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Room at CO2 Festival

Excited to start a new collaboration with Øyvind Skarbø (drums) and Mia Habis (dance)! Next week we'll be busy setting up the structures for a performance based on improvisations on percussion and drums, prepared piano and dance. 

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Mia Habis

Øyvind Skarbø

 

The performance entitled Room, is part of CO2 Choreographers & Composers, a new festival opening on September 28th. Our performance is scheduled for September 29th at the Monnot crypt and October 4th in Deir el Qamar!

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam installation & opening

View from the opening

With Tijs Ham from Steim, without whom this would have been simply impossible.

With Tsolin Nalbantian

With painter Daniele Genadry and curators Nat Muller and Angela Harutyunyan

With Daniele Genadry

Tamy arrives from Paris to see the show!

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

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).

                                                            

 

To visit the project's website please click here

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

Sound check at the Halle Opera House, February 2014

photo by Raisa Galofre

 
 

photo by Raisa Galofre

photo by Raisa Galofre

Caroline Thon and Cynthia Zaven

 

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