Long Arms Festival - 4 (2007)
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Long Arms Festival - 4 (2007)
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The Fourth International Forum LONG ARMS is held in Moscow on September 27-30, October 6-7, 2007. Within four days of this annual forum prominent world musicians will introduce recent trends and insights to the Russian audience. Modern video art and multimedia installations, new physical theatre and&& workshops are on the agenda.
September 27-30,&DOM Cultural Center, October 6-7 AKTZAL-- FOURTH presentation of the MAIN INTERNATIONAL VANGUARD FORUM OF TWO CAPITALS -- LONG ARMS in Moscow and APOSITION FORUM in St. Petersburg.
This year MOSCOW FESTIVAL comprises two parts:
LONG-ARMS MUSIC (September 27-30) – festival of vanguard, novel, experimental, noise and extraordinary music.
LONG-ARMS MOVEMENT (October 6-7) – festival included into the quantum lattice of vanguard-modern-dance energy blobs.
The Fest is a traditional devotion to Nikolai Alexandrovitch Dmitriev -- musical producer on the turn of two millennia. Revelation of the New in any possible sense -- that was a principal issue of his lifetime activity. As a founder (together with Sergei Kouriohine) of the Long Arms Agency (later DOM Center) and one of the curators of the program "Cultural Hero of the XXI Century" he promoted first and foremost sound arts of the most radical experimental trends. Exactly this idea is a guiding line for the organizers of the LONG ARMS-4.
FEST 2007 Participants:Keith Row& Great BritainErnst Reijseger& NetherlandsBeth Custer Ensemble USAPhill Niblock USASaadet Turkoz (Kazahstan, Turkey, Switzerland) Anton Silaev RussiaEnsemble Odd Appetite USAGroup Onde BelgiumDemetrius Spaneas USA Pacific 231 FranceMuriel Louveau FranceROMBIX RussiaProject ORNAMENTS: Miguel Ruiz, Eujeni Voronovsky, Alexei Borisov (Spain, Russia)& Project Tom Waits for Nobody& (Singapore)Al Margolis/Katherine Liberovskaja (USA/Canada)Michael Schumacher USAStupid Infinity/Teodor Tezhik theatre RussiaCeremony/Store House Company Theatre& JapanBLUE SOUP: Alexander Lobanov, Alexei Dobrov, Daniil Lebedev, Valery Patkonen RussiaBLUE NOSES: Vyacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov Russia
LONG ARMS Festival IV Schedule
Sep 27, 2007& Thursday& venue: DOM Cultural Center doors open: 19.30LONG ARMS Festival IV& openingDemetrius Spaneas (USA)Saadet Turkoz/Anton Silaev (Switzerland/Russia)Pacific 231 (France)
Sep 28, 2007& Friday venue: DOM Cultural Center doors open: 19.30Odd Appetite (USA)Onde (Belgium)Ernst Reijseger (Netherlands)Ornaments: Ruiz, Voronovsky, Borisov (Spain, Russia)
Sep 29, 2007 Saturday& venue: DOM Cultural Center doors open: 19.30My Grandma”, feature film (dir. Kote Mikaberidze, Georgia, 1929) live soundtrack& by Beth Custer Ensemble (USA)Tom Waits for Nobody (Singapore)Keith ROWE (Great Britain)
Sep 30, 2007 Sunday venue: DOM Cultural Center doors open: 19.30 Al Margolis/Katherine Liberovskaja (USA/Canada)Michael Schumacher (USA) Phill Niblock (USA)ROMBIX (Russia)
Oct 06, 2007 Saturday venue: DOM Cultural Center doors open: 19.30Blue Soup (video art, Russia)STUPID INFINITY Teodor Tezhik theatre, Russia
Oct 07, 2007 Sunday venue: AKTZAL doors open: 19.30Blue Noses (video art, Russia)CEREMONY STORE HOUSE COMPANY Theatre, Japan
Sep, 27, 2007 Thursday &:
Demetrius Spaneas USA
Demetrius Spaneas
Saxophone, clarinet and electronics
Agenda of the Program:
- "Magnolias & Speed" by Molly Thompson, for solo saxophone - a World Premiere!
- "Water Crossing" by Alex Shapiro
- "Music for Alto Saxophone and Electronics", by Pablo Furman
- "Interludes" by Demetrius Spaneas
35-40 minutes
Demetrios Spaneas
Classic/Modern multi-wind soloist/composer/recording artist Demetrius Spaneas shares his varied career between New York City and Boston. He has commissioned, recorded, and premiered works by many prominent composers including John Cage, John Harbison, Donald Martino, Bernard Rands, Gunther Schuller, Joan Tower and many others.
By now he has two solo recordings on Capstone Records, "When Wind Comes to Sparse Bamboo" (2003), and "From a Far-off World" (2006).
His major interests include combining improvisation within classically structured forms, work with electronics and video, and world music. He was a member of the Auros Group for New Music, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and the Harvard Group for New Music, as well as many other chamber and symphonic ensembles in the Northeast.
In demand as a guest lecturer/performer of New Music, he held conferences and arranged concerts at Harvard University, the California Institute for the Arts, Tanglewood, and the New England Conservatory, as well as other music programs and venues.
As a commercial performer, he shared the stage with many top acts, including the Funk Brothers (featured soloist, 2005-06), Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and many others. He is also a founder and leader of the world music ensemble BALKANASIA which combines music from the Balkans and Near East with jazz and rock, and co-director of the New York chamber group, the Sapphire Ensemble. Demetrius plays exclusively Gonzales Reeds (clarinet and saxophone). As a composer he is a member of ASCAP. Demetrius was given honorable rank Composer-in-Residence for the Bay Area Chamber Symphony based in Oakland, CA.
Saadet Turkoz/Anton Silaev (Turkey, Kazakhstan, Switzerland/Russia)
Improvisation
Saadet Turkoz – vocal
Anton Silaev – trumpet, electronics
Singer Saadet Torkez, now resident in Switzerland, was born in Istanbul in 1961 in a family of Uigur migrants from China. So, she inherited a rich historic mix of ancient traditions of Central-Asian highlands and the Marmara sea.
Through her improvisations (inspired mainly by melodic language of the Koran) and& Turkish and Kazakh songs she tries to transform her reminiscences and ancestral memory of her nation. Her voice and music create unique images and sophisticated atmosphere that are beyond cultural borders
Besides her solo concerts, Saadet regularly performs in duos, trios or bigger formations with free-improvising jazz musicians -& such as& Martin Schuetz, Elliot Sharp, Eyvind Kang, Werner Luedi, Urs Leimgruber, Thomas Rohrer, Miya Masaoka, Norbert Moeslang, Andy Guhl, Peter Kowald, Gianni Gebbia, Ikue Mori, Carl Ruediger, Okkyung Lee, the Koch-Schuetz-Studer Trio, Pascal Schaer, Nils Wogram, Jaques Widmer, Mark Dresser,& Fred Frith, the Black Sea Trio, Larry Ochs, Carl Stone, Xu Feng Shia, Peggy Lee,& Mich Gerber, Peter SchŠrli, Fritz Hauser, Graham Haynes, Satoshi Takeishi,& Alex Cline,& Brent Arnold, Yagi Michiyo, Makigami Koichi.
