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Max Vandervorst - Waiting for Kyoto

© Frank Wuyts

Waiting for Kyoto pays homage to the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1997, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Twenty years later, after many discussions and some measures taken, the global warming process hardly seems to have changed. The polar ice cap continues to melt inexorably…

Will we passively wait until we are totally immersed ?
Some of us sing in the shower, others in the rain…
An orchestra was playing music on the Titanic while it was sinking…

Ah, how terrible the sounds made by falling drops and glass marbles resonating through everyday objects !
May they bring us awareness and give us the strength to react!

Max Vandervorst is a composer and inventor of musical instruments. Since 1988, he has put together a number of performances, showcasing instruments he created using a wide variety of objects as raw material : Symphony for Abandoned Objects, Concerto for Two Bicycles, The Man from Spa, The paper orchestra, have all been performed numerous times in many different countries.
He is also a prolific composer of stage music and the designer of the Maison de la Pataphonie in Dinant (Belgium). He has written several reference books dealing with “Unbridled Instruments”, which inspired numerous artistic projects in Europe and elsewhere. He frequently intervenes as an instructor at the CFMI (French university) and leads international workshops (Torino, Montreux, Barcelona, Paris)….