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Music for electrified table and strings

a dining experience with Telemann

(a detailed project description will follow soon)

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Video

Baroque underground - Tafelmusik with a twist (on BBC website)
Music for electrified table and strings - a dining experience with Telemann (on Facebook)

Press

The Scotsman: "Fischer served up a rarified musical feast in Tafel music Recomposed (A dining experience with Telemann: Music for electrified table and strings) by manipulating numerous everyday objects on an amplified table, from paint scrapers to washing up scrubbers, nails and bottles filled with alcohol. Gliding between past and present, the ensemble (led by Jonathan Morton) and Fischer reconfigured Telemann’s sophisticated rhythms through the prism of electronica with a dash of childlike charm via a tinkling toy piano."

Bachtrack: "...Fischer’s Tafelmusik Recomposed (A dining experience with Telemann: Music for electrified table and strings) took Telemann’s music and mixed it with percussion and light electronics, sometimes blending into the traditional, at others contrasting starkly. Fischer sat at a busy soundboard populated with tuned bottles of liquid, a kitchen pallet knife, egg whisk, nails in a block and an array of other unlikely objects including a sponge, shot glass and metal bowl. A digital toy piano and a few electronics with a percussion app completed the range. Moving objects across the table sounded like distant passing traffic, and the Ensemble entered with slow ponderous Telemann. Fischer, taking a Baroque bow to the palette knife and whisk produced edgy harsh notes, echoed by the Ensemble playing next to the bridge. A more traditional dance with slapped bass was met by Fischer using sticks on everything raising energy levels before a South American rhythm was set up, the viola making dry percussive noises. Things became more surreal when electronic voices were introduced, and with the strings playing loops for a moment I thought we had jumped tracks to Reich’s Different Trains. Telemann’s music kept coming back though, the Ensemble even more energised and ending in a bouncy dance. Fischer looked relaxed and in his element, clearly relishing the mix of written and improvised music."