The third edition of intersect.SERIES will take place on the 14th of June at Studio Loos.
Nursinem Aslan, jvkr, and l°°p ensemble (Paolo Piaser, Hao-Teng Liu, Carlotta van Schwartzenberg) present performances that reflect on various approaches to interactivity, body and physical movement in improvisation. We are delighted to announce that the Khamoosh Collective will be presenting an interactive installation, with contributions by Ramin Mahmoudi, Golnoosh Heshmati, pantea, Maryam Ramezankhani, and PARSA, where the members come together to speculate on the role of improvisation in collective work, overlapping through temporalities across different geographies.
Beyond by Khamoosh collective
The members of the Khamoosh community gather together in one of their weekly meetings with the purpose of improvising together in each one's place. As we reflect on the role of improvisation also in our collective work and how we organize together, things we do overlap through their temporalities even when we are across different geographies. These activities generate and connect local movements, and in this way the community collaborates remotely. Not in the sense of perfect synchronization and how to have the best technology to improvise, but as approaching improvisation as a technology itself.
In this gathering, we improvise to acknowledge how we are in-between. Here and there. Now and then. In this sense, these patches of audio and video invite you to our headspace and community, to improvise with us.
Khamoosh collective (with contributions from Ramin Mahmoudi, Golnoosh Heshmati, pantea, Maryam Ramezankhani, PARSA)
We come together in the shared intimacy of sound through the tools of technology and time. Hearing the relationship between sound and language is an ongoing process formed by both well-known and unknown contributors as well as by nonhumans, broadening the listening sphere of our extended collective. Our combined practices include music, anthropology, linguistics, and audiovisual design. Khamoosh mediates conservation and restoration by exploring and archiving the sonic heritage of Iran through recorded sounds of everyday life; sounds that are less heard or even silenced. Khamoosh has been listened to informally and in spaces like Ars Electronica Garden Tehran, 48h Neukölln, New Institute and Re-wire festival.
A Very Personal Relationship Between Sound and Movement by Nursinem Aslan
In the context of exploring new affordances in musical interaction, movement practice can contribute to developing a more nuanced and intentional use of bodily movement in musical expression. By increasing body awareness and control, movement practice can provide musicians with a wider range of movement vocabulary to draw from and can help to reveal new connections between movement and musical expression.
Together with a background in visual arts, design, and sound art, Nursinem Aslan blends diverse subjects with technology. She has cultivated a novel perspective that converges at the intersection of traditional and contemporary mediums. The core themes that pulse through her creations include movement, technology, and nature, which serve as a testament to the symbiotic relationship between science and creative expression.
duwisnomahlmon by jvkr
Three levels of sound projection creates a potential of juxtapositions, opening up a variety of perspectives. Whatever it was you heard, it was your ears only. That is normal.
Improvisor, composer and maker who aims through jvkr’s work to create a lens on contemporary technology which is employed in order to extend, invert or disassemble the musical situation. His collaborations cover the fields of music, architecture, choreography, visual arts and music-theatre. As an artistic researcher, in the past years he has developed and realized a variety of projects and has contributed to the LOOS artistic research community, collaborating with many young artists. Since 2001 he has been a permanent staff member of the Sonology department at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
“The city between absorbing seas and ricocheting mountains” by l°°p
The city between absorbing seas and ricocheting mountains is a system for three amplified components — tenor saxophone, violin, and hybrid human-algorithmic agent —. The musicians listen to each other on specific sound parameters, and take performative decisions in accordance to what they perceive. In this way, every gesture and every sound propagate in the loop of unfolding interactions: they are structurally coupled, bringing the movement that forms, and the properties that we, as listeners, perceive and recognise. Emergencies, and an identity for each enaction.
l°°p is a newly formed ensemble dedicated to music based on systemic principles, thus context dependent and integrating feedback loops for the unfolding of the piece during the performance.
• l°°p currently counts eleven members, but for this performance he will form with three of its elements.
Hao-Teng Liu - amplified alto saxophone
Classical saxophone player from Taipei (Taiwan), after his BA he decided to expand its musical knowledge and learn new approaches to music and performance. He thus came to The Netherlands to study in the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, where he is currently attending the Master course in saxophone.
Carlotta van Schwartzenberg - amplified violin
Violin player who especially enjoys improvised music, currently completing her Bachelor of Composition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague with the teachers Mayke Nas and Trevor Grahl. She has been characterized as a musical alchemist, meaning she always searches for the best way to actualize her artistic vision, using different mediums such as composing as well as improvising.
Paolo Piaser - electronics and hybrid agent
Electroacoustic composer and Sound Designer, come from a city at the bases of the Dolomites. After living among the calli of Venice for many years, they currently locate themselves close to the dunes of Den Haag. They refer to systemic theory concepts for their compositional and performative approach, exploring what they call Systemic composition