A performance of The Hague percussion trio XTRO is a feast for the eyes. The stage is filled with an arsenal of everyday objects such as bottles, glasses, flowerpots, high-heeled shoes, coconuts and buckets of water. John Cage, the American avantgarde composer, famously stated that music isn’t limited to instruments like the violin or piano, but that any sound – from the squeak of a chair to the rumble of a passing truck – can be part of a composition. This idea is the jumping off point for Flow: a programme in which these three young percussionists string together seven compositions to a poetic stream of sounds derived from everyday objects. To anyone who is willing to see and hear, they demonstrate that music knows no boundaries.
XTRO
Antonio Bove
Gabriele Segantini
Miguel Varela
