About the Logos Ensemble

The Logos Ensemble is an avant garde group of dancers and musicians who dedicate themselves to performing, composing and teaching their craft. The group's projects often involve machinery and robots as well as human performers. The Logos Ensemble's aim is to push the boundaries of music by integrating unexpected and unusual elements into its musical works and performances. They performed on Susan Alexjander's experimental album "Sequencia," as well as several others.

The founders of the group

The Logos Ensemble was founded in 1968 by Godfried-Willem Raes and Moniek Darge in Ghent, Belgium. The duo began staging its performances locally, but soon garnered accolades for its unique performance style. Raes is a writer, musician and composer who attended the Ghent University School of Arts before establishing the Logos Ensemble with Darge, an assistant professor at the Hogeschool Gent who is also a composer and musician. The couple founded and maintain the Logos Foundation in Flanders, Belgium to teach and promote the creation of new music and audio arts.

Members of the group

Performances around Europe led to notoriety in European arts circles and the addition of other members to the Logos Ensemble. Currently, the group is comprised of several troupes, each with its own set of members and projects, but still part of the collective group. The Logos Duo, Logos Women and the Logos Man and Machine Orchestra all collaborate and perform separately around Europe. The active participants vary between students of the group and core members, a group that includes Françoise Vanhecke, Barbara Buchowiec, Kristof Lauwers, Marian De Schryver, Sebastian Bradt, Karin De Fleyt, Xavier Verhelst, Gerd Jeurissen, Peter Van Lancker, Kati Couck and Helen White.

Logos Ensemble projects and performances

The Logos Ensemble has produced many recorded works over the years such as Logos: Works CD, Mighty Risen Plea and Soundplay 2000. The troupe's live performances include concerts around Europe, Japan and the United States. The Logos Man and Machine Orchestra operates and performs from its own concert hall in Ghent, staging live shows throughout the year which feature an automated robot orchestra performing alongside human dancers, performers and musicians.

The Logos Ensemble continues to expand and test the boundaries of conventional music with its unique performances. The group's goals include expansion of its educational facilities and music programs and the advancement of the idea that music comes in many forms. The Ensemble is currently engaged in projects such as "Sensopole," which is an interactive pole dance performance, and a performance entitled "TechnoFaustus," an opera for robots and human bodies.