News

31.09.2015

Beautiful article by Anne Leray in her blog La Haye des arts

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8.06.2015

Duo performance with Fani Konstantinidou at OT 301 in Amsterdam for FM-FX / Monotak evening on 4 June

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1.06.2015

Great article and photos by Veronique Constance in Ouest France about that soundwalk project at Villa Rohannec'h in Saint-Brieuc, France

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04.05.2015

MGBG's performance at Korzo for the Rewire Festival, Den Haag, NL - Photos by Ed Jansen from

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1.05.2015

MGBG will be playing at Rewire Festival, Korzo Theater, Den Haag, NL

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Press reviews is March 2015

The Reykjavik soundwalk collaborative project featured in The Reykjavik Grapevine.

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Great article in The Wire about The Hague's experimental music scene.

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27.03.2015

Vocal performance for Zeecontainer benefiet concert for Tanzania at Occii in Amsterdam organized by Nora Mulder and Rogier Smal.

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14.03.2015

A concert of improvised music together with Felicity Provan (trumpet and voice) and Semay Wu (cello) at IMPRO JAM - Mezrab in Amsterdam currated by Ada Rave!

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13.03.2015

For the opening of the exhibition BLUEPRINT | SEISM by Justin Bennett and Pascale-Sophie Kaparis, I will perform together with cellist Semay Wu a piece based on the Kaparis’s installation SEISM.

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17.12.2014

Released of my collaborative project of Soundwalk in the city center of Reykjavik in Iceland!!! Here it is : more than one year and a half after we started to worked on it (and in this year and a half I became a mother which explains a lot), the soundwalk is finally ready for the visitors and locals of Reykjavik. This collaborative project is in fact the very first soundwalk composed in Iceland and I believe it will not be the last since I am already working on a new one in Orfirisey which I hope to finish soon. These soundwalks are free and available for everybody. Do not hesitate to give us feedback!

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15.12.2014

Review by Coen the Jonge in the Jazz Bulletin of December 2014 about the perfomance with Eric Boeren Ensemble at Zomer Jazz Fiest Festival in August, NL

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13.12.2014

Performance of the piece La Fabbricca Illuminata by Luigi Nono, with Kees Tazelaar at Dag in de Branding Festival, Korzo Theater, The Hague, NL

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14.11.2014

Remake of the Scratch Orchestra, with participating artists Peter van Bergen, Johan van Kreij, Marie Guilleray, Gert-Jan Prins, Kacper Ziemianin, etc.

Volkspaleis Festival, Zuiderstrand Theater, The Hague, NL

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24.10.2014

Duo with Johan van Kreij for Sonolgy evening at Volkspaleis Festival in Zuiderstrand Theater, The Hague, NL

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29.08.2014

Concert with Eric Boeren, Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour, NL

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26.06.2014

Performance with Naja Ankarfeldt (visuals), Studio Loos, Den Haag, NL

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19.06.2014

Concert with Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL

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12.06.2014

Concert with Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL

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10.06.2014

Performance of my voice solo program "Elocution" for Tiefschnee music series, Utrecht, NL

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05.06.2014

Concert with Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, NL

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04.06.2014

Concert with Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Zaal 100, Amsterdam, NL

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19.05.2014

Improvisation with Ab Baars (sax/clarinet/shakuhachi), Thomas Johannsen (vocals/dance) and Johnny Schoofs (dance), Oorsprong, Amsterdam, NL

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07.05.2014

Concert with Ada Rave, Zaal 100, Amsterdam, NL

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02.042014

Concert with Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Zaal 100, Amsterdam, NL

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15.02.2014

Concert with Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Zaal 100, Amsterdam, NL

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14.02.2014

Concert with Eric Boeren and Guus Janssen, Zaal 100, Amsterdam, NL




24.11.2013

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Improvisation with Wen Chin Fu (body cello) and Kenso Kusuda (dance), OT 301, Amsterdam




17.11.2013

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Concert with Tinna Thorsteinsdottir at Hafnarborg museum, Iceland, as part of a concert music series curated by Thrainn Hjalmarsson.




