Ephémère series - Studio Loos
Ephemere is a new series of surprising evenings about temporary and contemporary forms of art. It is one of the last and finest places for anything that has to do with contemporary art, improvised, composed, electronic and experimental music, avant garde films and documentaries, dance, visual art, in other words, what is important to be presented at that specific moment. Ephemere takes place at Studio Loos every second thursday of the month.The Ephemere series is suppported by Loos Foundation and curated by Marie Guilleray.
The series works as a platform for artists, where the audience can experience art works and performances in a different way than the traditional venues and concert halls. Ephemere aims at supporting the experimental music scene in general, adding diversity in the music scene of The Hague, giving to young artists the opportunity to present their works in good conditions and making a high quality art accessible to everybody. For more information and booking contact marieguilleray@gmail.com Here are some pictures, and below are the flyers and program of the past events.
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Next ephemere - 9th february 2012- 20.00
Program Next Ephemere 9 february 2012
Casper Schipper - electronic music
Daphne Vicente Sandoval / Xavier Lopez - basoon and electronics
Ekkehard Windrich - electronic music
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Up coming events
15 march 2012
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12 april 2012
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may 2012
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14 june 2012
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Archives concerts season 2010/2011
Ephémère 14 - 12th January 2012
Tiago Morgado - audiovisual performance
Shackle : Anne La Berge / Robert van Heumen - flute and electronics
Sumo 3 : Emese Csornai / Alfreydo Genovesi / Marek Jason Isleb - visuals, guitar and mouvement
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Ephémère 13 - 8th December 2011
Keir Neuringer -solo saxophone
Keir Neuringercomposes and performs music, writes socio-political performance texts and essays, and creates interdisciplinary artworks, all with the aim of bringing audiences into a state of emotional and intellectual curiosity that meets the conditions for meaningful dialogue with the culture at large. Over the last 25 years he has cultivated a personal and intensely physical approach to solo saxophone improvisation that honors and builds upon diverse music-making traditions. When not performing solo, Neuringer works with Rafal Mazur, DJ Sniff, Ensemble Klang, and has performed with free improvisation legends Evan Parker and Mischa Mengelberg and electronic music pioneers Michel Waisvisz, Joel Ryan and Marek Choloniewski. He's been an active participant in experimental music communities in The Hague and Amsterdam, and now lives in Ithaca, New York. More info: http://keirneuringer.com
Fani Konstantinidou - Concept: no concept
After almost four years of restricting myself to focus on the concept of my compositions, I decided to create a short sequence of pieces with a main concept: no concept. It is a personal collage of some older sound material that, together with some new, is treated in a different way and aims to focus on the composition itself rather than a story or a theme. Therefore, thematically non related sounds form new pieces that let me explore myself as a composer by setting less limitations to my choices. As a result, my attention focuses on the construction of the form by concentrating only on the characteristics of the sounds and disposing their previous meanings and memories.
Fani Konstantinidou(Greece, 1980) is a sound artist/electronic music composer currently living and working in the Netherlands. She studied Music Technology & Acoustics (BS) in Crete -Greece and Sonic Arts and Technologies (MA) in Corfu, Greece. Recently she finished her second master at Sonology-Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands. Her works are mostly multichannel compositions for fixed media. Part of her research is focusing on conceptual composition, sonic images as well as the imagination of the listener in electronic music. In her music, she explores the power of space and time as compositional tools that affect listeners' perception and she has a particular interest in combining computer generated sounds with recordings of physical sound sources.
Lars Kynde & Nikolaj Kynde - Wandelende Tak
Wandelende Tak is a musical score. Wandelende Takis an instrument. A composition machine composed by three: Tempo, Rhythm and Pitch. An attempt of control of a chaotic reality. An artificial game about structure and freedom. A collaboration resulting in sound.
Lars Kynde is a composer that delights in creating the instruments on which his compositions are played - in fact these two aspects of music making are not so easily separated in his case and the invention of new instruments and the music created for them melt into surprising new forms.
Nikolaj Kynde is a working composer and trombone player with the roots in the Copenhagen jazz scene. He studied trombone at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Denmark. In 2010 he moved to the Hague to further his compositions in electronic music at Sonology.
Dewi de Vree & Jeroen Uyttendaele : Ground
Ground is an audiovisual performance using graphite drawings as a control interface for multiple custom build electronic instruments. Drawing, erasing and touching become the main gestures for a unique audiovisual composition. Graphite is a conductor for electricity. By using graphite as a variable resistor (instead of a standard knob) the pitch, amplitude and sound color of sound generators can be controlled. Ground offers a field of possibilities in which auditive and visual elements are interconnected. Drawing, touching and slowly ore rapidly (re)positioning the instruments on the drawing have a direct auditive result. A musical tension is literally build up by placing and removing several (handmade) instruments on one ore more drawings. Ground creates a archaic, tangible and explicitly visual form of electronic music.
Dewi de Vree (1983) is a Dutch soundartist with a fascination for natural phenomena and translations between image and sound.The interest in the interaction between the human and the machine led to the making of translating-machines and sound interfaces. In 2009 she started her collaboration with Rachida Ziani, Randlab. Central in Randlab is the sensual experience of physical experiments. They developed Elektrolab, a series of sound installations and performances based on electrochemistry and Thermokoppel, a series of soundperformances which deals with the relation between temperature and the acoustic properties of metal.Currently she is also working together with Jeroen Uyttendaele on their project Ground, an audiovisual performance in which the electric conductive property of Graphite is being used to manipulate sound.
Jeroen Uyttendaele(1981) is a developer and composer of audiovisual instruments, installations and sound compositions. Sound is approached as a sculptural material whereas the development of a instrument directly relates to a time-based composition generated by the instrument. The possibilities of his self made media are basic building blocks for compositions in time and space. Jeroen currently lives in The Hague and Brussels.
