Duration
29.11.24, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Language
English
Admission
15 € regular | 12 € reduced | Free admission with “365 Live”
Info
Friday, 29.11.24
8 pm | Tomoko Sauvage, Christina Vantzou. Concert
Saturday, 30.11.24
6 pm | Tomoko Sauvage. Artist Talk
8 pm | Tomoko Sauvage. Durational Performance
The TUNE series continues to explore sounds from non-human sources that have their own agency and performances that alter our perception of space, time, and boundaries. The November edition is a collaboration with frameless, presenting Tomoko Sauvage and Christina Vantzou at Haus der Kunst.
Japanese-born and Paris-based musician and sound artist Tomoko Sauvage has developed her original musical instrument, Waterbowls, by initially drawing inspirations from the traditional South Indian instrument, Jaltarang. Her long-term experimentation, enlivened by a tactile research on properties of materials, transformed water-filled porcelain bowls into an aqueous electroacoustic instrument. She animates the inanimate through tuning water and vessels, making them vibrate and magnifying their tiny sounds that are otherwise quasi-inaudible. In her amplified waters, Sauvage plays with water drops and waves, clay, stones, shells and glass objects as idiophonic or membranophonic instruments and often in combination with bubbles that are used to create a kind of underwater aerophones. Sauvage’s active use of acoustic feedback, a phenomenon generally considered troublesome, has led her to engage in an encompassing approach to the architecture, the acoustic space and the presence of all matters within. Her role as a performer can be interpreted as a gardener who controls the controllable, leaving the chance to unfold the rest.
On Friday, Sauvage's performance Clepsydra will focus on one of Sauvage's iconic techniques using water drops falling into amplified porcelain bowls.
Christina Vantzou is a Brussels-based composer who explores the expansion of time, atmosphere, and harmony through electronics and acoustic instruments. In her more recent work, she focuses on shaping ceremonial and affective spaces. Using a combination of voices, synthesisers, piano, wind instruments, and electronics, these sounds emerge vapourously from the depths.
In an upcoming workshop at the Semibreve Festival, Vantzou will talk about how sound and voice are essential in shaping our world, our emotions, and the bonds between humans, non-human entities, nature, and beyond. She views sound as a medium to steer and soften attention, fostering a heightened sense of awareness.
For TUNE x frameless, Vantzou's performance on Friday will continue in the line of her album Multi Natural, where she collages chamber music with electronic sounds, voice, and field recordings, to create a composition of slowly fusing elements, in a state of semi-constant metamorphosis. In this work, Vantzou lets the content take the lead, allowing the sounds to act freely, giving the listener both trust and freedom to make connections.
Frameless is a local concert series dedicated to experimental music that explores the changing conditions of life in the digital age and has been committed to contemporary trends in aural art for nearly a decade.
Curated by Karin Zwack (frameless) and Sarah Miles (Haus der Kunst).
TUNE 2024 is supported by UNITEL Musikstiftung
Supported by Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München