24.11.2012

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Performance of the Female Effects Project, at the Iglesia de la Magdalena, Cordoba, Spain




23.11.2012

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Performance of the Female Effects Project, 10th Festival de Musica Espanola de Cadiz, Spain




16.10.2012

Acousmatic concert: Alchemy and the transmutation of the sonic matter
City University London, 19:00

Bernard Parmegiani - La Roue Ferris
Marie Guilleray and Bjarni Gunnarsson - L'imaginaire du Parleur (8 channels)
Erik Nystrom - Lucent Voids (8 channels)
Georgia Rodgers - Make it Snappy
Peiman Khosravi - Vertex (6 channels)




06.10.2012

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Electroacoustic improvisation with Younes Riad (electronics), Ga/articleiel Paiuk (piano) and Ekkehard Windrich (violin), Together Now Festival, Dr Anton Philipszaal, The Hague




05.10.2012

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Royal Improvisers Orchestra at Overtom 301, Amsterdam, for the creation of Tumult Music, a new collective of improvised music bands and musicians based in Amsterdam.




05.10.2012

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Royal Improvisers Orchestra at Dutch Jazz World Meeting 2012 , Amsterdam.




04.10.2012

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MGBG Residency presentation in The Hague, Netherlands




05.09.2012

Free improvisation performance with Richard Barrett (electronics) and Younes Riad (electronics)
First Year Festival, Kees van Barenzaal, Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Netherlands


31.08.2012

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Lecture/presentation at UNM festival, Reykjavik, Iceland




19.06.2012

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Master Sonology end exam concert, Institut of Sonology, Royal Conservatory, The Hague




14.06.2012

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Duo with Younes Riad (electronics) at Ephemere The Hague




17.05.2012

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Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Cerkno Jazz Festival, Slovenia




11.05.2012

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Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Club Manufaktur, Schondorf, Germany




21.04.2012

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Boerenbond, Doek Festival, Bimhuis, Amsterdam




24.03.2012

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Music performance for Why Not Festival, Amsterdam




22.03.2012

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Performance with Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, Sonology discussion concert, KC, The Hague


15.06.2012
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Performance for Angelica Salvi's project "Female Effects", Regentes Theater, The Hague

For supporting the project and more info: Female Effects Project




2.02.2012

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Performance of Sonology Electroacoustic Ensemble, Sonology discussion concert, KC, The Hague




14.12.2011 / 16.12.2011 / 17.12.2011

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Concerts with Royal Improvisers Orchestra for improvisation festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil

14th december 2011: with Tomas Rhorer, Renato Ferreira, Marcio Gibson at Serralheria, Sao Paulo, Brazil

16th december 2011: with RIO at Centro Cultural da Juventud, Sao Paulo, Brazil

17th december 2011: with RIO at Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil




8.12.2011

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Performance of Ji Youn Kang's piece at Ephemere music series in The Hague.




6.12.2011

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Presentation of "Soufflerie de verre" at Busan international Electronic Music festival 2011, Busan, South Korea




1.12.2011

SONOCONCERTS DEC 2011

Performance of La Fabbrica Illuminata by Luigi Nono and improvisation performance with Richard Barrett electroacoustic Ensemble with special guest Peter Evans.




17.11.2011

SONOCONCERTS NOV 2011

Presentation of "L'imaginaire du parleur" at Sonology concert, piece composed with Bjarni Gunnarsson during our residency at GRM, Paris.




2.11.2011

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Next wednesday playing for Tritone festival at Zaal 100 with Wen Chin Fu (cello), Felicity Provan (trumpet) and Rodrigo Parejo (flute)




1.11.2011

MGBG first album "Korabie" is now available in bandcamp




28.10.2011

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Last week in Brussels, we played a live performance at Gallery Alibene, a very nice new gallery currated by a group of french artists based in Bruxelles.




26.10.2011

Souffle Continu

Last wedenesday we performed at Souffle Continu, one of the greatest disc shop in Paris. It has about everything on experimental, electronic, improvised, contemporary, noise and many others great music or books to discover.




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17.10.11 - 26.10.11

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GRM Residency

During the residency we created a 8 channels tape piece of 13 minutes with voice and electronics called "L'imaginaire du parleur".
"L imaginaire du parleur" is inspired by Roland Barthes s description of the grain of the voice in his essay Le grain de la voix (1977). According to Barthes, the grain of voice is what is lost in transcription. It s a body, exterior, which, in situation of dialogue with an other body, also fragile, sends some messages intellectually empty, in order to catch the other and to maintain him in a state of partnership. Transcrived, the speech changed recipient and subject. The body, still there, stop to match with the person or the personality. The imagination of the speaker changes space. It s not anymore a game of contacts. It s an installation, a representation of an articulated discontinuation, in other words
The piece will be presented in a Sonology discussion concert on the 17th of november 2011.




