[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] STEIM concert announcement: Miya Masaoka and PIRX

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STEIM presents:

Miya Masaoka (US)
PIRX (Marion WÃrle + Maciej Sledziecki, DE)

Date: Wednesday, October 24
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690


We are very happy to have renowned koto innovator Miya Masaoka and an  
active fresh duo from Cologne, PIRX. For many years, Miya has  
explored ways to expand her expression through improvisational  
techniques on her instrument and incorporating new technological  
tools with alternative media (like lasers, insects and plants).  
Marion and Maciej of PIRX are on the same pursuit to find a new voice  
in each of their instruments, but also see curating and organizing as  
an equally important practice in the process. We hope that the  
evening will highlight both the maturity and possible new directions  
of todays live electronic music.
video samples of Miya Masaoka: http://www.miyamasaoka.com/media_files/ 
video/index.html
audio samples of PIRX: http://www.satelita.de/musik/tonband0.html

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Miya Masaoka:
Miya Masaoka, musician, composer, performance artist, has created  
works for koto, laser interfaces, laptop and video and written scores  
for ensembles, chamber orchestras and mixed choirs. In her  
performance pieces she has investigated the sound and movement of  
insects, as well as the physiological responses of plants, the human  
brain, and her own body. Within these varied contexts of sound, music  
and nature, her performance work emphasizes the interactive, live  
nature of improvisation, and reflects an individual, contemporary  
expression of Japanese gagaku aural gesturalism.

Masaoka's work has been presented in Japan, Canada, Europe, Eastern  
Europe and she has toured to India six times. Venues include V2 in  
Rotterdam, Cybertheater in Brussels, Elektronisch Festival in  
Groningen, the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, The Electronik  
Body Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia, Radio Bremen, Germany,  
Festival of Lights, Hyberadad, India, and the London Musicians  
Collective.

Since forming and directing the San Francisco Gagaku Society, Masaoka  
has been creating new ways of thinking about and performing on the  
Japanese koto. She has developed a virtuosic and innovative approach,  
including improvisation and expanding the instrument into a virtual  
space using computer, lasers, live sampling, and real time processing.

Masaoka has been developing koto interfaces with midi controllers  
since the 1980's originally with Tom Zimmerman, co-inventor of the  
Body Glove. Since then, she has she has worked at STEIM, Amsterdam,  
CNMAT, and with Donald Swearingen to build interfaces with the  
computer and koto, at times using pedals, light sensors, motion  
sensors and ultrasound. With the koto connected directly to her  
laptop, she records her playing live, and processes the samples in  
real time. This new koto is able to respond dynamically and  
interactively in a variety of musical environments, and improvise  
with the processed sounds.


PIRX:
Marion WÃrle - laptop
studied Architecture, attended classical piano lessons from the age  
of six.
Since 1993 she explores electronical sound-generating. Works in the  
fields of improvised contemporary music, computermusic and filmmusic.

Maciej Sledziecki - guitar
studied Jazzguitar  and since 2006 composition.
Besides music for cinema he is working on extended techniques for the  
guitar.

Together they organize the concert-series NACHTJOURNAL in Cologne/D,  
a venue where exchange and inspiration happens between different  
disciplines of contemporary music. [www.satelita.de]
Since 2006 they are executive members of ZAM [Zentrum fÃr Aktuelle  
Musiken - Platform for Adventurous Music], that should become a  
lasting platform for the cologne music / multimedia-scene and is  
searching for similar initiatives outside the region to connect with.  
ZAM is more than just organizing concerts for contemporary music, but  
has also a strong focus on lectures and workshops. [www.z-a-m.eu]

In the duo PIRX they are working on a musical language, based on  
interaction between analogue and digital sounds. The generally  
analogue material used by Marion WÃrle is developed by diverse  
electronic manipulations to elements for her improvisations.
This vocabulary is a dynamic system that is created to communicate  
with traditional instruments.
Maciej Sledziecki uses the guitar as a sound-generator and percussion  
instrument. Preparations and a spare some use of electronic effects  
are characteristic for his playing. These sounds are material-scales  
for the collective improvisation between tonal and atonal borders.
[www.satelita.de]



The STEIM concerts are made possible by the Municipality of Amsterdam.

More information on concerts: http://www.steim.org/steim/activity.php

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