Studio Loos, Thursday May 28th 2015
Doors open at 20:00, starts at 20:30
De Constant Rebequeplein 20B, Den Haag
entrance: €3
⇆plAy⤴︎! is a night of opposites that attract, of relationships and egotrips, of tension and release, hide and seek, noise and silence, small and tall, rise and fall, flat and round, you and me, him and her, attraction and rejection, ping and pong, vertical and horizontal, motion and stillness, abstraction and politics, strategy and improvisation.
Attila Faravelli sonically explores physical relationships, Semay Wu provokes a duel against her willfull alter ego, and Henk Bakker, Nina Hitz, Anna Mikhailova and Lukas Simonis gather to summon the ghosts of literary icons and play with them across languages and time.
Curated by Anne Wellmer.
Attila Faravelli is iii’s artist-in-residence in May 2015. He will present some of the unprocessed location recordings that he’s been collecting in the last couple of years. Neither documentary nor purely abstract, these sounds just ‘photograph’ a subjective listening experience within a complex and transitory sonic field.
Attila Faravelli (IT) explores the relationship between sound, space and body. His solo music is released by Die Schachtel and Senufo Editions, in duo w/Andrea Belfi (Tumble) he released on Die Schachtel, on Boring Machines with Nicola Ratti, on Presto!? with Nicola Martini and on Mikroton Recordings with SQID (Mario De Vega, Angelica Castello, Burkhard Stangl). With Enrico Malatesta and Matija Schellander he has published on his own Aural Tools editions project, consisting in a series of acoustic devices for relating sound to space, the listener, and the body in ways unavailable through traditional recorded media.
Semay is currently researching movement through the act of live improvisation. Her instrument, the cello, that has been alongside her, connected and intuit, is the subject of examination. Guiding her way with the idea that our own movements have become entwined so sub-consciously to ourselves, to our experiences and memories, that to understand how we move we must be open to what went before. How does this inform us in the present moment, and can we choose to ignore it? Combining live improvisation with visual elements, to kneading together the relationship between electronics and the instrument’s own sonority, she will try to guide the performance, and provoke a duel against herself.
Bakker / Hitz / Mikhailova / Simonis are all active in the electro acoustic music field and each have something to contribute to the context of guttural sounds that are recognized as attempts to communicate, an expressive form that is commonly known as language. The intent of this performance is to do a survey of rhythm and sound translated into the instruments of the band bass clarinet / cello / koto / electric guitar and the different languages that circulate among the band members Dutch / Swiss German / Russian / English. Text fragments derived from the literature of various cultures will be used, such as Willem van Iependaal, Daniil Charms, Robert Walser and William Burroughs. Combined with a significant proportion of their own improvisational skills the musicians aim to create a kind of live radio play which draws its ingredients from these inspiring parts.
Lukas Simonis has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical ‘activist’ in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties ( Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond). Being part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-postrock combo’s) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime & after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL, Stepmother, Perfect Vacuum and Coolhaven. At the same time he was/is organising concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama , WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art and finally stichting KLANGENDUM since 2013.
About the Wonderwerp series
Wonderwerp is a monthly performance series presenting radical artistic practices that engage with sound, image, space and the body: imagining new tools to articulate everyday phenomena, extending the body, remapping sense perceptions, hacking and reinventing existing media and codes, creating time and space for events which find their preferred storage medium in the memory of participants.
About Studio Loos
Studio LOOS is the hot spot for new music in The Hague (NL), and is located in the multidisciplinary arts building DCR. It is a workspace, laboratory and a public presentation space for artistic research, experimentation, development, innovation and production of interdisciplinary, experimental, electro acoustic music, sound art, improvisation, composition ranging from monomedia via bimedia to polymedia and hypermedia. Studio LOOS is part of the LOOS Foundation, which brings together internationally renowned and yet unknown artists in the field of interdisciplinary new music, who use the space to conduct their research during residencies and rehearsals and present the results of their experiments and their newest work to the public. The LOOS Foundation is supported by the Municipality of The Hague.
