LP2024 RINGS & WINGS - PEACE LOVE JOY
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LORIN'S PROMENADE THROUGH THE ART BASEL 2024
ANAHITA ABBASIS' music, described as "a dizzyingly sophisticated reverie, colorful and energetic", according to the Guardian, "goes even more radically with the creation of dense and pulsating textures". Winner of many awards, her works have been commissioned by numerous renowned soloists and ensembles worldwide. She curates concerts, acts as a juror in composition competitions and is a founding member of the Schallfeld Ensemble in Graz-A, as well as the IFCA (Iranian Female Composers Association) in NYC, USA. Born and raised in Iran, she studied in 2005 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz-A with Beat Furrer and Pierluigi Billone, in close collaboration with Georges Aperghis, among others. She currently lives in New York and Paris. http://anahitaabbasi.com CargoSpaceConcerts
ARTISTINTHEWORLD travels through the art world with the aim of photographing as many artists as possible in their studio, always with their backs to the viewer. The homage focuses on connecting people, respecting them, appreciating them, celebrating the diversity of life in terms of background, experience and perspective, and thus making a reality visible in a series of special encounters. In these short meetings we share the studio with the common goal of taking the best possible photo. The photo series with 6200 photos includes the PLAYLIST (600 agenda drawings), linkMap (120 drawings and zines), 6 AITW HUBSA AIR'S, 100 HUBSA ROCKS, POP-UP shows and murals worldwide. https://artistintheworld.com
LILI BOULANGER, 1893 in a since the 18th century. Born into a family that helped shape Paris' musical life, he never recovered from severe pneumonia in his early childhood. From 1901 she performed as a violinist and pianist and soon wrote psalm settings and an 'Ave Maria' for voice and piano. After her first composition lessons in 1909, she destroyed these first compositions and soon made her debut with the vocal quartet 'Renouveau'. She became world famous overnight with her cantata 'Faust et Hélène' for tenor, baritone, mezzo-soprano and orchestra. This was followed by the interpretive song cycle 'Clairières dans le Ciel'. Lili Boulanger died at just 24 years old. In addition to the vocal works mentioned, she composed piano music, chamber music and some orchestral works, including with Georges Aperghis. CargoSpaceConcerts
The international curating network VIDEOCITY BASEL, founded in 2013 by the curator and cultural manager Dr. ANDREA DOMESLE, experiments worldwide by “conquering” public everyday places, further developing exhibition formats and making video art previously known from the gallery and specialist festival context accessible to a broad audience free of charge. Videocity regularly goes on tour with current social issues and two cycles of Ukrainian video art. In collaboration with musicians from different styles, silent films are accompanied musically in spontaneous live acts, which turns the flow of images into a new experience. https://www.videocity.org CargoSpaceConcerts
Dr. HASSAN ESTAKHRIAN, Composer, performer, songwriter, intermedia artist, producer, music technologist, audio engineer and educator in California, rock, funk, jazz collides with experimental and contemporary classical music and creates large-scale intermedia works, also inspired by the sounds of nature. He leads his band Antenna Fuzz and has performed with the rock band Valerian Sun, the contemporary classical ensemble Dal Niente and the experimental pop duo Meoark. He has also composed for a variety of cross-genre ensembles and has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He released, among other things, a live album of his science fiction rock opera Zolk Tizzer Live! and an EP Interwebbed with The Living Earth Show. https://www.antennafuzz.com CargoSpaceConcerts
LOUISE FARRENC, Born in Paris in 1805, he began studying composition, music theory and instrumentation in addition to piano at the age of 15. From 1834 onwards she composed her first orchestral works, the Air russe varié (op. 17), which had its first public success. As an instrumental professor of piano at the Paris Conservatoire, she achieved this through petitions to the director of equal pay. Her greatest success was the premiere of the Third Symphony, Op. 36, in 1849 with the Conservatory Orchestra. The premiere of the Nonet Op. 38 followed in 1850. After the death of her daughter in 1859 and her husband in 1865, she hardly composed any more. She continued to teach at the conservatory until 1872 and died in Paris in 1875. CargoSpaceConcerts
Sound artist ASAKO FUJIMOTO is interested in sonic representations of nature,
algorithmic composition, new media, audiovisual installation performances and
theater/film collaborations. After musical beginnings in the New York electronic music scene with analog and digital synthesizers and acoustic field recordings, she appears as a singer in solo projects and has worked with several groups on tours and releases. Living in Europe, she began working on sound design for multimedia art installations, spatial audio and algorithmic compositions exhibited at e.g. ZKM, European Capital of Culture, Venice Biennale, Athens Digital Art Festival, Hermitage Museum, etc. https://asakomusic.com CargoSpaceConcerts
ALEKSANDER GABRYŚ Polish Upper Silesia, in Basel since 1999. His broad compositional work for various border-breaking ensembles, partly dedicated to his adopted homeland, has been made possible several times by the Music BS/BL specialist committee. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed at festivals and in concert series with several renowned ensembles in most European countries as well as on both American continents. He is the recipient and interpreter of many works by highly respected composers dedicated to him. At the invitation of Stanford University in California, he led a performance and composition course there in 2020. https://www.agabrys.com CargoSpaceConcerts
