As part of the HTMlles 2010 festival, Chantale Laplante will perform Figures d’un territoire: Pour cloches plaques traitées et sons métamorphosés on Friday, 19 November, 20h00 at Oboro.
entrée 10$ /5$ (students)
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Sandeep Bhagwati’s comprovisation work “jaali” will have its world premiere on Thursday, November 18th in Stuttgart.
It features the “Ensemble gelberklang“, a sextet of renowned improvisers, as well as an ensemble of eleven 12th grade students from a local school.
Bhagwati will conduct the 15 minute work at the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab.
Louis Patrick Leroux’s new book, Se taire, a play, will be launched at the Salon du livre de Montréal.
Leroux will be signing copies at Stand 422, Thursday 18 November 3-4 p.m. and 6 to 7 p.m. and on Saturday 20 November, 3 to 5 p.m.
The Salon du livre de Montréal held at the Place Bonaventure Convention Center.
Louis Patrick Leroux is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Intellect has just released the inaugural issue of Performing Ethos. A free on-line version of the journal is available at: http://www.atypon-link.com/INT/toc/peet/1/1
As Carole-Anne Upton writes in her Editorial: “An ethical dimension is arguably both implicit and essential in any consideration of what it is that the theatre can do, and of how the theatre can function and be understood in relation to individuals and communities, real or imagined. This journal […] strives to create a dynamic space in which ethical questions arising within the broad fields of theatre, drama and performance can be explicitly addressed, and in which ethical challenges and imperatives can be identified and explored, analysed, evaluated, contextualized, debated, challenged, revisited and perhaps even resolved.”
Devora Neumark’s article “Close Proximity” is included in this issue.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
In conjunction with “The Author and the Audience” symposium at the University of Leeds, the first issue of Performing Ethos — which “addresses ethical questions raised in contemporary theatre and live performance, both within the politically and aesthetically radical, and the mainstream” — has been released.
Devora Neumark’s “Close Proximity” is one of the featured articles in the inaugural issue (pp 69-83) and focuses on the possibility for artistic practice to effectively catalyse and support wellness.
Neumark’s article explores resilience, the power of symbolic meaning-making and the scale of influence at the nexus of beauty and home relative to community performance.
For more information about the symposium and the journal please consult: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/weblog/view-Post,id=43654
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
“With a hybrid vocabulary, the movements, words, sounds and technologies facilitate the creation of a poetic body, supported by interactive software. Each movement of the dancers then triggers sound fragments, making the dancers musicians as well as movers”. — excerpt from the promotional flyer.
Excerpts from the work-in-progress A Matter of Life and Breath by choreographer Roger Sinha will be presented in OFF CINARS’ showcase. matralab’s Michal Seta designed the software and collaborated with composer Bertrand Chénier on the interactive portions of the music.
The showcase takes place on November 17, 18, 19, 2010 at 12:30PM at Espace Saint-André, 1881, Saint-André #100 (Corner of Ontario).
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Sandeep Bhagwati’s latest work “jaali” for sextet and screen ensemble will see its world premiere on Nov 18, 2010 at the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Germany). The composer himself will conduct the “ensemble gelber klang” and a group of young music students who will play the screen. “jaali” is a Gujarati word and refers to the kind of ornamental stone screens used in Mughal architecture.
In “jaali, the screen ensemble is placed between the soloists and the audience. It plays a rigid, but airy framework of recurring rhythmicized melodies. The sextet of soloists have a very complex improvisation score that is grounded in the screen music, but also in a system of rapidly alternating soloists and imitating each other. Their music “wafts” through the screen, just as air and the reality of the world outside wafted through the people seated behind Mughal screens.
Around this world premiere, Bhagwati will also tour several German and Austrian music universities in Lübeck (Nov12/13), Graz (Nov 22/23) and Munich (Nov 24/25), giving lectures about his work and research as well as conduct master-classes for composition students.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the director of matralab
On Oct 7, Sandeep Bhagwati’s evening-length voice sextet “Atish-e-Zaban” (2006) will be performed in a new version by the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart during the Zukunftsmusik Festival.
The event will be an after-work concert, with introductions and talks with singers and musicologist around the work, its singular comprovisational structure and its relationship to the future of work.
Oct 7, 5:30 pm, Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
Siemenstr. 11
70469 Stuttgart, Germany
The “Idea of Home” website is now live at http://ioh.arts.unsw.edu.au/index.html.
Devora Neumark is pleased to acknowledge travel funding support to attend this international symposium hosted by the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). This financial support comes from the Concordia University Humanities PhD Program and her Doctoral Supervisor, Sandeep Bhagwati.
Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Composer and sound artist Adam Basanta has joined matralab. He recently received several prizes and an invitation to perform at the Vancouver New Music Festival:
– “a glass is not a glass (mov I to VI)”, Honourable Mention, 11th Electroacoustic Composition Competition Música Viva 2010, Portugal.
– “a glass is not a glass (mov I to XI)”, 2nd prize, JTTP competition (CEC, Montreal Canada)
– Live audiovisual improv collaboration with Sammy Chien accepted for the Vancouver New Music Festival (http://newmusic.org/TFTE.htm).
Basanta will travel to Vancouver to perform on October 23. Link to the “demo reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qct3bmz-p4I