MMMMM PRESENTS BY REPETITION, YOU START lities such as , and Terry a collective and intimate, vast and lively experience of Le Commun, Bâtiment d’Art NOTICING DETAILS IN THE LANDSCAPE Riley. Furthermore, commissioned by the SFTMC, Don the materials on display. History then blends with life, Contemporain (BAC) - Geneva Buchla designed his first modular synthesizer in 1963. investigation with imagination, thought with dreams How do you turn a listening experience into the sub - Throughout the exhibition, a series of documents and, as when listening to the music that the exhibition Exhibition from the 14th December ject of an exhibition? How do you visually reproduce reveals the works produced in the proximity of this ex- features, for the time being, they all come together 2019 to the 19th of January 2020 the idea that some music can be considered like perimental network that, through various associations, as one. painting with sounds, some films like compositions touched upon the meditative, Eastern-inspired ap - with light, and some paintings like scores whose mu- proach of Marian Zazeela and , as well A number of projects have been set up in association Arlo Acton sic unfolds within us? How do you evoke forms and as the new choreographic aesthetics of Anna Halprin with various Geneva organizations, partners of the eden ahbez images that relate to the feeling of immersion within and the psychedelic experiments of Bruce Conner. exhibition, including the recreation of an oratorio by Robert Ashley the space and time of an art gallery? By repetition, North American poet Robert Lax with students from Vincent Barras you start noticing details in the landscape is a quote Landscape HEAD – Genève, Geneva School of Art and Design, Francis Baudevin by North American . It is the star- conducted by Vincent Barras; a program of rare artist Stephen Beck ting point of a project in the form of a constellation The structure of the project is based on highlighting, films, some of which hitherto unseen in Switzerland, John Beer that reflects the emergence in the early 1960s in San within this constellation, the career of one of its ac - accompanied by two audiovisual performances at the Jordan Belson Francisco and the Bay Area, of a music expanding into tors, composer Terry Riley, born in Northern California Cinema Spoutnik; a cycle of film essays about music Don Buchla horizons and climates, fostered by the re-evaluation in 1935, by tracking his activities since the late 1950s. presented at the Cinema Dynamo, in association with of the fundamental virtues of the sound phenomenon From his repetition-based compositions such as In C the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and a double Suzanne Ciani – psychophysical, spiritual and political – namely ta - created at the San Francisco Tape Music Center in concert at cave12 as well as a collective and multi-ge- Paul Clipson king distance with the European academic heritage. 1964, to the nocturnal improvisations on the electric nerational creation in tribute to Pauline Oliveros at Bruce Conner Gathering close to fifty artists, the exhibition at Le organ of the All Night Flights via his connections with the Théâtre du Galpon. Finally, following the exhibi- Tony Conrad Commun connects the works, films and archives of Fluxus and his intense studying of classical Indian mu- tion, a monography, the first publication dedicated to Maud Constantin a group of historical personalities with works specifi- sic, Terry Riley has continuously renewed his approach Terry Riley, will be jointly published with Shelter Press. Maya Corboud cally produced for the occasion by upcoming artists. to creation. By repetition, you start noticing details in Edited by Vincent de Roguin, it will include the original Walter De Maria It also includes a selection of films at the Dynamo and the landscape begins with his famous immersive ins- contributions of a panel of historians, theoreticians and Ken Dewey Spoutnik cinemas, as well as concerts at the cave12, tallation Time Lag Accumulator, created in 1968 and artists and is due in September 2020. Emilie Ding Alhambra and Théâtre du Galpon. reactivated in 2003, and presented here in a brand- Ecart new version, updated by the composer himself. Still Luke Fowler By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape a unique and greatly influential figure today, Terry Vidya Gastaldon will be held in Geneva from 13 December 2019 to 19 Riley enjoys many friendships with artists, choreo - MMMMM Beatrice Gibson January 2020. graphers and filmmakers whose works are spread out Anna Halprin throughout the exhibition. MMMMM is a Geneva-based curatorial and editorial, Lawrence Halprin Repetition research and production organization. Established in Barbara Hammer The exhibition itself is thought as a landscape on se- 2019, its activities focus on the history, theory and cur- Catherine Christer Hennix In the early 1960s, a series of innovative experiments veral levels. Imagined as a story that one can browse rent state of the relationship between music and other Charlotte Herzig took shape at the crossroads of music and visual arts, through, the environment includes (as if in concentric artforms. David Horvitz dance, cinema and poetry, which