Vrooom #96
The
hybrid international collective MAZE presents a reworking of Tony
Conrad's seminal album 'Slapping Pythagoras', and the textpiece 'In
Memoriam Esteban Gomez' by Robert Ashley. MAZE is: Anne La Berge, Wiek
Hijmans, Gareth Davis, Dario Calderone, Yannis Kyriakides, Reinier van
Houdt. Next to this we'll have genre-defying hyperpop from Austėja Žvirblytė, and a solo set by composer Teoniki Rożynek.
location: Klooster Oude Noorden – Hammerstraat 55, Rotterdam
[ please note: the usual entrance at Ruivenstraat 81 is temporarily closed, use the one on Hammerstraat 55 (just around the corner) instead ]
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / entrance: €10,- (pin or cash).
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[ please note: the usual entrance at Ruivenstraat 81 is temporarily closed, use the one on Hammerstraat 55 (just around the corner) instead ]
doors: 20:00 / start: 20:30 / end: 23:00 / entrance: €10,- (pin or cash).
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┆ MAZE┆
MAZE is a hybrid international collective working on open compositions in the form of video scores, games, text scores, algorhythms, 3-d notation, graphic scores, apps, etc. They abandon the idea of 'authentic performance' along the axis composer-score-performer-listener, instead going for an open approach where these positions are interchangeable. Here, the performers compose, the composers listen to what's already there, listening becomes a creative act and the world around us can be a score.
https://www.maze.nu
Tony
Conrad was an artist, violinist, mathematician, filmer, and actor. He
was a member of the influential Theatre Of Eternal Music together with
John Cale, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela - a collective that worked
on long duration music in just intonation tunings. Incidentally Conrad
also stood at the beginning of the Velvet Underground starting with four
guitars with all 24 strings tuned to the same pitch. Because of intense
disagreements about authorship with La Monte Young the collective split
up, after which La Monte -who owned the taperecorder that recorded all
their sessions- withheld all recordings from the other members. He would
only release them if the others would credit him as the sole composer.
As a result Tony Conrad was robbed of a big part of his work and
history. However, he took this as an artistic project - as a challenge
to question notions of authorship, memory, history, tuning. Conrad
freely reimagined and recomposed dates of their sessions, putting the
principles at work. He also developed them further in the seminal
postrock record 'Slapping Pythagoras' made with e.g. Jim O'Rourke and
Kevin Drumm - Pythagoras was the Greek philosopher that discovered the
mathematics behind vibrations who thought the secrets of tuning should
be kept from the people, rather to be used to control them, favoring
only certain intervals as sacred. Conrad playfully opposes this with an
anarchic tuning, a radical democracy of pitches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL7GPpGIG8c
MAZE is a hybrid international collective working on open compositions in the form of video scores, games, text scores, algorhythms, 3-d notation, graphic scores, apps, etc. They abandon the idea of 'authentic performance' along the axis composer-score-performer-listener, instead going for an open approach where these positions are interchangeable. Here, the performers compose, the composers listen to what's already there, listening becomes a creative act and the world around us can be a score.
https://www.maze.nu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL7GPpGIG8c
Robert
Ashley was one of the pioneers in experimental music theater and voice
oriented music. In the '60s, in a provocative search for a truly
American music, Ashley took happenings of colonial ventures simultaneous
with the birth of european artforms like sonata, concerto, quartet, and
opera - as models for a music where the liberation of time would
counteract colonial history.
In the piece 'In Memoriam Esteban Gomez' [quartet] there are boats floating in a self-generated ocean navigating the American Eastcoast. They interpret the ripples in the water to determine their course in the four wind directions pitch, dynamic, density and colour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74kLU7cf2v8
┆ TEONIKI ROŻYNEK ┆
Teoniki Rożynek is a composer and violin player who places particular emphasis on electronic sound design. She collects sonic waste material and junk objects that generate sound, with which she creates electronic and electroacoustic music. Working both solo and in collectives, she frequently collaborates with artists from other fields, co-creating films, performances and multimedia installations.
https://soundcloud.com/teonikirozynek
┆ AUSTĖJA ŽVIRBLYTĖ ┆
Austėja Žvirblytė aka Youki Flu is a Rotterdam-based Lithuanian multi-instrumentalist who strings together her musical influences into dreamy hyperpop. She sings in her own made-up language while playing the ukulele bass and electronics. Expect driving beats, vigorous voice improvisations and a playful genre-crossing experience.
In the piece 'In Memoriam Esteban Gomez' [quartet] there are boats floating in a self-generated ocean navigating the American Eastcoast. They interpret the ripples in the water to determine their course in the four wind directions pitch, dynamic, density and colour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74kLU7cf2v8
┆ TEONIKI ROŻYNEK ┆
Teoniki Rożynek is a composer and violin player who places particular emphasis on electronic sound design. She collects sonic waste material and junk objects that generate sound, with which she creates electronic and electroacoustic music. Working both solo and in collectives, she frequently collaborates with artists from other fields, co-creating films, performances and multimedia installations.
https://soundcloud.com/teonikirozynek
┆ AUSTĖJA ŽVIRBLYTĖ ┆
Austėja Žvirblytė aka Youki Flu is a Rotterdam-based Lithuanian multi-instrumentalist who strings together her musical influences into dreamy hyperpop. She sings in her own made-up language while playing the ukulele bass and electronics. Expect driving beats, vigorous voice improvisations and a playful genre-crossing experience.
This event is made possible with kind support of Popunie Rotterdam.
MAZE is supported by:
