11 September 2016 | 20:00

Moir / Rodrigues / Heenan / Pultz Melbye & Marino / Vogel #198

Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 5-10 euro (up to your offer)

Sound art night with:

  • Casey Moir / Guilherme Rodrigues / Chris Heenan / Adam Pultz Melbye

  • Uccello Acquatico (Luigi Marino & Sabine Vogel)
    Uccello Acquatico is a duo composed of Sabine Vogel and Luigi Marino, which started in July 2015. The duo has since played at venues such as Offene Ohren e. V. (Munich), Spazio O' (Milan), Bulb Festival (Alessandria). The work proposed by Uccello Acquatico focuses on sound and all its shades. Each sound is a microcosmos and the basics of the extemporary dialogue between the two performers are to be found in the subtlest elements inside this articulate acoustic world. Metal resonances and air columns set in vibration inside a flute: sounds barely audible emerge from the background to take a predominant role, gradually showing all their potential and unexpected directions.

Casey Moir is an Australian born vocalist who has her base in both Gothenburg, Sweden and Berlin, Germany. Her artistic focus has her delving deeper into the capabilities of the voice. She enjoys testing and pushing conventional boundaries. She explores how for vowels and consonants are formed and can be distorted, how sounds can be shaped and manipulated, and then combining these somewhat unconventional aspects with the structure of composition.

Guilhermo Rodrigues' work develops a non conventional language resorting to preparations and textural forms. He is the son of violinist and improviser Ernesto Rodrigues. He felt stagnant in Lisbon and in April 2016 moved to Berlin in order to develop his own techniqueand find interesting artists to work with.

Chris Heenan (US) has developed a formidable solo voice on his wind instruments, where he uses extended techniques, often incorporating multiphonics with surprising results, to reveal the subtleties inherent to the instrument. Some of his many projects include Splitter Orchestra, Trigger, Pivot and a duo with Michael Vorfeld.

Adam Pultz Melbye is a regular presence on the Berlin scene for improvisation, often working with dance. Regular projects include the bands LUBB, Angel, the electronic duo Toggle, a duo with dancer Akemi Nagao and solo performances. His work is oriented towards exploring the textural and resonant possibilities of the double bass.

Sabine Vogel focuses on sound and improvisation, using extended techniques both acoustic as well as electronic, creating a very personal contemporary language. Discovering and producing the unheard, the intimate, in relation to sound production, is her main focus of exploration. Recently she became more and more interested in site specific work, creating compositons and sound installations combined with live playing in natural environment. Her current projects are: ORNIS; an audio-visual Duo with British artist Kathy Hinde, LANDSCAPE QUARTET, an enviromental soundart project with Bennett Hogg, Matt Sansom and Stefan Österjö. She is a member of the SPLITTER ORCHESTER, a 24 piece improvising orchester, based in Berlin. Sabine Vogel has worked a.o. with Anthony Braxton, Arto Lindsay, Tony Buck, Jim Denley, Chris Abrahams, Alex Nowitz, Andrea Neumann, the Walter Thompson Soundpainting Orchestra. She has a teaching position at the University Potsdam. 

Luigi Marino is a performer and active improviser whose recent work has focused on interactive systems able to create interactions between an extemporary performer-driven source and a computer, with particular attention to how intuitive decisions can affect a predetermined structure in a formal way. His work has been presented at festivals such as the ICMC, Acousmatic for the People (Sweden), Intonal Festival (Sweden), Sincronie (Italy), Signal Flow (USA). He is the recipent of many awards such as the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for composition, and the doctoral grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK).