Za uvod se bomo seznanili s sodobno eksperimentalno glasbeno in zvočno sceno predvsem v Kairu. Pretežni del te je zbran okoli zalozbe 100copies, ki je že tesno povezana z ustreznimi distribucijami na Zahodu in Japonskem.
Osredotočili se bomo na povezavo te scene s prav tako hitro razvijajočo se sceno sodobnega plesa. V nadaljevanju smo povabili nekatere raziskujoče posameznike iz ljubljanske scene, ki delujejo na tem področju. Kaj bodo povedali Grega Zemljič (Random Logic), Brane Zorman, Tomaž Grom, Luka Prinčič, Boštjan Leskovšek in Borut Savski.
Let us get a little closer to contemporary and experimental music and with its links to contemporary dance scene in Cairo / Egypt. Most of composers are to some exte4nt linked with the label 100Copies, which is in turn also well linked to the approproiate distributions in West and Japan.
We will focus on the fast emerging dance scene. In the second part of the show we will be joined by some of the free-spirited individuals from this area of the local (Ljubljana) scene. Let's hear what Grega Zemljič (Random Logic), Brane Zorman, Tomaž Grom, Luka Prinčič, Boštjan Leskovšek and Borut Savski have to say.
The occasion is a kind of exchange between scenes in Cairo and Ljubljana, organized by dancer, choreographer, composer and organizer Adham Hafez and (not a dancer, not a choreographer) Borut Savski. A kind of synchonicity in time - as the two presentations will go on at the same time, but not in the same place. In parallel to broadcast on Radio Študent there is a public presentation of Slovene artists in Cairo.
The Cairo presentation will be held at 9pm on 17th of January. It will be in a place called Studio Emad Eddin which is a performing arts centre and rehearsal/training space. They host HaRaKa's events there a lot. It will be a hearing session to some of the works selected from the Slovenian composers you sent me, and then we will be reading texts written by an Egyptian writer on sound and movement, the need for this if there is still in a need for this long-term marriage between sound and movement.
Label 100Copies will host on their website an announcement. They will also create a special page there, with links to the tracks and music of the Slovenian composers, as well as it will be uploaded on their Radio to be accessible for people to hear it on their Radio online. Also, the texts will be there too.
V nadaljevanju nekaj podatkov o udeležencih... some information about the participants / presented artists and partners:
Egipt
We will focus on the fast emerging dance scene. In the second part of the show we will be joined by some of the free-spirited individuals from this area of the local (Ljubljana) scene. Let's hear what Grega Zemljič (Random Logic), Brane Zorman, Tomaž Grom, Luka Prinčič, Boštjan Leskovšek and Borut Savski have to say.
The occasion is a kind of exchange between scenes in Cairo and Ljubljana, organized by dancer, choreographer, composer and organizer Adham Hafez and (not a dancer, not a choreographer) Borut Savski. A kind of synchonicity in time - as the two presentations will go on at the same time, but not in the same place. In parallel to broadcast on Radio Študent there is a public presentation of Slovene artists in Cairo.
The Cairo presentation will be held at 9pm on 17th of January. It will be in a place called Studio Emad Eddin which is a performing arts centre and rehearsal/training space. They host HaRaKa's events there a lot. It will be a hearing session to some of the works selected from the Slovenian composers you sent me, and then we will be reading texts written by an Egyptian writer on sound and movement, the need for this if there is still in a need for this long-term marriage between sound and movement.
Label 100Copies will host on their website an announcement. They will also create a special page there, with links to the tracks and music of the Slovenian composers, as well as it will be uploaded on their Radio to be accessible for people to hear it on their Radio online. Also, the texts will be there too.
V nadaljevanju nekaj podatkov o udeležencih... some information about the participants / presented artists and partners:
Egipt
HaRaKa is a Cairo based organization for contemporary dance. It's founder and director is Adham Hafez.
100COPIES is a music label based in Cairo/Egypt, releasing music from Egypt, the Arab world and International.100COPIES is focusing on experimental music, sound and jazz related. The main intentions of the label is creating a platform/network for the independent music scene in Cairo. As well as introducing international artists and independent music from other places to the Egyptian music scene. A limited number of 100 copies will be out for sale inside Egypt. Another limited number will be produced for international distributors from each release.
Studio Emad Eddin
Studio Emad Eddin's contemporary dance program, ultimately aims at re enforcing the contemporary dance field in Egypt by giving tools, openings, and perspectives of development to the young generation of artists in Egypt. Visit websites for more information
http://www.seefoundation.org/
http://www.karimamansour.com/
artists
Mohammed Shafik
Choreographer and composer
Egyptian dancer, choreographer. Shafik started with folkloric dance, to be chosen later for the Cairo Opera House Dance Theatre Company. Later, he started his own company, creating dance performances and physical theater. Shafik started lately composing music for his own dance creations, bringing the intense physicality of his dances to meet with familiar electronic sounds from his works. His music uses instruments like Saxophone, or electric guitar, but in avery raw manner, using the instruments without musical aesthetics, allowing the production of a raw sound, yet, guarded by the rhythmic context of his music.
