The programme ‘Tales and Songs’ presents two works for four voices and live electronics from the 1980s and a contemporary commissioned work for the same instrumentation. In collaboration with the ICST (Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology) at the Zurich University of the Arts, SoloVoices focuses on the reconstruction and performance of works composed with that period's electronic tools: Henri Pousseur's ‘Tales & Songs from the Bible of Hell’ based on texts by William Blake, in which Pousseur musically engages with Dowland's ‘Flow my tears’, and William Brooks's ‘Madrigals’ on English poems. As a counterpoint to this, a work commissioned from the young Swiss composer Micha Seidenberg received its world premiere – also based on an English text, it bears witness to the new approach to music and the new possibilities of electronics.