After almost one year in transit.. the brand new space of NGallery in the heart of Athens is nearly done. More info soon!!
The new website is up, check it out!
www.ngalleryathens.com
The physical presentation of The New Together project concludes with the exhibition of three collaborative works created following Ngallery's open call for remote co-creation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The exhibition entitled "The New Together Vol. III'' will be presented from Wednesday, November 16, until Saturday, December 10, 2022, at the hybrid space of Ngallery.
During the pandemic lockdown, contemporary music composer and sound researcherNicoleta Chatzopoulou’s Ngallery made an open call for participation in an art project withthe sole prerequisite being long-distance collaboration. Composers, musicians, artists, performers, directors, writers, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world were invited and challenged to create collaborative works, overcoming the impossibility of physical presence in the same space.
Although restrictions were largely lifted and mobility restored, the art world is struggling to recover from a global event that has brought enormous economic damage and uncertainty. At the same time, we are facing a new unprecedented energy crisis, forcing many of our fellow human beings to impose a self-lockdown in order to meet the cost of living. The New Together project, born as a reaction and response to the challenges for artistic creation, communication and presentation caused by the pandemic, remains extremely relevant in a highly critical present and a dystopian future that stretches before us.
The following works are exhibited at the third and final edition of The New Together project:
“5walls with Anna Pangalou”, Longform video; 4 recordings of extended Zoom calls with no prescribed time limits
Tim Tsang x Anna Pangalou
During May and June 2020, during the height of the pandemic for many countries, Tim and Anna decided to meet together virtually from their homes in Los Angeles and Athens, without any prescribed time limits, and extensively carried out longform conversations filled with honesty, sincerity, with a curiosity toward new forms of knowledge and being. Carried out as a quiet, un-advertised form of action, they met a total of four times, with each meeting being anywhere from 2 to 4 hours long. Topics covered included cybernetics, sociology, art, music, creative life, loneliness, life struggles, culture, history - seamlessly weaving in and out from the societal to the personal. After the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Tim and Anna spent their fourth conversation in complete silence for over one hour, after listening to a recording together of Mahler’s “Kindertotenlieder” (“Songs on the Death of Children”).
www.instagram.com/annapangalou & www.isingproject.com
“Stitching Borders”, Installation
Constantine Katsiris x Louisa Stylianidi
The work of Louisa and Constantine is centered around the idea of maps and borders, creating soundscapes and landscapes. In this collaboration, they worked together to think about the lines of borders and how borders can be changed. Louisa’s sewn pieces are of drawings she made that are thought of as map-poems. Visualising sound and also trying to sew land together or trying to sew the sea with the land is almost impossible and that “sewing” of land creates marks. These marks then become the drawings of the sewn pieces. Louisa also questions the materiality of land, of clay and of material, considering the arduous, craft-like process of sewing. Constantine’s sound is of different places that he “sews” together and reflect his photographs that are map-like, showing the remnants of different places and spaces visited.
https://www.instagram.com/harsh_walls & https://scantintone.com
https://vimeo.com/lmstylianidi & http://louisamstylianidi.blogspot.com
“Losing Touch”, Micro-short film
Mavra Peponi x Nicoleta Chatzopoulou
Synopsis: A cat in spring– quarantine
This micro-short film was created through the remote collaboration of director Mavra Peponi and composer Nicoleta Chatzopoulou during the quarantine of 2020. It was screened at festivals in Europe and America, and in 2022 won the Experimental Edition Award at Oaxaca Film Fest.
https://www.instagram.com/mavrapeponi & https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6458962
nicoletachatzopoulou.com
The New Together Vol. II
Sunday 12/09 – Sunday 10/10/2021 @Ngallery
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect the arts, Ngallery continues to explore the new challenges for artistic creation and mobility, by presenting the second edition of The New Together project. The exhibition of the collaborative work “Empirical Reality” opens on Sunday, September 12, and it will run until Sunday, October 10, 2021.
Vocalist Anna Pangalou, natural sciences educator Georgina Spyres and artist Ryat Yezbick remotely collaborated throughout the pandemic to create “Empirical Reality”. They used the element of water as a vehicle to observe the interconnections of our universe and the tenuous nature of our species. They created a collection of works focusing on water and its properties that connect them to nature, to each other, to their beliefs and to their conscious and subconscious intentions. “Empirical Reality” invites the viewer to consider our relationship to water as a life force, and our permeable relationship with all it contains.
During the pandemic lockdown, contemporary music composer and sound researcher Nicoleta Chatzopoulou’s Ngallery made an open call for participation in an art project with the sole prerequisite being long-distance collaboration. Composers, musicians, artists, performers, directors, writers, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world were invited and challenged to create collaborative works, overcoming the impossibility of physical presence in the same space.
