Sonomateca : An afternoon dedicated to polychronic cultures and celebrating Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s new CD release.
With contributions by Marjolaine Charbin, Caroline Kraabel, Edward Lucas, Vanessa Mirza, Artur Vidal, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Finty Woolf.
3pm- 6pm | suggested donation: £10 cash
Marjolaine Charbin is a pianist working both inside the piano with objects and with the keyboard. Originally from France, she lived for many years in Brussels and is now based in London. Since studying sound engineering and then jazz piano at the conservatoire in Brussels, she has focussed on improvised music as both a solo and collaborative performer.
She has worked with a wide range of musicians and dancers, in London and across Europe, including Olivier Toulemonde, Jennifer Allum, Eddie Prevost, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Julyen Hamilton, David Toop, Rhodri Davies, Theodossia Stathi, Grundik Kassiansky, Ute Kangiesser, Frans van Isacker, Lawrence Casserley and many others, and has developped film scores and worked in devised theatre.
www.marjolainecharbin.com
Vanessa Maria Mirza is a choreographer, visual artist and curator originally from Kolkata, India currently based in London, United Kingdom. Her recent choreographic works include ‘La Femme et La Mer’, ‘Dream Realms’, ‘Her Song’. ‘Somebody’, and ‘Stronger’. Her choreography has been performed in Taiwan and India. Her work ‘Somebody’ was shortlisted for the Prakriti Excellence in Contemporary Dance Awards (PECDA) 2018. She has collaborated with UK based theatre artist Imogen Butler-Cole (2019), US music artist Zachary Ray (2020) and UK based artist Dane Hurst for his international dance film ‘Beyond Barriers’ (2020). She was commissioned by Emami Art in 2021 to create a solo ‘La Femme et la Mer’ in response to the paintings of K.C. Pyne’s as part of a performance in response series curated by the Kolkata Centre for Creativity. She also performed in the online residency project ‘Exquisite Noise -Extension’ by Van Huynh Company for Dance Bridges Festival 2022.
https://vanessamariamirza.in
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is a London based academic, artist, composer, experimental vocalist, and improviser interested in the materiality and musicality of language. She is Reader in Fine Art and Relational Practices at UCA Farnham.
Her practice and research explore the materiality and musicality of language and evolve across multiple interconnected work zones – conceptual writing, performance, new musical composition, artist-publishing, curating.
Her music and scores are distributed by Wandelweiser editions. Her book works are held in collections including V&A, The Tate, the Poetry Library at Southbank Centre, The Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Centre Des Livres d’Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche.
www.ewaeckerle.com
Edward Lucas is a london based trombone player. he plays improvised and experimental music with a particular interest in electro-acoustic collaborations. his approach to the instrument is to explore its sonic possibilities using the materials to hand, and sometimes to expand with amplification and feedback.
He is co-founder – with Daniel Kordik – of the earshots recordings label and concert series which has been releasing music since 2013. the pair have a long standing trombone / synthesiser duo (Kordik / Lucas) which recently teamed up with eddie prévost and his matchless label to release high laver reflections. this was a set of recordings made by the group at the medieval all saint’s church in high laver, essex. groups and associations include many with musicians from the london improvised music scene and beyond including the London Experimental Ensemble, Hyperion Ensemble (playing the music of Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, Tim Hodgkinson), and the London Improvisers Orchestra.
lucas.earshots.org
Caroline Kraabel is a London-based improviser. In 2022 Kraabel brought together a large improvising group made up of all sorts of women, non-binary, and transgender improvisers: ONe_Orchestra New. Kraabel has performed and recorded with many other excellent improvisers, including Robert Wyatt, Louis Moholo, Cleveland Watkiss, Hyelim Kim, Susan Alcorn, Veryan Weston, Mariá Portugal, Neil Metcalfe, Mark Sanders, Shima Kobayashi, and Chris Corsano.
Kraabel’s solo saxophone improvisations while walking in London and elsewhere with her infant child/ren in their pushcair were broadcast weekly 2002-2006 on Resonance 104.4 FM as Taking a Life for a Walk and more recently (without children) as Going Outside. Other radio work includes a series of interviews with improvisers in many media (music, dance, visual art, politics, activism), Why is Improvising Important. Improvisers and Improvisation, made with John Edwards, is a 22-hour radio piece including music, noise, electronics, live performance and new interviews with improvisers; broadcast as part of 2022’s Radio Art Zone Kraabel conducted, devised pieces for, and played with the London Improvisers Orchestra (LIO) from 1998-2022, and organised their 20th anniversary celebrations, which featured celebrated LIO members from throughout the group’s history.
www.masskraabel.com
Artur Vidal is a London based and Spanish-born saxophone player who grew up in Paris where he studied music, philosophy and history of art. His work involves field recordings, sound walks, dance and improvisation. He has been doing academic research on improvised music and environmental sounds and has become a certified teacher of Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening practice. He has published two collections of text scores: The Hum in the Valley (2021) and Friendly Algorithms (2018).
arturvidal.com
Clarinetist, composer and sonic Artist, Finty Woolf creates ethereal works dictated by the visual nuisances and beauty of nature. Through art, scoring, improvisation and collaboration.
fintywoolf.wixsite.com/composer-artist
