At the moment, I am working on a new piece that will be performed EXACTLY on my birthday, next week on April 21, in Rovinj, Croatia. The piece is called as the title of this post says - Bourgeois, and it is inspired by two bigger ideas.
And so WoO and I had another live gig. This time the music sounded much closer to what we imagined it should be in the first place - giving enough time for each idea to develop, for every single sound to be heard and being very careful about each sound played. WoO was playing with his standard setup - 4 or 5 pedals and electric guitar, producing beautiful small noises in combination with objects of different kinds, and making touching layers made of simple musical motives looped in irregular times, fading into harmonies, drones and sound masses made of clicks, glitches and other sounds we were producing on the spot. I played with my Pure data patch, updated a bit to provide me easier manipulation of the samples, with a new possibility of building rhythmical patterns of different length, speed and color. Beside Korg nano control I also used Touch OSC app on my iphone which turned out to be quite compatible with my patch.
Watch the video excerpts from our performance
here:https://vimeo.com/38903643
Sound improvisation with amplified objects, randomly distributed on a table, wearing a blindfold - recorded, edited, composed
Biliana Voutchkova - violin
Micha Rabuske - bass clarinet
Svetlana Maras - prepared piano
On 30th of December, just to say goodbye to the previous year adequately, and eager to play in my home country after a long while, I've accepted the invitation from a friend of mine Nenad Markovic, trumpet player and improviser, to play a gig in Novi Sad. It was organized by amazing people behind the name of
Improstor Novi Sad . They've started series of concerts of experimental music in August this year, and this was 11th one in the row. So, I started preparing a bit more than a week before the concert, when we determined the date and all.
At the moment, due to my obsession with TEXT, words, signs etc, I am preparing a live improvisation/mix where the main and most probably the only sound material will be extracted from the sound poetry/vocal improvisation/any other pieces of strictly vocal music.
Just found the recordings (improvisations) that I made as a material for the film music that I made last year (Haaksirikko - see under applied music). However, I used some really small fragments of it, and the rest just stayed there forgotten for a while. Now when listening, I find some soundings and textures very interesting, although the structure is not defined, since it wasn't a part of a performance or composition.
Recorded at "Arcada" studio in Helsinki, provided by Sibelius Academy which hosted the Film music course.
Too much clipping. Better recording coming soon.
This is the recorded improvisation of my practicing for the solo performance at Ptarmigan in Helsinki. Ptarmigan is a place run by Tara Pattenden and her husband, and the best place for experimental music in Helsinki. There are events each week, and many super-interesting artists from all over the world are coming there to play. Check it out here:
http://ptarmigan.fi/en/pages/about
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