Formations:
Nils Wogram, posaune (Switzerland/Germany)
Martin Schuetz, cello (Switzerland)
Urs Leimgruber, sax (Switzerland)
Pascal Schaer, trombone (Switzerland)
Jaques Widmer, drum (Switzerland)
Elliott Sharp, git, sax (USA)
Okyung Lee, cello (Korea, USA)
Eyvind Kang, viola (USA)
Peggy Lee, cello (CA)
Xu Feng Xia, kuzheng (China/Germany)
Carl Stone, electronic (USA/Japan)
Miya Masaoka, koto (USA)
Fredy Studer, drum and guest instrument (Urumchi-Uyghur Region/Switzerland)
Satoshi Takeishi, drum, Okkyung Lee, cello, (USA)
Mark Dresser, bass, Okkyung lee, cello(USA)
Larry Ochs, sax, Miya Masaoka, koto (USA)
Trio "what we live", Larry Ochs, sax, Lisle Ellis, bass, Don Robinson, drum (USA)
Trio Koch-Schuetz-Studer, Hans Koch, sax, Martin Schuetz, cello, Fredy Studer, drum, (Switzerland)
"Blast"& (Dirk Bruinsma, sax, (NL), Paed Conca, bass, electronic, (CH), Frank Crijns, git, (NL), Fabrizio Spera, drums, (I)
Anton Silaev (Russia)
Young, yet extremely successful composer, musician and performer. He's got an incredible service record in his scarcely 25. (Enclosed below)
Anton graduated from electric guitar department at musical school but finally he came about as a professional trumpeter. He mastered various instruments on his own including ethnic wind instruments: kalyuka, zhaleika, Japanese flutes, Arabian argul, Australian dijeridoo, Latin American flutes, wind harmonicas, block-flutes (including bass-flute), flugel-horn, and others.
&&&&&&&& 2003 album <<Mixing point Mockвa>> was released by <<Manas Records>>.& This ethno-electronic project in collaboration with S. Starostin, Shobha Joshi, Mashrab Shierdil, Moiramo, Karina Moller was his contribution to The World Tea Festival
&&&&&&&& 2004& participation in Radio CULTURE opening concert
&& &&&&& 2005& album "Music of Cosmic Divers" was released as a supplement to Leonid Tishkov's book "Divers 3", Gayatri
&&&&&&&& 2005 work with Givan Gasparian resulting in 20-minute disk for Ararat Company.
He performed with "NETE" group, Guendos Chamzyryn (Tuva), Sergei Starostin, Sainkho Namchylak,& Spooky Actions, Han Bennink, Alexei Borisov, Maxim Ivanenko and others.
&&&&&&&& By 2007 album in collaboration with& Chamzyryn& has to be released by LONG ARMS Records.
By now he composed soundtracks for more tan 10 documentaries and 5 the first one -- "Harvest-time" (dir. Marina Razbezhkina) -- won 16 awards and prizes (including musical awards) in Greece, Russia, USA, France and other countries.
Film &"Ravine" by the same director won Tariverdiev Commemoration Prize "For the Best Soundtrack" at the prestigious Russian festival "Kinotavr-2007".
Soundtracks for documentaries:
SIMPLY& LIFE&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&& dir. Marina Razbezhkina
VACATION&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Marina Razbezhkina
&1000 C&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Irina Uralskaya
ABOUT SARAH and SVETA&&&&&&&& dir. Irina Uralskaya
CLONDiKA&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Vladimir Popov
MIRACLES and MYSTERIES&&&&&&&& dir. Olesya Fokina
CHASING FOR ANGEL &&&&&&&&&&&&&&
SAUCHEK&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Alexei Yazlovski
SNOW ANGEL&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Tatiana Scabard
BEAST DAMNATION &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Olga Chekalina
and others
Soundtracks for feature films:
2004 HARVEST-TIME&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Marina Razbezhkina
2005 HUNTER&&&&&&& &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&& dir. 2006 ORANIENBAUM. SILVER SAMURAI&&&&&&&& dir. Vladimir Kotta
2007 I'lll STAY&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. K. Oganesyan
2007& RAVINE&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& dir. Marina Razbezhkina
Pacific 231 (France)
Album presentation
Experimental electronics
Pacific 231 - project of Pierre& Jolivet French musician nowadays residing in Ireland. P-231 came into sight in early 80-s and belonged to the first wave of industrial groups. Early albums were released on the labels of Le Syndicat, Cause And Effect и Bunker Records. Really invaluable assistance in due time was rendered by American outsiders Psyclones with whom Жоливе recorded a pair of albums under the name Psy 231 released on their label Ladd-Frith.
The earliest album recorded almost 25 years ago and released quite recently on the label Old Europa Cafe became one of the first ones in power electronic style. "Thule Apocalypse", 45-minute piece, compared with today's leaders of this trend, sounds a bit unusual. It's more likely some transition period from old industrial school. But still it adheres to the main laws of the genre: harsh pulse of electronic modules, powerful psychological impact of the raw monotonous noise and multiple samples as musical events turning a listener towards the theme of The Second World War -- anthems, marches, waltzes, cabaret music and, of course, speeches, orders, commands, scanned slogans and appeals.
The next album "Unusual Perversions" which became a real rarity was produced about the same manner. Exploiting themes of fetishism and different sorts of perversions, it resembles early albums of Die Form and Blackhouse.
"Power Assume" (1987) is much more experimental in sound and appeals to quite another perception type -- in no way to some numb stupor and paralyzing fear but to complex balance of concentration and relaxation governed by the harmony of resonances and transitional processes. At the same time the album is highly organic and all-sufficient -- this is a thing in itself. The whole struggle occurs on the speculative level. You may even ignore it at the presence of such request…
Pierre is extremely exact in dealing with musical matter, slightly elucidating only those areas that do not bring danger whereas not flattering your ear. His interest concentrates mainly on sounds -- awkward, free of gloss but not free of sonic charm -- that could be emitted by some fossil beasts in death-combat.
&Recently Pierre's activity has distinctly decreased and the style has undergone substantial changes, moving far from noise music into the sphere of experimental electronics and synthetic sound. His single "Heuristic Occlusion" released in 2001 in a collection circulation (100 copies) on the Austrian label Syntactic contain two pieces of refined computer music, spectral variations of minimalist sequences. Album "Ethnicities" released in 2006 is the first after lengthy interval lasting for god knows how many years.
Suffice it to say that material for him has been recorded within the last 20 years! Audition time of this 50-minute trek as if embraces the whole epoch:& urbanistic scenery gives place to natural tropical landscape, pseudo-ethnic rhythm dissolves in psychedelic ambient. The album was released in three formats (CD, vinyl and DVD) by a new French label Rotorelief known by the Tribute-to-John Balance.