Hassan Khan
Egyptian Artist Hassan Khan works with concepts, images, sounds, and texts. He was the composer of the first sound track for the first dance performance created by Karima Mansour, the Egyptian choreographer. Karima came back to Egypt after living in London to start her dance company MAAT. The performance was called Taming.
Mahmoud Refat
Mahmoud Refat is one of Egypt's leading electornic music composers. He is the founder of 100copies, the only platform and production label of electronic music in Egypt. His collaboration with Choreographer Mohammed Shafik and Laurence Rondoni announced the beginning of a long term collaboration between the three of them, creating dance performances that tour the middle east and Europe.
Adham Hafez
Born in Egypt. Lives and works in Cairo. Choreographer, dancer, singer, music composer and installation artist. Studied western classical music history and theory, Opera singing, Contemporary Dance, Critical writing and art history. Composes music for contemporary dance of Egyptian choreographers, and for his own choreographic creations. With his music work, Hafez works with live singers, musicians, recorded noises, all at the same time to create intense sonic experiences in his dance performances.
Adham Hafez composed music for notable Egyptian choreographers such as Dalia El Abd and Reem Hegab, as well as composing all the music tracks of his performances.
His music re-interprets the classical canon, ritual and trance percussion, repetitions, captured noises.
Adham:
So, here is just this little bit of information that I think could be interesting for you to know generally what it is like here. Also, just to mention that Halim El Dabh, Egypt's famous music composer, was also one of the first in the world to develop the medium of electronic music and sound art, and he was the composer of the music for Martha Graham's first evening long full-scale production of dance in the States.
Slovenija
Artists
Tomaž Grom
you can find mp3s from live performances here www.sploh.si and some information (click eng) here www.sploh.si/artists.html
Študiral je kontrabas na Brucknerjevem konzervatoriju v Linzu. Poleg tega se je izobraževal na več glasbenih delavnicah (David Friesen, Barre Phillips, Gerry Hemingway, Peter Kowald, Marc Abrams...). Nastopal je v najrazličnejših zasedbah, različnih glasbenih zvrsti. Gostoval je na številnih festivalih po Evropi in Kanadi. Ustvaril je avtorsko glasbo za več gledaliških, plesnih in lutkovnih predstav. Umešča se tudi v glasbeni milje, ki izraznost črpa iz akustičnih in digitalno procesiranih zvokov. V zasedbah Alzheimer3, Tilt, Cpg impro in kot solist se posveča predvsem raziskovanju razširjenih tehnik igranja kontrabasa v kombinaciji z elektroniko in spretno krmari med svobodno improviziranimi in vnaprej določenimi strukturami. Njegovo ustvarjanje odločilno zaznamuje nenehno raziskovanje lastnega zvočnega potenciala, pri čemer ga vodi princip spontane zvočnosti. Med ostalimi je nastopal z glasbeniki kot so: Dough Hammond, Sonny Simmons, Zlatko Kaučič, Evan Tate, Matjaž Manček, Marjan Stanić, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Drago Ivanuša, Žiga Golob, Aldo Ivančič, Igor Bezget, Dieb 13, Will Guthrie, Jean-Phillipe Gross, Ferran Fages, Nicolas Field, Elliot Sharp, Gilles Aubry, Ignatz Schick, Devil? Men, Sabine Vogel, Sebi Tramontana, Jessica Lurie, ...
Random Logic
Random Logic alias Gregor Zemljic & Miha Klemencic are the longest established stars of the Slovene minimal music scene. They have released tracks under numerous names for projects such as Anorak, Jeremdam, Paldrame, Tadpole, Amderma, Savinto, Medvedek Robotek and their discography with these projects is already impressive. Labels they have released for include Communiqué, The Black Label, Kial, Planet Rhythm, and Tresor. Top techno/electonica DJs play their records worldwide. They have also written music for major and alternative theatre, ballet and experimental art performances (they are collaborating extensively with the artist Marko Peljhan on his multimedia projects) and also for films. In the year 2000 they were awarded the Studio City Boomerang Award (alternative Slovenian music awards) for the best live techno act in Slovenia and recently they won 1st prize at The 2002 RFI (Radio France International) Musiques Electroniques Award for the best electronic project in Central and Eastern Europe. They have worked as producers on many popular and non-commercial projects (among others with Laibach) and they keep close and creative ties with other creators of the Slovene computer music and electronic scene.
http://www.nika.si/tehnika/random_logic/EP.html
In 2006 they produced a cd compilation from their dance and theatrical productions' music Razmagneteno (Glasba za teater in ples 96 - 00). In english: Demagnetized.