The first exhibition of works created for The New Together project was presented with big success at Ngallery in October 2020, raising a heated and necessary conversation about the (post-)pandemic arts landscape.
The New Together project aims to explore and define the new conditions of artistic creation, the new needs for communication between creative people and new possibilities for the presentation and diffusion of art.
The exhibition “The New Together Vol. II” will be open by appointment only from Sunday, September 12 to Sunday, October 10, with free admission. For appointments during the exhibition opening hours (Monday to Friday: 10 am-2 pm & 5-8 pm – weekends: 12-5 pm) please contact us by email at ngallery18@gmail.com. To fully experience the work at your convenience, the recommended duration of the visit is 1 hour. The exhibition will be accompanied by parallel actions with the artists, which will be announced on Ngallery social media. Ngallery operates in accordance with the government pandemic guidelines.
Artist bios
Anna Pangalou
Anna Pangalou is a voice soloist with a dark dramatic timbre, who experiments through the boundaries of classical vocal practices and the new forms that are emerging from experimental sound practices. She studied classical song in Cannes, Vienna, Rome and Athens. She has been awarded scholarships by the Onassis Foundation and Fulbright Foundation, and a prize in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition. As a soloist, she has performed opera, lieder, oratori, new musical theatre and contemporary music in Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Egypt, Turkey, the US, and Greece. She specializes in contemporary music. Contemporary composers such as Dimitris Kamarotos, Esthir Lemi, Anargyros Deniozos and Tom Hamilton, have written works for her voice. She favours collaborating with people from different fields, exploring new avenues of perception as an art form.
www.instagram.com/annapangalou www.isingproject.com
Dr. Georgina Spyres
Her love of Nature began as a child and since then Georgina has been working non-stop to connect people around her to Nature and to inspire them to protect her. Through the natural sciences she calls upon audiences to raise their awareness and face the upcoming challenges, especially those that will be exacerbated by climate change. She has a doctorate in Chemical Oceanography, has worked as a lecturer at CUNY in the USA, IST College in Athens and as a researcher at Plymouth University in England, The Royal Netherlands Institute of Oceanography, the Hellenic Center for Marine Research and Rutgers University in the USA. She currently works as Head of Education and Research at the Attica Zoo, collaborates with NPO Pelargos for the protection of Greek wildlife, is the Science Education Director at the NGO Carbon Busters and teaches sustainability and nature connection at different seminars reaching various audiences. She is a member of the IUCN Committee on Education and Communication, the International Zoo Educators Association and an elected member of the EAZA Committee on Education.
www.linkedin.com/in/georgina-spyres-ph-d-8645233a www.instagram.com/georginaspyres
Ryat Yezbick
Ryat Yezbick is a visual artist who uses their training in cultural anthropology to inform the issues they tackle as a maker. They examine intimacy as it relates to power dynamics, violence and justice, and explore these topics with the participants in their films and performances. Figuring their experience centrally in their work, Yezbick explores what kinds of intimacy are possible under capitalism and the creative tactics they and their participants employ to foster belonging. Their work addresses a complex set of questions around security, home, family, love, violence, power, and responsibility. They work in a variety of mediums – notably live performance, experimental documentary, and installation – that have garnered support from audiences and curators internationally. They are a published author, multi-time grant recipient, and arts consultant for organizations and institutions in the field. Yezbick’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Melbourne, and Glasgow, and in notable group exhibitions and performances at the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Los Angeles), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Materials & Applications (Los Angeles), The Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Indianapolis), Glasgow International 2018 (Glasgow), The Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity (Banff), Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne), Space One (Seoul) and the Bangkok Biennial.
www.ryatyezbick.com instagram.com/ryat_yezbick
AGENDA
The New Together Vol. I
Saturday 03/10 – Saturday 24/10
During the lockdown due to the unprecedented pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, Ngallery made an open call for participation in an art project with the sole prerequisite being long-distance collaboration. Composers, musicians, artists, performers, directors, writers, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world were invited and challenged to create collaborative works, overcoming the impossibility of physical presence in the same space.
In an era of pandemics and natural constraints with uncertain outcome, The New Together project aims to bridge the physical distance between artists, intellectuals, scholars and scientists, in order to explore and define the new conditions of artistic creation, the new needs for communication between creative people and new possibilities for the presentation and diffusion of art.