were based on an circles drawn around the main story) the works of ar- Channa Horwitz unusual connection between the body and technology, tists who, at the same time and in other places, have Yann Chateigné Olga Kokcharova nature and the media. Mainly collaborative and relating emerged as though echoing Terry Riley’s music and Wendy Coutau Emma Kunz to the search for a community-based experience, their the Bay Area’s cross-disciplinary experiments. Much Justine Dufour Alicia Bay Laurel & Ramon Sender objective was to place the subject within a new situa- like Channa Horwitz’s modular drawings/notations, Vincent de Roguin Robert Lax tion, caught in a twofold movement, both centripetal John McCracken’s mandalas in Los Angeles or Peter Annie Ianne Serratì Angus MacLise & Hetty MacLise and centrifugal. On the one hand, in connection with Young’s vibratile grids, weaves and lines in New York, Tom Marioni forms of subversion of norms and through a radical they open the project to a polyphonic rather than mo- Agnes Martin use of electronic tools, the aim was to open up the nographic exploration, enabling connections between John McCracken limits of the pieces –, artworks unfolding into their sur- repetition, landscape and community. Finally, going Michael McCLure roundings, films expanding in time and space, music back in time and evoking a discrete perspective of the Guy Meldem compositions transmuting into waves and cycles. On links between Europe and the US, a series of archaeo- Gunvor Nelson the other hand, artists turned perception inward, the logical clues (from Monte Verità to the Californian Pauline Oliveros exploration of intimate landscapes, criticizing the mo- Nature Boys) point to other landmarks for a critical dern reason, in particular by reducing formal language, genealogy of counter-culture, and a criticism of the Terry Riley opting for the uses of durational strategies, repetitive “minimalist” model that is still too often associated Charles Ross patterns, and specific vibrational frequencies, enabling with this scene (from Adolf Wölfli to Emma Kunz). Dane Rudhyar a sense of attention and an act of listening that was Daniel Weintraub transformative, individual as well as collective, and en- Community John Whitney visioned as a communal assemblage of experiences. Adolf Wölfli By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape Jud Yalkut By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape is a collective project. Special commissions entrusted Peter Young focuses on the way in which, at the time in California, to artists, especially Swiss and from Geneva, mix in Marian Zazeela this research was singularly embodied around a place, with the exhibition’s historical material and structure & La Monte Young the San Francisco Tape Music Center, established in its landscape, contributing to the development of a 1962 by and artists Morton Subotnick and living space in which to stroll and meditate. Francis Le Commun, Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain (BAC) With the participation of Ramon Sender. A cultural and working space open Baudevin, Emilie Ding, Vidya Gastaldon, Charlotte Rue des Bains 34 Terry Riley to new musical forms through contact with other Herzig and Olga Kokcharova among others, have thus 1205 Geneva, Switzerland artforms and new technology, it welcomed persona - been invited to work within the space itself to provide Free entrance FILMS Between essays and archives, experimental docu - mentaries and artists’ films, the Cinema Dynamo at Echoing the exhibition, the Cinema Spoutnik will host an the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève will host a se- experimental and expanded cinema night, combining lection of films that review various ways of exploring, historical films from the 1960s and 1970s with contem- through cinema, the history of music and of listening. porary interventions. Like Geneva artist Maya Corboud, The program blends historical films (conversations of some artists and filmmakers aim to express their de - composer Robert Ashley with his peers Terry Riley sire to go beyond the screen to favor a plural form of and Pauline Oliveros in Music with Roots in the Aether, poetry. Films are thus considered as multimedia shows, 1976) with contemporary ones (with the presentation live performances and happenings, whose visual and of original excerpts of Daniel Weintraub’s ongoing film, sonic theatrics are constantly changing. The works of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros). In each Jordan Belson, John Whitney and Tony Conrad refer to of his films, the documentary and experiential dimen- a way of thinking about cinema that depends on one if sions meet, turning the act of listening into a way of its most fundamental characteristics, i.e. an art of light. immersing oneself in the matter and in history, and of Viewers and listeners are invited to see the music as blending together reality and imagination, information well as listen to colors in a synesthetic perspective, as and sensation. in the films of Vidya Gastaldon, Bruce Conner and Ste- phen Beck. The evening will end with an audiovisual installation/performance by Geneva duo Biblioteq Mdu- lair, backed by Fribourg-based collective [ a n y m a ].