RYSZARD GABRYŚ studied composition at the State University of Music in Katowice and with Konstanty Regamey in Lausanne. He met Edison Denisow, Sofia Gubaidulina and Alfred Schnittke. His works have been performed at, among others, the Warsaw Autumn, the Silesian Days of Contemporary Music, in the Czech Republic, in Western and Eastern European countries and in New York. His essays on 20th century music and the “Silesian School of Composition” appeared in academic journals such as “Res facta”. He hosts the program “Towards New Music” on Polish Radio. He won the Stanisław Ligoń Polish Radio Prize for around 300 programs on the latest music. https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Gabry%C5%9B CargoSpaceConcerts
FOJAN GHARIBNEJAD, a Kurdish-Iranian composer born in Tehran, received percussion and later violin lessons for 4 years. After graduating from the Tehran Music College, she went to the Tehran University of Art. She soon worked with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra. She continued her studies in composition and music theory at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. It has received numerous national and international awards and is performed by outstanding contemporary music ensembles in contemporary music festivals and concert series around the world. CargoSpaceConcerts https://www.kereshmegharibnejad.com
CHARLOTTE HUG, The Swiss composer, performer (voice & viola) and visual artist Charlotte Hug creates and offers intermedia compositions and Spatial-Scores with Son-Icons (visual music), where intercultural and artistic resources of the musicians and artists are integrated and constantly evolve. Hug holds degrees in music and fine arts, has won various awards and was “Artiste Etoile” at the Lucerne Festival. In addition to exhibitions in galleries and museums, Hug is fully active as a concert performer, soloist, improviser, composer and conductor of her works at major festivals worldwide. CargoSpaceConcerts
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AUGUSTA HOLMÈS born in Paris in 1847, gave birth to 4 illegitimate children, each of whom was given to wet nurses. In 1875/76 she became the only female member of the bande à Franck, an association of composers who referred to the musical tradition of France. She composed mainly orchestral works. For the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution, she composed Ode triomphales en l'honneur du ce, anntenaire de 1789, a work for a three hundred-piece orchestra and nine hundred choristers on a 2000 square meter stage, with its premiere on September 11, 1889 in the Palais de l' Industry. Florence commissioned her to compose the Hymn à la Paix for the 600th anniversary of the death of Béatrice Portinari (Dante's only lover), premiered in Florence in 1890. She was acquainted with Ethel Smyth. She died on January 23, 1903 of a heart attack. CargoSpaceConcerts
THOMAS KESSLER 1938-2024, living in Basel/Toronto, extremely original and endlessly curious composer and pioneer of electronic music, after studying German and Romance languages in Zurich and Paris and composition in Berlin, he headed the Berlin "Electronic Beat Studio" and the Center Universitaire International de Formation and Research Dramatiques in Nancy. As a professor at the Basel Music Academy, he founded the Electronic Studio Basel, the “Tage für Neue Musik Zürich” festival with Gerard Zinsstag and the “ECHT!ZEIT” festival for live electronic music in Basel with Wolfgang Heiniger. Always involved in interaction Interested between performing and electronics, a diverse oeuvre of chamber music, orchestral and solo works emerged. CargoSpaceConcerts
After completing his master‘s degree in fine arts and new media with a focus on stage design in 2008, the French media artist MAXIME LETHELIER developed his works in various areas as interactive installations, augmented stage design for theater or interactive visual solutions for music or video content. He explores real-time data sets, monitors them in online databases, implements custom sensor solutions, focuses on using personalized and handcrafted display techniques to fuse these artistic aspects. He collaborated with several theater groups and musicians to create transmedia projects. https://maximelethelier.com CargoSpaceConcerts
NIKI NEECKE, born in Freiburg DE, grew up in Basel, lives in Berlin, studied at the Basel School of Design and “Audio Design” with Wolfgang Heiniger and Thomas Kessler at the Basel Music Academy. He works as a freelance musician, sound designer and composer for stage, film and sound art internationally and for various forms of theater, in long-term collaboration with well-known directors at state theaters as well as in the independent scene, including contemporary, concert setting of silent films, conception and realization of walk-in, interactive sound installations and sound game objects under the labels “SONOgames” and “Useful_Updates” http://nikineecke.ch CargoSpaceGallery PerformanceDrives CargoSpaceConcerts
ANITA MAÏMOUNA NEUHAUS, Dancer, performer. She uses the body to think about questions such as identity or freedom. She also dances to heal. Wind, heat, piercing cold and violent emotions are their driving forces. When she dances, perhaps figure skating, capoeira, or other practices that have transcended time, the ocean, and other obstacles come to mind.
