SHAPE+ and SONICA present:
SOUNDART Symposium at MoTA LAB
6th of December 2024 from 16:00-22:00
MoTa LAB, Ljubljana
TALKS, LECTURES, CONCERT
MARINA ROSENFELD (Room40, Shelter Press)
ANTONIO POSCIC (The Wire, The Quietus)
LUKAS DE CLERCK (Ideologic Organ, SHAPE+)
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SONICA x SHAPE+ residents:
PIXEL BAMBI, LIP ROUGE (Eva Mulej- OKA in Karmen Ponikvar), BRIDGET FERRILL
Entrance: Free
Lectures and talks will be in English language.
SONICA Festival, MoTA- Museum of Transitory Arts and SHAPE+ platform presents the symposium with themes situated in the transitional forms of lectures, talks and concerts, as well as in the field of sound art and experimental music. With renowned American sound artist and turnablist Marina Rosenfeld, Belgian experimental musician and musical instrument researcher Lukas De Clerck, Croatian music writer and lecturer Antonio Poscic and SONICA x SHAPE+ residents.
SONICA has for many years been situated in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, Eastern and Central Europe and the Balkans, which gives us a unique position from which to participate in the development, research, critical reflection and monitoring of regional creativity in this field. The present symposium continues our efforts and interventions in this field. Antonio Poscic, a renowned Croatian music writer (The Wire, The Quietus, PopMatters) has been closely following the musical developments and the evolution of experimental music in the region for many years.He will present the different scenes active in the post-Eastern Bloc countries and the Balkans, tracing their backgrounds, inspirations and common themes, touching upon issues of autocolonialism and visibility, while observing how they present themselves and how they are presented outside their places. Belgian musician Lukas De Clerck has been immersed in the practice of Avlos reed making for several years, bringing the tradition of the ancient instrument into the field of contemporary music through reconstruction and deconstruction. Marina Rosenfeld has been redefining musical practices within the heterogeneous field of contemporary art since the 1990s with her hybrid works in the field of the musical-visual. Through concerts, performances, sound installations and sound art, she seeks to reposition social and sculptural relations in music itself and in the field of mediation of sound. She will integrate her own practices into the broader habitat of experimental music, sound art and the gallery-space context. A discussion with the residents of Sonica and the SHAPE+ platform will address the underlying issues of the conditions of work in local and international infrastructures.
ANTONIO POSCIC (HR): New Sounds from the Post-Bloc: Perspectives of Experimental Music in Eastern Europe
Although awareness and coverage of experimental music emerging from Eastern Europe has increased significantly in the past decade, the discourse surrounding it in Western media reveals old misconceptions and long-held tensions. We take a look at the various scenes operating in post-Eastern Bloc and Balkan countries, tracing their pasts, inspirations, and common threads, touching upon issues of autocolonialism and recognition, while also observing how they present themselves and how they are presented outside their locales.
MARINA ROSENFELD (US): Plastic Materials: Performance against performance
Marina Rosenfeld is an artist, composer, and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of sound, performance and visual art, her works have interrogated the fundamental conditions of sound and music for three decades. Her exhibition and performance history includes solo works for the Park Avenue Armory and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Portikus Frankfurt, the Whitney, Gwangju, Montreal and Performa biennials, and festivals and institutions throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. As a turntablist working with a palette of original dub plates, Rosenfeld has also performed and recorded improvised music since the late 1990s. She is the recipient of the 2024 Alpert Award in Visual Art, and is a 2024 artist in residence at La Becque (Switzerland) and the Emily Harvey Foundation (Venezia). In her lecture, Marina Rosenfeld will discuss recent works within the wider context of sound in contemporary art.
LUKAS DE CLERCK (BE): The Telescopic Aulos
After several years of delving deep in the practice of Aulos reed making and playing replicas of ancient instruments, he opens up his inevitably auto-didact artistic output in a more collaborative, multi-disciplinary way. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas.
The Telescopic Aulos enables De Clerck to narrow down his research on the sound qualities of the instrument in which micro-tonality, psycho-acoustics and sound texture are central elements. Together with his phenomenological view on the instrument, his research has made him an unique voice in the revival of the instrument, introducing the instrument into different fields of music.
SONICA x SHAPE+ RESIDENCIES TALK: LIP ROUGE (SI): EVA MULEJ-OKA, KARMEN PONIKVAR, BRIDGET FERRILL (US), PIXEL BAMBI (SI)
The programme of the SONICA Festival corresponds to the guidelines of the SHAPE+ platform in the search for international collaborations, creative intersections between the local creative scene and that outside in creating collaborative experiences and long lasting projects. In 2024 we organised two residencies and 2 performances: the audiovisual trio Bridget Ferrill, rouge-ah & Pixel Bambi and the interweaving of ambient electroacoustic music and surrealist songs by the trio Moria Vargas & Lip Rouge. They will talk about the experiences, about collaborative processes, differences between scenes, aesthetic principles, available infrastructures, …
ANTONIO POSCIC (HR)
Antonio Poscic is a music writer, researcher, teacher, and programmer who splits his time between Zagreb and Rijeka in Croatia. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, The Quietus, and PopMatters and has also written for Tiny Mix Tapes, Bandcamp Daily, VAN Magazine, Kulturpunkt, Potlista, and other publications in the past. He runs Research Music, an independent newsletter that runs the gamut of experimental, avant-garde, and generally weird music with a focus on underground, marginalised, and Eastern European artists and scenes. He is an assistant professor at Academy of music, University in Zagreb.