Cinema Spoutnik Cinema Dynamo – Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève

Friday 20 December 2019 From Friday 10 to Sunday 19 January 2020

Stephen Beck (US) Robert Ashley (US) Illuminated Music 2 & 3, 1973 Music with Roots in the Aether, 1976

Jordan Belson (US) Program 5. Landscape with Pauline Oliveros Allures, 1961 Program 6. Landscape with Terry Riley Samadhi, 1967 Program 7. Landscape with Robert Ashley

Jordan Belson Paul Clipson (US) Luke Fowler (UK) Still from Allures, 16 mm, 1961 Another Void, 2012 Electro-Pythagorus : A Portrait of Martin Bartlett, 2017

Bruce Conner (US) Beatrice Gibson (UK) Looking For Mushrooms, (1959–67/1996) I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 2018 Mea Culpa, 1981 Daniel Weintraub (US) Tony Conrad (US) Deep Listening :The Story of Pauline Oliveros, 2019 Straight and Narrow, 1970

Maya Corboud (CH) Au sujet d'un hasard heureux, 2019-2020

Vidya Gastaldon (CH) Visionium, 2019

Barbara Hammer (US) Bent Time, 1983

Gunvor Nelson (SE) My Name is Oona, 1969

John Whitney (US) Matrix III, 1972

Jud Yalkut (US) John Cage Mushroom Hunting In Stony Point, 1973

Cinema Spoutnik Cinema Dynamo – Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève 11 rue de la Coulouvrenière Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10

1204 Geneva 1205 Geneva John Whitney (US, 1917-1995) Seated — 12 CHF normal price Free entrance Still from Matrix III, 16 mm, 1972 Anna Halprin (US, 1920) The Five Legged Stool, archive image, San Francisco Playhouse, 1962 Pauline Oliveros (US, 1932-2016) Lullaby for Daisy Pauline, text score, 1979

Terry Riley (US, 1935) Pauline Oliveros Live, Paris, 1975, photograph by Philippe Gras Deep Listening : The Story of Pauline Oliveros, film de Daniel Weintraub, 2019 Terry Riley Dream music / Keyboard study #2, drawing published in Aspen Magazine N°9, 1967

Peter Young (US, 1940) #8B, acrylic on canvas, 1977-78

Aspen Magazine N°9 ed. Angus and Hetty MacLise, inside pages, 1967 John McCracken (US, 1934-2011) Untitled, gouache and watercolor on heavy papaer, 1982

Marian Zazeela (US, 1940) Flyer for La Monte Young's concert, The Playhouse, Pittsburgh, circa 1962 Bruce Conner (US, 1933-2008) Bruce Conner 115, lithography, 1970-71 701, lithography, 1970-71 Suzanne Ciani (US, 1946) Stephen Beck (US, 1950) Working at Buchla, photograph, circa 1971 Live from the Direct Video Synthetiser, KQED-TV, San Francisco, archive image, 1972

Terry Riley and Arlo Acton (US, 1933) Live from the Music with Balls, KQED-TV, San Francisco, archive image, 1969

