INK for slide projector and synthesizers
Yael Levy, Nikos Kokolakis, Lam Lai
"Ink" consists on sequence of slides, prepared on spot and interpreted by the musicians. As the title of the piece suggests, the slides contains ink, among found objects as tape and threads. The ink is dropped into the frame of the slide projector and there is a gradual movement created by the ink moving and evaporating. The musicians follow the movement of the changing ink and the air "bubbles" start to appear, and sonify it.
The piece was premiered in Rewire festival 2016, and since then was performed on different occasions including MAZE festival in Splendor A'dam, Sound 59 Festival in Perm Russia, and in a collaboration concert with Nikos Kokolakis in Polytechno, Corfu, Greece.
Lam Lai (HK/NL) is a composer/performer. She is active in composing many kinds of works, including instrumentals, electronics, installation, music theatre, etc. As a composer, she tends to create new hybrids of media, exploring sound experiences in music and ways to communicate to the listener via music.
Nikos Kokolakis (GR/NL) is a composer/performer and sound artist. His main compositional interest lies in developing an understanding of sound as space in sonic structures. He is engaged in multidisciplinary artistic approaches and he is an active member of various artists’ initiatives such as Catchpenny Ensemble, focusing in multimedia and collective composition.
Yael Levy (IL/NL) is a composer/performer and a visual artist, currently located in The Hague, Netherlands. In her works she explores new models which emerge from the combination of music composition, visual art, performance-art and theater. Yael is an active member in Catchpenny Ensemble, which focuses on multimedia works and collective composition and in Stichting Helicopter which is a visual artists initiative.
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