24/07/2026
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SWITCHED-ON FUGUES
The Complete Electro-Acoustic Performance
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Om and Friends × THIPS Ensemble
present
SWITCHED-ON FUGUES
The Complete Electro-Acoustic Performance of
J.S. Bach's The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080
for Modern and Historical Instruments
Friday, July 24, 2026 · at 19:30
Neilson Hays Library, Bangkok
Om and Friends
Omporn Kowintha, Violin
Miti Wisuthumporn, Viola
Ekachai Maskulrat, Cello
THIPS Ensemble
Sallynee Amawat, Baroque Violin
Thanida Iamsirikulmitr, Traverso and Live Electronics
Akkra Yeunyonghattaporn, Keys/Synths and Electronics
Tickets
General 1,200 THB
Library Members 1,100 THB
Students 500 THB
Early Bird Until July 10
General 900 THB
Library Members 800 THB
Students 500 THB
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Concert Descriptions
Should we play Bach on modern instruments?
Switched-On Fugues answers with Bach's own silence. He left no instrumentation specified for The Art of Fugue, written in his final years when counterpoint of this density had already fallen out of fashion. The masterpiece exists as pure musical architecture, open to whatever forces can realize it, and that openness is where this performance begins. The title nods to Wendy Carlos's landmark 1968 album Switched-On Bach, which proved that Bach's lines could live as fully in any sound world as in his own.
Om and Friends and the Thai Historically Informed Performance Society Ensemble (THIPS Ensemble) perform BWV 1080 complete, all contrapuncti and canons in sequence, on gut strings and baroque traverso alongside synthesizers and live electronics. The ensemble brings historically informed performance practice, the study and use of period instruments and performing techniques true to Bach's own era, into direct conversation with the electronic instruments of today. That the work still holds, nearly three centuries after Bach's death and in instrumentation he never imagined, is itself a testament to what he was after all along.
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