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Residency at STEIM
Just started working on my Perpetuum Mobile sound installation at STEIM, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam! Thank you Tijs Ham for your precious help and feedback.
We will set up the installation with the 12 hanging speakers at the SMBA exhibition venue on September 9th, the show starts on September 13th!
Perpetuum Mobile work in progress, Studio 1, STEIM
Perpetuum Mobile receives AFAC grant
Very happy that my latest project, Perpetuum Mobile has just been selected by the AFAC committee jury of this year to receive a production grant!
Perpetuum Mobile is a newly commissioned 12 channel sound installation that will be exhibited at the SMBA Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam. The work is part of a group exhibition titled "This Is The Time. And This Is The Record Of The Time".
The curators, Nat Muller and Angela Harutyunyan have taken their cue from Laurie Anderson’s ominous 1982 song “From the Air” where she describes the duration between becoming conscious that the plane will crash and its actual impact. The show proposes to critically question our relationship to time, as well as our relationship to the mechanisms of recording time, particularly in moments of crisis or other transformative contexts.
The exhibition opens on September 13th 2014 and will travel to Beirut in 2015.
For more information on Perpetuum Mobile please click on the AFAC page here
La Vallée (The Valley)
Feature length film
Written and Directed by Ghassan Salhab
The soundtrack for Ghassan Salhab's stunning new feature The Valley (La Vallée) has just been finalised. It includes a string quartet, a church organ and electronics and was recorded in Lisbon and in Beirut.
To learn more about La Vallée please visit the Abbout Productions website here
Mes Mains Sont Plus Agées Que Moi
Dance performance by Danya Hammoud
With Danya Hammoud, Khouloud Yassine and Mounzer Baalbaki
Pre-production for Danya Hammoud's next dance performance Mes Mains Sont Plus Agées Que Moi begins! The soundtrack for prepared piano will be based on Schubert's Fantasy in F minor for 4 hands.
Premiere on June 4th 2014, opening of the June Events Festival at Carolyn Carlson's Atelier de Paris - France
The performance will then take part in different dance festivals in France: > Festival Uzès Danse - Festival Danse Contemporaine en Mediterannée (Marseille, Aix, Arles) - Festival Européen de Danse Contemporaine (Toulouse, Strasbourg) - Festival CDC Art Danse (Dijon, Bourgogne).
Women In Jazz Festival - Halle, Germany
Thrilled to have taken part in the Women In Jazz 2014 edition at the Opera House in Halle! An incredible experience with outstanding musicians from Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Poland, Iran and Germany. The program included new arrangements on original compositions by Bodek Janke, Alex Morsey, Simin Tander and Cynthia Zaven.
Caroline Thon (ld, sax) – DE
Veronika Todorova (acc) – BG
Feruza Ochilova (voc, dutar, doira) – UZ
Bodek Janke (perc) – PL
Negar Bouban (oud) – IR
Simin Tander (voc) – DE/AF
Cynthia Zaven (piano) - LB
Alexander Morsay (b) – DE
photo by Raisa Galofre
photo by Raisa Galofre
photo by Raisa Galofre
Caroline Thon and Cynthia Zaven