Ngallery's open call was enthusiastically received and led to the creation of 12 collaborative works, which will be presented in different exhibitions. The first edition of The New Together presents the following works:
George Kokkinaris x Anna Mouzaki
“Lock OUT_BLACK down”
Nani Ballestrini's "Blackout" is a poem about light and darkness. It unfolds the political and historical events of post-war Italy, the 1977 blackout in New York and elements of Ballestrini's personal life. The writing methodology used by the Italian formalist to reconstruct fragments of public speech urges readers-musicians Giorgos Kokkinaris (double bass, composition, narration) and Anna Mouzaki (voice, composition, sound processing) to decipher and re-interpret them in a form of an opera aperta for female voice, narrator, double bass and electronics.
https://www.facebook.com/anna.mouzaki
Zan Berry x Iason Maroulis
“Διά Δύο (/2)”
In this composition by Iason Maroulis, cellist Zan Berry is asked to divide himself in two instruments, voice and cello. Both lines work together, trying to create an amalgam through the combination of similar sounds, enriching and giving new character to the sound of each other.
https://zanberry.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/iasonas.mar
Chryssanthi Kouri x Mislav Režić
“This Is How I Remember It”
This music and video collaboration explores the texture of memory and reminiscence. Responding to a musical piece on a loop, that slowly builds to a crescendo, the visual component develops through layers of natural elements that represent thoughts and images to mirror the texture of reminiscence, as our memories follow one after another in a free association sequence.
Tim Tsang x Noisebringers
“Don't touch my strings”
A puppet show, with umbrella wallpaper, where Zwickmühle subjects and objects come across a combination of performative logics archaeozoology as a co-existing desmopressin quandary, not necesslong_haired_cheesearily in synonymous agreement. (This has yet to be synonymous)
https://www.facebook.com/HuddersfieldNoisebringers/
Patrick Behnke x Lina Andonovska
“Interweaving” (supported by Goethe-Institut)
This score is conceived of as an activity that we can participate in together, regardless of time and distance. Viola player Patrick Behnke and multi-flute player Lina Andonovska recorded many experimental takes of the score via webcam and emailed recordings from their respective locations of Los Angeles and Frankfurt from June through August 2020. The activity (score + players + intended and unintended relationships) is an attempt to examine structures of orientation in time, in space, and between people, and to examine the relationships of different possibilities of motion and listening to one another. The collaborative aspect is essential to this process, and the worlds and timings of Behnke and Andonovska come together in this unique project. In the audio recordings created by Behnke and Andonovska, outside and inside sounds from their recording locations can be heard, such as ambulance sirens, creaking floors, wind, and other neighborhood sounds.
The exhibition "The New Together Vol. I" will be open by appointment from Saturday 3 to Saturday 24 October, with free admission. For appointments please contact us by email at ngallery18@gmail.com. To fully experience all the works, the minimum recommended duration of the visit is one hour. Ngallery will operate in accordance with the government pandemic guidelines.
https://www.patrickbehnke.com/
http://www.linaandonovska.com/
Tim Tsang and Noisebringers' work “Don't touch my strings” will be livestreamed on Saturday, October 24, while all the works will be available online after the end of the exhibition on Ngallery's website.
UPCOMING
The New Together Volumes II & III
PAST
Thank you all for sending such interesting ideas so far!! The deadline for the Long-distance collaborative project is extended by 5 days.
Here are the new deadlines :
Submit your interest in the project by : April 15th
Starting date of the collaborations : April 25thDeadline for completed works : June 20th
Looking forward to your ideas, take care!
Long -distance collaborative project organised and curated by Ngallery
CALL FOR WORKS
As the physical distance between us and other people, places and everything that constitutes our daily routines grows larger, so does the need of a creative person to keep creating new works and feel connected with the world. In response to this, ngallery is organising a call for artists, thinkers and scholars from all disciplines to collaborate from a distance and produce new works which will be presented online. The only prerequisite is that the collaboration between participants does not require their simultaneous physical presence, but occurs strictly by distance. There is no particular theme or duration for the works. Since it is not known how many of you will respond to this call it is not known how many online events will be required to present the works. However, for practical purposes there are 3 distinct categories in which you may apply.
Ngallery will curate this project by linking the participating artists with each other and with the overall programming of the works. The works will be presented at the physical space of ngallery (with or without audience depending on the situation at the time) and will be available online. There is no funding for this project, either for the creative or the organisational side. However there is a strong wish to fundraise in order to document the works of this project after it is completed.
CATEGORY 1: COMPOSERS & PERFORMERS
One composer will be linked to one performer to create a new work, by distant collaboration. The performer will preferably video-record the piece. If video recording is not possible then a sound file will suffice.
How to apply:
All interested composers and soloists should send an e-mail (ngallery18@gmail.com) putting in the subject line the category you are interested in (eg. CATEGORY 1). Please send one sample of your work and a very short text describing what you wish to do in this project (150 characters max). In this way, we can get an idea of your artistic goal and try to make interesting links between composers and performers. If there are more than one performers living in the same space (ie. roomates, family, collective) and they wish to form an ensemble, this is also possible.
CATEGORY 2: SOUND & OTHER ARTS
One sound artist will be linked to one artist from a different discipline to create a new work, by distant collaboration. All artistic disciplines apply in this category, eg. video, poetry, painting, dance, acting, architecture, radio performance, etc. and they should be able to provide the end performance as video.
