Studio LOOS 20th Anniversary - join via LiveStream!
On the 13th of March we are celebrating a wonderful occasion - the 20th anniversary of Studio LOOS!
Studio LOOS, a pioneering institute in The Hague dedicated to the development of talent and innovative interdisciplinary music with, in recent years, more and more artistic research by a large, growing group of artists, from young to older.
Studio LOOS is part of LOOS, which was founded in 1982 and has always been at the forefront of the new, experimental music scene in The Hague, promoting originality, authenticity and innovation in interdisciplinary music. Under the leadership of composer musician Peter van Bergen, since 1982 LOOS, and since 2004, Studio LOOS has continuously developed, becoming a hotspot, laboratory, and public presentation stage for interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation in 2024.
performances include:
🟣 Gerard Bouwhuis performs “TREPIDUS”, composed by Louis Andriessen
🔵 Performance of Artistic Research “INTERACTIVE GESTURAL ARABIC SONGS”
by Baidar Al Basri (vocals), Johan van Kreij (live electronica), Peter van Bergen (saxophone + live electronics)
🟢 Performance of Artistic Research “DUO”
by Farzaneh Nouri (computer), Leslee Smucker (prepared violin)
⚪️ Performance by Special Request of the Board of LOOS: “QUARTET”
by Wilbert de Joode (contrabas), Giacomo Camilletti (drums), Ike van Bergen (piano & keys), Peter van Bergen (tenorsaxophone) with special guest Raphael Vanoli (guitar & electronics)
- Compositions of van Andrew Hill, Carla Bley & Pete La Roca
the event will be livestreamed via LOOS Channel
more about performances:
“INTERACTIVE GESTURAL ARABIC SONGS”
by Baidar Al Basri (vocals), Johan van Kreij (live electronica), Peter van Bergen (saxophone + live electronics)
Iraqi singer Baidar Al Basra, living in The Hague, worked in a artistic research residency in multiple sessions with artistic researchers of the IOM-AIM Research, Dr. Peter van Bergen and Johan van Kreij. Topics include the transformation of gestures and musical enrichment.
In this performance Baidar will work with two Wave, wireless, sensor rings and show interactive computer music generated by Baidar's own singing and movements.
Musical starting point are songs from From Hamid al-Basri “Iraqi Popular Songs” (Hamid al-Basri) combined the Arabic improvisational solo vocal style Mawwal
Baidar will investigate whether collaboration with interactive electronics, in which gesticulation plays an important role, can add something to the meaning and expression of her performances. Data generated by sensors will be transmitted to computer software of IOM-AIM Research and should lead to simultaneity of human solo acoustic singing Mawwal and Arabic gestures, and computer music that closely matches the sound idiom in which Baidar is comfortable, to transform into a "virtual sound world" that enriches acoustic singing and can connect styles
In the performance Peter van Bergen will start improvisational dialogues with Baidar on Bb clarinet in combination with Mi-Mu gloves.
Johan van Kreij will use the computer to guide the interactivity between voice + rings, Bb clarinet + gloves and the IOM-AIM software that he and Peter van Bergen developed in Peter van Bergen’s doctorate IOM-AIM Research “Improvisation, Interactivity, Instability: Artistic Transformations” 2023.
songs
Your heart is hard stone
Tell me what is your aim?
I nursed you Hassen
O Basil plant