Pierre's interest to ethnic music finds its extension in the last album "Palestine" recorded a month ago on Old Europa Cafe in collaboration with Rapoon. This is a kind of ethno-trans suite similar in esthetics to albums of Muslimagauze (the album, in fact, is a tribute to Brin Jones). It was released in a special package and its presentation will take place within Pacific-231 Russian Tour together with a new video-performance program "Stiffle" not yet released anywhere.
September,28:
Odd Appetite (USA)
Novel music
Based in New York City, Odd Appetite is a duo of performers/composers Ha Yang Kim (cello) and Nathan Davis (percussion). Unique instrumental staff indeed! They both received classical education in American and European conservatories. Odd Appetite composes and performs their own music as well as works of other composers. They offer music that is both subtle and visceral, complex yet unified by narrative and gesture. Critic Kyle Gann praised Odd Appetite in the Village Voice as "expert virtuoso players", and David Cleary wrote in "21st Century Music": "The splendid duo Odd Appetite displayed careful chamber music interaction, a well-tuned ear for ensemble balance, and technical dexterity to burn".
Odd Appetite often uses electronics to extend and exaggerate acoustic properties of their instruments. Imagine giant gongs, microtonal bells, drums, pipes, and hammered dulcimer heard alongside a de-tuned and amplified cello, processed with guitar pedals and electronic effects, all played with dazzling virtuosity, passion and spirit.
Their interest to studying and performing music of Bali and of South India (Karnatic music) are of special interest. They traveled the world in search of new sounds and languages, and their music is a manifestation of the zeal that we have for the music of today and this world.
Odd Appetite made its debut at Carnegie Hall as soloists with Gamelan Galak-Tika in Evan Ziporyn's Amok, and were featured in the 2007 Bang on a Can Marathon. They collaborated with Christian Wolff and the Downtown Ensemble in a series of NYC performances of Wolff's seminal Exercises, worked closely with Ziporyn on a number of projects, and recorded with Larry Polansky for his Four-Voice Canons disc from Cold Blue Records.
The duo has toured the U.S., The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Germany and Turkey. In Summer 2005 they toured Bali, playing with Galak-Tika in the Bali Arts Festival in Denpasar, the Kuta Festival, and in villages around the island. They played at such venues as The Salvador Dali Museum, Roulette, and Galapagos. Odd Appetite have been guest artists at The Boston Conservatory, Brown, Harvard, Brandeis, Wellesley, Dartmouth, and other colleges in the Northeast, where they have also been in residence and conducted educational outreach.
Ha-Yang Kim - Ama (Tzadik)
Nathan Davis - Memory Spaces (Mytoeses Music)
Non Sequitur (Karnatic Lab Records)
Festivals:
Bang on a Can (New York, NY)
Bali Arts Festival (Denpasar, Indonesia)
Festival de Musica Electroacoustica (Havana, Cuba)
CyberArts Festival (Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ought-One Festival (Montpelier, Vermont, USA)
Festival of Living Music (St. Petersburg, Florida, USA)
Bonk Festival (St. Petersburg, Florida, USA)
Musicians:
Evan Ziporyn
Christian Wolff
Larry Polansky
Louis Andriessen
Music of Odd Appetite
Christian Wolff Exercises
American Experimentalism
Ernst Reijseger (Netherlands)
Free Jazz, novel music
Ernst Reijseger (1954), enchanted by diversity of musical forms and trends since his early years, readily performs with musicians from vastly differing cultures. Frequent guests in his projects are outstanding traditional musicians: percussionist Sergine Gueye and singer Mola Sylla from Senegal, Sardinian ensemble "Tenores e Concordu de Orosei", Turkish musicians, drummers from Iran, percussionist Sergine Gueye and singer Mola Sylla .& A propos, Molla Sylla recorded two brilliant albums ("Vershki da Koreshki" & "SETU") at the Long Arms Studio.
Ernst also played/recorded with: Burton Greene (1969), Sean Bergin (1975), Martin van Duynhoven, Derek Bailey, Alan Purves and Franky Douglas, Trilok Gurtu and Yo Yo Ma. He was a member of the Theo Loevendie Consort, the Guus Janssen Septet, the Arcado Stringtrio, Trio Clusone with Michael Moore and Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg’s Instant Composers Pool, the Gerry Hemingway quintet, Trio with trumpetist Eric Vloeimans and guitarist Anton Goudsmit, duo with pianist Franco d' Andrea, clarinetist-soprano saxophonist Louis Sclavis, , accordeonist, banjo, guitar,mandoline, kaval, and pedal steel guitar-player Stian Carstensen, duo and trio with masterpianist Simon Nabatov and trio with the Amsterdam String Trio, trio with Stian Carstensen and drummer Jarle Vespestadt, quartet with bassplayer Mats Eilertsen, clarinet-saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist and drummer Thomas Str&#248;nen.
&Extreme breadth of his interests is highly estimated by experts and audience.
In 1985 he won the Boy Edgar prize. In 1995 he received the "Bird-Award" at the Nordsea Jazz Festival.&Ernst Reijseger composes soundtracks for motion pictures (Werner Herzog) and documentaries.
&Cellist Larissa Groeneveld and pianist Frank van de Laar with Reijseger as third 'free agent' perform his written music. (cd: Do You Still, label Winter & Winter).
Ernst started to play cello at the age of 8, so he spends much time playing for children in schools and theatres, and gives occasional cello-workshops.
Discography
Cd selection of the last 10 years:
1997 - Ernst Reijseger Colla Parte&label: Winter&Winter, distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (F) etc.
1999 - Ernst Reijseger Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei "Colla Voche"with Alan Purves Drums/percussion and the Tenore e Concordu de Orosei label: Winter&Winter, distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (F) etc.
1999 - Moondive III (Double cd) Live concert with Ray Anderson (USA) Mola Sylla (Senegal) Eddie Veldtman (Surinam) Lesley Joseph (Cura&#231;ao) Michel Godard (France) T Ruben van Roon (Holland) dj + perc label: VPRO EIGENWIJS, distr.: VPRO Broadcasting Hilversum - Holland
2000 - Amsterdam String Trio WinterAmsterdam String Trio Compostions of Maurice Horsthuis Maurice Horsthuis, Ernst Glerum, double bass label: Winter&Winter, distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (F) etc.
- Sean Bergin Ernst Reijseger MistakesSean Bergin, s-sax,t-sax, flute & pennywhistle Org label: Broken Records (now DATA Records) remarks . Reissued: 2001 distr.: datarecords
- Ernst Reijseger Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves Cellotape - Scotchtapeperf. duo with Alan Purves, dr./perc label and distr: Data Records 822remarks: Reissued: 2002
2001 - KakyokuMusic of Fumio Yasuda with Chamber orchestra label: Winter&Winter distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Harmonia Mundi (France) etc.