Ji Youn Kang, Mei Yi Lee, Marie Guillleray - new piece for percussions electronics and voice
Ji Youn and Mei-Yi have been collaborating as a duo, combining percussion and live electronics, and Marie Guilleray has joined with her voice. Here they are trying to move away from their own specialities as a composer, percussionist and vocalist, to an ambiguous realm where there is no clear division between their roles. They use crude materials and unusual instruments to create a continual flow that is both ritualistic and human. These instruments are not only there to be played directly, but also to give an opportunity to the performers to control, react to, and deactivate them, developing a more bi-directional relationship with the instruments. Special care was taken to pick and create instruments that can interpret and amplify minute and tender bodily gestures as large and harsh musical ones. This performance borrows characteristics of the Korean ritual of 'Cit-Kim-Kut', which aims to clean the body and spirit of the living and to comfort the deceased. The harsh, heavy, noise material, together with a exciting rhythmic development leads the whole to the moment.
Ji Youn Kang, born in Seoul, South Korea, studied composition at Chu-Gye University of Arts and moved to The Netherlands in 2006. Her objectives and interests revolve around the creation of her own musical language that (re)presents the Korean tradition and culture using materials from Korean music as well as newly generated sounds. Many of her electronic music pieces have been composed based on the rites of Korean Shamanism using the Wave Field Synthesis system in The Hague (192 loudspeakers), exploring the relationship between musical and physical spaces. She achieved her Master degree both in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and in composition at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Currently She is working as a research associate in Sonology, and is active as a composer and sound artist based in The Hague.
Mei-Yi Lee (Taipei, 1982) After achieved her bachelor degree at the National Taiwan University of Arts she moves to The Netherlands to continue her musical education at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under the supervision of Fedor Tunisse, Luuk Nagtegaal, Hans Zonderop. Presently she is a regular guest performer with several ensembles such as Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, Taiwan Youth Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble 1002, and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, among others; performing in important concert halls from France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, China and Taiwan.
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Ephémère 12 - 10th November 2011
Jim Zweerts / Martijn Barendregt / Payam Shahali
This project started as an improvisation/installation work of Martijn Barendregt and Jim Zweerts. Later Payam Shahali joined, and the project became more performance orientated. The original installation focused on the recycling of sounds, using them in new contexts, structures and qualities. New qualities where made both spatially and timbrally with the use of different lo-fi speakers throughout the space. The new form of the project still incorporates recycling, but is more focused on microstructures and a partially prepared form. For this performance in Loos, the spatialization will be in stereo format.
Jim Zweerts (1988, The Hague) is a graduation student at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. In his electronic compositions, the interaction between handcrafted collages and computer-generated structures is an important point of departure. A method to connect these contrasting working methods and allowing them to form new relations, is the use of a succession of transformations. Every transformation, either handcrafted or automized, is input for a new transformation, thereby allowing them to influence each other. This performance is a live improvised version of a similar process.
Martijn Barendregt (1986, Muscat, Oman) has a broad interest in the phenomenon called sound. Here the term sound covers the complete spectrum. From sound seen as a physical phenomenon till sound seen as a complex mixture of all corresponding associations. The latter forming the communicative potential of sound. His interest in technology plays a crucial role in the development of his music. However the use of new techniques will as far as possible serve a creative and quite personal process. The focus of his work concerns feedback. From the simplest Larsen-effect until feeding back (musical) parameters. From a more philosophical point of view the composer/musician can be seen as a link in a feedback chain. Critical and constructive feedback leads to an ever rapidly growing expansion.
Payam Shahali is born on 11 september 1986 in Tehran (Iran). He currently studies at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. His main interests are microsound and transformational processes. With these techniques he explores in depth the morphology and possibilities of sound material. The transformed sounds and variations then form a basis for his compositions. His music is characterized by stochastic controlled microtime movements and geometric shapes.
Yota Morimoto
Yota is developing detailed sonic models whose possibilities are explored in an audiovisual live setting. In an attempt to address an idiomatic approach to digital media, the generated signals are transcoded into binary patterns and visualized using a custom-made program.
Yota Morimoto (1981) is a Japanese composer born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, currently undertaking a doctorate research at the University of Birmingham, UK. His works explore unconventional approaches to generating and transmitting sound, implementing models of noise, turbulence and abstract machines. His works have been presented in festivals and conferences such as Gaudeamus Music Week [amsterdam], TodaysArtFestival [den haag], NWEAMO [mexico], Transmediale [berlin], ISEA [ruhr, istanbul], makeart festival [poitier], EMUfest [rome], ICMC [belfast], and SMC [porto, balcerona].
Yedo Gibson / Marcio Gibson / Tiago Morgado
Yedo Gibson was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1981. At the age of 11 he started to play the tenor saxophone and on his 15ths was giving classes at the AquiJazz conservatoire in Sao Paulo and playing all over Brazil with various musicians such as Mario Margarido, Panda Gianfratti, Ricardo Zoio and others. In 1999 he joined the Armazen Abapuru, group of traditional Brazilian music in a contemporary context where he was in charge of the development of the improvisation aspect in the group. They recorded 2 albums with musicians of Hermeto Pascoal group (Nene, Carlos Malta and Jovino Santos Neto). Armazen has been traveling all over Brazil giving workshops and Concerts in the Vila Lobos Caravana Musical Project. Parallel with this he was starting his own work with the drummer Panda Gianfratti, with had recorded 5 albums including with a sextet called Abaetetuba directed by Yedo.
