Duration
29.11.24, 8:00 PM - 9:00 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, Christina Vantzou. 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, they take part in an artist talk, followed by a durational performance by Tomoko Sauvage.
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.
Christina Vantzou is a Brussels-based composer who explores the expansion of time, atmosphere, and harmony through electronics and acoustic instruments. Her releases include five numbered solo albums of ambient-classical music on American label Kranky, 2020's Multi-Natural LP; a foray into abstract electronics and field recordings released by the Belgian label Edições CN, two full-length albums with John Also Bennett as CV & JAB, and many other solo and collaborative works.
In her latest work, Vantzou focusses on shaping ceremonial and affective spaces. Using a combination of voices, synthesisers, piano, wind instruments, and electronics, these sounds emerge vapourously from the depths, glowing in dreamlore, before materialising into audible, tangible reality.
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.
A project by Karin Zwack (frameless). Curated by Sarah Miles (Haus der Kunst).
Tickets available soon.
TUNE 2024 is supported by UNITEL Musikstiftung
Supported by Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München
