Sound Rebellion is an international collective composed of three organists and one electronic musician, improvising together and transforming socio-political issues and human experiences through sound. The collective was founded in June following the symposium “New music ecologies” at Orgelpark in Amsterdam. It consists of Elisabeth Hubmann (AUT), Giulio Tosti (IT), Michele Del Prete (IT) and Adrian Foster (CA). The goal of Sound Rebellion is not only to reach people interested in improvised and experimental music, but also those interested in electronic music, pipe organs, engaged artistic creation and innovative sound combinations.
The themes of the collective revolve around rebellious people and activities. Sound Rebellion delivers thematic concerts that incorporate socio-politically and environmentally relevant themes. A Sound Rebellion performance can be dedicated to a specific matter (for example environmental disasters, energy problems) and conceived as a musical event exploring creation, human-made chaos and the end of the human-colonized earth: growing from nothingness, nature springs forth, humans appear on the scene, the natural balance falters and an alarm sounds, subsiding into indefinable sounds. The collective promotes new ways of making sound at the organ (with reduced wind or half-obstructed pallets, sound masses). The organ takes on a completely new role as an instrument – neither sacred nor profane, but rather as a mediator. Michele Del Prete blends his sound samples with the collective improvisations of the three organists (Elisabeth Hubmann, Giulio Tosti, Adrian Foster), who improvise on multiple large pipe organs (in churches or concert halls) or sometimes on portable instruments.The encounter between new media and unconventional organ sounds can so be translated into complex, interwoven music.