Tiago Morgado started his formal musical studies in 2000, studying alto viola, computer music, musicology and improvisation with people such as Jorge Alves, Gerhard Doderer, Tomas Henriques, Rui Dias, Gustavo Costa, Carlos Guedes, among others. Attended to seminars, workshops, masterclasses and lectures with people such as Fred Frith, Mark Dresser, Jason Hwang, William Parker, Anette Vande Gorne, Andre Bartetzki, Douglas Kahn, Hans Timmermans, Pedro Rebelo, Mario Vieira de Carvalho, Ruy Vieira Neri, Miguel Azguime, Henry Vega, Jan T. von Falkenstein, Than Van Nispen. He was associated with acts such as :papercutz in the final of their lylac promotion tour, playing in venues and festivals such as sxsw, exit festival, plano b (first part of High Places gig), and Islington Metal Works. The netlabel which he was founder of and curator of (XS Records [PT Netlabel]) from 2008 to 2010, has released music of him aswell as music of people such as Karlheinz Essl, Agnes Heginger, Klaus Burger, Mathew Ostrowski, among others. He is currently starting an Ma Degree at Institute of Sonology Den Haag, where he is taking classes, among others, with people such as Kees Tazelaar, Richard Barrett, Joel Ryan, Frank Balde, Paul Berg, and Raviv Ganchrow.
Einoma
Based on material created for a performance at the Lost Theory festival in Croatia last august, Einoma will play a set that explores the more adventurous and experimental part of their sound. Drones and noises meet beats and melodies in a more improvised and unexpected setting than usual for the duo. Einoma is a collaboration between two Icelandic friends and studio partners, Bjarni and Steindor. Having released two highly acclaimed albums as well as various 12, remixes and compilation tracks, the pair recently teamed up again in the Netherlands. The first impressions of the new meetings can be found on the recent eps 'Tvenna and Lost&Found. The duo is now working on a third album.
Bjarni Gunnarsson is an Icelandic composer / sound artist born in 1980 in Reykjavik. As a member of the electronic music duo Einoma, he has released numerous LPs, EPs, compilation tracks and remixes on labels like Vertical Form, Thule, Uni:form, Spezial Material, Trachanik and lmalc. Bjarni has performed his music in concerts and festivals in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland and Iceland. He has also presented multichannel compositions at the WFS system in Leiden (192 speakers), the WFS system in Berlin (832 speakers) and the BEAST system in Birmingham (up to 100 speakers).
Steindor Kristinsson is an electronic sound artist currently situated in Den Haag. He has (for the last 6 years) been studying at the Institute of Sonology and performing electronic music in various projects: around Den Haag and other Europien cities. At this point Steindors performance focuses on a fusion and interaction between experimental electronic sounds and rhythms.
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Ephémère 11 - 11th October 2011
Wen Chin Fu / Mei-Yi Lee / Nanda Milbreta
Wen Chin Fu (Taiwan) graduated in Shih-Chien University ,Music Department, Taipei, Taiwan (2006) gratuated in The Royal Art Academy, ArtScience Interfaculty, Den Haag (2010). Performing with choreographer Kirstie Simpson and contact improvisation dance company Ku dance company since 2004. Collaborate with Rebecca Ballestra for sound composition since 2007. Experimenting with sound for site-specific project and performing with self-made instrument. At the same time, collaborating with video artist, dancers, and musicians in Europe. www.wenchinfu.com
Mei-Yi Lee (Taipei, 1982).After achieved her bachelor degree at the National Taiwan University of Arts she moves to The Netherlands to continue her musical education at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague under the supervision of Fedor Tunisse, Luuk Nagtegaal, Hans Zonderop Presently she is a regular guest performer with several ensembles such as Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, Taiwan Youth Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble 1002, and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, among others; performing in important concert halls from France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, China and Taiwan. She is currently concluding her Masters degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, focusing in the percussion works of John Cage as well as collaborating frequently with young artists and composers.
Nanda Milbreta (Latvia) is a sound artist, living and working in The Hague, NL. Nanda's background lies in classical music, she studied cello and saxophone, but currently she is developing new instruments to make her sounds. For this performance, in order to create new musical instrument prototypes, Nanda has been playing with the sonic peculiarities of metal in a musical way. www.neon-landa.com
Hugo Morales Murguia / Goska Isphording
Hugo Morales Murguia (Mexico City, 1979) is a composer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. His current work focuses on the development of alternative instruments for sound oriented composition through the extension of traditional instruments and/or implementations of rudimentary objects. Various technological applications, physical sound processes and unconventional instrumental techniques are usually elements defining his music composition and performance.
Harpsichordist Goska Isphording specializes in the performance of contemporary music. She gives solo recitals and performs with chamber music ensembles and orchestras. She is also active in music theatre and multimedia productions and has premiered numerous solo and chamber music works. Goska Isphording is born in Poland, where she started her Early Music harpsichord study at the Krakow Academy of Music, and graduated cum laude in 1998. In 2001 she obtained her diploma at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (The Netherlands) where she studied with Patrick Ayrton. Her interest in contemporary art led her to follow the Masters in program contemporary harpsichord techniques with Annelie de Man at the Conservatory in Amsterdam. Her performances in the Netherlands and other European countries brought her in contact with young composers which resulted in numerous pieces being written for her. Goska Isphording has participated in various festivals for contemporary music. Her concerts are frequently broadcast. She is a founding member of Roentgen Connection - ensemble for the performance of the contemporary chamber music.
Mathieu Garrouste / David Vilayleck
A very contemporary ambient noise music akin to noise / shouting, where irritating bursts meet devastated post-industrial landscapes, in which a human hand can sometimes be felt...
Laptop and turntable improvisations inspired by digital noise, rather than analog synths, it's not electronic music, but sounds based on an interruption.
A bandwith of a hail of information, encoded and compressed, made audible and manipulated, but very similar to the original signal, information encoded by protocols we are unable to understand, without an appropriate interface, so it's better to play with them and feel them.
David Vilayleck (guitar/laptop, 1980, France)
Music studies, electro-acoustics, jazz improvisation, guitar, at the french conservatories of Perpignan and Strasbourg, he performs worlwide with bands or as a solo project named Ayankoko. Over 15 releases on the web in Spain, UK , Germany, Mexico, Russia, France, and also Ayanrecords netlabel owner, developed his art from 2004 through the internet and the use of Creative Commons and open sources. His music ranges from noise to ambient frecuencies, abstract drones, minimal beats, DIY electronica, to instrumental improvisation and/or production.
ayankoko.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/ayankoko
Mathieu Garrouste (saxophone/electronic, 1982, France)
Active in Paris as a freelance sax player.
