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WITCH ‘N’ MONK
Anglo-Colombian duo with flautist and composer Mauricio Velasierra. “Hard to imagine that voice, guitar and flute could groove so hard and deliver so much.” (The Wire)
WITCH ‘N’ MONK EXTENDED
+ lux:nm & jim black
Witch ‘n’ Monk meet contemporary music ensemble Lux:NM and drummer Jim Black for arrangements of music from ‘Witch ‘n’ Monk [Tzadik, 2020] for voice, guitar, kenas, mozeños, sikus, saxophone, accordion, piano, trombone, cello, drums and electronics. With video art and video scores by Florian Japp.
Previous performances: Berlin Jazzfest & StudioBörner45
UNRAVELLING THE MIND
A MULTISENSORY EXPERIENCE BY WITCH ‘N’ MONK
Unravelling the Mind is a multi sensorial experience that uses cutting edge scientific ideas to pose the question: what is intelligence? The show introduces the audience to the problem solving abilities of slime mould, as well as the insight held by indigenous Amazonian plant experts into microbiology and ecology, provoking both wonderment and respect for nature.
‘Unravelling the Mind’ is an artistic response to the climate crisis, that provides a connection between science and the senses, leaving the audience with a new perspective on intelligent life, that places nature and the environment in the centre of our value system.
This work was supported through the Cheltenham Jazz Festival Jerwood Jazz Encounters programme, co-commissioned by Sage Gateshead and supported by Jerwood Arts.
Previous performances include: Sage Gateshead, Import Export & Berlin Science Week
HAÏKAÏ
A CAPELLA VOCAL TRIO
Vocal trio with Leïla Martial and Jessica Martin Maresco. Three multi-timbral, anarchic and unconventional sopranos meet on improvised and composed music.
https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip/les-ablutions-exaltantes-du-trio-haikai-9413350
Previous concerts: Château Caramagne (FR), Muut Production (FR), Le Crescent (FR), Atelier du Plateau, Paris (FR), Jazz Festival Grenoble (FR)
forecast
by ari benjamin meyers
A Performance by Ari Benjamin Meyers. With: Laura Eichten, Jan Terstegen, Heidi Heidelberg and Carsten Hein
Meyers’s intimate yet intense performance considers codes of power and control. Taking the phenomenon of weather as a starting point, the work investigates predictability (or lack thereof) and the insatiable human need for prognoses, progress and domination over our planet.
Previous performances: MUDAM (LX), Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (LI), Grand Théâtre Geneva (CH)
past
cymbeline
theatre music by laura moody, at shakespeare’s globe London
Musical direction and composition by Laura Moody, who created a concept for the lesser-known Shakespeare play ‘Cymbeline’, using a collection of tuned percussion instruments with unruly harmonics, extended vocal techniques and prepared guitar. Performed by Laura Moody, Heidi Heidelberg and Angela Wai Nok Hui
https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/cymbeline
GLAUBE LIEBE HOFFNUNG
AT STAATSOPER STUTTGART
A video game, an opera, a musical challenge. Sieben Stationen vom Himmel durch die Welt zur Hölle. Directed by Marco Štorman, conducted by Andre de Ridder.
https://www.staatsoper-stuttgart.de/spielplan/a-z/glaube-liebe-hoffnung
Review: Süddeutsche Zeitung: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/glaube-liebe-hoffnung-storman-oper-staatsoper-stuttgart-interaktive-oper-1.5252727
TWISTS OF HC ANDERSEN
BY PHILIPP RÜTTGERS
For the Composition Assignment Rüttgers takes the listener to revisit fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, giving them voice in a composition entitled Twists Of H.C. Andersen’s Untaped Fairy Tales. He performs with a totally new quintet consisting of musicians with varied backgrounds in jazz, classical, improv, electronic, and Indian music.
Performances: North Sea Jazz Festival (NL), Bimhuis (NL), So What’s Next Festival (NL), Jazz Architekt (DE), Transition Festival (NL), Brebl (NL), Splendor (NL)
CANDY SHOP
BY LINA LAPELYTE
For the Composition Assignment Rüttgers takes the listener to revisit fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, giving them voice in a composition entitled Twists Of H.C. Andersen’s Untaped Fairy Tales. He performs with a totally new quintet consisting of musicians with varied backgrounds in jazz, classical, improv, electronic, and Indian music.
Performances: Counterflows Festival (UK), Queen Elizabeth Hall (UK), Kunsthalle Prague (CZ), Fondation Cartier (FR),
wyattando
a tribute to robert wyatt
With members of Wyatt’s band: Chris Cutler, Annie Whitehead, Karen Mantler and John Greaves