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Day 2. April 15, 19:00–20:30
Arie Verheul van de Ven
Duo for Altered Violas Altered for Single Altered Viola
Arie Verheul van de Ven, viola and electronics
While the Violin has a very specific set of dimensions and proportions, the viola is something more vague. The viola is more of a category of a kind of object than a specific thing, and I wonder what sits on the edge of that category of violas (and violists)
Originally for a pair of "altered" instruments - a viola played on my lap and a wheelbarrow with four strings. This performance is an improvisation on the material written for these two kinds of violas.
Myrto Nizami
Mieke Robroeks
Algal Bloom
fixed multimedia
Algal Bloom is an audiovisual work where movement and delay play an important role in both music and images.
There are several layers. The light is gradually being reduced until not even a small line is visible anymore. It gets darker and darker. It is becoming increasingly isolated. It dies. Perishes. In the deepest and most distant place of the world, there seems to be nothing. Yet the remains that seemed worthless in another environment are now proving to be costly. One maintains the other. This way the circle is maintained.
The music is generated from pre recorded material, while the synthesized sounds vary accordingly. While image and sound are bonded together they, gradually, become more and more independent of each other, creating a new, contrapuntal layer.
Yóuell Domenico
Whoa
Arie Verheul van de Ven, viola and electronics
Harry Golden
Mother
Harry Golden, voice and piano
Wilf Amis
The Future of Music
Wilf Amis, live electronics
Making music while you shit is the inevitable future of music, time will tell whether that’s in the dystopia where toilet breaks are our only chance to think for ourselves, or the utopia where it is possible to control generative music from a small device in the palm of your hand. Or indeed the dystopia where both of those possibilities can coexist.
We are organising this event because we want to continue presenting the pieces we have worked on all year to the best of our ability. Unfortunately this year, we were not able to perform them in The Hague due to the COVID-19 crisis. With this, it is obvious that worse yet, many of the pieces we have are simply not adaptable, and so have to be held off for a different day. However, we are looking to keep the spirit of the composition department alive and celebrate what we can do rather than cannot.
We see this as an opportunity to explore a wide range of possible networked concert situations: from fixed-media pieces and solo performances to ensemble pieces played by people from different countries, pieces with live electronics, and sound installations. And, since for many of us this online format is unknown territory, we’re exploring it not only from the qualities of the medium itself but also from imagining a general concert situation and how we can “replicate” that in this medium. This approach is really interesting and it doesn’t exclude the spirit of exploration. By tailoring the technology to our needs, we’re discovering something unknown to us and finding ways to employ it in our music.
We’re having participants who are currently staying in many countries throughout the northern hemisphere. During the concerts, we are not only playing together but having transitions from one “set” of places to another, offering a journey and connecting with people from many different places in real time. Yet, we’re trying to keep the continuity of the concert situation and we want to make the transitions as smooth as possible.
This is also made possible thanks to Studio LOOS, who offered us their help and their space with a high-quality internet connection. Firstly, as a hub that reroutes all the sound and video from participants to the viewers, and secondly, as a space that will host some of the performances.
Pieces we have prepared: Performers/Improvisers with Electronics, Live electronics, Live electronics with Vocalists, Acoustic performers streamed from across the world, 8 Channel Sound Installation, Fixed Media/visual pieces, Pieces for Philosophical Ponderings and Broadcasting Shenanigans from private spaces.
Composers: Eva Beunk, Hidde Kramer, Robert Coleman, Daniil Pilchen, Yóuell Domenico, Arie Verheul van de Ven, Myrto Nizami, Harry Golden, Wilf Amis, Tilen Lebar, Ábel Fazekas
Artists/performers: Mieke Robroeks, Pim Piët, Maarten Bauer, Amba Klapwijk, Jeroen Spieker, Sterre Decru, Ruth Mareen, Sasha Elina, Seamus Cater, Vasilisa Filatova, Cody Takács
Happy watching!
The organizing team: Danill Pilchen, Domenic Jarlkaganova, Hidde Kramer, Arie Verheul-van de Ven.
LOOS ONLINE 19-21 hours SPRING FESTIVAL ONLINE day #2