He's using a turntable with a sherman filter and a loopstation to build his experimental music.
He's part of many projects and co-organizes a concert series through Trashvortex in Kobe, Paris.
www.yage.fr
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Ephémère 10 - 15th September 2011
Aviva Endean (AU) clarinetist/bass-clarinetist: new music
Jan Trutzschler von Falkenstein (DE): electronic solo
Jan T. (Jan Trutzschler von Falkenstein) works in the field of computer music, media art and creative coding since the late 1990s. He performs 'crispy' sound collages using novel and custom made interfaces, produces sonic installations and occasionally composes for ensembles and fixed media. Currently he focuses on designing audio apps for mobile devices which are released under TeaTracks.
In the past years Jan contributed to the open source audio software SuperCollider. His music has been performed across the world at festivals such as ICSM World Music Days, ICMC, Spark, MusicAcoustica, TodaysArt, BEAST. Jan studied Media Design in Weimar, Sonology in Den Haag and Computer Music at the University of Birmingham. Currently he works as an iOS developer in Appsterdam and is visiting lecturer for computer music at the University Ilmenau.www.falkenst.com/www.teatracks.com
Jan T. is going to present some of his latest work: an improvised performance for Bird Caller, water bottle, Manta and SuperCollider and possibly a piece for MoDE 31, the Mobile Device Ensemble Holland, which he founded in 2009.
Lemuriformes: improvisations with electronics and ink
Julie Dassaud (FR) visuals
Eliad Wagner (NL) synthesizer
Laurens van der Vree (NL) circuits, mixer
Julie Dassaud is a french visual artist based in Amsterdam involved with various solo and collaborative projects, wherein she explores in particular the relevancy and possibilities of drawing in our contemporary digital age. In this context, she exhibits for instance with Img-src, a collective confusing the viewer's senses by producing analog work that looks digital and the other way around. Her live ink painting contribution to lemuriformes is her first performing appearance. Besides this, Julie is active as artistic director of the Kulter. art space and of the Notations platform for alternative music notations. www.julisso.org / www.notations.nl
Eliad Wagner is a musician, composer and programmer. Born in Israel and currently based in The Netherlands, he holds a Bachelor degree in physics from the Hebrew University and a Master of Music degree at the Music Technology department of the Utrecht School of the Arts. He develops his own approach to electronic sound, mainly based on analog and modular synthesizers and computer programming. His work has been published by Metropolis records [US], Digital Kranky [DE], C-sides[DE] and concrete plastic [UK]. He is co- founder of the electronica label g6pd records [IL]. http://eliadwagner.wordpress.com
Laurens van der Vree is a sonic designer, composer and programmer from The Netherlands, holding a Master of Music and a Bachelor of Arts and Technology degree from the Music Technology department of the Utrecht School of the Arts. Laurens focusses on autonomous works on the edge of composition and performance, as well as usual and less usual collaborations, ranging from modern dance to live coding improv [lemuriformes]. His work has been presented in Hong Kong, Canada, USA, Portugal, Spain and several other countries, at occasions such as ICMC, SMC and the Hong Kong International Dance Symposium. http://www.laurensvanderwee.nl
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Ephémère 9 - 9th June 2011
Hugo Morales Murguia and Milana Zaric
Milana Zaric: Harp
Torque, a harp and electronics piece by Hugo Morales Murguia performed by Milana Zaric (for harp and pedal-propelled DC motors). In Torque the harp is explored as a perpetual string resonator. The vibration of the different strings creates clouds of overtones constantly changing over time. The harpist regulates the resonance of the instrument and controls the strings to be excited by manipulation of the harp pedal.
Hugo Morales Murguia (Mexico City, 1979) is a composer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. His current work focuses on the development of alternative instruments for sound oriented composition through the extension of traditional instruments and/or implementations of rudimentary objects. Various technological applications, physical sound processes and unconventional instrumental techniques are usually elements defining his music composition and performance.Belgrade born, the Netherlands based, Milana Zaric is a harp player currently doing research in contemporary music and improvisation at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. She holds a position as principal harpist in the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, performing regularly under top international conductors and soloists. She is active as soloist, improviser and chamber musician.
Three pieces by Trainn Hjalmarsson
performed by Karl Ingi Karlsson, Lovorka Holjevac, Nikolaj Kynde and Trainn Hjalmarsson
Audio visual performance by Bjarni Gunnarsson (electronics) and Cedric Dupire (visuals)
After collaborating on a video for the piece Dried up for the release of the album Safn 2006-2009, Bjarni and Cedric are now preparing a new audio-visual work that penetrates the audible microcosm and visual nature. Although the techniques used vary, one constant is emerging, to compose the smallest offered in sound and image, to engage the micro-events. The performance will feature two new pieces to be performed live, both image and sound.
Cedric Dupire, through his 3 long feature documentary films questioned the link between music and environment. His work followed different cinematographic forms, from ethnographic film to experimental documentary. The right man at the right place use direct cinema in order to show the forceful personality of Fadouba Oulare. We dont Care About Music Anywa, through a sensitive approach, build an environment in which the radical music of the protagonists and the sound of the city are in motion. Nowadays, Cedric Dupire explore experimental forms on Super 8 films. No More Free Memor was his first experimental short film.Bjarni Gunnarsson is an Icelandic composer / sound artist born in 1980. Member of the electronic music duo Einoma, he has released numerous LPs, EPs, and collaborations on various labels. Bjarni has performed his music in concerts and festivals in Germany, England, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece, Ireland and Iceland. He studied composition at the CCMIX center in Paris, and is currently completing a master degree at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.
Toverlantaarn by Dornotator
Toverlantaarn is an audio visual performance by Dotnotator a collective by Ludmila Rodrigues, Marijke van Gorp, Mike Rijnierse and Nenad Popov.