2001 - Ernst Reijseger Alan "Gunga" Purves TADuo with Alan "Gunga" Purves, live in Santa Barbara 1987 label: NIMBUS WEST RECORDS Recorded 1987
2000 - Gr&we Reijseger HemingwayCounterfactualsGeorg Graewe, Gerry Hemingway, dr label: Nuscope
2002 - Ernst Reijseger Franco d'Andrea I love you so much it hurtsFranco d'Andrea, Ernst Reijseger label: Winter&Winter distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France) etc.
2003 - : Maria Pia de Vito TumultiMaria Pia de Vito, Patrice Heral, dr/ Paul Urbanek, p label: Manifesto rec.
2003 - : Ernst Reijseger, Mola Sylla Serigne CM Gueye JANNATrio Mola Sylla, Serigne Gueye, Ernst Reijseger label: Winter&Winter 910-0942 distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France) etc.
2003- : Stian Carstensen Backwards into the BackwoodsTrio Mola Sylla, Serigne Gueye, Ernst Reijseger label: Winter&Winter distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL)), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France) etc.
2004 - : Audiofilm – Der KastanienballWolfram Berger [story teller]: Nicolo Machiavelli Jean-Louis Costes [vocals, piano]: Alexander VI. Cristina Zavalloni [vocals]: Giulia la Bella Sabrina Khalil [vocals]: Lucrezia Borgia Jim Thirlwell [theremin, electronics]: Cesare Borgia Sadiq Bey [voice]: Girolamo Savonarola Theo Bleckmann [vocals]: Martin Luther Musicians: No&l Akchot&#233; [musical director, guitar] Steve Beresford [hammond organ, electronics, pocket trumpet, voice] Lorenzo Ghielmi [church organ] Alan >>Gunga<< Purves [drums, percussion, tubes] Ernst Reijseger [cello, percussion, voice] Herb Robertson [trumpet] Fumio Yasuda [piano, melodica] Gamba quartet >>Il Suonar Parlante<< with Vittorio Ghielmi, Rodney Prada, Fahmi Alqhai, Cristiano Contadin label: Winter&Winter distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France) etc.
2004 - : Mats Eilertsen TurangaMats Eilertsen , Fredrik Ljungkvist, Thomas Str&#248;nen, ernst reijseger
2005 - : Mats Eilertsen FluxMats Eilertsen , Fredrik Ljungkvist, Thomas Str&#248;nen, ernst reijseger
2005 - :ContinuumTrio Georg Gr&we, Gerry Hemingway, Ernst Reijseger. label: Winter&Winter distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France) etc.
2006 - : Vittorio Ghielmi Full of ColourQuartetto Italiano de Viola da Gamba Il Sonar Parlante label: Winter&Winter5 pieces by and with ernst reijseger distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I),Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France)
2006 - : Requiem for a Dying PlanetFilmsession for Two Werner Herzog films: The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonderlabel: Winter&Winter Mola Sylla and the Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, ernst reijseger . distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I),Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France)
2007 - : Do You StillLarissa Groeneveld – cello, ernst reijseger, Frank vand de Laar - Piano label: Winter&Winter Mola Sylla and the Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei, ernst reijseger . distr.: Edel Contraire (D, I), Harmonia Mundi (NL), Allegro (USA), Abeille Musique (France)
Onde (Belgium)
ONDE will be:
Greg Jacobs (B): violin, electronics, strings
Marc Wroblewski (B): strings, metal
Timo Van Luijk (B): guitar, tape feedback
Marcelo Aguirre (ARG): drums, percussion, voice
ONDE was founded in October 2006.
The core members of ONDE, (Timo Van Luijk, Marc Wroblewski and Greg Jacobs) are all former participants of now defunct Noise-Maker’s Fifes.&
Timo Van Luijk took an active part in various musical projects: Asra with Raymond Dijkstra, In camera with Christoph Heemann, with Kris Vanderstraeten, No Neck Blues Band and Noise-Maker’s Fifes. Besides that he has played with Mirror and produced several solo releases as Af Ursin.
Greg Jacobs and Marc Wroblewski cooperated with Noise-Makers Fifes for years. During 20 years of its lifetime Noise-Maker’s Fifes – often labelled as an isolationist band - gained a strong reputation of a live band.& With the death of founding member Geert Feytons Noise-Maker’s Fifes was buried and ONDE created.
Marcelo Aguirre recently joined ONDE.& Marcelo is a self-taught percussionist and vocalist.& He plays music in a highly distinctive manner manifesting a wide spectrum of influences ranging from spacious, delicate pulsation, to bursts of pure tone colour into free music or charged noise, with a focus on continuous sound and changing dynamics.& He worked with such artists as Michael John Fink, John Duncan, Z’EV and Ulrich Krieger.&
Whereas Noise-Maker’s Fifes often experimented with multi media, ONDE is a pure musicians collective, were improvisation takes a central role. ONDE could be labelled as a “free musicians' collective”, where the musicians can play whatever they want, whenever they want.&
Although no rules, conventions or limits are imposed, the music ONDE produces could be clearly labelled as experimental, and ranging from psychedelic to drone music, sometimes even minimal, with regular outbursts of pure noise.& As with all improvisational music, the direction of the music is guided by the energy of the moment itself and is, therefore, by definition unpredictable.&
ONDE uses acoustic (sometimes prepared) as well as electronic and self-made instruments.
The release of their first album is scheduled for September 2007.
Ruiz, Voronovsky, Borisov (Spain, Russia)
Presentation of <> album (LONGARMS records)/ kind of a dark-ambient with trans rhythms...
Miguel Ruiz& - cassettes, audio-software, organ, synth
Alexei Borisov – drum-machine, synth, bass-line, guitar, vocals
Eugene Voronovski& -& buzz-violin, sound cover-up's, drum-machine, vocals
We've been working at the distance by mail, as a genuine group, keeping mail-art traditions of the 80-s
CISFINITUM
CISFINITUM
CISFINTIUM is an ambiently noisy project of composer Eugene Voronovski experimenting within ten years in troubled waters of dark-ambient and noise.
Cold boundless landscapes of ruined worlds, Abyss of the human consciousness, divine unconsciousness and the rest of Russian metalanguage came true in this doomsday music.
Sound extraction mode is chosen in advance. In the course of experiment, welcomed are: Soviet analogous synthesizers, digital noise, prepared electric violin, chimes, and all possible religious and ideological doctrines.
The number of C.'s cd- and vinyl-releases is impressive, including ambient-n-noise with awesome Rapoon, remixes on New Blockaders и Maeror Tri.& All-European press was really chopped out by some of its fulfillments. In 2005 Cisfinitum deserved benediction for solo-service in the Bremen Cathedral by the happy thought of the Reiher Electronischer Musiek festival.
MIGUEL A. RUIZ
Born 1964 in Madrid. Spain
First experiments with tapes & synths around 1981
Several cassettes published in Spain (via Toracic Tapes label) and other countries, under various pseudonyms, from 1982 to 1989.