Donald Buchla The Buchla Modular System, picture from manual, circa 1966 Musical Line-up Programme Terry Riley & Gyan Riley à L’Alhambra of pure sounds that unfold in an indefinite amount of time. For the official opening of the exhibition,Black/ By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape Friday, December 13th, 2019 The on-stage meeting between legendary composer White Oratorio will be conducted by Vincent Barras, also features a musical program which, between rein- Alhambra concert hall and keyboardist Terry Riley and his son, guitarist Gyan accompanied by nine students from the Department terpretation of historical works and new creations, is Riley, features a wonderfully fresh musical dialogue, of Fine Arts of HEAD – Genève, Geneva School of Art Terry Riley & Gyan Riley (US) organized around Terry Riley’s exceptional concert almost entirely improvised, which combines the mul- and Design. Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang (US) with his son Gyan, at the Alhambra hall. Although the tiple influences of the two musicians, repetitive mu- composer and keyboardist’s last visit to Geneva dates sic with baroque, modal jazz, Indian ragas, etc. The back to 1983, his aura has continuously expanded with intimate musical understanding that connects the Olga Kokcharova at Le Commun Saturday, December 14th new generations of enthralled listeners discovering his pair enables them to indulge in a form of remarkably Le Commun work. The American duo of singer Jessika Kenney and flowing “instant composition”, carefully working on Geneva artist and composer Olga Kokcharova will pre- violinist/violist Eyvind Kang will open the show. Olga Kokcharova (RU/CH) formidable harmonic frameworks in the moment with sent a new composition, Ventilatory Exploration, for the Ventilatory Exploration contagious pleasure, without ever losing sight of the official opening of the exhibition using a double octo- In the late 1950s, Terry Riley, his classmate La Monte essential, i.e. emotion. Over 60 years of activity, Terry phonic configuration. The piece is developed based on Young and a few others laid the foundations for a Robert Lax & John Beer (US) Riley has revolutionized the history of Western mu- three original sound materials: wind, human breath and musical aesthetics marked by repetition and a reso - Black/White Oratorio sic. His influence can be found at the heart of many analogue synthesizer. Through the sensitive links she lute return to tonality, under the influence of John Conducted by Vincent Barras musical genres (minimalism, psychedelic, krautrock, weaves between nature, spirituality and technology, Cage, extra-European traditional music and the mo - ambient, new age, etc.). However, his impact has Kokcharova echoes the concerns of the musicians that dal explorations of John Coltrane. Their composer gone further through his wild remixes of commercial revolved around the San Francisco Tape Music Center in and accordionist friend Pauline Oliveros, also based Saturday, December 20th recordings which foreshadowed hip-hop production the 1960s. in San Francisco, then dedicated herself to pionee - Cinéma Spoutnik by two decades, his first pieces for ensembles such ring electroacoustic research with tapes, turntables as In C (1964) which heralded the return of tonality and oscillators. They would collaborate regularly Biblioteq Mdulair & Synkie (CH) in contemporary classical music, his exhilarating im- Dialogue with Pauline Oliveros at the before Terry Riley left for New York in 1965 and re - provisations on the electric organ which captured the Théâtre du Galpon mained close until Oliveros’ passing in 2016. A tribute imagination of the underground scene from Sweden is given to her at the Théâtre du Galpon, designed in From Wednesday 8th to Sunday 12th January 2020 to Argentina, and so on. Without Terry Riley, the very Six artists and musicians have been invited to explore collaboration with Denis Schuler, Artistic Director of Théâtre du Galpon identity of recent western musical heritage would the ideas and music of North American artist, com- Ensemble Vide, which will be performed by six artists stumble (The Velvet Underground, Soft Machine, poser and theoretician Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) Dialogue with Pauline Oliveros and musicians from both sides of the Atlantic during Steve Reich, Pink Floyd, Can, Kraftwerk, Tangerine during a week-long residency that will lead to four a week-long residency. Dream, Brian Eno and nowadays Holly Herndon, concerts. A composition classmate of Terry Riley and Anne Bourne (CA) Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, and Oneohtrix Stuart Dempster in 1956 and a member of the San Félicia Atkinson (FR) Two performances will take place during the official Point Never have all claimed this lineage). A Gram- Francisco Tape Music Center from 1963, where she Céline Hänni (CH) inauguration of the exhibition at Le Commun: Black/ my Award-nominated creator of orchestral and string created some uniquely radical electronic music, Pauline Carole Ione (US) White Oratorio by North American poet Robert Lax quartet works, Terry Riley has also composed for Oliveros had a profound impact on post-war American Anna-Kaisa Meklin (CH) (in collaboration with