Toverlantaarn is a light performance which makes use of an early visual technique, known as shadowplay, or fantasmagoria, to produce image and sound. A small structure of wooden frames, LEDs and light sensors build up a large projection throughout space.
Ludmila Rodrigues, Marijke van Gorp, Mike Rijnierse and Nenad Popov are a collective originated in Artscience department (Den Haag), who are interested in finding a perspective to achieve all knowledge. Guest performer: Charlotte Hart.
Nenad Popov (Serbia, 1978) is an artist who researches the relation between sound, image and space, specialized in video analysis and real-time image processing. Currently studies and teaches at Artscience department.
Ludmila Rodrigues (Brazil, 1979) is an interdisciplinary artist, graduated in Architecture and currently studying at the Artscience department, Den Haag. http://www.tinamustao.com/
Mike Rijnierse (Netherlands, 1974) is an interdisciplinary artist who frequently works with light and sound. http://mikerijnierse.nl/
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Ephémère 8 - 12th May 2011
The Allochtones
Yedo Gibson: Reeds
Guillermo Celano: Gitaar
Marcos Baggiani: Drums
This is the new project of these 3 amazing musicians.
It is a tower of sound, hundreds of musical languages interconnecting stories, creating a new world, a new way of communication. When we play, we are creating that musical moment in which we are together with the people and the space we are sharing at that very specific moment Yedo Gibson, Guillermo Celano and Marcos Baggiani bring about a delicious melange of Jazz, rock, improvised music and folk sounds, using composed and improvised material as an anchor point for collective creation.
Erik Nystrom
Cataract
Cataract journeys into territories where sound and space are the sole agencies of life, and abstract substance meets radiant, visceral sense experience. The title carries several references. One alludes in an abstract sense, to the cascading textural motions: transformational deluges of live sound matter, washes of all-absorbing noise, and glissandi projecting into the heights and depths of spectral space.
Another is an analogue between the medical eye condition (a clouding of the lens of the eye) and the way in which our sense of spatial, sonic definition is affected by degrees of textural opacity. The acousmatic cataract I think of is a continuum where hyper-clarity in vivid sound environments intersects with clouds of noise and coagulated microsound, blurring our auditory vision.
Finally, Cataract is a reference Pythagoras curtain in the etymology of the acousmatic: I hypothesise that pervasive organicity and spatiality in sound, combined with an abstract aesthetic, removes us further away from the anecdotal world towards the here and now of an integral sound universe all before curtain: if we could see we would know nothing more.
The work is composed for eight-channel loudspeaker projection and was premiered in London in November 2010.
Latitudes
This work derives its shape from the possibilities of spatial transformation offered by a stable drone extending itself into a fluid mass of noisy cloud formations, resonant oscillations and chaotically propelled beads of particles.
The title refers to the idea of lateral strands or layers in spatial perspectives; ripples propagating across the listening field; and distances between the oceanic depths of resonant textures and immersive nebulae of micro-activity. As in another sense of the word latitude, sound is freely extending itself through time in a continual process where the capacity of mutation always tend to increase.
The piece was composed in early 2011, for eight-channel loudspeaker projection. The present performance is its premier.
Erik Nystrom composes acousmatic, electroacoustic music. With a background in audio engineering, his musical education comprises computer music composition at CCMIX, Paris, and electroacoustic composition at City University, London (MA in 2008 and PhD, ongoing). His principal composition tutors have been Gerard Pape (CCMIX, 2006-07) and Denis Smalley (City U. 2007-Present). Other influential educational experiences include courses and workshops attended during the time at CCMIX, with Jean-Claude Risset, Trevor Wishart, Harry Halbreich, Agostino Di Scipio, Makis Solomos and Curtis Roads.
Erik Nystrom's PhD research concerns spatial texture in acousmatic music and takes particular interest in the sense of spatial scale in music, the relations between abstract structures and qualitative textural states, and processes of motion and transformation.
His music, which also includes collaborations with contemporary dance choreographers, has been performed and broadcast internationally. Acknowledgements include the Prix du Public in Metamorphoses 2010, category B (Belgium) and an honourable mention in Musical Viva 2010 (Portugal), both for Elemental Chemistry.
Ji Youn Kang and Mei Yi Lee
Mey Yi Lee, percussions
Mei-Yi and Ji Youn have been collaborating as a duo, combining percussion and live electronics. Here they use crude materials and unusual instruments to create a continual flow that is both ritualistic and human. The performance includes unconventional ways of playing instruments using uncontrollable physical motions and reactions, and creates an ambiguity in the role of the performer by de-activating the instrument and reacting to the behavior of it. The music results from both the communication and competitive actions between performers, and between the performers and the instruments. This is framed against the backdrop of an feedback-based ecosystem, that invites the audience and the space to join the conversation. Ji Youn Kang, born in Seoul, South Korea, is a composer and sound artist based in The Hague. Her objectives and interests revolve around the creation of her own musical language that (re)presents the Korean tradition and culture using materials from Korean music as well as newly generated sounds. Many of her electronic music pieces have been composed based on the rites of Korean Shamanism using the Wave Field Synthesis system at Scheltema in Leiden (192 loudspeakers), exploring the relationship between musical and physical spaces. She achieved her Master degree in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and is currently continuing her studies in composition at Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
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Ephémère 7 - 14th April 2011
Younes Riad live electronics
The performance will be a solo improvisational piece. It will be performed with a new environment which is still a work in progress. The environment establishes a duet between computer and performer. The performer can choose from a couple of instruments to play live. The computer has a couple of instruments which at a lower level are controlled by several stochastic algorithms which respect a couple of parameters derived from the way the performing is playing. The performer has some higher level control over those computer instruments.
Younes Riad started making music on guitar as a kid. Played in several bands. Got introduced and interested in electronic music around the age of 15. Joined the first band doing live-electronics at age 17. Did a little solo project called Jens Weber 2 years later. Developed interest in improvised electronic music and started building MaxMSP patches. Been part of several ensembles since, among other things: Senga Etna, Dejima Ensemble, Beukorkest and On a Green Slope in Dark Water.