20.10.2011

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Korabie

Our new album "KORABIE" is now available (special limited edition).
The cover is designed by Karl Ingi Karlsson, electronic music composer and graphic designer.

Korabie features six new pieces purely composed or created around improvisations during roughly the last two years. The main focus is the exploration of the combination between voice and electronics. On Korabie a dense fabric of sound is brought to existence where voices and vocal manipulations meet drones and microsounds. The music seems to be coming from multiple sources. Dynamic forms emerge and spaces appear from the intimate relationship of the human voice and electronics."




13.10.2011

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Sonology discussion concert 1

The 8 channel version of my piece "Soufflerie de verre" was diffused at the first Sonology concert of the season 2011/2012. Originally made for stereo and for the online project "Relay", this piece was now rearranged for 8 channels.




1.10.2011

This week "Soufflerie de verre" was in the online newspaper Irish Times




19.09.2011

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New piece "Soufflerie de verre" for Relay Project

Recently I have been asked to make a piece for the Relay Project. Relay is an online music project devised and curated by Irish musician John Lambert aka Chequerboard. The aim in the project is to create an unbroken chain of sound pieces where each work is created in response to the previous so that ideas and sounds shift, mutate and evolve over time.
Here is a link towards the piece Soufflerie de verre




21.09.2011

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Royal Improvisers Orchestra

Release of our new album "LIVE AT THE BIMHUIS" with special guest Han Bennink.
To celebrate, RIO will be in concert on wednesday 21st september for Trytone Festival at Zaal 100, Amsterdam.




2.09.2011 - 3.09.2011

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Music in language, sonifications

Music in language, sonifications will take place two evenings: friday 2 september and saturday 3 september at 8.30 p.m. in theater Zeebelt (The Hague). It's the presentation of an exceptional research project in which eight outstanding musicians, all experienced improvisors and most of them also composers, cooperate to convert the textworks of Tanja Smit into music. The music will be accompanied by projections of the textworks.

The musicians are: Anne Wellmer (also initiator, coordinator, voice, laptop and toys), Anne La Berge (flute, laptop), Cora Schmeisser (voice), Marie Guilleray (voice), Angel Faraldo (voice, guitar, laptop), Orlando Aguilar (percussion) en Jelte van Andel (double base).




15.08.2011

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FUKUSHIMA

Organised by Takuro Mizuta and STEIM, FUKUSHIMA Amsterdam is an event connected to the people in Japan who have to improvise their way through an uncertain situation. Old structures are crumbling and people are forced to find new ways to survive. To a lesser degree, this is what we are currently witnessing in the Netherlands as well. For this event, four Japanese artists living in the Netherlands were asked to present new collaborative projects. Although every artist was participating on their own good will, this was not a charity event, but rather an attempt to find a new and sustainable way to organize concerts and performances. FUKUSHIMA! events were happening simultaneously around the world on August 15. Fukushima Amsterdam was featuring Petit Croissant: Yota Morimoto (electronics), Marie Guilleray (voice/electronics), Akane Takada (toy piano) /// Makiko Ito (dance) and Michael Moore (reeds) /// Jaap Blonk (voice) + dj sniff (turntable) + Raoul van der Weide (bass) /// Topo: Vincenzo Onnembo (visuals) and Yuko Uesu (harp)


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26.06.2011

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Mars der Beschaving

Duo with Bjarni Gunnarsson (MGBG) for After Mars der Beschaving, SuperMarkt, The Hague
To ensure that the walkers of the Mars der Beschaving have a night to look forward to arriving in The Hague, there are a number of cultural initiatives on Sunday evening from 11 pm until Monday morning.




21-22-23.06.2011

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Sonology concerts

On the 21st of june my piece "Tunnel" for 8 channels was diffused, and on the 23rd of june Bjarni Gunnarsson and me had a live performance with voice and live electronics.




16.06.2011

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Glossolalia

Premiere of the piece "Glossolalia" by Robert Blatt, for voice and live electronics (2011), at Wonderwerp, The Hague.
"Every limb of my body would, as a result, be set a fire. At such moments my tongue recited what no man could bear to hear." Composed from twelve descriptions of ecstatic experiences found within sacred texts translated three times into twelve different languages, Glossolalia is a piece for voice and electronics written for Marie Guilleray. It is both a movement towards utterance and an exploration of altered states of consciousness, using an abundance of speech sounds, multiple languages and the introduction of stroboscopic effects. It was composed in close contact with Marie, as we have in the past worked together on the incorporation of the voice with electronics.