NILOUFAR NOURBAKHSH, Described as "crass" by WNPR and "darkly lyrical" by the New York Times, her music was considered a glorious laureate after studies with Lisa Weiss, Kendall Kennison, Laura Kaminsky, Daniel Weymouth, Matthew Barnson, Margaret Schedel and Daria Semegen all commissioned in the USA by major symphony orchestras and contemporary chamber music ensembles and performed at renowned festivals. As a founding member and co-director of the Iranian Female Composers Association, she is committed to music education. She is co-artistic director of the Peabody Conservatory Laptop Orchestra and performs regularly with her ensemble Decipher. She received a Ph.D. at Stony Brook University with Sheila Silver. CargoSpaceConcerts https://niloufarnourbakhsh.com
Composer, guitarist, author, choreographer, director HELMUT OEHRING, Berlin, mother tongue of the deaf, whose elements also form the basis of his work, has a body of work that has been used since early theater music for Ruth Berghaus' productions and collaborations with, among others, Ulrike Ottinger, Patrizia Kopatchinskaja, Peter Greenaway, Joachim Schlömer, Daniele Abbado today includes around 500 works in many genres with performances worldwide. The New Yorker called him one of the “most influential audiovisual composers alongside Kaija Saariaho, Björk and Robert Ashley.” His autobiography With Other Eyes was published in 2011. From the child of deaf parents to the composer, produced as a radio play by SWR in 2015. https://www.helmutoehring.de CargoSpaceConcerts
The Swedish cellist KAROLINA ÖHMAN performed numerous solo and chamber music premieres internationally. Invited to contemporary music festivals worldwide, she is a member of the Mondrian Ensemble Basel, Ensemble neuverBand Basel, Trio SÆITENWIND Basel, Ensemble SCENATET Copenhagen and the Curious Chamber Players Stockholm, and has been solo cellist of the Graubünden Chamber Philharmonic since 2016 and the cello-drums duo UmeDuo, founded in 2008 . She has won several prizes and scholarships, was accepted into the Migros Culture Percentage concert agency in 2010 and has been on the board of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland, since 2020. https://karolinaohman.com CargoSpaceConcerts
The flautist SERAINA RAMSEIER, currently studying for a master's degree at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva, is interested in music of all styles, especially contemporary music. She continued her education at the youth orchestra course at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, at festivals and academies such as the Sommerakademie Darmstadt, the Ensemble Akademie Recherche, with a central enthusiasm for the works of K. Stockhausen and performed, among others. with the ensemble Ars Nova. She received several prizes in Basel as well as second prize at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and performs as an orchestral, chamber musician and soloist. She has been on the board of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland, since 2020. https://www.musicdiversity.ch CargoSpaceConcerts
EERO SCHOCH born in Basel in 2002, is a young talent with South Korean/Swiss roots, both parents successfully working in the fine arts. He dedicated himself to demanding piano music early on. At the age of 19 he began performing with advanced professional students at the Basel Music Academy. His free spirit and well-balanced, casual, passionate approach to music and art brought him into contact and collaboration with many important and interesting personalities in his early years. CargoSpaceConcerts
ELNAZ SEYEDI, born in 1982 in Tehran, studied composition with Alireza Mashayekhi, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Jörg Birkenkötter, Günter Steinke and Caspar Johannes Walter in Tehran, Bremen, Essen and Basel. 2017 winner of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship from the city of Cologne. 2018/19 scholarship holder of the international Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt am Main, 2020 residency scholarship at the Markgräflerhof in Basel. Performances in periods including Basel, Mixtur Barcelona, Now! Essen, Wien Modern, Darmstadt Summer Courses, Biennale Arte – La Biennale di Venezia, Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, Gaudeamus Muziekweek Utrecht, Tehran Electroacoustic Music Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Her works are published by Edition Juliane Klein, Berlin. https://elnazseyedi.com CargoSpaceConcerts
