Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 2pm *CT
Vox Effusis Vol. 1 curated by Lou Mallozzi
2:00pm - Ute Wassermann (DE)
2:30pm - Jaap Blonk (NL)
3:00pm - Jacques Demierre & Vincent Barras (CH)
3:30pm - Lynn Book (US)
Ute Wassermann (DE)
Vocal artist Ute Wassermann is a composer/ performer, improviser and interpreter of contemporary music. She studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in sound installation and vocal performance, and studied classical singing with Carol Plantamura (San Diego) and Arnold van Mill (Hamburg). Since 1984 she has developed many special multivoiced vocal techniques, catalogued by register, timbre and articulative sequences, which may be deconstructed and/or superimposed and used to explore spatial resonance phenomena. She has given numerous performances of her own solo work and performs regularly with many improvising musicians, including duos with Richard Barrett (live electronics) and Matthias Kaul (percussion), in venues ranging from international festivals to lofts. She has collaborated frequently with composers who have created works especially for her voice, including Henning Christiansen, Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Sven-Åke Johansson, and has performed with many ensembles including ASKO, Elision and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin.
Links:
https://vimeo.com/user20410741
https://soundcloud.com/utewassermann
Jaap Blonk (NL)
Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those studies.
In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started to compose music. A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two decades the voice was his main means for the discovery and development of new sounds. From around the year 2000 on Blonk started work with electronics, at first using samples of his own voice, then extending the field to include pure sound synthesis as well as work with analog synthesizers. He took a year off of performing in 2006. As a result, his renewed interest in mathematics made him start a research of the possibilities of algorithmic composition for the creation of music, visual work and poetry.
As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen grasp of structure. He has performed around the world, on all continents. With the use of live electronics and interactive visuals the scope and range of his concerts has acquired a considerable extension.
Besides working as a soloist, he collaborated with many musicians and ensembles in the field of contemporary and improvised music, like Maja Ratkje, Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, The Ex, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and the Ebony Band. He premiered several compositions by the German composer Carola Bauckholt, including a piece for voice and orchestra. A solo voice piece was commissioned by the Donaueschinger Musiktage. On several occasions he collaborated with visual computer artist Golan Levin, for the Ars Electronica Festival.
Blonk's work for radio and television includes several commissioned radio plays. He also makes larger-scale drawings of his scores, as well as visual poetry, which is being exhibited.
He has his own record label, Kontrans, featuring a total of 29 releases so far. Other Blonk recordings appeared on various labels, such as Staalplaat, Basta, VICTO, Ecstatic Peace, Monotype Records, Terp and Relative Pitch. Several books with his visual work were published by Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin, each one with a CD and an original drawing. Other books came out at Simulacrum Press and Xexoxial. A comprehensive collection of his sound poetry appeared as a book with 2 CDs in 2013, entitled "KLINKT".
Links:
http://www.jaapblonk.com/
Jacques Demierre & Vincent Barras (CH)
BarDem (Vincent Barras and Jacques Demierre) is part of the experimental tradition located at the borders of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing and sound art. The spoken word is the very material of their artistic practice. The work on this material produces a "total sound object" in which the relationships between "text" and "score", a "clear discourse" conveying meanings and its sound dimensions as such (vocal singularities, parasitic noises, accents, discourse failures...) are recomposed. The four-handed writing is based on both poetic and musical techniques. Drawing on various sources, such as linguistics, anatomy, performance art, experimental composition, it is crafted with microphone and pencil: listening, transcribing, mouth-trying, recording, listening again... One of the major outcomes of this work is its realization on stage, in its concrete dimensions: the space of the body and the time of the performance.
Links:
Vincent > vincent.barras@chuv.ch
Jacques > jacdem@geneva-link.ch
Lynn Book (US)
Lynn Book is a transmedia artist whose adventurous work interrogates and theorizes Bodies. She deploys extended voice, material practices and technologies to make performance, video, text, new music, exhibition and collaborative culture projects that take shape in galleries, clubs, fields, streets, online and in concert halls. Her work has been performed, heard and/or seen in New York City, Chicago, Vienna, Berlin, Naples, Marseilles, Budapest, Hong Kong, Bali, London, Manila, Brisbane and elsewhere.
Book is a Teaching Professor at the intersection of the Arts and Humanities at Wake Forest and is a Faculty Associate with Transart Institute since its inception in 2004. Since 2017, she has been digitizing and preserving the “Lynn Book Projects Archive” whose corpus spans forty years.
Links:
www.vimeo.com/lynnbook
www.lynnbook.com