On september 23 and 24 I'll perform at the 8th International Festival Chihuahua, in Chihuahua City, Mexico!!
I'll play two sets with Zwerm electric guitar quartet (Fred Frith Quartet Session on 23/9 and 24/9) and one solo concert on the 24th!
My solo program looks as follows:
• John Zorn, Book of Heads (selection)
• Christopher Trapani, Really Coming Down
• John Zorn, Book of Heads (selection)
• Fausto Romitelli, Trash TV Trance
• John Zorn, Book of Heads (selection)
...a few video's of performances during the 2012 Darmstadt Ferienkurse.
PARK had it's premier on july 17 at FrankfurtLab, here's a link to a video showing some of the highlights of the performance. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xbeqs8y9kql361/Clip%2003.mp4
On the next day Nadar performed 3 world premiers, here are the videos of Johannes Kreidler's Die "sich sammelnde Erfahrung" (Benn): der Ton and Alexander Schubert's Point Ones. Johannes Kreidler was later on awarded the 2012 Kranichsteiner prize for composition.
This summer I'll be part of several productions as part of the Darmstadt Summer courses for New Music, including one evening long performance piece and 5 world premiers!
17/07/2012 PARK, with Shila Anaraki, Stefan Prins and Zwerm
Think of a body in stand-by, a short-circuited thought, a human brain processing at a frequency of 5 GHz… In PARK, six computers form a communication network that provides six performers with real-time instructions. PARK confronts the human body with a digital logic. It plays with the border of the human's presence and absence in technology and embodies a puzzle in which they outline each other. With playful precision PARK investigates strategies of embracing, resisting, adapting, disrupting or short-circuiting these technical surroundings. Who infiltrates what, and what infiltrates whom? PARK inhabits a peculiar network, which sputters in a much outmoded way. PARK is a first collaboration between Shila Anaraki and Stefan Prins. Together they depart from Infiltrationen, a composition of Stefan Prins for 4 electric guitars and a live-electronics performer. Central to this composition is the notion of technology infiltrating the conditio humana on several levels. Shila Anaraki is a performer and choreographer. An important part of her work is dedicated to collaborations within the contemporary music field. In these liaisons, Shila Anaraki looks for hybrid concepts from which the work can arise.
18/07/2012 Long Live the New Flesh, with the Nadar Ensemble
Nadar will play a program with three world premieres alternated by videos by Nicolas Provost a.o.:
Alexander Schubert, Point Ones
Johannes Kreidler, Die "sich sammelnde Erfahrung" (Benn): der Ton
Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Used Redux (from AutoCine)
27/07/2012 Preisträgerforum
As a winner of the 2010 stipend price at the Darmstadt Festival I'll be participating in this price-winners concert. I'll be performing in 2 world premiers, one by Mark Barden and one by Tim Mariën.
In 2011 I started commissioning new solo guitar pieces from composers I met while living in New York. On April 25th I'll present a second showcase at Logos in Ghent. (The first was on March 3rd at Exapno in Brooklyn) in which I'll premiere three pieces written by Paul Clift, Aaron Einbond and Rama Gottfried and an additional piece by Christopher Trapani to finalize the program. All pieces are written for solo acoustic guitar, with or without amplification/electronics, but at the same time they also show each composer’s personal and particular approach to the instrument. These different approaches lead to restringing the guitar to accommodate an extreme scordatura, to play it on a table using all kinds of objects going from a metal slide to a milk frother, to bring out the most subtle and soft microscopical sounds using extreme amplification, or deconstructing a classic New Orleans R&B tune...
Program:
Paul Clift - 1950c
Aaron Einbond - Silent Screen
Rama Gottfried - Spindle
Christopher Trapani - Really Coming Down
The concert will be at the Logos Tetrahedron (Bomastraat 26/28 9000 Gent) and starts at 20:00!
more info on the logos website or on the Facebook event!
This program has been made possible with the support of the Flemish Community and the Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation.
On Saturday april 7th I'm invited to play a small solo set of electric guitar pieces as part of the TouT à Coup series in gallery L'H du Siège in Valencienne. I'll be playing a selection of John Zorn's Book of Heads next to Fausto Romitelli's enigmatic Trash TV Trance!
more info here!