John Beer), an oratorio for spea- NASA, produced audiovisual installations, and lent music through an intellectual commitment and an Margrit Schenker (CH) king chorus that explores the alteration of senses and his name to pieces by György Ligeti and The Who. artistic career deeply rooted in the experience and perception through the virtues of repetition. Black/ the act of listening. From the middle of the 1960s, ac- White Oratorio will be conducted by Vincent Barras, The Rileys, father and son, share the bill with the Ame- companied by the generous drones of her accordion Sunday, January 19th accompanied by nine of his students. For the occa - rican duo made up of singer Jessika Kenney and vio- and her voice, alone or with a group, she began de- cave12 sion, Geneva-based Russian artist and composer Olga linist/violist Eyvind Kang. High-flying collaborators veloping “rituals” that combined her improvisations Kokcharova will perform a new electroacoustic com- (with Lou Reed, Black Mountain, Sunn O))), Animal with a series of movements and breathing exercises. Sarah Davachi (CA) position using a double octophonic configuration. Collective, Laurie Anderson, Annea Lockwood, Mr. Bungle, A few years later, based on this practice, she deve- Vincent de Roguin (CH) etc.), their music stands out as remarkably unique, loped Deep Listening, a philosophy as much as a set Finally, an evening of concerts and diffusion on a developed into gorgeous and mystery-filled long of practices to increase one’s awareness of listening multichannel system will take place at the cave12 with pieces, with echoes of classical Persian, Indonesian and of the sound phenomenon in its physical, social, Canadian-born composer Sarah Davachi and Geneva and Indian classical music as well as minimalist and environmental and spiritual implications. Deep Listening artist Vincent de Roguin. experimental traditions. In Geneva, they will perform is nowadays taught throughout the world. Pauline new compositions specially created for the event. Oliveros is the author of a complex body of work that Venues covers six decades and combines her activities as a composer, educator, thinker and advocate for the cave12 Robert Lax at Le Commun rights of minorities. Rue de la Prairie 4, 1202 Geneva Seated concert — 15 CHF normal price Towards the end of his life, Robert Lax (1915–2000), Her spouse, IONE, present in Geneva for this tribute, helped by poet and essayist John Beer who came to will be joined by Swiss musicians Céline Hänni, Anna-Kaisa Le Commun (Bâtiment d’art contemporain) assist him on the island of Patmos, wrote two original Meklin and Margrit Schenker, French musician and Rue des Vieux-Grenadiers 10, 1205 Geneva oratorios for speaking chorus. Black/White Oratorio, artist Félicia Atkinson as well as Canadian composer Free entry created in 1997 at the Festival de la Bâtie in Geneva, Anne Bourne. has established itself as a major work in the artist’s Salle de l’Alhambra – Genève significant repertoire. Consisting of multiple color Rue de la Rôtisserie 10, 1204 Geneva poems which he wrote throughout his life, and which Seated concert — 50 CHF normal price he assembles here in a process of editing, amplifica- tion and derivation, this is a work where perception Théâtre Le Galpon shifts towards a synesthetic experience: The apparent Route des Péniches, 1213 Petit-Lancy abstraction of color adjectives repeated endlessly by Seated concert — 20 CHF normal price a chorus following complex patterns, turns into a world Sarah Davachi & Vincent de Roguin at cave12 house. As a translator, he has helped spread major Chenaux and Ione. She has performed works by regularly combining her sound explorations with works from various trends in poetry and contemporary composers , Nicolas Collins, theatre and graphic arts. A resident at the Swiss Canadian-born composer Sarah Davachi and Geneva literature (Robert Lax, John Cage, Georges Séféris, and primarily Pauline Oliveros. Anne first performed Institute in Rome (2014-2015), she received a grant musician and artist Vincent de Roguin offer a series Anton Webern, Theodor W. Adorno, Franz Mon, with Pauline Oliveros in a Telematic Concert with Deep from the Dr René Liechti Foundation in July 2017 for of multichannel sound diffusions, blending personal Simon Cutts, Edoardo Sanguineti, etc.). Barras is also Listening Band in 1994. A longtime practitioner of her career. and historical pieces. Sarah Davachi has come to the a teacher at the University of Lausanne (History of Deep Listening, Anne has imparted the Text Scores for fore in the last few years with a series of fascinating Medicine) and at HEAD – Genève, Geneva School collective sounding since 1998, when she participated www.celinehanni.ch records consonant with aesthetics reminiscent of the of Art and Design (Theory of Sound, Theory of the in the creation of Pauline Oliveros’ Primordial/ Lift, and works of Éliane Radigue, Terry Riley and Mary Jane Body). from then on in all recordings and performances of Leach, but which show highly original and contem- this piece. porary sensitivity. Most often composed with Buchla www.annebournemusic.com and EMS modular synthesizers and enhanced with instrumental interventions, her evocative pieces fos- ter contemplation and deep listening.

