With Explore Ensemble Few performers better embody the many and diverse influences that have enriched contemporary music in the early 21st century than South Korean cellist, improvisor and composer Okkyung Lee. Her work unites East and West, composed and improvised, acoustic and electronic, delicate and noisy. Okkyung Lee performs alongside Explore Ensemble for Signals, her […]
World premiere with Decoder Ensemble and Julia Rehme, tattoo artist ADVERT is an exploration of the ‘self’ amid an increasingly tribalist society. The piece examines a tension between the need to advertise a particular selfness to our desired tribe and the longing for authenticity of the self, free of social expectation. Utilising autobiography plus original […]
World premiere at SPOR Festival Eva Reiter and Karin Harrasser’s Eupepsia/Dyspepsia is a sound museum. It depicts the history of 18th century Bolivia, and the violent effects of its colonisation by Spain. Through a large-scale work envisioned as part-conference, part-performance, Reiter documents the Indigenous music of the country, and the way it travelled to Europe […]
