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Alexandre Babel

Swiss composer, born 1980

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    • Alexandre Babel
    • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Oscar Bianchi
    • Gonzalo Bustos
    • Bernard Cavanna
    • Shiuan Chang
    • Collectif de compositeurs
    • Philip Corner
    • Franco Donatoni
    • Arno Fabre
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    • Manuela Guerra
    • Céline Hänni
    • Wolfgang Heiniger
    • Pierre Henry
    • Lejaren Hiller
    • David Hudry
    • Zhuosheng Jin
    • Tom Johnson
    • Jin Wook Jung
    • Mischa Käser
    • Fritz Lang
    • Chia-Ying Lin
    • Alvin Lucier
    • Alfred Machin
    • Masahiro Miwa
    • Javier Muñoz Bravo
    • Jean-Frédéric Neuburger
    • Olga Neuwirth
    • Hèctor Parra
    • Michael Pelzel
    • Alberto Posadas
    • Nathalie Preisig
    • Kaspar Querfurth
    • Martin Riches
    • Katharina Rosenberger
    • Leonardo Silva
    • Simon Söfelde
    • Karlheinz Stockhausen
    • Marc Texier
    • Edgard Varèse
    • Giuseppe Verdi
    • Carl Maria von Weber
    • Iannis Xenakis
    • Isang Yun
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Photo www.volpe.photography © Archipel 2017
In concert
Prisme - 03.24 7:00pm
Played works
Choeur mixte pour 15 percussions

Alexandre Babel is a Swiss born and Berlin based drummer, percussionist and composer. He is involved in various contemporary contexts such as modern classical music, free improvisation and performance art. Babel creates works that question the listener's expectations towards conventional musical forms. He performs as a solo artist and with groups through the five continents, in some of the leading venues and festivals of contemporary music. Principal percussionist in the contemporary music group KNM Berlin, he also collaborates with ensembles such as MusikFabrik, Schlagquartett Köln, Neue Vokalsolisten Stuttgart. As a drummer, he collaborated with the noise-rock units

Sudden Infant, Caspar Brötzmann trio, Buttercup Metal Polish, Aethenor as well as with WZC a duo with French composer and bassist Pierre Jodlowski. His compositions have been performed at the festival Archipel de Genève, the Eyedrum series in Atlanta, the Mozarteum Salzburg, the ION festival Nürnberg a.o. His solo percussion works are collected in a serie of recordings, the first of which appears on the label Dumpf. Babel is a founding Member of the performance collective Radial with the artist Mio Chareteau. He is currently the artistic director of the Geneva based percussion group Eklekto.

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