He composed a legendary cassette "LA CAMARA GAMMA" under his own name for the ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO label, in 1989. this same year he collaborated with the electronic artist Hector Hernandez for the "Han Llegado los Robots" cassette, many years after released on CD (2005), the first "Batan Bruits" edition.
First vinyl “Encuentros en la Tercera Edad” (Hamburger Musikgesellschaft.1991) produced in Germany by Asmus Tietchens.
Contribution to “AUDIOSCOPE” (1992), a CD compilation of young electronic composers from Madrid. Miguel participated in a concert arranged at Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid).
In 1994 it “ORFEON GAGARIN: Contestacion Capilar”& was released (Hyades Label), a CD sampler of pre recorded tracks from the “cassette” period.
Collaboration with Siegmar Fricke for the “Efficient Refineries” electronic project. One track was included into the Spanish compilation on CD “Iberica Electr&#243;nica” (Brainwaves label). Two new releases on CD in 2006: Nitideath (Simple Logic) and Epinervio (Menstrual Rec. )
Some contributions :& "Dedication II", international CD-compilation (Artware -Germany) and "Realidade Virtual", in vinyl, both in industrial-experimental manner.
Techno-project “EXHAUSTOR” starting in 1995 with the release of “Coaxial” CD. (Linea Alternativa Label).
Some live-acts in Madrid, Leon,Barcelona (Sonar festival), Moscow & St. Petersbourg (Febr.2006) and Buenos-Aires, Argentina ()
2004. Some concerts as VENTRAL METAPHOR (Deep Psychoplasmic Sound)
2005. "Han Llegado los Robots", a cassette from 1989 by Miguel Ruiz & Hector Hernandez, is released on CD , the first release of a new label: "Batan Bruits" where some re-editions of old material are in project, like ORFEON GAGARIN "Kedr", 1987 or "Vasarely",
"GROSOR", a new CD from Miguel A.Ruiz has been released in Russia by "Monochrome Vision", an experimental-music label based in Moscow.
"ORNAMENTS", collaboration with E.Voronovski & A.Borisov scheduled for release in Russia by Long Arms (2007)
Also New reissues : KEDR (on Batan Bruits) , NEUMOTORAX s.XX (on Menstrual Rec.)
/orfeongagarin
ALEXEI BORISOV
Alexei Borisov (b. 1960, Moscow)
Musician, composer, producer, journalist, happening organizer
Lives and works in Moscow
1983&&&&&&&&&&& graduated from the Moscow State University (History Department)
& guitarist of the first Russian new-wave band The Centre
& vocalist/guitarist of the mod band Prospekt
1985&&&&&&&&&&& formed (with Ivan Sokolovsky) the first Russian techno-industrial band Notchnoi Prospekt (still active)
Since 1992 & member of F.R.U.I.T.S. duo (with Pavel Jagun)
Since 1993&&&&& collaborates with Moscow video artists Roman Anikushin and Alexandr Sidorov
Since 1994 & collaborates with the Helsinki-resident musician Anton Nikkila
Since 1994&&& &&&&&&&& organizes and curates musical and audiovisual events in Moscow and elsewhere in Russia
Since 1994&&&&& works as a dj at different clubs and on radio stations
Since 1995&& creates music for the Moscow& video/performance art group Sever
Since 1997 && collaborates with sax improviser Serguei Letov (Gosplan trio, New Russian Alternative)
Since 1997 & producer and musician of the experimental ethno-electronic group Volga
Since 2000& collaborates with KK Null (Japan), Jeff Surak (USA), Tania Stene (Norway), Leif&&&& Ellgren (Sweden), Franz Pomassl (Austria), Gilles Aubry (Switzerland), Government Alpha (Japan), The New Blockaders (UK) and many others.
Since 2005&&&& collaborates with Moscow based video-art duo INN (Nikita Tzymbal, Natalia Poloka)
More , links to interviews, reviews and audio:
Solo recordings:
"P&#229; k&ket" (CD-R, Insofar Vapour Bulk, Russia, 2000)
"Before the Evroremont" (CD, N&B Research Digest/Avanto Festival, Russia/Finland, 2002)
Alexei Borisov “Polished Surface Of A Table” (CD, Electroshock, Russia 2004)
Notchnoi Prospekt:
"Sugar" (LP, Accelerating Blue Fish, Sweden, 1990)
"Asbastos" (LP, SNC, Russia, 1992)
"Music for dance" (CD, BSA, Russia, 1993)
"Acids" (CD/MC, RDM, Russia, 1995)
"Gumanitarnaya zhizn" (CD/MC, Electric, Russia, 1996)
"Koncert v Vilniuse 1988" (CD-R, Grief Recordings, Russia, 2000)
“Live in DOM” (CD-R, Pentagramma, Russia 2002)
“Novye Fiziki” (CD, Random Music, Russia 2004, live recordings from 1987-88)
F.R.U.I.T.S.:
"Electrostatik" (CD/MC, Exotica, Russia, 1997)
"Acid report 96" (CD-R, Grief Recordings, Russia, 2000)
"Studio Recordings vol.1" (CD-R, N&B Research Digest, Finland/Russia, 2000)
"Jakuzi" (CD, Exotica Lights, Russia, 2000)
"Lakmus" (CD-R, Xerxes, Japan, 2001)
”Forbidden Beat” (CD, Laton, Austria, 2004)
"Volga" (CD, Exotica, Russia, 1999)
“Bottoms up!” (CD, Exotica, Russia, 2003)
“Concert” (CD, Sketis Music, Russia, 2003)
“Three Fields” (CD, Volga/Sketis Music, Russia, 2004)
“Selected Works” (CD, Volga/Lollipop Shop, Germany 2005)
“5” (Remixed) (CD, Sketis Music, Russia 2006)
“Pomol” (CD, Lumberton Trading Company, UK 2006)
Other projects:
F.R.U.I.T.S. & Sa-Zna: "Amber Rooms" (CD, Exotica/GMB R.I., Russia, 1998)
Novaya russkaya al'ternativa: "Uverennost' v nevidimom" (CD-R, Pentagramma, Russia, 1999)
Borisov, Letov: "Faust@Ekaterinburg" (CD-R, Pentagramma, Russia, 1999)
Borisov, Letov, Lipatov: "Faust. Nizhni Novgorod, 1999" (CD-R, Pentagramma, Russia, 2000)
Joint Committee: "Rosenkranz Sessions Vol. 1" (CD-R, Pentagramma, Russia, 2000)
Spies Boys & Notchnoi Prospekt: "Live in Bunkr 2000" (CD-R, NNRecords, Russia, 2000)Spies Boys & Notchnoi Prospekt: "Live in Bunkr 2001" (CD-R, NNRecords, Russia 2001)
Borisov, Letov, Lipatov, Norvila: "Faust v Moskve" (2CD-R, Pentagramma, Russia 2001)
Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkila: "Live@Cafe9" (CD-R, Planktone, Russia, 2002)
"Serguei Letov – Alexei Borisov – Anton Nikkila" (CD, Hor Music, Russia, 2002)
Letov – Borisov – D.A. Prigov: “Concert v O.G.I.” (CD, Otdelenije vihod, Russia, 2002)
Alexei Borisov & Jeffrey Surak: “Ulitsa Novatorov” (mini-CD-R, The Locus of Assemblage, UK, 2003)
Alexei Borisov & KK. Null: “Xenoglossia” (CD, Insofar Vapor Bulk, Russia, 2003)