Pablo Sans
The sharawadji is quoted in the guide Sonic Experience (ed. Augoyard and Torgue) as follows:
An aesthetic effect that characterizes the feeling of plenitude that is sometimes created by the contemplation of a sound motif or a complex soundscape of inexplicable beauty. This exotic term, introduced in Europe in the seventeenth century by travelers returning from China, designates the beauty that occurs with no discernible order or arrangement. When Chinese people visit a beautiful garden that strikes their imagination because of its absence of design, it is commonly said that its sharawadji is admirable. This virtual order, imperceptible and present, produces fascination and is breathtaking. The sharawadji effect is unexpected and transports us elsewhere, beyond the strict representation of things, out of context. In this brutally present confusion, we lose both our senses and our sense.
This experience is driven by some of those moments, heard, felt and intuited. Hopefully it might transport the listener out of context too.
Pablo Sanz is an interdisciplinary explorer with a particular fascination for sound and listening. Since 2001 he has made eclectic forays into photography, live video, radio, djing, experimental sound work and a number of editorial projects, in combination with his professional background in audiovisual media. Following his participation in the international course at the Institute of Sonology in 2007, he enrolled the ArtScience interfaculty program in The Hague. In addition, he has taken part in workshops and seminars held by people such as Chris Watson, Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Manuel Rocha or Pauline Oliveros. His recorded work circulates mainly on the internet. Live events include a few festivals and venues in Spain and The Netherlands. In the fields of mutant remix and dj culture, he has been producing the project 'From 20 to 20000 hz', performing live mixing sessions and creating online/radio releases, with thirty volumes available up to date. Since 2004 he has been involved on Mediateletipos.net, an online publication and collective platform devoted to the dissemination of sonic arts and aural culture, contributing as blogger and editor for commissioned projects. He is also a member of the community ArteSonoro.org and coordinator of its online radio network. His current practice and research are mainly focused on site related sound art, phonography and the development of strategies for the (ab)use of contextual and decontextualized environmental sound matter, in an attempt towards the creation of auditory experiences which usually explore issues related to noise, space, memory and perception.
http://www.20020.org/
Wen Chin Fu and Nenad Popov : Light, Sound body
Wen Chin and Nenad are working with Sound and Image. They are interested in different ways of researching the relationship between sound, space and vision.
Wen Chin focuses on the body as an instrument in space or specific location.
Nenad is concentrated on relation between sound, Image and Space. His work ranges from the live cinema performances to large scale outdoor projections.
In this collaboration, they are exploring intersections between light and sound through the body. Most intriguing points of these intersections will be basis for the piece present in Ephemere.
Wen Chin Fu (Taiwan) graduated in Shih-Chien University, Music Department, Taipei, Taiwan (2006) gratuated in The Royal Art Academy, ArtScience Interfaculty, Den Haag (2010). Performing with choreographer Kirstie Simpson and contact improvisation dance company Ku dance company since 2004. Collaborate with Rebecca Ballestra for sound composition since 2007. Experimenting with sound for site-specific project. At the same time, collaborating with video artist, dancers, and musicians in Europe.
Nenad Popov (Serbia, 1978): While researching the relation between sound, image and space, Nenad Popov specialised in video analysis and real-time image processing. His work ranges from live cinema performances to large scale outdoor projections. He collaborated with many artists and technicians working in the field, such as Daan Brinkmann, Electronic Opera, Thomas Koner and Lillevan/Rechenzentrum. At the same time he has been developing visual improvisations and related home-brew realtime animation software and hardware. He had solo performances on festivals like Dis-Patch, TodaysArt and Share.
Tatstumi Ryusui
Born in 1985 in Japan. Came to Berlin in 2009. He plays experimental-noise music with slide guitar, some pedals and toys. Sometimes singing.
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Ephémère 6 - 10th March 2011
Minus 2
Teodora Stepancic, piano & objects
Corne Roos, bass instruments
-2 is the duo of Teodora Stepancic (piano and objects) and Corné Roos (bass instruments).
Their music and performances range from free Improvisation, theater, electricity, musical noise and free instrumentation.
Next thursday they will present improvisations, “Bass on a table” piece by Teodora Stepancic , and “Piano 3 hands”, piece by Corné Roos.
More info at http://minus-2.tumblr.com/
Los compadres
Rodrigo Reijers, contrabass, mouth-harp, flutes, voice
Rodrigo Parejo, flutes, voice, percussions
Los compadres is a duo of Rodrigo Reijers (contrabass, mouth-harp, flutes, voice,...) and Rodrigo Parejo (flutes, voice, percussions,...)
Both are improvising musicians and active in the international contemporary scene of music,. In this duo project they explore interesting possibilities within the sound , inspired by minimal music, modern improvisation and pigmy music (otherwise folkloristic tradition) that brings the listener inside of their experimental journey in the world of music and sound. We will hear different instruments that are uncommon in the western world , different rhythms and textures that will surprise the listener as well as the players.
Michael Chinen
Michael Chinen , electronics
As a programmer and a musician Michael has to appreciate the structure, network, and hierarchy of process. This performance will consist of sonification (the act of turning data into sound) of computer processes in several parts. One will use a hacked debugger to sonify normal programs such as TextEdit in real time by fetching memory, cpu thread state, and more. This approach reveals the macro structure in processes in the computer. Another part will work on the micro scale by taking common sorting algorithms and turning them into sound and visuals. Lastly a custom web browser that was written for sonification from the inside out will be demonstrated.