07.06.2011

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Sacrament

Sacrament is an hour long performance by Robert Blatt for double bass and electronics using radios, transducers, portable microphone and loudspeaker instruments, no-input mixer, bows, paper, food, water... at Delta space, The Hague




22.05.2011

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Live improvisation

Improvised music performance at Villa Kabila, The Hague
Trio Wen Chin Fu (cello) and Nicolau Lafeta (trumpet)




30.04.2011

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Live improvisation

Duo performance with Bjarni Gunnarson at Trashvortex series in Paris




28.04.2011

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Sonology Discussion Concert 5 and 6

Live performance with Richart Barrett Electroacoustic Ensemble




26.04.2011

Last session of the improvisation sessions at the Royal Conservatory with Guus Janssen, Richard Barrett, Claron McFadden, Marie Guilleray, Renee Jonker, Bert Mooiman, Milana Zaric, The Scroll Ensemble, Ensemble Echoes, Vasilis Stefanopoulos, and the Music and Dance group.




23.04.2011

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Nacht van der hoop

Drone piece by Anne Wellmer at the Grote Kerk during the night of saturday until sunday morning.
We have been playing some beautiful drones with indian harmoniums.




19.04.2011

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Spring Festival 2011

Cass performance currated by Justin Benett and Roelf Toxopeus My performance with John Fanning and Maya Verlaack took place at the Royal Conservatory, as part of the Spring Festival 2011.




15.03.2011

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Sonology Discussion Concert 4

Special guests Sarah Nicolls (UK) who will perform Adrift for piano and electronics with Richard Barrett, and Alexander Bruck (Mexico) who will perform a work for viola and electronics with Gabriel Paiuk. This concert will also feature the 8 channel electronic music that Iannis Xenakis composed for the Steel Pavilion of the World Fair of Osaka 1970.




08.03.2011

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MGBG's new website is online!

more info : MGBG




07.03.2011

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Monday match - Bimhuis

Live improvised music and dance with Anne La Berge (flutes, electronics), Raoul van der Weijde (double bass) Robert van Heumen (electronics) and Marie Guilleray (voice, electronics)




05.03.2011

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Voyage dans l'espace by Kees Tazelaar at BEAST, Birmingham, England

Premiere of the piece Voyage dans l'espace (2010-2011) by Kees Tazelaar, BEAST Festival, Birmingham, England
More information: Kees Tazelaar




24.02.2011

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RIO at OT 301

Live improvised music with Royal Improvisers Orchestra




18.02.2011

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Bjarni Gunnarsson and Marie Guilleray at 330 Live

Live set of composed and improvised music.
This evening we played some of our compositions "In Between" and "Duality" and we also improvised using samples and recorded materials.




12.02.2011

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Open Day at Royal Conservatory of The Hague

Improvised music concert with Richard Barrett Electroacoustic Ensemble




30.01.2011

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MoPS (aoaa)

a night of improvised music... wallpaper music... experimental music... electronic music...
anne wellmer - analog garden - performance/installation for laptops
yolanda uriz (processed flute) - yamila rios (processed cello)
tanja smit - textworx for voices - performed by angel faraldo, marie guilleray, matteo marangoni, sandra pujols, cora schmeiser, tanja smit, anne wellmer
KRK - matthew ostrowski (electronics) + george cremaschi (contrabas + electronics)
pascal plantinga (bass guitar, voice, video) - soundscape pop




19.01.2011

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RIO at Zaal 100

Improvised music concert of RIO at Zaal 100 in Amsterdam.
This evening will be dedicated to Yedo Gibson's music.




13.12.2010

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Blauwe Mandag at Roode Bioscop

Improvised music with Wolter Wierbos (trombone), Dana Jessen (bassoon) and Miriam Overlach (harp). This concert was a very nice one. A nice program made of solos, duos, trios and quartets, all nice an surprising combinations, with the pleasure of meeting the musicians on stage, playing and improvising with them without knowing them before. What a nice evening!




