Multiple Voice

Since 1988, the Belgian BL!NDMAN group has built a discography that reflects the evolution of the saxophone quartet towards the collective of four quartets today. Alongside contemporary music and experimental playing techniques, old music is a central thread in the story of BL!NDMAN. There’s more to it than simply arranging masterpieces to expand the limited saxophone repertoire: it’s about rediscovering century-old music and breathing new life into it with the sound of a modern instrument. First Bach, with his youthful Chorale Partitas, then further back to the organums of the twelfth century, and the grandiose treasures of Franco-Flemish polyphony, and later, a rare excursion into Mozart’s bawdy canons. Since its start in 1988 the BL!NDMAN group has become a collective of four quartets: the saxophone quartet has been sharing its experience with three new quartets; a vocal, a percussion and a string quartet. Sixteen musicians, a quadrate of four-voice playing, joining together to crystallize the sonorous harmony.

Multiple Voice (2002) is an anthology of works from the 12th to the 16th centuries that make use of the organum, the hocket and the canon as compositional techniques.