How to apply :
All interested artists should send an e-mail (ngallery18@gmail.com) putting in the subject line the category you are interested in (eg. CATEGORY 2). Please send one sample of your work and a very short text describing how you would like to contribute to this project (150 characters max). In this way, we can get an idea of your artistic goal and try to make interesting links between artists. If there are more than one artists living in the same space (ie. roomates, family, collective) and wish to form a larger group, this is also possible.
CATEGORY 3 : OPEN
This is the most open category where artists, thinkers and scholars can apply. Any combination is possible and welcome, from a lecture and a collaboration on a scientific paper to a podcast, a children’s story, a discussion etc.
How to apply :
All interested applicants should send an e-mail (ngallery18@gmail.com) putting in the subject line the category you are interested in (eg. CATEGORY 3). Please send one sample of your work and a very short text describing how you would like to contribute to this project (150 characters max). Please note that because CATEGORY 3 is the most open of all, we kindly ask you to be as clear as possible regarding your ideas of what you wish to create. You may also let us know what you have in mind in terms of the discipline you wish to be linked to, although we cannot guarantee that this will be possible.
DEADLINES
Deadline for submitting your interest in the project: April 10th , 2020
Starting date of the collaboration: April, 20th, 2020
Deadline for completed works: June 15th, 2020
Dates of presentation of the works: TBA
Good luck to all, stay at home and keep creating!!
Open Call for projects 2018/2019 season : Noise, Silence, What Now
For its first season of activity, N gallery invites musicians, artists, scientists, scholars and creators across diverse disciplines to submit their proposals for projects to be presented during the season October 2018 - June 2019. It is desirable that the proposed projects explore the theme Noise, Silence, What Now. Traditionally, silence and noise are thought of as two ends belonging to the same continuum, naturally leading us to think of them as a dipole. However, the redefinition and blurring of the boundaries of these concepts - whether pertaining to sound, image, data, society, architecture, environmental and urban factors - is a fertile ground for the making of new concepts and creations, for problem posing and solutions. Works and proposals of all formats that the gallery is able to host, are welcome.
Deadline for submissions : Closed
Types of projects : small - scale exhibitions and performances, workshops, screenings, lectures etc
Funding is not available. Participants will have to cover their travel/accommodation and other expenses
N gallery provides the space and its available equipment upon agreement
Size of available space : approx. 80 m2
Contact : ngallery18@gmail.com
February 2nd, 2020 - project 02022020.space partner venue for screenings + live presentation of Ising
02022020.SPACE | Athens, Greece
Art, Music & Theater | Ephemeral Fever
Once-in-a-lifetime Palindrome date is coming! In our project, anywhere in the world on 02-02-2020, 20:20, an art programme will be released. 02-02-2020, won the highest possible score in the extraordinary numerical order of dates that will not be found in the coming few decades. We are a group of enthusiastic artists who would like to give artistic responses to this special day.
In our station in Athens, N gallery is going to present the "ising project by vocal artist Anna Pangalou in response to our topic 02022020. We invite you to join the Live performance at the venue - N Gallery, and witness the streaming programmes from all partners and artists around the Globe on this special day! (For more infos: http://02022020.space/)
[Screening]
02022020.SPACE Art programmes screening:
2 Feb (Sunday) 14:00 - 22:00
[Performance]
18:20-18:50 ising project
The ISING project is a three part multimedia project. Moving between the concert hall, the polar ice cap, and the gallery, the cycle employs sound, sculpture, video, and photography to convey the power and responsibility of every human to shape our world. This project makes visible how our existence - our breath innervates the national geography both in a beautiful and terrifying way.
The project’s name is derived from the scientific term used in statistical mechanics. Ising is a model that tries to imitate behavior in which individual elements modify their behavior so as to conform to the behavior of other individuals in their vicinity. It is applied in many other fields of science where the individual elements can be atoms, protein folds, a biological membrane, animal species in groups, social behavior, etc.
The first component of the tryptic is a multi continent concert tour. Ahead of the tour, Pangalou will disseminate the Ising project as a whole, in its content as well as in its structure to local climate change activists, NGOs, and new music ensembles.
The second component of the cycle is a 21 day performance piece at the North Polar ice cap. During this performance, Pangalou will retrieve a piece of ice that has detached from a local iceberg and place it on a platform. For the next 21 days, Pangalou will sing to the ice - a body of water in a different form. The artist intends to formulate a sculpture with the warmth of the exhalation created by singing. The performance is based on an interactive score, depending on the data of the environment.
The third component of the Ising tryptic will be a second multi continent concert tour in which Pangalou will perform with her live voice against an electronic new music composed environment generated from both the sounds made to sculpt the ice as well as music formed by the data she gathered from her in situ performance.