4.12.2010

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Interactive Orchestral Machine

It's an outstanding example of a state of the art Dutch artistic research project, artistically and theoretical embedded in an international framework of human improvisers, machines, software programmers and hardware developers. Last saturday I had the chance to play with IOM environment as part of the Doek Festival in Amsterdam. It was a fantastique experience that I would like to renew very soon. Great visuals, a machine that reactes in a unexpected way, and a lot of interaction with the player, the audience. I enjoyed it a lot.




30.11.2010

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Sonology dicussion concert

Yesterday evening was the second edition of the sonology concerts. We played with Richard Barrett ensemble. It was very nice concert and great to be playing with them. We all felt that our piece was much shorter than it really was, the audience too, which is always a good sign. Next step is to integrate more acoustic and electronic musicians to the ensemble.




15.11.2010 - 19.11.2010

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Butch Morris Improvisation Festival

This week has been the first edition of the Improvisation festival at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, organised by the composition department. First day started by an introduction lecture of Butch Morris, our guest for the week. The program was quite dense and interesting : in the mornigs there were rehearsals with an orchestra composed of 50 musicians from the conservatory conducted by Butch Morris, lectures conducted by Butch Morris during the afternoons, and improvised music concerts in the evenings. I was rehearsing every day with the Butch Morris ensemble, and playing every evening : on tuesday in duo with Johan van Kreij (electronics), on wednesday in quintet with Angelica Vasquez (harp), Milana Zaric (harp), Corne Roos (double bass) and Rodrigo Parejo (flute), on thursday with Royal Improvisers Orchestra, and on friday with Butch Morris ensemble.




29.10.2010

Live Broadcast for Radio 4

We played an improvised a piece with Richard Barrett (electronics), Yannis Tsirikoglou (electronics) and Yamila Rios (cello).




23.10.2010

"And more Aluminum" by Teodora Stepancic

>One hour trip through the sounding Nutshuis decorated with aluminum foil. The performers are guides and sources of sounds also decorated with aluminum foil. The audience is traveler and composer, if wanted also decorated with aluminum foil. With: Corne Roos, David Pocknee, Graham Flett, Grzegorz Marciniak, Jeremiah Runnels, Lovorka Holjevac, Marie Guilleray, Miguelangel Clerc, Rebecca Huber, Renato Ferreira, Robert Blatt, Thrainn Hjalmarsson, Teodora Stepancic




14.10.2010

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Improvised music concert with Gabriel Paiuk (piano), and Yannis Tsirikoglou (electronics), Ephemere series, The Hague.




03.10.2010

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Live at Villa Ockenburgh

Live performance of "In between" by Bjarni Gunnarsson (electronics) and Marie Guilleray (voice)
The piece "In between" is inspired by the way resonances can connect together, disturb each other and create new sonic and imaginary environments. The idea is of a pure tone that gives birth to other and more complex acoustic experiences and invites both the performer and listener to participate in this journey. "In between" is the path taken from and to very pure points and examines what happens in the more chaotic states between these two. This could be understood as a parallel world where the listener can witness how a simple sound can evoke images of places, explosions, sounds from nature or mirrors of a performer own sound. "In between" is composed for computer, voice and gongs.
Improvisation with Angelica Vasquez (harp), Nicolau Lafeta (trumpet), Corne Roos (double bass) and Marie Guilleray (voice).
The performance is an experiment with sound and space. The music is based on the creation of new sounds by exploring the acoustic properties of the space and the possibilities of our instrumentation in which it is sometimes difficult to distinguish who is playing what. The special result breaks the expectations made by the lyricism of our instruments.




11.09.2010

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Centrum sound by Wen Chin Fu

Centrum sound is a sound event explore the acoustic properties of the space. This sound event will take place on 11th of September from 20h till 22h. 11 musicians are going to produce purely acoustic sound in the space of Centrum, either by playing their instruments or hit and drill the structure of the building. The musicians are being separated in 3 groups: duo, trio and ensemble. Each musician improvises in their territory of the space. The visitors can each record their own experience of the event as they walk trough the soundscape. The purpose of this sound event is in this way to explore the acoustic properties of the space. The recordings will be material for online streaming and future compositions. Participants: Edjerkan Tastekin - voice, Marie Guilleray - voice, Vilborg Broch - voice, Carlos Vaquero Patrcio - flute, Yolanda Uriz - flute, Lars Kynde - cello, Wen Chin Fu - cello, Bam Bam - double bass, Nikolau Lafeta - trumpet, Nikolaj Rossell Kynde - trombone, Mei Yi Lee - percussion.