Letov-Borisov-Sokolovsky :“Suprematizm Project” (CDR, Pentagramma, Russia, 2003)
Alexei Borisov, Daruin (aka Kazuya Ishigami) and Comforter (aka Alexander Alexeev):"How To Use Friends As Organ Donors" (split CD-R, Spirals of Involution, Russia, 2003)
Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkila: "Typical Human Beings" (CD, N&B Research Digest, Russia/Finland, 2004)
Finnexport 2003 Tour feat. Pan sonic, Pink Twins, Alexei Borisov and Anton Nikkila (split 2CDR, Spirals of Involution, Russia 2005)
The New Blockaders/Gosplan Trio “Sound Sketch For Raging Flames” (CD, Klanggalerie, Austria, 2005)
Bogatiri (Violet, Alexei Borisov, Michael Gindreau live in Russia 2003) (CD, Zeromoon, USA, 2005)
Alexei Borisov & KK Null “Xenoglossia 2” (CD, Electroclub, Russia 2006)
Compilations (as a solo artist):&
22-Pistepirkko: "Zipcode - 15th Anniversary remix&remake compilation album" (CD, Bare Bone Business/Spirit, Finland, 1996)
"Avanto 2001" (CD, Avanto Festival, Finland, 2001)
"Prototype" (CD, Laton, Austria, 2002)
"Dich Avangarda" (CD, Insofar Vapour Bulk, Russia, 2002)
"Nautik" (CDR, Laton, Austria, 2003)
"Exotica vs. The Beatles, The Black Album” (CD, Exotica, Russia, 2003)
"Dissolution Tapes. The MCE Remixed". (CD, Zeromoon, USA, 2004)
"Ilios – Encyclopedia – RW" (CD, Antifrost, Spain, 2004)&
&Bulldozer 3 (CD, Fulldozer, Russia, 2004)
“Go-To-Cat-Man-Do” (CD, MonotypeRec, Poland, 2005)
Culmination (CD, Laton, Austria, 2005)
Volga “5” remixed (CD, Sketis music, Russia 2006)
Viva Negativa (Tribute to The New Blockaders) (4LP, Vinyl On Demand, Germany, 2005/06)
It Just Is. In Memoriam: John Balance (CD, Fulldozer and Nocharizma, Russia, 2005)
Yokomono 03 (LP, Staalplaat, Germany 2005)
September, 29:
"My Grandma" , feature film, director Koteh Mikaberize (Georgia, 1929), live dubbing by& Beth Custer (USA)
"My Grandma":
"A satirical comedy deriding protectionism in the Soviet public institutions. One of the most vital anti-bureaucratic grotesques in the history of the Georgian cinematography of the 20-s. All-Union distribution launched in 1976". ("Omitted Cinema. .", 1995).
Beth Custer Ensemble (USA)
Mark Calderon - double-bass
David James - guitar
Dina Masabi - violin
Beth Custer - clarinet, keyboards
Jessica Ivrey - cello
Ian Jacson - percussion
Chris Grady - trumpet
A dynamic collage of American folk, blues, modern classics, jazz and world music was produced for "My Grandma" by Beth Custer, clarinetist and composer from San-Fransisco. She composes music for films, TV, theatre and dance. She is one of the founders of The Club Foot Orchestra (Serguei Kuriokhine performed with it in early 90-s), Trance Mission, Clarinet Thing, Eight Mile Beach, and Do&#241;a Luz 30 sos. She's got her own recording label.
Her performance is supported by the grants ofTrust for Mutual Understanding and& Mid Atlantic Arts Fund Grand.
Tom Waits for Nobody (Singapore)
Leslie Lo - vocal, acoustic and electro guitar
Zai Kuning - vocal, acoustic and electro guitar
Yuen Chee Wai - piano
Zai Kunning - musician, artist and writer. His work is a highly promising alternative.
Chee Wai - designer, photographer
Lesli Lo - singer and composer widely known in Singapore. He is the leader of the OBSERVATORY group.
Sounds transforms from deep and dark melodies to minimal, to buzz, to noise, to psychedelics, to low-frequency phonation, to atonal piano, to folk and further… In some sense, we return to the vanguard
Tom Waits for Nobody
The name of the performance is called TOM WAITS FOR NOBODY by a group of musicians. The work was performed at The Arts House in 2006 as part of our second anniversary events.
Here is a description by one of the musicians:& “the sound traverses from innocent and dark melodies, to minimal sounds, to drone, to noise, to some psychedelic, to low sub frequencies, to
atonal piano, to folk and more..... in a certain way, perhaps it can be said that we have put some feelings
back to the avant garde.” and here’s a website on it:
&These& performers are very well-known in Singapore:
&Zai Kuning: he is a multi-faceted artist in that he does performance art, music as well as visual art and also writes. He has been active in the arts scene here for a long time and I suppose in a way, you could call the work which he does as being “alternative” and constantly challenging. He has been involved also in many different productions and worked quite extensively in Japan.
&Chee Wai: he is another multi-faceted artist (designer, photographer and sound artist) who is equally talented in both music and design. He designed the logo for the Singapore representation at the Venice Biennale this year and he is also a sound-artist. We worked with him actually last year for our project Spotlight Singapore in Tokyo. I believe we passed you a copy of the CD of the work we put up in Tokyo: the artwork for the CD is entirely designed by him. He has also done sound design for dance, film and TV / radio.
&Leslie Low: is a very well-known singer-songwriter in Singapore and he has a following here. He did a launch of an album at The Arts House and the room was packed – standing room only and we had to turn away some who came late because there was truly no more space in the room for his performance. He is the frontman for a popular group here called Observatory. &
&All three performers too have done solo work and are soloists in their own right. &
Keith ROWE (Great Britain)
Improvisation, noise, novel music
Keith Rowe, British artist and guitarist from AMM, is one of the most active and energetically endowed modern musicians. Though he is well over 60, he records tons of music permanently participating in international festivals, one of them, AMPLIFY, being patronized by him together with John and changing venues every year. Keith Rowe, a man of firm principle, has devoted himself mainly to one thing -- to cultivate a special position of AMM as of cultural phenomenon without prejudices and repertoire but with strict and consistent guideline.