Biographies

Félicia Atkinson (FR)

Félicia Atkinson is an artist, experimental musician and author based in France. She has released more than twenty albums on international record labels and has Biblioteq Mdulair & Synkie (CH) performed live in venues as diverse as Palais de Tokyo Sarah Davachi (CA) IONE (US) in Paris, MOCA in Los Angeles, the Rewire Festival in Biblioteq Mdulair is an orchestra made up of fifteen The Hague, the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York, generators of analogue frequencies, activated by Sarah Davachi, the Los Angeles-based Canadian musician Author, playwright/director and text/sound artist IONE and the Novas Frequências festival in Rio de Janeiro. Emma Souharce and Daniel Maszkowicz. A true ode and composer, studied at in Oakland with has performed and taught throughout the world with Her visual, musical and literary research focuses on to waves, this primitive electronic installation gives rise Maggi Payne and David Bernstein. Using a wide range her creative partner and spouse, composer Pauline topics and practices such as improvisation, fiction, cut- to captivating soundscapes. For the occasion, the duo of instruments – analogue synthesizers, piano, organ, Oliveros. She has written and directed works with Mu- up, noise and silence, abstraction, musique concrète, will perform with a Synkie analogue video synthesizer voice, wind and string instruments – and inspired by sic and Sound Design by Oliveros, including Njinga animism, poetic spaces and Deep Listening. She has and three creators, Michael Egger, Max Egger and Flo baroque, experimental and minimalist aesthetics, she has the Queen King, Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, recently worked with Jenny Hval, Stephen O’Malley and Kaufmann from the Fribourg collective [ a n y m a ]. developed a wonderfully rich, contemplative and often The Lunar and The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and is the co-publisher of the At the controls, the latter broadcast their video signals profoundly sentimental body of work. Currently working Phantom Opera. Artistic Director of the Deep Listening independent imprint Shelter Press. on a dozen cathodic TV sets, thus creating a total on her PhD in Musicology at UCLA – University of Institute for fifteen years, IONE is faculty with The Cen- audiovisual symbiosis, based on the sound impulses California, Los Angeles, she has produced some thirteen ter for Deep Listening ® online Certificate programs www.feliciaatkinson.com of Biblioteq Mdulair. This twofold installation has albums since the early 2010s, released on Important at Rensselaer, Troy, NY and through her organization, been displayed and heard at the CERN, the European Records, Recital and Superior Viaduct, and performs all MoM, Inc presents workshops and seminars foste - Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, as well over the world. ring creative and spiritual exchange between women. as in several art venues across Switzerland. Biblioteq www.sarahdavachi.com Among other works, she is the author of Pride of Fa- Mdulair released their first LP in May 2018 (Copypasta mily – Four Generations of American Women of Color, Editions / Aussenraum Records). Listening in Dreams and Spell Breaking Anthologies of www.biblioteqmdulair.net Women's Mysteries. www.anyma.ch www.ionedreams.us

Vincent Barras (CH)

