Saturday Jan. 21st
open workshop with De Ensemble Ohne Eigenschaften and friends rehearsing Accidentals and Memory City
Sunday January 22nd
Piece for Cello and Bass Ensemble
Leila Bordreuil (cello), Cody Takacs, Uldis Vitols, Renato Ferreira (basses), sound by Dario Giustarini
Accidentals & Memory City
Das Ensemble Ohne Eigenshaften (and friends)
Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn based cellist and composer from Aix-en-Provence, France. She works in the realm of Noise music, improvisation, New Music and sound-art. Her cello playing is often improvised, and mainly focuses on texture variations and a collage of phantom overtones and pitched utterances. Through an original vocabulary of extended techniques, preparations, and imaginative amplification methods, her instrument is used as an abstract resonant body to challenge conventional cello practice. Her composed works draw from a similar texture-based musical aesthetic, but also focus on the relationship between sound and space. In her site-specific electro-acoustic compositions, architecture is the foundation of the piece and musicality arises from an organized spacialization of sound. Bordreuil's collaborative projects include duos with Michael Foster and Tamio Shiraishi, a trio with Sean Ali and Joanna Mattrey, and the no-wave band “Signal Break”.
The name drop:
Partly in the name of improvised music, Leila has maintained a very active concert schedule performing/ collaborating with many artists such as Marina Rosenfeld, Eli Keszler, Tom Chiu (Flux quartet), Anthony Coleman, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley, SENYAWA, C. Spencer Yeh, Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Susan Alcorn, Ingrid Laubrock, Bill Nace, Lee Ranaldo, Weasel Walter, Chris Corsano, Lea Bertucci and more.
Notable venues where she has performed include The Whitney Museum, The Kitchen, MoMA PS1, Issue Project Room, the Stone, Roulette, Pioneer Works, Ftarri (Tokyo, JP) the Heresy Series for Women in Sound (Manila, PHL), and many basements across the U.S.
Leila is currently an artist-in-residence at Issue Project Room.