collective, Eric Sleichim
Bl!ndman Electr!kBl!ndman Electr!k (1998)
20th century
BL!NDMAN Collective
Marockin' storiesMarockin' stories (1997)
World / Ethnic
Marakbar, Al-Harmoniah, BL!NDMAN Collective
PoortenbosPoortenbos (1992)
20th century
BL!NDMAN Collective, Eric Sleichim

Related Items

News:BL!NDMAN zoekt vrijwillig administratief en productioneel assistent(e) (19.10.2011)
Opera-performance van Eric Sleichim op MA-festival (09.08.2011)
Bl!ndman call 4 young composers (18.10.2010)
Canvas portretteert Eric Sleichim (06.10.2008)
Tandemtournee Gouden Vleugels (02.10.2008)