(For more infos:https://www.isingproject.com)
[02022020.SPACE | Athens is made possible by N Gallery]
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// ABOUT THE PROJECT //
02022020.SPACE is a collective art project in response to our next palindrome date, 02-02-2020. Artists that work with diverse artforms are invited to create works exploring the hidden meanings of the date in relation to our society, culture and our planet, not limited to the impact of the once-in-a-lifetime event, but also the attraction of highly repetitive and reversible numeric effects, and the global influence of timezones.
The most brilliant cultural highlights of recent times have involved people broadcasting ideas in innovative ways, with web-based technology becoming one of the major elements in our daily life. 02022020, also a 8-digit computer-friendly code, is ideally situated in the Internet culture, ushering in the new vision of information exchange in the nearest future. On 02-02-2020, a collective of artists will create a 26-hour programme of artworks and performances that will be streamed on the Internet for viewers in all timezones. The Live performances with local audience are presented in 10+ cities around the world. The audience will also see the streaming of the performances and artworks in other locations.
The whole project embraces the concept of time-zones. Each time-zone enters the day sequentially. Currently 38 time-zones are being used on our planet including all offsets of 30/45/60 minutes. Wherever you will be on the 2nd of February, there will be one art work or performance released at 20:20 in the evening in every time-zones. The works can take many forms including, live performances, installations, recorded works or artworks created in a web-based form. Audience can follow all the time-zone events on our website 02022020.space from the first one UTC+14 to the last UTC-12, experiencing total 26 hours of art events that unveil the maximum potential of the day.
Apart from sitting at home and watching the whole event on the Internet, the audience can also go to the venue where the Live performances are presented and watch the streaming programme with other audiences.
PAST
NOISE, SILENCE, WHAT NOW #5
SYLVIA HINZ – THE SADLY UNKNOWN
October 12th - workshop @ 18:30
October 13th - talk @ 18:30 & performance @ 20:30
Tickets : 10 € workshop - 8 € performance - 15 € workshop + performance
Workshop
Το workshop της Sylvia Hinz απευθύνεται σε συνθέτες, εκτελεστές αλλά και οποιονδήποτε ενδιαφέρεται για τη σύγχρονη μουσική και ειδικότερα για τις δυνατότητες της φλογέρας όπως τις έχει εξερευνήσει εκείνη μέσα από διαφορετικά projects και έργα που έχουν γραφτεί ειδικά για να τα εκτελέσει η ίδια. Οι συνθέτες μπορούν να φέρουν ένα ολοκληρωμένο έργο για φλογέρα ή ένα έργο σε εξέλιξη σε μορφή sketches, ώστε να το παίξει η Sylvia Hinz και να ανοίξει μία συζήτηση γι’ αυτό.
Συναυλία: The Sadly Unknown
Με τη σειρά συναυλιών The Sadly Unknown, η Sylvia Hinz προωθεί σε όλο τον κόσμο και ενθαρρύνει το έργο γυναικών αλλά και άγνωστων στο κοινό συνθετών, ενώ αναβαθμίζει το ρόλο της φλογέρας στη σύγχρονη μουσική. Τα έργα παρουσιάζονται τις περισσότερες φορές σε πρώτη εκτέλεση στις χώρες όπου πραγματοποιούνται οι συναυλίες. Η Sylvia Hinz συνεργάζεται άμεσα με τους συνθέτες, οι οποίοι δημιουργούν για εκείνη έργα αποκλειστικά για φλογέρα ή φλογέρα και φωνητικά, ηχητικά αντικείμενα και ηλεκτρονικούς ήχους.
Τα έργα που θα παρουσιαστούν στην αθηναϊκή συναυλία The Sadly Unknown έχουν γραφτεί ειδικά για τη Sylvia Hinz :
Wanderlust (2018) + tape – Cat Hope (1966, AU)
Hypnos (2018) tenor recorder + tape – Martyna Kosecka (1989, PL)
hinab (2018) – Jeanne Strieder (1980, DE)
Thrínos (2017) – Catherine Robson (1995, UK)
distant fields (2014) + tape – Nicoleta Chatzopoulou (1976, GR)
Λίγα λόγια για τη Sylvia Hinz
«Νομίζετε ότι γνωρίζετε τι μπορεί να κάνει μια φλογέρα; Μία συναυλία της Sylvia Hinz θα σας αλλάξει τη γνώμη. Με την αφοσίωσή της σε πολλές μορφές πρακτικής της νέας μουσικής, η Sylvia Hinz ανατρέπει όλα τα κλισέ για τις δυνατότητες της φλογέρας.»
Με το σφοδρά και τολμηρά δραματικό στιλ των performances της, η Sylvia Hinz έχει αναδειχθεί σε κορυφαία φλογερίστα παγκοσμίως, ενώ διακρίνεται για την εξειδίκευσή της στη σύγχρονη μουσική και τον αυτοσχεδιασμό.
