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Éliane Radigue (FR): compositions OCCAM III / OCCAM IV / OCCAM River I (World Premiere)<br>
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</b></span></span></font></font><br><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><b>Artists:<br></b></font></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><b>Helena Gough | laptop |</b><br><br>Helena Gough is an English sound artist currently living in Berlin. Her
work initially focused upon the collection and manipulation of
‘real-world’ sound material and the exploration of its abstract
properties. Occasional deviations into synthetic and instrumental
sources are now developing into more prominent ingredients. Each new
sound-space is created by taking everything possible from the tiniest
element, working to make something from nearly nothing. This reduction
in means yields a density and richness of results. As a solo (laptop)
player she presents her music live on a regular basis. Her performances
are intended for dark spaces and involve multi-layering and
improvisation with her sound materials in order to create a unique
environment for each new event. Her debut solo album was released at the
beginning of 2007 by the London based label Entr’acte, followed by a
second album in 2010. Her most recent album began with the simple idea
of using only the cello as source material, and explored improvisations
made by cellists Anthea Caddy and Anton Lukoszevieze.<br><strong></strong></font></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><strong><a href="http://www.helenagough.net/" target="_blank">helenagough.net</a></strong><br>
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Magda Mayas | piano |</b><br></font>
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<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Magda Mayas is a pianist living in Berlin. Developing a vocabulary
utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano,
using preparations and objects, she explores textural, linear and fast
moving sound collage. Lately she has also focused on the clavinet, an
electric piano from the 60s with strings and metal chimes, where she
engages with noise and more visceral sound material, equally extending
the instrumental sound palette using extended techniques and devices.
Current projects are “Spill”, a duo with drummer Tony Buck, a duo with
Anthea Caddy (cello), a duo with Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui (sax),
“Great Waitress”, a trio with Monika Brooks (acc) and Laura Altman (cl)
and different collaborations with Andy Moor, Clayton Thomas and Peter
Evans. Magda Mayas has performed and toured in Europe, the USA,
Australia and Lebanon with many leading figures in improvisation such
as John Butcher, Peter Evans, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann, Axel
Dörner, Johannes Bauer, Christoph Kurzmann, Thomas Lehn and Tristan
Honsinge<strong>.</strong></font></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><strong><a href="http://magdamayas.jimdo.com/" target="_blank">magdamayas.jimdo.com</a></strong></font></p>
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<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><b>The Secretaries</b> | Felicity Mangan, WJM, JD Zazie - found sounds, electronics |</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>A new band formed in Berlin, The Secretaries bring together three
strong personalities to explore new musical directions and forms. Works
are composed and performed through the reproduction of recorded material
whose manipulation acquires a new meaning in a game of tensions and
balances, interweaving and setting of concrete sounds, environmental
field recordings, rhythms, impulses, noises, and mistakes.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><strong><a href="http://soundcloud.com/thesecretaries" target="_blank">soundcloud.com/thesecretaries</a></strong></font></p><p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font><br>
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<font><b>Eliane Radigue </b>| composer |</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>She was born and raised in Paris in a modest family of merchants at
Les Halles. Afterwards, she married the French-born American artist
Arman with whom she lived in Nice while raising their three children
until 1967, then in Paris. She had studied piano and was already
composing before having heard a broadcast by the founder of musique
concrète Pierre Schaeffer. She met him shortly thereafter in the early
50s and became his student while working periodically during visits to
Paris at the Studio d’Essai. During the early 1960s, she was assistant
to Pierre Henry, during which time she created some of the sounds which
appeared in his work. As her work gained maturity, Schaeffer and Henry
believed her use of microphone feedback and long tape loops was moving
away from their ideals, but her singular practice was still related to
their methods.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Around 1970, she created her first synthesizer-based music at NYU at a
studio she shared with Laurie Spiegel on a Buchla synthesizer installed
by Morton Subotnick. Her goal by that point was to create a slow,
purposeful “unfolding” of sound, which she felt to be closer to the
minimal composers of New York at the time than to the French musique
concrète composers who had been her previous allies. After presenting
the first of her Adnos in 1974 at Mills College at the invitation of
Robert Ashley, a group of visiting French music students suggested that
her music was deeply related to meditation and that she should look into
Tibetan Buddhism, two things that she had very little familiarity with.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>Upon investigation of Tibetan Buddhism, she quickly converted and
spent the next three years devoted to its practice under her guru Pawo
Rinpoche, who subsequently sent her back to her musical work. She
returned to composition, picking up where she left off, using the same
methods and working toward the same goals as before, and finished Adnos
II in 1979 and Adnos III in 1980. Then came the series of works
dedicated to Milarepa, a great Tibetan yogi, known for his Thousand
songs representing the basis of his teaching. First she composed the
Songs of Milarepa, followed by Jetsun Mila an evocation of the life of
this great master; the creation of these works was sponsored by the
French government.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>At the end of the 80s, beginning of the 90s, she devotes herself to a
singular three-hour work, perhaps her masterpiece, the Trilogie de la
Mort, of which the first part kyema Intermediate states follows the path
of the continuum of the six states of conscience. The work is
influenced by the Tibetan Book of the Dead Bardo Thodol and her
meditation practice as by the death of Pawo Rinpoche and her son Yves
Arman. The first third of the Trilogie, “Kyema”, was her first release
recording, issued by Phill Niblock’s XI label.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font>In 2000, she made in Paris her last electronic work l’Ile Re-sonante
for which she received in 2006 the Golden Nica Award at the festival Ars
Electronica in Linz. In 2001 upon request from the double bass and
electronic composer Kasper T. Toeplitz, she makes her first instrumental
work Elemental II, a work taken up again with the laptop improvisation
group The Lappetites she joined. She participated in their first album
“Before the Libretto” on the Quecksilber label in 2005. Since 2004 she
dedicated herself to works for purely acoustical instrument. First with
the American cello player Charles Curtis, the first part of the work
Naldjorlak was created in December 2005 in New York and later played in
25 concerts across the U.S. and in Europe. The second part of Naldjorlak
for the two basset-horn players Carole Robinson and Bruno Martinez, was
created in September 2007 at the Aarau Festival (Switzerland). The
three musicians have completed with Eliane Radigue the last part of
Naldjorlak and presented the complete work “Naldjorlak I,II,III” on
January 24, 2009 in Bordeaux. In June 2011 the world premiere of her
composition for solo harp Occam I which was written for the harpist
Rhodri Davies was hold in London.</font></p>