Saturday, May 22, 2021
2:30pm CT
Streaming on Twitch
FREE, $5 suggested donation (100% goes to the artists)
ARTIST LINE-UP
2:30 PM CT - Pak Yan Lau (Brussels)
3:00 PM - Maayan Tsadka (Haifa)
3:30 PM - Lisa Ullen (Stockholm)
4:00 PM - Amanda Gutiérrez/Viv Corringham (NYC)
ARTIST BIOS
Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) Trained and graduated initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater. Gutierrez is actively advocating listening practices while being one of the board of directors of the World Listening Project, formerly working with The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology, and currently as the scientific comitée of the Red Ecología Acústica México. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Concordia University and a research assistant at lab PULSE and Acts of Listening Lab.
Paypal: cadadosis@gmail.com
Viv Corringham is a US based British improvising vocalist and sound artist. Her work includes concerts, soundwalks, workshops and installations, exploring people's sense of place and the link with personal history and memory. She is certified to teach Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros and received her MA Sonic Art from Middlesex University London. Awards include two Composer Fellowships through American Composers Forum. Work has been presented in twenty six countries. Articles about her work include In the Field, Leonardo Music Journal, Art of Immersive Soundscapes, Organised Sound and Musicworks.
Pak Yan Lau, born in Belgium, with roots from Hong Kong and now based in Brussels is a sound artist, improviser, musician and composer, who has developed over the years a rich, dense and captivating sound universe from prepared pianos, toy pianos, synths, electronics and various sound objects. Skilfully blending acoustic, electro-acoustic and electronic approaches, she explores sound in a bewitching way, merging these different approaches and sound sources with poetry, magic and finesse.
2021 will see several releases, among which her 6 piece ensemble piece Bakunawa (on Cortizona label). Bakunawa is a continuation of Lau’s solo project Book of Toy. Driven by the curiosity and possibilities to write for an ensemble, this piece explores a combination of unconventional instrumentation (gong rods, toy pianos, metal tubes in combination with harp, bass drum, tom) and delicate use of electronics. Inspired by Asian ritual music, minimal music (Philip Glass and Eliane Radigue), and ambient music, she created her own personal ritualistic sound world.
paypal: pakyan_lau@hotmail.com
A native of Seoul, Korea, Lisa Ullén grew up in the northern part of Sweden, and is based in Stockholm. She is a graduate of the Royal Musical Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where she studied classical piano in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since the late 1990s, she has devoted herself entirely to improvised music, in the form of free jazz as well as avant garde and contemporary classical and experimental music. A versatile player with a singular musical vision, Ullén has repeatedly proven her ability to imprint her absolute sense for tonal texture on whatever musical context she appears in. Internationally recognized as a distinctive and uncompromising musician and composer, Ullén over the last decade has produced more than fifteen albums. Ullén has collaborated extensively with many well-known Swedish artists and dancers, and has also scored several dramatic productions. She’s also performed and recorded music by contemporary composers .In 2018 she released the triple album Piano Works and Ep Sekvenser och Lager on her own label Disorder. In Oktober 2018 Lisa Ullén was awarded the Jazzcomposer of the Year-prize by the Swedish Radio
paypal: lisaullen@gmail.com
Maayan Tsadka: Composer, sound artist, improviser, sound explorer and teacher. At the root of all my works is an attempt to grasp some understanding about the nature of sound, its behavior, acoustic ways of organization, and its environmental and social roles. I am interested in uncovering and amplifying layers and musical patterns—hidden, inherent structures— which occur acoustically, as well as in an exploration of the ways in which the sonic phenomena meets the physiology of the ear and the psychology of listening. Often, my work incorporates a dimension of imaginary and speculative sonic worlds, on the line between crypto-zoology, crypto-botany and futuristic folklore. Current fields of research and creative work include: prehistoric harmony, sonic taxonomy, sound as a museal exhibit, tuning systems, sonic botany, underwater sounds, field recordings and echo/resonance in musical, natural, political, and social contexts.
paypal: singingspring@gmail.com