MARINA ROSENFELD (US)
Marina Rosenfeld is an artist, composer, and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of sound, performance and visual art, her works have interrogated and redefined the fundamental conditions of sound and music for three decades. Her exhibition and performance history includes solo works for the the Park Avenue Armory, the Museum of Modern Art, Portikus, the Serralves Museum, the Holland Festival/Stedelijk Museum, the Kitchen, the Gwangju, Whitney, Montreal and Performa biennials, and festivals and institutions throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. As a turntablist working with a palette of original dub plates, Rosenfeld has also performed and recorded improvised music since the late 1990s. She is a recipient of the 2024 Alpert Award in Visual Art. She has recorded and collaborated with Eli Keszler, George Lewis, Ben Vida, Okkyung Lee, Warrior Queen, Greg Fox and Marino Forment. Her albums were released by Room40, Shelter Press, Friedman Gallery, Charhizma, iDEAL Recordings and INFO.
LUKAS DE CLERCK (BE)
Lukas De Clerck is a musician and artist living in Brussels. His artistic practice is currently centered around the Aulos, an ancient Greco-Roman, double-reeded double pipe, that got extinct more than a millennium ago. After several years of delving deep in the practice of Aulos reed making and playing replicas of ancient instruments, he opens up his inevitably auto-didact artistic output in a more collaborative, multi-disciplinary way. Following the desire to strip the instrument from its enigmatic past, De Clerck created a new, contemporary Aulos: The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas. De Clerck’s approach is driven by playful curiosity with a strong interest in the process of transformation. His music was released on several labels such as Ideologic Organ, KRAAK, blickwinkel and Beyt Al Tapes and performed live in venues all over Europe such as Sonic Acts, STUK, UH Fest, Ancienne Belgique, Cave12,…
Lukas De Clerck is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
SONICA x SHAPE+ RESIDENCIES TALK: LIP ROUGE (SI): EVA MULEJ-OKA, KARMEN PONIKVAR, BRIDGET FERRILL (US), PIXEL BAMBI (SI)
BRIDGET FERRILL (US)
The music of Berlin-based musician, composer and sound engineer Bridget Ferrill moves between composition and noise, exploring extended instruments, handmade electronics and experimental computer music. Her album with Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, Woodwind Quintet, was released in 2022 on Subtext Recordings. Her latest solo album Only was released on ENXPL, a joint cassette series of Psychic Liberation and Enmossed. Ferrill is also a well-known studio engineer who regularly collaborates with well-known artists such as Bendik Giske, Caterina Barbieri, Julia Reidy and others.
PIXEL BAMBI (SI)
Beti Frim aka Pixel Bambi is a visual artist and musician who combines digital and analogue media in search of different ways of coexistence. As a designer and VJ she collaborates with the collectives Ustanova and Nimaš izbire. She has also produced animations for the London-based Be More Childish label and Slovenian bands such as Masaž and mala roza muca of which she is also a member.
Pixel Bambi is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
LIP ROUGE (SI)
The duo Lip Rouge (Karmen Ponikvar and Eva Mulej- Oka) was first introduced on the compilation “Senzorama Vol 1” (ZARŠ, 2021) through the track “Sakura”, which showed their exploratory expression. Their key aesthetic coordinates are early electronic music, modern vocal innovations and imaginary stories. Lip Rouge explores the transparency of sound by combining the sounds of analogue synthesis, voice, various instruments and field recordings. With organic sound structures, they create a mystical journey through hypnotic ambient landscapes which are rooted in unusual acoustic combinations and intuitive explorations of sound. With their debut album “Tūndâr” on the AmbientSoup label, they have wowed music critics in Slovenia and performed at the MENT Ljubljana festival, among others. Lip Rouge is undoubtedly one of the most promising young experimentalists on the scene and shows great promise.
The programme of the SONICA Festival coincides with the guidelines of the SHAPE+ platform in the search for international collaborations, creative intersections between the domestic and the international creative scene. In 2024 we organised two residencies and 2 performances: the audiovisual trio Bridget Ferrill, rouge-ah & Pixel Bambi and the interplay of ambient electroacoustic music
Production: SONICA Festival, MoTA- Museum of Transitory Art, SHAPE+ platform
Support: Ministry of culture RS, Municipality of Ljubljana
Pixel Bambi and Lukas De Clerck are artists of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
SHAPE+ is co-funded by the European Union and ProHelvetia. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
