Thea Farhadian & ALCHIMIA ORGANICA (Duo Bauer/Lucchese) #286
Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 6-10 euro (up to your offer)
Sound art night with:
Thea Farhadian - “Twisted echoes, jagged rhythms, and microtonal landscapes” (CD release)
Tectonic Shifts, on the Creative Sources label integrates the interaction of the violin with electronics, altering the sound in real time through the software program Max/MSP. Structures from the album, and further improvisations in a similar direction will be explored in tonight’s performance
ALCHIMIA ORGANICA (Duo Bauer/Lucchese) - "Anthropology of the unconscious"
The avant-garde movement in the arts, theatre, music, the study of voice and the interest in different cultures are the common subjects that link the two artists. In their outstanding performance we can witness a sort of an ‘rational inconsistency’, that it doesn’t try a synthesis between the extremes, but it exalts the contradictions instead, actually taking its dynamics from their tension. The actions are instinctive, vibrant, dramatic, deep and charged with energy – from vocal virtuosity to brilliant ironic reflections – in a suspended and magic atmosphere of extemporaneous anarchy. In ‘’Anthropology of the unconscious" we see them engaged individually and together in the realm of theatre, musical avant-garde and improvisation: an hallucinatory excursion which takes the spectator on a sensual and emotional journey. This evening in SPEKTRUM with Matthias Bauer and Maria Lucchese.
Matthias Bauer, composer and an exciting performer who is one of the most interesting personalities in Berlin and abroad. Apart from work in ensembles - ranging from contemporary classical to free improvisation - his central concern is experimental theatre, dance projects, work with live poetry and his own solo performances: a remarkable wild plaidoyer in a frame of technical perfection
Maria Lucchese, visual artist and performer from Italy, resides in Berlin. Her interest toward the performing art is born after a long research that links arts in general and primitive arts in particular – rich of symbolism and rituality - to the theatre, and the "Klang-sound". She dedicates her interests to the ancient musical instruments, majoring particularly the Australian Horn (didgeridoo), zither, launeddas, Tam Tam and theremin, playing them in a very unusually way.
Thea Farhadian is a composer based in San Francisco and Berlin. She comes from the background of new contemporary music and works primarily with free improvisation, and live electronic processing using the software program, Max/MSP. Her solo work integrates extended techniques, microtonality, and sound-based material in what Touching Extremes calls “..fumes of disassembled harmony and dissonant refractions.”