Keith Row has rejected repertoire, technique, artistic taste, author's hand and all the rest things that have to do with individualism in arts. Within long years he strived for eliminating consumer aspect in music graphics. It means that there is nothing to catch hold of in his works, his creations can't be characterized straight by the way they "sound" -- they are between the lines or simply lack. In other words, Rowe's interest has, one and for all, transformed from esthetic to ideological one. For all this, he insists on the necessity of individual approach -- an artist ought to be a full-sufficient and stand-out unit and never stop at the stuff found. To obtain reputation of a stable person you have to change yourself every single moment. Since definite moment of time he ceased to tune his guitak focusing on its non-guitar properties. Now his working methods are beyond enumeration, but are they of any interes? Of substantial interest is the fact that these strategies becomes a product of continuous search and long history which, on one hand is based on the principles of strict limitations and, on the other, exposes alive, curious and open mind standing behind. AMM exerted fundamental influence upon the flow of events in vanguard. In 1960-70 the collective evolved by means of philosophic and political doctrines and views: Zen, Daoism, Maoism, pop-art… AMM arised as a complex, complicated phenomenon absorbing a plenty of ideologies and concepts, elucidated its own underlying ideological system/basis (by the way, nobody except AMM knows what "AMM" means). This system hosts so called "new music" (Neue Musik), but it's only a single verge of their general philosophy. As known, for example, AMM always considered themselves as some interaction of four elements: three participants of the collective and the group as an independent element.
They were, in fact, the first improvisers whose music sourced from independent and free of each other they were one of the first to use silence and musical varieties of the "found objects" (object trouve) -- for example, radio simply switched on in the course of performance, forcing the total collective to reconcile with it, to launch something, to learn to interact (remember, in this connection, Marcielle Duchan's pissouirre, or a bike wheel).
Keith Rowe, John Tilbery and Cornelius Cardew were communists, the group performed its rapidamente due to their political positions. Any new idea was transformed through the prism of the collective view, it took a new form and affected music. This principle works nowdays: whereas attention of the most electro-acoustic projects is focused upon sound parameters and performance, all survived AMM-members (Cornelius Cardew perished in 1981) proceed their work under the influence of ideologies, ideas concepts produced as far back as in the middle of the previous century. John Tilbery to this very day adheres to extremely left beliefs and boycotts America claiming that he'll never set foot in there.
Keith Row haven't got any musical education, instead he is a professional artist. Perhaps, therefore, his musical ideas are so "non-musical" and so "artistic" in the broad sense. Here is an indicative passage from his interview (on-line magazine "Paris Transatlantic"): "What is my actual Self? What I need to express? I've been reflecting on this issue about eight years long, permanently turning over to what could it be, and suddenly I caught it. Look at the American painting school, extremely provincial in the XIX century. They really longed for something original but they simply had no idea about "how". The clue was to get rid of the European painting traditions. But what has to be sacrificed, how to fulfill it? And Jackson Pollock did it. He simply rejected technique. How could I reject technique? Simply by laying down my guitar on the table in front of me! Changing by this the angle of perception: from the outer to "up-down…"
September, 30:
Phil Niblock (USA)
Video-art, computer music, audio-visual installation
Phil Niblock, American conceptualist, composes music for traditional instruments, but not quite in traditional manner. Musicians perform his works in real time, but then acoustic sounds are sampled and lined up in rows and stacked entailing various microtonal changes that slowly alter the music flow.
Could a sound alteration be imperceptible for ear? For Niblock's music, it's out of the question. Unlike Glass and Pendertzky, Niblock has dissociated himself from traditional performance schemes. His music has only a formal need for performers. Actually, the one and only genuine performer of his music is The Sound or, to put it more precisely, its time-n-space model step by step created by a composer. Niblock's music is patterned by the sound and nothing else.
After some time of phonation auditorium acoustic space turns into some kisselwise stuff absorbing any foreign noise. Stark background comes alive at a slightest movement. For instance, it could be a head-nod. Certainly, Niblock's works deal a lot more with perception than with technique and musical score.
Besides, he presents films, video and computer-engineered black-n-white abstract images changing one another.
Since 1985 Niblock is at the head of the Experimental Media Foundation in New York. He supervises projects "Music and Intermedia" (since 1973) and governs XI Records label.
ROMBIX (Russia)
Акусматика/tape music
Rresentation of <<Х-minus>> album (LONGARMS records)
In general, I turned out as neither affable nor visible, both& past- and fore-experimenter, for a long time rambling around squats and vaults of my mind, along all sorts of wicked places in Moscow and around striving for some creative chance to come… and now scrambled out onto the surface".
Rombix (Roman Woronovsky)
Rombix (Роман Вороновский)
All that stuff started from "Elektronika-324" with a simple "octave". Then it ought to get a new meaning.
Arsenal at hand contained one reel-to-reel and around 6 various cassette tapes, two microphones, piano, acoustic guitar, fifes and a lot of homemade circumusical devices.
And now SMITH lit up. So the period of encounter with Tatiana from XIX century was cloaked around with a haze of experimental acousmatics.
Sampling, "direction" button, autoreversion, collage strategies of step-by-step recording, tape loops, all these ahalogous surroundings and the whole process, degraded soft textures, noises, deep analogous low-scale, sudden transitions, flicks, and other live artifacts of cassette tape epoch vibrate and fill up the milieu where someone has lost Volodia and desperately, in a last wind, is trying to pull him out of the opposite end of the phone line.
And then cycling around the sqats of Ambient City where everything is schemed by the sound of a lonely trumpet.
Parquet or guitar sounding board processed by my fist served as a major drum. "Pringles" chips' box filled with variously shaped cans hit by a little hammer from the piano hardware served as a minor drum. Else I've got an original copper cymbal (further named "high hat)… everything somehow overlapped becoming more complicated. In general, "Louis and Nothing More."
Miller squats in fir-greens and Tape Magneto keep on living and, like some time machine, driving listeners in quite another machine time. These old vinyl records are to blame…
Al Margolis/Katherine Liberovskaja (USA/Canada)
Music for 3 CD-players and Laptop by Al Margolis
Real-time video Liberovskaya
Katherine Liberovskaya (Canada) is a video- and multimedia-artist since the 80-s. Her works gained favorable comments all around the world. She collaborated with a number of prominent vanguard composers, such as Phil Niblock and David Watson. She is a regular participant of the Share, NY.
Al Margolis (USA) is a musician, composer and producer from New York. His art activity got a spur in the 80-s in the American cassette underground by means of his label "Sounds Of Pig Music". He works with XI Records, Mutable Music, Pogus Production. Since early 80-s (under the names If, Bwana) known as a performer and publisher of experimental music.
Michael Schumacher (USA)
Michael Schumacher , composer and performer,& concert producer and supervisor, studied at the Juillard School of Music and Indiana State University. He is a chief of the sound gallery Studio Five Beekman and Diapason. He arranged exhibitions for David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, La Monte Young and other pioneers of the sound experiment.
He creates acoustic space by means of 2 to 22 speakers, computer-controlled random structures, recorded and live music. Besides, his acoustic compositions for piano, chamber ensemble, voice and orchestra are performed at the best concert sites in the States and Europe.
September, 06 Saturday:
Seremony/Store House Company Japanese theatre
Shingo Kimura All performances were written and directed by Shingo Kimura
(born in 1957).
