New edition of Ephémère - new age contemporary music concert series on June 9th!
The concert series is curated by Marie Guilleray.
Leslee Smucker, violin - mutable passage
August 38th (vocal ensemble)
Doors open at 8PM, concert starts at 8PM30.
Leslee Smucker “mutable passage”
mutable passage is a sound work for violin, voice, electronics, and four channel audio. Inspired by the poem “Spiral” by Federico Lorca:
My time
moves on in a spiral.
The spiral
limits my landscape,
leaves what is past in the shadows
& makes me advance
full of doubts.
The work is based on the passage of mutable sound: fragile fluctuations in layers of sound are sent along paths that develop and change over time. The work develops the flux and flow of time, how we experience imperceptible changes, and how sound can travel through a labyrinth passage to come out changed on the other side. The audience is a static observer, while the sound moves and changes--sometimes by close frequency shifts, other times by the interaction of loudspeakers and instruments. It is meant to place the viewer in a perceptive and observational state of mind as the sound advances, full of doubts.
Leslee Smucker (1986) is a musician utilizing violin, voice, synthesizers, electronics, film, and poetry. Her work focuses on ideas surrounding sound perception, phenomenological spatial relationships, anachronisms, language, and the human/machine relationship. Her music often explores close frequencies, timbre relationships, layering, high contrasts, and slowly evolving spatial compositions. She has performed solo projects at Association Philomuses in Paris, Auditorium Clarisse in Italy for the International Pound and T.S. Eliot Conference, Center for New Music in San Francisco, Muse Performance Space, The Dairy Arts Center, and ATLAS black box. Other solo performances include The Scottish Library (presented by University of Edinburgh’s Cantos Project), the Andriessen Festival in Arnhem, NL, Project Audire in Portugal, and Interference Series in Flagstaff. She was Assistant Concertmaster with Jonsí and Alex/Wordless Orchestra tour for their Denver performance at the Paramount Theatre. Fellowships include a Barnes Fellow in Philadelphia with artist in residence JACK quartet, as well as a fellow in Ensemble Evolution 2021 with International Contemporary Ensemble.
www.Lesleesmucker.com
August 38th
August 38th‘s performance at Studio Loos is a combination of freely improvised material and pieces composed especially for this group. Compositions are a vehicle for improvisation and leave a lot of space for each artist. August 38th acts like a choir and a group of expressive soloists. During their set along musical pieces performed by the whole group there will be moments of solo, duo and trio improvisations.
August 38th is a vocal ensemble consisting of 10 professional singers, performers from The Netherlands, Italy, United States of America, Ukraine, Australia, Turkey and Latvia based in Amsterdam.
The focus of this group is improvisation, exploring different possibilities in creating musical textures, atmospheres and stories by using the human voice. Their performance might make you laugh, cry, imagine colours, shapes, landscapes or remember your childhood dreams.
Members:
Laura Polence (Latvia)
Marta Arpini (Italy)
Jodi Gilbert (USA)
Julia Werner (Netherlands)
Annelie Koning (Netherlands)
Saskia Oving (Netherlands)
Maryana Golovchenko (Ukraine)
Felicity Provan (Australia)