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 and presents Tomoko Sauvage and Christina Vantzou at Haus der Kunst. On Friday, both artists give solo performances. On Saturday, Tomoko Sauvage take part in an artist talk, followed by a durational performance. This is intended as a deep listening, almost “sleep concert” for audience members.
Japanese-born and Paris-based musician and sound artist Tomoko Sauvage is best known for her long-standing experimentation with instruments that combine water, ceramics, sub-aquatic amplification, and electronics. Her research is grounded in live performance practices that embrace the unpredictable dynamics of materials. Incorporating ritualistic gestures, she playfully improvises with environments, using chance as a compositional method. Her performances and installations have been presented at RIBOCA, V&A Museum, Manifesta, Roskilde Festival, Sharjah Art Foundation, Centre Pompidou Metz, and Nyege Nyege Festival, among others.
Sauvage initially studied jazz piano before developing a deep interest in Indian music and studying improvisation, particularly Hindustani music. In 2006, she attended a concert by the South Indian musician Aanayampatti Ganesan, a virtuoso of Jal tarang – a melodic percussion instrument that originates from the Indian subcontinent. It consists of a set of ceramic or metal bowls filled with water. Fascinated by the simplicity of the instrument and its sonority, Sauvage began to experiment with the sound of chopsticks on porcelain bowls. Soon her desire to immerse herself in the water sparked the idea of using an underwater microphone, resulting in the creation of the electro-aquatic instrument. Her third solo album, Fischgeist, was recorded in a water tank in Berlin and released by bohemian drips in 2020.
Friday's performance “Clepsydra” will focus on one of Sauvage's iconic techniques using water drops falling into amplified porcelain bowls. Saturday's durational performance will focus on hydrophonic feedback and its liquid-modulated curved tones as she calls it sonic calligraphy. Her instrumentarium will be extended with small resonant objects and “bells” from her more recent research. The durational performance offers an immersive listening experience, similar to a sleep concert. Visitors are welcome to lie down on the soft carpeted floor of the auditorium, and those who wish may bring their own pillow or blanket.
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