As leader of the theater group Shichitensha, opened a studio in Nerima-ku, Tokyo. For the next ten years, was active as a scenarist and director.
August 1994
Disbanded his theater group, Shichitensha. Established the theater EKODA STORE HOUSE; the Store House Theater research I and the group Store House Company.
August 1995
Established the limited company Store House.
Continues his work in theater management, actor training, production of
works by Store House Company, production of works for in cooperation
with other groups.
[Representative work]
&“Boxes” “Wanderers”& “Rope”& “Territory”& “Remains”& “Sanctuary”& “Ceremony”
Served as chairman of the executive committee of the Physical Theater
Festival, featuring six theater groups from foreign counties and Japan from 1999 until now.
History of the theatre
All performances were written and directed by Shingo Kimura
Took part in festivals:
Festival Asia Meets - Asia ’98 (1998, BOXES)
Hwasong International Theater Festival (1999, Suwan, Korea, WANDERERS)
Physical Theater Festival in Ekoda Store House (, , )( WANDERERS, TERRITORY, REMAINS, SANCTURY, CEREMONY)
Korean Physical Theater Festival (2000, Seoul, Korea, ROPES)
Millennium Culture and Art Festival (2000, Tokyo, ROPES)
Sergey Kureokhin International Festival (SKIF) (2001, St. Petersburg, ROPES)
Festival Sergey Kureokhin (FSK) (2001, Moscow, ROPES)
Cairo International Theatre Festival& (2002, Cairo, Egypt ROPES)
Seoul Marginal Festival ( Seoul, Korea, TERRITORY SANCTURY)
New World Physical Theater Festival (2004, Osaka, Japan, TERRITORY)
Kua Chang International Theater Festival (2004, Korea, REMAINS)
Surabaya Dance Festival (2007, Surabaya, Malaysia, REMAINS)
Performed in Japan and foreign countries:& Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Germany and Switzerland.
The performance on the festival
KIMURA Shingo - script writer directed
HOSHINO Wakako& performer actress
MASHINO Takeshi& performer actor
OHSAWA Tomoki& performer actor
MOTEGI Natsuko& performer actress
YUINAWA Hisatoshi& performer actor
KANAMARU Mizuki& performer actor
IZAWA Chie Piano
CHIDA Minoru Lighting
Fanfares ring out loudly in the absence of bride and groom at weddings.
There are we who look like some archaeologists peek into the footprints that left on the virgin road.
Funeral hall changes its title to ceremony hall, but funeral is still repeated without the dead again and again.
Even bones are not remained in the crematory.
Innumerable fossils are still being produced at the factories here and there.
Fossils carry fabricate memories, neither being buried nor able to hide themselves in the darkness, just drifting about for the drifting sake.&&
Therefore, graves need to be dug up.
Yes, certainly, graves need to be dug up.
There are we, who are here to dig up the graves.
There are we, who are here being buried in the graves.
There are we, who are here to see it.
Our eyes are repeated back and forth.
“WE” need to be buried again.
September, 07 Sunday:
STUPID INFINITY / Teodor Tezhik Albert Albert
Teodor Tehzik art and director
Albert Albert& choreography and dance
Alexandra Konnikova dance
Sergey Zagni composer and piano player
Sergey Letov saxohpones
Teodor Tezhik
Teodor Tezhik is one of the most peculiar art directors of modern scene and film. One of his first works, animation "Cola Brugnon" (1972), gained The Prague Cinemateque Prize. In general, his work in cinema was exclusively fruitful. Critics time and again marked elegancy and perfection of art design in such films as: "Enslaved by Love" (1974), "Tale of Wandering" (1982, award at The London Exotic Films Festival), "Kin-Za-Za" (1986, award For Graphic Design at The Sao-Paolo Festival) and "Kerosene-Man's Wife" (1988, FIPRESS Premium in Amsterdam).
Not less distinguished are his theatre works. Collaboration with choreographs C. Bobrov and I. Liepa resulted in remarkable art design in ballets "Antigona" and "Fedra". His scenographic ideas in V. Polunin's performance "Diablo" were highly estimated at The Maastricht Festival, 1999. Scenography of Prokofiev's opera "Cinderella" and Rybnikov's "The Star and Death of Joakin Muriete" are in his schedule for 2007.
He also participated in large-scale scenic projects. These are: "Birds" after Aristofan (1993-95) and Physical Theatre Festival (2002). He was a chief art manager of The International Theatre Olympiad in Moscow (2001). Within 1989-94 he took an active part in international humanitarian projects: "Russian Church Horals IN South-German Correctional Institutions", "St. Andrew's Cross" for Venetian Carnival, "Stupid Infinity" in Tokyo.
Since 2005 Teodor pays much attention to urban surroundings. Sculpture compositions scheduled: "The Greens" in Paris, "In Memoriam of Exhausted Metal" in Nizhni Tagil .
His art works are highly valued among experts. The circle of his admirers comprises F. Fon Betmann, m-me Norman-Taylor, J. Dorden-Smith and Brian Eno, father of ambient-music and great musical contriver.
DOM Cultural Center rendered T. Tezhik support in his work with composers and musicians: T. Grindenko, V. Martynov, V. Chekasin and others.
STUPID INFINITY
Black plane of the stage assumes shaggy texture of the rough felt, or else stony soil… steadily changing, hardly perceptible for an eye (forcing to peer) and ear (forcing to heed to some rustling sounds)… At last, the plane assumes depth inside which black scenery appears -- under the black sky the hills rich of folds filled with streamlets of rice. Folds of the hill are constantly moving, thus changing the shape and the flow of these streamlets… The shape and dimensions of the hill are changing… the rice flows together curving into a long circle on the edge of a new object -- glittering black form with a slot in the middle distinctively resembling vagina… Movement and breathing of the swollen form still more forces to perceive it as something alive.
A kind of vibrating stir and unrest of the form impel to guess& some inner events happening in it. Culmination of the action is monstrous parturition exposing a human packed in a black inflexible felt clothes with a felt-curtained face and five-feet long iron cone instead of the leg.
Motions of the human are awkward and impetuous. The leg evidently blocks him to perceive himself as a one-and-for-all creature. He desperately pounces on his progentrix -- the black nameless form which suddenly loses its elasticity and turns into a shapeless rag, some placenta of his creation…
Left an orphan, in attempt to regain the lost, he covers himself with this black empty flesh and starts to shape it in various ways… finally wrapping into it with the iron cone left outside. Reconciled with his new state, the Felt Man starts to master new surroundings… As a result, the cone's point sets again a black cloud and, after wandering around, pierces it through… the same rice starts to fill the empty cone, delivering slight clinging blows at the cone's inner surface.
The logged cone forces the Felt Man to move in a slower and more reasonable manner. He performs a twiddle, scattering rice around in a magic circle. A musical instrument resembling a sprouted potato slowly emerges out of the dark…
To be continued in Part 2
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