ELŻBIETA SIKORA from Warsaw, studied electroacoustic music and composition with Betsy Jolas, Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle and the IRCAM in Paris. She was director of the Musica Electronica Nova Festival Wroclaw from 2009 - 2017. Her work, commissioned by Radio France, IRCAM, GRM, Muse en Circuit, Monte Carlo Ballet and the French and Polish Ministry of Culture, includes around sixty electro-acoustic and instrumental works such as operas, ballets, orchestral, chamber and solo works, and has been performed in Europe and the USA performed at numerous festivals and received several awards, including Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters France. Her works are published by Le Chant du Monde and PWM (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne). https://elzbietasikora.com/en/home CargoSpaceConcerts
With her loud voice and exuberant temperament, ETHEL SMYTH was far from the Victorian ideal of a woman. She rode, cycled, climbed mountains, played golf, tennis, chess and cricket and wrote a total of ten books, of which the autobiography Impressions that Remained (1919) made her more famous than any of her compositions. Against the resistance of her parents, she began studying music in Leipzig, fell in love with her teacher's wife, wrote chamber music, a successful mass, and several operas, such as The Wreckers. During the First World War she worked at Vichy as a radiographer. To distract herself, she wrote her autobiography, which still impresses today with its linguistic brilliance, humor and openness. In the last years of her life she fell madly in love with Virginia Woolf, who was 24 years her junior. CargoSpaceConcerts
The accordionist OLIVIA STEIMEL is particularly committed to contemporary music, which has resulted in over 70 premieres, recordings with NEOS, Wergo, etc. as well as many international appearances at renowned festivals in Europe, Brazil, Russia, Georgia and Canada. She has won prizes in numerous competitions and performs as a soloist (e.g. with the Basel Chamber Orchestra), with ensembles (musicAeterna, Phoenix, neuverband, etc.) and in chamber music (e.g. Trio SÆITENWIND). As a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation, she studied with Stefan Hussong (teaching diploma), Ivan Koval (concert exam) and Mike Svoboda (master of contemporary music). She has been a lecturer at the Würzburg University of Music since 2019. https://www.oliviasteimel.com
TRIO CAOS was founded in 2023 and consists of three musicians with different cultural and musical backgrounds. Teresa De Broeck, a Belgian-Portuguese flautist, Alina Mayer Whitla, a Canadian-Romanian cellist who grew up in Ireland, and Valerio Tesoro, an Italian pianist from Rome. They study together and as a trio at the Basel University of Music with Anna Gebert and François Benda. As a chamber music ensemble, they were particularly active and developed a special passion together. Through participation in competitions, regular concerts and recordings, they have embarked on a promising career.
As a passionate chamber musician, the Swiss saxophonist JONAS TSCHANZ is particularly dedicated to contemporary music. International performances in various formations took him to the important concert halls of Europe, Asia and North America. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras such as Camerata Schweiz, is an accredited member of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and is a regular guest at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Huddersfield Festival (UK), Musikolog (AT) and Victoriaville (CAN). CD recordings and international radio recordings round off his work. He has been awarded several important awards and is an ambassador for the instrument manufacturer Henri Selmer Paris. https://www.jonastschanz.com CargoSpaceConcerts
ERIK ULMAN, lecturer at Stanford University, after studying with Brian Ferneyhough and Helmut Lachenmann, he received awards such as a commission from the Fromm Foundation Harvard Hewlett scholarship, a portrait concert at the Museo Jumex Mexico City and he was the main composer of the wasteLAND concert series in Los Angeles. His music has been performed by renowned performers such as the Arditti Quartet, Séverine Ballon, Claire Chase, the Formalist Quartet, Mari Kawamura and Élise Roy. Ulman’s essays on music, film and literature appeared in various magazines and books. He is also an experienced violinist, particularly as a member of the sfSoundGroup. Since 2004, Ulman and Marcia Scott have organized fourteen Poto Festivals, a forum for artists of various media.
