Event overview
A concert focusing on experimental solo performances, featuring Marjolaine Charbin (piano), Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (zither) and Jo Thomas (laptop)
Artists:
Marjolaine Charbin is a French pianist based between Brussels and London. Accademically trained in jazz, she has been participating in the improvised music scene since 2008 with numerous performances across Europe, and curates There is Still a Body, a series of music-dance events in Brussels. She specialises in prepared piano, working with objects inside the body of the instrument, maintains several long term collaborations and since she moved to London regularly attends Eddie Prevost's workshop. For this solos concert, she'll be presenting a new aspect of her work.
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (Greece) is a musician and a linguist currently based in London. Active in the field of experimental, electro-acoustic and improvised music, she started to play in Barcelona in 2006. She plays the zither, an old folk instrument, and remaps its territory, treating it as the interior of the piano and a resonance box, by making use of various objects detached from their typical usage. She performs solo, in long- term collaborations (with Ferran Fages as ap'strophe) or in occasional formations (with Lucio Capece, Angharad Davies, Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Robin Hayward, Chris Heenan, Grundik Kasyansky and Tisha Mukarji among others). She has participated in international festivals such as Pied Nu in Le Havre, TOT 1.0 in Athens and Personal and Collective in Ljubljana. She has two CDr releases, 'paisatges' with Felipe Araya-Muñoz (Kukuruku Recordings, 2009) and 'der schlaue fuchs' with Chris Heenan (More mars, 2011) and two CD releases with the duo ap'strophe, 'objects sense objectes' on Etude Records (2009) and 'corgroc' on Another Timbre (2010). Her first solo CD 'stroke by stroke' was released in 2011 by Organized Music from Thessaloniki.
Jo Thomas is an electronic music artist living and working in London. Her Forth Coming album 'nature of habit' Entr'acte is due for release in Mid May 2012. Her debut solo LP Alpha was released by Entr'acte in 2010 and nominated for a Quartz 7 award in 2011. She performs her music on a regular basis. working on multi channel systems. Her music repeatedly explores the polarities of failure and perfection working with visual image, micro sound, beats glitch and pure tone. New releases include a new solo CD by Entr'acte 2012, Active Cross over complication released on Cronica 2012. Her Music has been commissioned by the Studios of INA GRM Paris. Previous work includes 'Crystal' for 5.1 surround sound, a live site specific performance and online music publication by Diamond Light Source. Diamond Light Source is the UK's largest Synchrotron. 2011. In July 2011 she performed a new work titled Untitled Lines as part of the Pablo Bronstein Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. The work was released on Tape Cassette by the label Entr'acte. In March 2011 she was commissioned by the Wire Music Magazine to write Butterfly Sweet for the Below the Radar Series. Her music has been performed in venues such as the Round House, London, Cafe Oto London, Basso Berlin, Salon De Messiaen Paris, Calarts Los Angeles, ICA London, New Federation Square Melbourne, Electric Church Berlin, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Resonance FM and BBC Radio Three. She has a post as a Senior Lecturer in the University of East London teaching Sound design, Composition and Music Technology.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 May 2012 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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