Vincent Barras studied Literature and Medicine before taking up studies in History and Philosophy of Science. He has long been interested in sound art, experimental literature, and sound poetry which he practices as an author and a performer, and which he defends in his Anne Bourne (CA) Céline Hänni (CH) activities as a music programmer (La Bâtie-Festival de Genève, from 1985 to 2003; Association Roaratorio, Anne Bourne is a composer/ performer based in Céline Hänni is a musician based in Western since 2003). He also works as a writer with a focus Canada. Improvising with her voice and cello in Switzerland who focuses on vocal experimentation. on poetry, music, contemporary art, the history of intermedia context, Anne has created work with artists Aside from interpreting pieces from the 20th-century medicine and of the body, and psychiatry. Barras is a Eve Egoyan, John Oswald, Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, repertoire and creating contemporary works, Hänni publisher for the Contrechamps journal and publishing Fred Frith, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Peter Mettler, Eric improvises music and conducts solo and group projects Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang (US) Anna-Kaisa Meklin (FI) Margrit Schenker (CH) Anna-Kaisa Meklin was born in Kangasniemi, Finland. Composer, pianist, accordionist and resident organist The music of the duo formed by singer Jessika Kenney She has been living in Basel since 2003, where she stu- at St. Martin’s church in Effretikon (canton of Zurich), and violinist/violist Eyvind Kang reconfigures Persian, died the viola de gamba with Paolo Pandolfo at Basle’s Margrit Schenker is also an improviser, a domain Indonesian and Indian classical traditions through the Schola Cantorum, and free improvisation with Walter she has studied with Irène Schweizer in particular. achievements of Western contemporary composition Fähndrich. Meklin has taken part in many projects in Her composition for voice and accordion, Fifty and improvisation. Together they have produced four the fields of improvisation, , theatre Songs, performed with Pauline Oliveros, has been disarmingly beautiful albums where the boundaries and early music, often with a band featuring Hans-Jürg presented in a variety of venues such as the Embassy between traditional Eastern, Asian, minimalist and Meier, Christoph Schiller and Giancarlo Nicolai. She re- of Switzerland in Washington, D.C., the Accordion experimental music have been overturned for an cently took part in the production of two recordings Festival in Krems (Austria), the Swiss Institute in extraordinarily elegant result. A collaborator with of the Swedish composer Magnus Granberg for the New York and Prague Castle. She performs solo in Wolves in the Throne Room, Avey Tare (Animal record label Another Timbre. Switzerland and abroad, works with Malcolm Goldstein Collective) and Annea Lockwood, Jessika Kenney and poet Wanda Schmid, and was resident artist at is also a renowned performer of the vocal works of https://annakaisameklin.com the Pauline Oliveros Foundation in New York and the John Cage, Lou Harrison, and Alvin Visby International Centre for Composers on the island Lucier. Eyvind Kang is a sought-after and prolific multi- Vincent de Roguin (CH) of Gotland (Sweden). instrumentalist, composer and arranger, member of Secret Chiefs 3 and collaborator with Lou Reed, https://margritschenker.ch Black Mountain, Sunn O))), Animal Collective, Laurie Vincent de Roguin is a Geneva-based artist and Anderson, Mr. Bungle and Bill Frisell. author. An instrumental and electroacoustic composer –commissioned to write for the Bern Symphony http://jessikakenney.com Orchestra and the Acousmonium of the Groupe de https://eyvindkang.bandcamp.com Recherches Musicales (GRM) among others –, he is also a founding member of the improvised music ensemble Æthenor with Daniel O’Sullivan and Stephen O’Malley, and was a member of the band Shora between 2001 and 2007. De Roguin has worked as an exhibition curator, published several essays and books, and also works as an independent researcher and bookseller. His recent activities include a series of conferences on John Heartfield and war imagery in hardcore punk, Terry Riley & Gyan Riley (US) the publication of a monographic book on the Swiss band The Young Gods (The Most Beautiful Swiss Books Californian composer and artist born in 1935, Terry Riley Prize 2017), mixing a record by Timo van Luijk & Kris is a reference for generations of musicians in domains Vanderstraeten, and reactivating the sound installations as diverse as contemporary, minimalist, electronic, ex- of composer Max Neuhaus. Olga Kokcharova (RU/CH) perimental, rock and pop music. His 1964 composition In C is regularly mentioned as the most significant http://vincent-de-roguin.ch Artist and musician born in Siberia and based in American classical work in the second half of the 20th Geneva, Olga Kokcharova focuses on everything century and is undeniably one of the most performed. sound-related, whichever the medium. She works with Active since the late 1950s, Terry Riley has constant - analogue modular synthesizers and field recordings, ly renewed his artistic approach, whether with his first favoring a meticulous approach to sound recording experiments with magnetic tape loops, his music for while also experimenting in environments where ensembles in the mid-1960s, his improvisations for recording equipment is put to the test. Kokcharova electric organ, his immersion in classical Indian music uses the sources thus obtained to create multi-channel with Pandit Pran Nath at the turn of the 1970s and his electroacoustic compositions and improvisations, return to classical composition since the 1980s. Terry soundtracks and sound installations in the public Riley has also been involved in many other endeavors domain. She regularly performs in Switzerland and in the fields of visual arts and performance, as an ins- abroad, alone or in collaboration with artists such tallations designer, a collaborator with Fluxus, and an as Jacques Demierre, Gianluca Ruggeri and Thierry instigator of happenings and theatre pieces. These last Simonot. few years, he has been performing regularly with his kokhlias.bandcamp.com son Gyan, a virtuoso guitarist and composer. Like his father, Gyan Riley does not limit himself to one genre in particular: He has worked with Zakir Hussain, John Zorn, Iva Bittová, Lou Reed, the Kronos Quartet and the Falla Guitar Trio, and he draws his inspiration in extra-European music as much as jazz and baroque.

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