TECTONICS FESTIVAL DAY 1 : COMING TOGETHER / ATTICA
Schedule
Fri, 19 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Place Eugène Flagey, 1050 Elsene, België | Ixelles, BU
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ABOUT THE FESTIVAL : TECTONICS is a boundary-pushing festival for new and experimental music, launched in 2012 by conductor Ilan Volkov, a true musical omnivore with an insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging taste. Since then, it has grown into one of the world’s most eclectic and highly regarded festivals for those drawn to new sounds, bold experiments, and music that ventures beyond the expected. In June 2026, the Brussels Philharmonic and Ictus bring Tectonics to Brussels for the first time, taking over Flagey for two packed and compelling days.ABOUT ICTUS PERFORMING RZEWSKI : With Coming Together / Attica, written in 1975, Frederik Rzewski composed one of the most beautiful works “with narrator” in the history of modern music. The work is inspired by a prison riot in September 1971 at Attica Prison in New York State, where inmates simply demanded “to be treated like human beings.” The crackdown left more than forty people dead. Rzewski based his work on a letter written a few months before the events by Sam Melville, one of the prisoners who was killed. In a particularly powerful blend of nervous exhaustion, resilience, and irony, Melville describes how he regained his dignity through self-discipline (“In the indifferent brutality, the incessant noise, the experimental chemistry of food, the ravings of lost hysterical men, I can act with clarity and meaning”).
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Where is it happening?
Place Eugène Flagey, 1050 Elsene, België, De Rijdende Kip Flagey Markt, Eugène Flageyplein, 1050 Elsene, België, Ixelles, BelgiumEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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