Michael Chinen was born in Honolulu in 1982. He is a programmer, involved in several open source projects including Audacity, FFmpeg, and the Institute for Algorhythmics, a group which focuses on sonification. He also composes and performs. He studied computer music and synthesis with Charles Dodge (Dartmouth College), Richard Karpen (University of Washington) and Naotoshi Osaka (Tokyo Denki University). More info http://fuckingsound.com
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Ephémère 5 - 11th February 2011
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval - Xavier Lopez
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, bassoon
Xavier Lopez, laptop
Axolotl is Dafne Vicente-Sandoval on Bassoon and Xavier Lopez on laptop. Their work is focused on the use of silence, formal desegregation, and sonic abstraction. The duo was created in 2010 and since then played in the Netherlands, France, Spain and Mexico, as a duo or collaborating with other musicians (Lawrence Williams, Pierre-Yves Martel, Ferran Fages, Lalli Barrière, ...)
Alexander Bruck - Gabriel Paiuk
Alexander Bruck, viola
Gabriel Paiuk, piano
Alexander Bruck plays the viola, violin and an increasing number of rare and unusual (at least in modern western cultural contexts) string instruments including: the strohviol, erhu and most recently the raberi, a violin from the Tarahumara region in northern Mexico. His improvisational approach to these instruments is not informed by any traditional ways of playing, but rather inspired by electro-acoustic means of sound production and other aspects of contemporary music. Interferences, instability, resonance, and playing with melodic or rhythmic gestures and their cultural meaning, are the focus of his improvising.
Throughout his work as an improviser Gabriel Paiuk has developed a language which couples keyboard playing with the operation of diverse tools on the strings and piano's machinery in a specific way. Not unlike his compositional work, his playing aims at fragmenting and decontextualizing sound materials by juxtaposition and superposition, setting in contact materials with diverse timbral characteristics and which relate to different strategies of sound production. Timbre variations on pitch material produced through the intervention of the vibrating strings are confronted with "concrete" sound materials extracted from diverse operations on the piano's metal and wooden frame, aiming at an enhancement of perception of the minute variations in timbre material.
The traditional relation between a solo string instrument and a piano will be confronted in this performance through a strategy of focus on the possible material-sensitive interaction between the sounds of both instruments.
Bjarni Gunnarsson - Jaike Stambach
Bjarni Gunnarsson, electronics
Jaike Stambach, guitar
Bjarni Gunnarsson and Jaike Stambach will play a set of improvised music where live electronics meet guitars, the sound of found objects and various types of real-time processing. Having recorded and performed together in Paris, this is the first time Bjarni and Jaike will play together in the Netherlands.
Bjarni Gunnarsson is an Icelandic composer / sound artist born in 1980 in Reykjavík. As a member of the electronic music duo Einóma, he has released numerous LP´s, EP´s, compilation tracks and remixes on labels like Vertical Form, Thule, Uni:form, Spezial Material, Trachanik and lmalc. Bjarni has also performed his music in concerts and festivals in Germany, England, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Greece, Ireland and Iceland. He studied composition with Gerard Pape and others at the CCMIX in Paris, and is currently completing a masters degree at the Institute of Sonology in Den Haag.
Instrumentist and studio engineer, Jaike Stambach has worked with sound in many different fields, developing music and sound-design for film, theater and performance art, along side his own personal compositional projects. He is a core member of the Parisian multidisciplinary theater group Das Plateau, and founding member of the shoegaze-influenced trio The History Of Colour TV."
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Ephémère 4 - 13th January 2011
Yolanda Uriz & Ángel Faraldo: Dislocated Frames
o Music Composition and Live Electronics: Ángel Faraldo
o Scenography, Videos and Flute: Yolanda Uriz
Dislocated Frames is born of a very specific context. It was commisioned by the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) to complement an exhibition by the British artists and twin sisters Jane and Louise Wilson, whose themes, among others, revolved around the ideas of suspended time, the Holocaust and a never-made film by Stanley Kubrick (The Aryan Papers). Therefore, the number of resonances of our piece with their work could only be measured after being inmersed in the artistic world of the Wilson Sisters. However, it is also true that even though we were highly inspired by their work, our intention was to create a self- maintainable piece, a 45 minutes experience on its own, in which all its elements refer only to the piece itself, and that is the reason to willing to present it again, in this specific context.
Dislocated Frames is an enquiry into forms of concert presentation that enhance the visuality of the performer and her relations to the music. In this 45_ show, the flute performer hides behind a projection screen, projecting dislocated shades and traces of her body-frame onto the screen, in which lights, visual effects and 2 short abstract films are also presented in intimate relation with the music, created in its totality from sounds from the audience-hall and the player behind the screen.
In Dislocated Frames we have tried to let the different media (light, video, sound) talk for themselves, stablishing relations by juxtaposition rather than by superpositon. We have tried a great deal to substract one media to another, rather than adding them together. We have tried to allow empty -uninterpreted- spaces to emerge in both the visual and the auditory. Of course we have done also the opposite, but that needs no further explanation.
"Schithol Plaza And The City Idiot" by Sumo3
"Schithol Plaza And The City Idiot" is a folklore feeling before travelling, a deep throated and flawed experience into one man's dealings with whatever personal folklore may be.
o music: Alfredo Genovesi
o projector: Emese Csornai
o movementt: Marek Jason Isleib
Alfredo Genovesi is a free improvising electronic guitarist. Using an artillery of pedal effects, found objects, samplers, external sound sources and ever shifting guitar tunings he constructs multi-layered soundscapes using a hands-on approach which enables him to fluctuate between diverse and colourful soundworlds.
" Really outrageous stuff, congratulations…The range of (Alfredo's) work is awesome" - John Zorn.
"…eddying currents of guitar overridden and rearranged by a culmative welter of modifications..loaded like detritus into the drift" - David Stubbs (The Wire)
"Great legs" - Mary Oliver
Born 1984 Budapest, Emese Csornai lives and works in Amsterdam as a multimedia artist and light designer. She makes installations and performances. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and started a self-study alongside in light design, at the Muiderpoort theater. She worked as a light designer in Frankfurt Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, DWA, Smart project space, Bimhuis, Ot301 and more, and made her first solo exhibition and performance serie in Art Cage cultural center in 2010 July. In her work she examines and questions the mechanism of perception, and how it influences emotions and decisions. Her scale is the individual.