Ξεκινώντας από σπουδές στη φλογέρα (στο University of Arts Berlin με τον Gerd Luenenbuerger), στην πειραματική μουσική (με τον Dieter Schnebel), στη μουσική δωματίου (με τον Nigel North) και στη μουσική διεύθυνση συνόλων (στο BAK Trossingen), η Sylvia Hinz ανέπτυξε μια πολύπλευρη πορεία με συναυλίες και projects που εξερευνούν ασυνήθιστους συνδυασμούς οργάνων και διασταυρώσεις διαφόρων μορφών τέχνης (π.χ. ζωγραφική, λογοτεχνία και γλυπτική), ενώ καλλιεργεί διεθνείς συνεργασίες με μουσικούς, συνθέτες και εικαστικούς.
Ξεχωριστή θέση στο έργο της Sylvia Hinz έχουν τα τέσσερα σύνολα που έχει συν-ιδρύσει (XelmYa, UMBRATONO, Catenation και The Bewitched Project), με τα οποία πειραματίζεται με τις διάφορες πτυχές της σύγχρονης μουσικής και τις συνδέσεις της με άλλες μορφές τέχνης.
Ανάμεσα σε συναυλίες, ομιλίες και masterclasses σε φεστιβάλ πειραματικής μουσικής (Specs On!, Festival Turbulences Sonores, Mujeres en la Música Nueva, Sonic 3.0), συνέδρια (International Women and/in Musical Leadership, Conference, The Politics of Performance and Play. Feminist Matters) και πανεπιστημιακά και μουσικά εκπαιδευτικά ιδρύματα (Conservatorio de Música Gilardo Gilardi, Koosha Music Institute, Carl von Ossietzky University), η Sylvia Hinz ασχολείται με το vlogging, τα podcasts και την προώθηση γυναικών που ασχολούνται με τη σύνθεση μέσα από την επιμέλεια ειδικών playlists στα social media, ενώ έχει συν-ιδρύσει τη μη κερδοσκοπική οργάνωση ArtEquality για θέματα ισότητας και φεμινισμού στις τέχνες.
LINKS
sylviahinz.com
soundcloud.com/sylviahinz
youtube.com/sylviahinzrecorder
sylviahinz.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/Sylvia.Hinz.Recorder
NOISE, SILENCE, WHAT NOW #4
Odeya Nini - July 3rd 17:30 - 21:30
Free the Voice Workshop 17:30 - 19:30
A Solo Voice Performance 20:30 - 21:30
Free The Voice
The Voice is an instrument that radiates from the soul, resonates in the body, and is pure energy and touch. Harnessing the energy of the Voice is a strength that is felt deep within ourselves and heard loudly outside of ourselves.
This workshop is dedicated to Vocal Expression, sensing the voice, feeling and understanding the physicality of sound, freeing our minds of preconceived ideas of song, and realizing the transformational healing effects we have on ourselves and others when we use our voice with intention and love. Both through introspective work and outward playfulness, we will explore the voice as an instrument that radiates from the imagination, body and movement, not limited to conventions of language, but rather able to convey myriad forms of communication.
A Solo Voice
Evolving over the last seven years, A Solo Voice by Odeya Nini is an investigation of extended vocal techniques, resonance and pure expression, exploring the relationship between mind and body and the various landscapes it can yield. The work is a series of malleable compositions and improvisations that include field recordings and theatrical elements, aiming to dissociate the voice from its traditional attributes and create a new logic of song that is not only heard but seen through movement. Through multi-dimensionality that serves to both provoke and soothe in abstract communication, the voice is presented in its spectrum of natures as it travels through cultures, ages, emotions and colors, like photographs, with tender intimacy and bold aberrance.
NOISE, SILENCE, WHAT NOW #3
Grzegorz Marciniak - Knots
May 12th, 2019 / Open rehearsal 13:00-15:00
May 13th, 2019 / Talk & concert : 19:00-22:00
Τη Δευτέρα 13 Μαΐου στις 20:30, ο προσκεκλημένος συνθέτης Grzegorz Marciniak θα παρουσιάσει στην ngallery το έργο Knots, μία ηχητική σύνθεση για δύο μελόντικες που γράφτηκε μεταξύ καλοκαιριού και φθινοπώρου του 2018. Η βασική ιδέα ήταν να δημιουργηθεί ένα έργο ambient, μύχιας μουσικής, το οποίο να μπορεί να παρουσιαστεί σε μικρούς χώρους. Η προφορά της λέξης «knots» θυμίζει την προφορά της πολωνικής λέξης «noc» («νύχτα») και αναφέρεται στη νυχτερινή ατμόσφαιρα της σύνθεσηςΣτη συναυλία θα παρουσιαστούν επίσης σε παγκόσμια πρώτη εκτέλεση δύο έργα που γράφτηκαν ειδικά για το N Gallery Ensemble. Το NGE είναι ένα ανοιχτό σύνολο που αποτελείται από μουσικούς, συνθέτες και καλλιτέχνες που συνεργάζονται ή/και έχουν επισκεφτεί την ngallery.