Brane Zorman http://www.cona.si/cveng.html
Brane Zorman (born in 1962) composer, working as a freelance artist in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has composed music for more than 30 theatre, dance, multimedia and newmedia sound pieces, as well as released several theatre soundtrack CDs and a few dance EPs for various labels.
He composes music or film, TV and radio commercials. His most recent achievements include the first DTS surround encoded soundtrack for a theatre performance in Slovenia, the first DTS surround CD release in Slovenia, as well as an interest in special sound design, effects and sound sculptures. He works with intermedia artists such as Igor Stromajer and world renowned BALLETTIKKA INTERNETTIKKA guerilla internet projects, as well as Irena Pivka on CONA (ZONE) (www.cona.si) projects dealing with borders, migrations, social, political, individual and
cultural aspects of integration.
Luka Prinčič
theatrical collaboration: KRIVDA SPOMINA / THE GUILT OF MEMORY by Daša Lakner, Dekaos, and others
7min excerpt: http://tmp.viator.si/070829-trash/krivdaspominaRSexcerpt.mp3 (6M)
full recording: http://tmp.viator.si/070829-trash/krivdaspomina-take1.wav
his text:
The world of Max Frisch's Bluebeard has no Meaning it is an inconsistent tangle within the memory of the protagonist, Felix Schaad. Felix Schaad is condemned condemned to a life of guilt. Although acquitted of his ex-wife's murder, his thoughts constantly return to the court proceedings. It soon turns out that Felix's inner monologue and retrospection depart the reality, the state prosecutor becoming his alter-ego; and thus the process of self-destruction can commence.
Honesty to oneself is the thing that causes us trouble. Reality is a matter of viewpoint. What happens to an individual who observes themselves from more than one viewpoint? Are the borders of our world the borders of language or of our emotions / images? Using technology, the performance attempts to deconstruct the concept of the self and to create a delicate balance between the various media that contribute different layers of the action. The duplications caused by the video and sound reflect the multi-layered inner world of the individual. Both sound and video are produced in real time and together with the performers form a whole that is more than a sum of its parts.
http://www.dekaos.org/projects.htm
Luka's text about 'noise' http://viator.si/2006/01/13/granumachines_and_noise/noise.html
biographical: http://bin.viator.si/tavi/?page=biography
the most recent work: Retrospections/Oziranja: Maya Deren a/v solo performance and short film (12'): http://viator.si/2007/11/22/retrospections_maya_deren/
Boštjan Leskovšek http://users.volja.net/koline/, http://users.volja.net/koline/plosce.html
As a presentation...
Materiality of ROR remembers the first inarticulate, mumbling voices, purely organ sounds emerging from within the body. This memory is littered with events over psychosocial conditions in time and space. Its binding are the responses of flesh to the thinking of the machine. Hierarchy of thinking and the machineness of life are the occupation and struggle of ROR's primary origins.
Language is put to the test with the wonders of sensuality on experimenting with the sounds of everyday banality. Sound poetry becomes a self reflective advertising brand, ludistic to the extent of being the foundation of expression and, thus, the only genuine freedom. Archaic play of showings and readings addresses the articulate simulee/listener through voicers (throat, microphone, amplifier, speakers). The result of this generativity is rejection and revolt. Contours of the system become distinct and sharp.
Naive limitlessness of language is domineeringly caught in an endless loop. But since ROR emphasises contingency as essential within expression, be it before or now, it is separated from language with sound. Separation is a pressing demand of situation. It is a liminal space, which is contingent and indefinable. It is event and truth at the same time. Declaration for sound opens up the scope of perception. It frees bodily sensuality in thinking of the machine.
Borut Savski http://www.3via.org, http://www.3via.org/records/
Borut Savski is a sound and multimedia artist, coming from the field of media. In the nineties he collaborated with conceptual artist, composer, improviser and choreographer Marko Košnik and the dancer Mateja Bučar who were one of the early researchers into technology . My work is on interfaces in the most broad sense. This also involves moving machines - the so-called mobiles. One was called Dancer. It changes the sound of the space with it's changing position. The sound moves the machine and the machine moves the sound. A kind of immersivness into material. The basic idea behind the objects like the Dancer is: motivation = motion.
Recently (and in this moment still) I am collaborating with choreographer Mateja Bučar on a sequel of a dance performance called Brothers Karamazov. The Sisters Karamazov cd is a remake of the soundtracks used. It is written: The author of music didn't follow the conceptual basis of the dance performance. What remains from "Brothers" - are the "Sisters" - who just love to dance.
As you can see it is the so-called experimental music scene that is also closely linked to contemporary dance. Just as it should be...
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