Marek Jason Isleib started off with studies and performing Mime. At an early age he went into Classical Ballet which he studied in Berlin and The Hague Conservatory, the Netherlands. He worked as classical dancer and after moving back to Holland, joined for several years different companies and projects in Holland and Germany.
Always studying different forms and approaches of movement (including Yoga, TaiChi, Feldenkrais, New Dance, Contact Improvisation, Break Dance and Butoh) he got involved in Improvisation in the late 1990's.
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Ephémère 3 - 2nd December 2010
Film "Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise" by Ken Jacobs/John Zorn (2005)
Often the most forward-looking art is that which reaches into the distant past for inspiration. Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise, recorded in 2004 at New York's Anthology Film Archives, is culled from a set of performances by avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs and musicians John Zorn and Ikue Mori. These performances derive their means of production from an era predating the existence of film, and the effect is startling.
The viewer is guided on a voyage through forests, caverns, and galaxies. Trees transform into cloud formations; craters on the lunar surface become droplets of rain on a windshield—the possibilities for an interpreted narrative framework are limitless.
If Jacobs' work evokes the dream state, then Zorn and Mori's improvised score interprets it as a nightmare; with its pervasive sense of dread, the music imposes inferences on visual phenomena that are, in fact, quite beautiful. Machine-like drones gradually intensify, threatening to overwhelm the imagery but never doing so. Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise is a vital release. It captures the emergence of an exciting visual medium, one that may entrance, perplex, or disturb its viewer, but one that refuses to be ignored.
Trio Echoes (Milana Zaric / Leo Svirsky / Adam Jeffrey)
Harp, piano and percussion trio ‘Echoes’ originated as a part of a Master’s research project at Koncon. The improvisation project is about transformations of timbre between stringed and percussive instruments, exploring their inner sound spectrum and resonances and obscuring the boundaries of separate instruments identities.
The ensemble members are Milana Zaric, harp, Leo Svirsky, piano, and Adam Jeffrey, percussions.
The Ephémère performance will consist of a composed/improvised piece by Leo Svirsky, which deals with resonance sustaining for non-sustaining instruments, and one freely improvised piece.
Duo Alberto Novello / Flavio Zanuttini
The duo we present is a live electronics for computer and flugelhorn, inspired and dedicated to the cosmological vision and composition stye of O. Messiaen. Two elements clash with each other in his vision of the world: time, seen as an oppressing and implacable force, and the birds, the most free and musical of all beings. Men dwell in between these elements longing for freedom but eternally caged in the grid of time. In this structured improvisation, we attempt at evoking these two opposite entities, trying also to go further and create a dialectic pace with time in the form of rhythm.
Alberto Novello a.k.a. JesterN is a scientist, composer, sound and video artist. He studied sound synthesis with J.C. Risset, and obtained a PhD working at the Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands in the field of Music Perception and Music Information Retrieval. Since 2004 he produced several electronic audio and video pieces, performed mainly in France, Netherlands, and Italy. His pieces can be found on his website.
Flavio Zanuttini graduated in flugelhorn and trumpet at the Conservatory Tartini, Trieste, with Glauco Venier, Klaus Gesing, Stefano Bellon and Marcello Tonolo, and continued his studies with Kyle Gregory. His interests are improvised music and free jazz, traditional music of central europe and the practice of lead trumpet which he's experimenting in various bands and big bands.
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Ephémère 2 - 11th november 2010
Malgorzata Haduch and Ab Baars
The members of Unfinished Company are working independently. They develop their own projects separately but meet regularly under the umbrella of Unfinished Company. The company was established in 2006 from the initiative of Malgorzata Haduch. The group is realizing improvised performances, where music and dance co-exist as one artistic form. There is no division for ‘sound and movement’, yet it is about creating emotional states and vibrations that transform the space. The key-words for musicians and dancers are: sharpening the intuition, transforming the energies, opening up the senses, surrendering to the ‘unknown’ and manifestation of the life experience through emotional, physical and mental states.
Dutch musician-composer and bandleader Ab Baars performs on tenor saxophone, clarinet and shakuhachi. He focuses mainly on the Ab Baars Trio, Duo Baars-Henneman and the ICP Orchestra. In reviews Baars’ music has been characterized as joyfully obstinate, but surely appealing and as colourful as it is astonishing. It embodies the best typically Dutch improvised music has to offer. Although he seldomly uses recognizable song forms or ongoing swing rhythms, the music stays catchy, because it is stripped to the essence and clearly presented.
Robert Blatt, Maya Verlaak, David Poknee
Robert Blatt, David Pocknee and Maya Verlaak will perform music written by Robert for acoustic and electric guitars. Over the last few years he has been experimenting with a variety of different approaches to the instrument, including various tuning systems, preparations, and its use with live electronics.
Steindor Kristinsson
Steindor Kristinsson‘s project is a part of a laptop performance where his recent tape pieces composed 2009 2010 get a realtime treatment.
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Ephémère 1 - 14th october 2010
Film « We Don’t Care About Music Anyway » by Cedric Dupire (2009), dutch premiere. From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness. While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, « We Don’t Care About Music Anyway… » offers a kaleidoscopic view of Tokyo, confronting music and noise, sound and image, reality and representation, documentary and fiction.
Mey Yi Lee (percussions) will play pieces by Iannis Xenakis, Piet-Jan van Rossem and Hugo Morales Murguia.
Electro Acoustic Improvisation with Marie Guilleray (voice), Gabriel Paiuk (piano), Yamila Rios (cello) and Yannis Tsirikogou (eletcronics).
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Jams improvised music series
Jams was an improvised music series that I currated during the academic year 2009/2010. It took place at Studio Loos once a month and was supported by Loos Foundation. A lot of talented musicians from all over the world played at Jams and it has been a great pleasure to make this happen.
