Let the Rain in
Relative humidity. Wind. Barometric pressure. Temperature. Micro variations that shape the very way we experience air. Open your ears and let the space be what it always was: sacred. Let's invite them in
-Concept / Sound composition: Reiko Yamada
-Performance / Collaboration: Jihae Ko, Kay Patru
About the artists
*Reiko Yamada. Composer and sound artist Reiko Yamada is originally from Hiroshima, Japan. In recent years, her work has centered on a research in the aesthetic concept of imperfection in a variety of contexts. Yamada holds a doctorate degree in composition from McGill University and has received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, including a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship (Harvard University, 2015-2016) and the Artist-in-Residency at the Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik (IEM, University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, 2016-2017).
**Jihae Ko. Dance artist and Alternative medicine therapist based in Amsterdam. In recent years her work deals with somatic movement and energy work through the sensory and the perceptual, as a way of investigating the co- creative relation between body and environment. She is committed to bridging art and therapy as a path where creativity and inter-personal growth meet.
***Kay Patru. Dance & Movement improvisation teacher and bodywork practitioner based in Amsterdam. His work focuses primarily on developing improvisation and somatic awareness tools designed to awaken the innate intelligence of the body. His work is deeply inspired by body oriented practices and self-inquiry methodology as tools for creativity and well being.
Jaap Blonk - Songs of Little Sleep
Songs of Little Sleep for voice and electronics, is a disturbingly engaging collection of songs on the topic of insomnia. The voice sounds go into quite extreme ranges of extended vocal
techniques. An important element are the stereo vocals, a technique I have been working on for many years. The electronics are based on analog synth sounds, partly chaotic and unpredictable. Texts are included too, in Dutch or fake Dutch, as well as in English. Sound poetry might happen also, along with alien intrusions (as we cannot predict our dreams).
Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Netherlands) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies.
In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on
in improvisations and his own compositions. From around the year 1995 on Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well. He took a year off of performing in 2006. His renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual animation and poetry. As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence. He has performed around the world, on all continents. With the use of live electronics and visuals the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension. Blonk’s recorded output comprises some 40 titles: CDs, vinyl, books and cassettes.
From his sound poetry scores he developed an independent body of visual work, which has been published and exhibited.
Giuliano Anzani & Chris Loupis - And now for something completely similar (live electronics improvisation)
Giuliano Anzani (IT/NL) is a sound designer and composer based in The Hague. His practice is focused on the development of generative environments and digital interfaces for live electronics. By combining stochastic processes and improvisation, he aspires to explore new musical vocabularies and interactions.
Chris Loupis (GR/NL) explores his musical interests primarily through the process of performing with feedback techniques. He is currently concerned with basing his practice on the outcomes that stem from the dynamical coupling of — and with — systems composed via modular synthesis and analogue electronics.
They have been playing music together as part of the improvisational electroacoustic quartet Miloš Cathals since 2016.
For this upcoming performance, they will experiment on improvising as a duo act, with the curiosity of pursuing a slightly different approach and output to what their past collaboration has yielded.