Πριν από τη συναυλία, στις 19:00, ο Grzegorz Marciniak θα μιλήσει για το έργο του, για τις δράσεις του στην Ολλανδία, όπου έχει την έδρα του, και σε άλλες χώρες, καθώς και για την εξαιρετικά ενδιαφέρουσα και δημιουργική μουσική σκηνή της Χάγης.
Αναλυτικά το πρόγραμμα της συναυλίας:
Three pieces for a concert – Vladan Kulišić (http://vladankulisic.info)
Knots (2 melodicas) – Grzegorz Marciniak (https://notsonorth.tumblr.com/)
Anticipation (viola da gamba, cello, melodica) – Maya Verlaak (https://www.maya.ricercata.org)
Lavendula (for 4 instruments) – Germaine Sijstermans (https://www.germainesijstermans.com)
WITH MEMBERS OF N Gallery Ensemble (NGE):
Grzegorz Marciniak – melodica
Kostas Kakouris - keyboard, melodica
Stavros Parginos - cello, melodica
Nicoleta Chatzopoulou - viola da gamba
NOISE, SILENCE, WHAT NOW #2
KOHMA || Live + Experimental Turntablism Workshop - March 3rd, 2019
Exᴘᴇʀɪᴍᴇɴᴛᴀʟ Tᴜʀɴᴛᴀʙʟɪsᴍ Wᴏʀᴋsʜᴏᴘ (17:00-19:00):
Το εργαστήριο πρόκειται για μία συλλογική διερεύνηση της χρήσης πικάπ και δίσκων βινύλιου ως εργαλεία πειραματικής μουσικής. Θα δούμε πώς μπορούμε να σπάσουμε και να επανασυνθέσουμε δίσκους, να τους προετοιμάσουμε με αντικείμενα και να πειράξουμε τα πικάπ. Ακόμα, θα εξετάσουμε την αλληλεξάρτηση ηχητικών, οπτικών και απτικών ποιοτήτων των δίσκων και πώς αυτές οι ποιότητες μπορούν να μας οδηγήσουν σε νέες δημιουργικές φόρμες. Το workshop δεν χρειάζεται καμία προαπαιτούμενη γνώση, ικανότητα ή υλικά. Οι συμμετέχοντες μπορούν να φέρουν δικούς τους δίσκους για πειραματισμό και «χάλασμα». Το περιεχόμενο των δίσκων δεν έχει καμία σημασία. Το workshop διευθύνει ο Γιώργος Μιζήθρας (MIZI).
Sᴏᴜʟ Kɪᴛᴄʜᴇɴ (19:00-20:00): Η Virgine Viel θα προσφέρει ένα «γεύμα», βασισμένο κυρίως σε γλυκά, ένα γευστικό ταξίδι με προορισμό να ικανοποιήσει και να εκπλήξει τους γευστικούς σου κάλυκες. Με κάθε πιάτο που θα σερβίρει, η Virgine σε προσκαλεί να γευτείς, να αισθανθείς και να ανακαλύψεις διάφορους συνδυασμούς υφών, αρωμάτων και χρωμάτων, δημιουργώντας μια εμπειρία που θα σε γειώσει στην πραγματικότητα αλλά και θα σε μεταφέρει στον κόσμο των αναμνήσεών σου και της φαντασίας. Με έμπνευση από την εικόνα των σύννεφων, αυτό το ιδιαίτερο «γεύμα» θα ξεκινήσει με ελαφρές και αιθέριες υφές, θα συνεχιστεί με έντονες, τραγανές και αντιθετικές γεύσεις, ενώ θα ολοκληρωθεί με μια σειρά απαλών, νοτισμένων και μαλακών πιάτων.
Για να μάθεις περισσότερα για τη ζαχαροπλαστική και τα pop-up events της Virginie Viel, που συγκεντρώνονται κάτω από την ομπρέλα Vi Creative Pastries, μπορείς να επισκεφτείς τα:
https://www.facebook.com/vi.creativepastries/
https://vicreativepastries.wordpress.com/
KOHMA – Fʀᴇᴇ Iᴍᴘʀᴏᴠɪsᴀᴛɪᴏɴ (20:00-21:00):
To σχήμα ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού ΚΟΗΜA ερευνά και παρουσιάζει τη μείξη ηλεκτρονικού και ακουστικού ήχου μέσω του ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού. Οι ήχοι της καθημερινότητας, ο θόρυβος της πόλης, η μεταμεσονύκτια σιωπή, το ραδιόφωνο αποθηκεύονται στο μέσο της μαγνητικής ταινίας και μετατρέπονται σε ηχητικά αντικείμενα χαμηλής ευκρίνειας, τα οποία σε συνδυασμό με ηλεκτρονικά παραγόμενους ήχους και δίσκους βινυλίου αποτελούν την κύρια μουσική πληροφορία. Σε κάθε ηχητικό
ερέθισμα, το όργανο ανταποκρίνεται, ξεπερνώντας τον καθιερωμένο αρμονικό του ρόλο, βρισκόμενο σε μία συνεχή αντίστιξη με τα ηλεκτρονικά με σκοπό τη δημιουργία ετερογενών ή ομογενών μουσικών μειγμάτων.