MARJA VAN PUTTEN, Amsterdam, influenced by the period of squatting and the feminist movement, concentrates exploring the boundaries of materials on the combination of paint and textiles, alternating between coarse and fine, fine brushes or brooms, small sequins and frayed pieces of fabric, large stitches on the canvas, etc. Through unusual combinations and juxtaposition of contrasts, an underlying tension can be felt in her abstract works. She loves large works to combine monumentally large shapes and very small details in one piece. She is currently working on 3D works to make her work even more formally radical. She also organizes art projects.. https://marjavanputten.nl CargoSpaceGallery
Pianist, improviser and composer ELI WALLACE lives in Brooklyn, NYC. He leads his own projects and co-productions with like-minded artists, with a preference for free improvisation, and enjoys elaborate piano preparations, which, according to John Lewis (The Guardian) :“...push the boundaries of the prepared piano”. His compositions use notation strategies to expand the way sound is produced and how ensembles interact. Over the last decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and performed at venues such as The Stone in New York NYC, Roulette in Brooklyn NYC and Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, Mizzou International Composers Festival, Columbia, MI, and Cave 12 , Geneva, Switzerland.
https://eliwallacemusic.com CargoSpaceConcerts
The pianist XICORIBAS, during his bachelor's degree in classical piano and master's degree in improvisation in Barcelona and then his master's degree in live electronics in Amsterdam, found his way of composing, producing generative electronics with varying levels of noise or unpredictability, with a strong focus on sound art, experimentation and improvisation. His music draws on a wide range of styles from nostalgic impressionism to harsh noise, ambient maximalism, samplephonics to instrumental post-punk, all under the influence of the unpredictable. https://www.instagram.com/__xico/ CargoSpaceConcerts
Dr. MARC YEATS, Composer & visual artist, with key concerns such as transduction, complex surface relationships, asynchronous and polytemporal orientations, contextual, harmonic and temporal ambiguities, polarized intensities and a visceral sonic joy, is performed and broadcast worldwide by renowned orchestras, ensembles, and soloists. Breathtakingly original, influential and creative, Marc continued his research into mobile technologies and a range of timecode-based polytemporal structural composition approaches in a lively exchange of ideas with the late Sir Peter Maxwell DaviesYeats, which continues. Marc's music is released via Composers Edition.https://www.marc-yeats.com CargoSpaceConcerts
ANMARI MËTSA YABI WILI
Living and working on board of her cultural freighter Lorin in CH/FR/DE/NL, she has been initiating her projects with an avant-garde, interdisciplinary and boundary-breaking character since 1987, after receiving a.o. the music prize from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, initially exclusively as a concert pianist. From 1990 to the present time, she has developed as a composer, performer with or without voice and as a visual artist to become a conceptual artist. In Holland she has initially made a name for herself as a visual artist through exhibitions at Art Rotterdam, Aanschouw Rotterdam, the Kaalstaart Festival in Breda and Amstedam, and the NECK OF THE WOODS gallery, Rotterdam. Interdisciplinary performances followed in Koffie&Ambacht, Roodkapje, Worm etc. Collaboration with international media, Alex Buess, Barbara Doll, Karin Dornbusch, Saskia Edens, Sonja Feldmeier, Aleksander Gabrys, Charlotte Hug, Adrian Laugsch, Eung Kwang Lee, Heinrich Lüber, Ueli Michel, Niki Neecke, Pauline Oliveros, Kaija Saariaho, Marianne Schröder, Shazeb Arif Shaikh, James Tenney, Lotta Wennäkoski, Jürg Wyttenbach, Iannis Xenakis, Agata Zubel and others. In 1998 she founded the ensemble LE DONNE IDEALI with, among others, Pauline Oliveros Portrait, KOREAexchange, ScAnDiNaViAnCoOkIeS, Giornate delle donne ideali and guests on International Women's Day and POLAND - WHERE ARE YOU?! In 2002 the syndromics variation band followed with works by, among others, Alex Buess, Conlon Nancarrow, Iannis MËTSA YABI y sus DRIVINGSOUNDS and intensifying the visual disciplines, she creates the production facility Kulturfrachter Lorin and founds her art company d r i v i n g s o u n d s & a r t s. Their activities take place in the cultural centers of Europe, North/South America and India. Since 2020 she has been President of the FMD, ForumMusicDiversity Switzerland.
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