Οι KOHMA αποτελούνται από τους Γιώργο Κοκκινάρη (κοντραμπάσο) και MIZI (cracked media).
O Γιώργος Κοκκινάρης σπουδάζει κλασικό κοντραμπάσο (σόλο και ορχήστρα). Σκοπός του είναι να εξερευνήσεις τις ηχητικές δυνατότητες του κοντραμπάσου σε συνδυασμό με το λόγο, την υποκριτική, την κίνηση και άλλες μορφές τέχνης. Συνεργάζεται με άλλους μουσικούς από τη σκηνή της free jazz/avant-garde και του ελεύθερου αυτοσχεδιασμού δίνοντας παραστάσεις στην Αθήνα. Συμμετέχει σε duo και trio σχήματα μαζί με χορευτές, ηθοποιούς, ποιητές και ζωγράφους. Το Ιούνιο του 2018 κυκλοφόρησε το πρώτο προσωπικό του άλμπουμ με τίτλο «Touch - 8 Improvised Stories for Solo Double Bass».
https://kokkinaris.bandcamp.com
Ο Γιώργος Μιζήθρας (ΜΙΖΙ) είναι μουσικός, ενεργός τόσο ως συνθέτης αλλά και performer στα πεδία της ακουσματικής μουσικής, του αυτοσχεδιασμού, της ζωντανής ηλεκτρονικής μουσικής και των οπτικοακουστικών εγκαταστάσεων. Η παρούσα καλλιτεχνική του έρευνα επικεντρώνεται στην εφαρμογή του πεδίου της αρχαιολογίας των μέσων (media archaeology) στην ηχητική τέχνη και τη μουσική, μέσα από το μετασχηματισμό παλαιών μέσων ηχοπαραγωγής και αποθήκευσης ως εργαλείων καλλιτεχνικής έκφρασης. Είναι μέρος της καλλιτεχνικής κολεκτίβας ΚΕ.Δι.Μου.Ρα, απόφοιτος του τομέα σύνθεσης του τμήματος Μουσικών Σπουδών του Ιονίου Πανεπιστημίου και τελειόφοιτος του μεταπτυχιακού προγράμματος Μουσικολογία: Μουσική Τεχνολογία του τμήματος Μουσικών Σπουδών του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4Qy5k2ZoxBaLIWmPrzNNg
https://mizithras.bandcamp.com/releases
Review by Nicolas Malevitsis :
https://www.electroniccottage.org/nicolas-malevitsis/noise-silence-what-now-2-kohma?fbclid=IwAR3yCgvJ-X0aS9_vJu9bMMhOfF5gRVt0Mf2CKV74fNHnJm2V-JYOOBH3c94
NOISE, SILENCE, WHAT NOW #1
Teodora Stepancic / November 1st, 2018
Η ngallery ανοίγει τις πόρτες της στο κοινό με τη συναυλία πειραματικής μουσικής της συνθέτριας και περφόρμερ Teodora Stepancic, η οποία συμπράττει με τους μουσικούς Mislav Rezic και Κατερίνα Μελίτη σε έργα των Eva-Maria Houben, Pauline Oliveiros, Germaine Sijstermans, Michael Pisaro, Assaf Gidron και Teodora Stepancic.
Το κοινό θα έχει την ευκαιρία να βιώσει μια ξεχωριστή εμπειρία, ανακαλύπτοντας μαζί με τους μουσικούς ένα ηχητικό σύμπαν που ξεδιπλώνεται μέσα από τη σιωπη και μεταμορφώνεται στον περιβάλλοντα χώρο, ενώ σε ένα από τα έργα θα μπορεί να συμμετάσχει ενεργά.
PROGRAM
Eva-Maria Houben: Echo Fantasy V
Michael Pisaro: Harmony Series 11
Germaine Sijstermans: call, there
Teodora Stepančić: construction
Assaf Gidron: casio+voice
Pauline Oliveros: Inner/Outer Sound Matrix
PERFORMERS
Katerina Meliti - voice, objects
Mislav Režić - guitars, objects
Teodora Stepančić - casio keyboard, voice, objects