Artists

Cycle 2 – Residences 2025-2026

Ridina Ahmedová is a established figure on the Czech music scene. She currently performs solo and also in a duo with Petr Tichý as Hlaskontrabas Duo (nominated for the Anděl Award in 2016) and Hlaskontrabas Oktet (winner of the Czech Radio poll of music critics for best jazz album Česká jazzová sklizeň, nominated for the Anděl Award in 2024) – www.hlaskontrabas.cz She is the author and co-author of music for a number of dance and movement performances and has contributed to the music for several films. She founded and runs Hlasohled, a center for he human voice (www.hlasohled.cz) . She also creates audio documentaries, which have won numerous awards (the series Odpustit? was nominated for best European audio documentary at the Prix Europa awards) – www.mujrozhlas.cz/odpustit She collaborates on a number of theater and interdisciplinary projects and has performed at many festivals in clubs in the Czech Republic and abroad. Projects and collaborations – selection: Page blanche – dance performance by Ladji Kone (Burkina Faso), music and sound design Ridina Ahmedová (Czech republic) choreography by Jerome Andrieu (France), stage design Michaela Solnická (Czech republic) – premiere in May 2025, Rencontres choreographiques, Paris-HLASkontraBAS octet project 2024 – release of the album Kaleidoscapes, nominations mentionned above. audio documentary series Odpustit? (Forgive?), shortlisted for the Prix Europa European awards, and awarded as the Discovery of the Year – Podcast of the Year, shortlisted for the Prix Bohemia Radio award Rekni mi (tell me) – a capella performance – we are the sound mirror of night dreams and rememberings of the listeners. www.rekni-mi.cz Audio documentary podcast Sádlo (Fat) – about life in a body that does not correspond to the expectations of those around you, 6 episodes, premiere in January 2021 on ČRO (over 300,000 downloads) – 2nd prize at Bohemia Prix Radio, Františka Plamínková award Solo performance “Sádlo – a performance for one woman and many opinions from those around her,” created in collaboration with Tantehorse, premiere in December 2020, Palác Akropolis – nominated or the Česká divadelní DNA awards Musical collaboration on the Post Bellum Paměť jsme my (Memory is Us) project, 2020, 2023 and 2025 creation of music and sound design for an international dance project produced by fest. Tanec Praha Eymen – Point of view (Czech Republic/Ghana) – premiere in June 2019 member of the duo HLASkontraBAS together with double bassist Petr Tichý – www.hlaskontrabas.cz Founder and leader of the Hlasohled project – a center for working with the human voice (www.hlasohled.cz) Released her solo album Hlasem (2006), collaborated on a number of other music projects (Floex, Monika Načeva, Vladimir 518, and others) Guest at Bobby McFerrin‘s concert in Prague, with whom she sang a duet Collaboration with Matěj Kroupa on music for a number of theater performances (Dejvické divadlo) and on music for the 2017 Memory of the Nation Awards project Collaboration with J. P. Muchow on the music for the film Pusinky, directed by Karin Babinská Collaboration with Vladimír Merta on the music for the film Famfárum IICollaboration on a number of theater projects by the Continuo Theater […] Read more…
It is difficult to fit David Bausseron into ready-made categories. A guitarist, performer, and manipulator of objects and waste materials, he displays a particular taste for noise, spectacular concerts, and the staging of himself—always with a certain sense of distance and humor. He has been devoted to improvisation since the late 1990s and has been a member of the Lille-based collective Muzzix since 1998. Today, he regularly performs within several groups and projects: RON-PON (experimental rock trio with Thierry Dupont, actor with Compagnie l’Oiseau Mouche), Metallikwa, Video Kill Guitar (with Lionel Palun), Peau d’Ours (a young-audience show), Roue de Secours (free jazz), Tranchées (free rock), and Canal Poussière (song-based music). David Bausseron also develops numerous solo projects: (participatory sound exhibition), murmur meta orchestra (participatory concert), Subspace (a noise sonata for birdcage), O.U.R.S. (participatory noise performance), and Abstract Bloody Blues (solo guitar). In duo with his brother Sébastien Bausseron, he created a cine-concert, Les Bausseron de Nanteuil-sur-Aisne, based on family films from the 1940s–1970s shot on 9.5 mm film. He has collaborated with numerous artists—musicians, visual artists, performers, choreographers, stage directors, and theater companies. As a member of the Lille-based collective Muzzix, this versatile musician leads workshops for all kinds of audiences: elderly people, school groups, families, and more. Creative and highly adaptable, the workshops David Bausseron offers are wide-ranging: object manipulation, sound discovery and practice, prepared guitars, guided improvisation, participatory orchestras, and more. Finally, sensitive to issues surrounding mental health, David Bausseron has for many years carried out specific experimental creative work with the late group Humming Dogs, as well as with RonPon and Metallikwa. Beyond its concerts, RonPon is also developing a staged creative project entitled Je sais pas j’ai rien du tout (“I Don’t Know, I’ve Got Nothing at All”), a form of sound theater / rock opera. […] Read more…
Ilia Belorukov is a musician from St. Petersburg, Russia, based in Novi Sad, Serbia since 2022. He works in improvised, noise and electroacoustic music. Ilia practices an experimental approach to sound extraction using saxophone, modular synthesizer and other instruments. His works have been released on labels such as Clean Feed, SOFA, Moving Furniture, Astral Spirits, Notice Recordings, Raw Tonk, Cronica, Mikroton and many others. He founded the Intonema label and was one of the curators of Spina!Rec label. He has organized concerts and co-curated several festivals in Russia and continues to arrange events in Serbia. Recent activities included writings for Jazzist website and as musicworm on Telegram channel as well as working as mixing and mastering engineer for own projects and different musicians and labels. […] Read more…
Born in South Korea, composer and ondist Imsu Choi studied at Ewha University (Seoul) where she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in composition. She continued her studies in France and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris(CNSMDP) in composition, écriture and ondes Martenot. For 2023-2024, she participated in the IRCAM Cursus program. She has been the recipient of prizes from the Fondation de France (Prix Monique Gabus, Prix Marthe Depelsenaire), the Legs Edmond Jabès, the Mécénat Musical Société Générale, Prix de composition de l’Académie Ravel, 3rd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition and the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Center. Imsu Choi teaches electronic piano and ondes Martenot at the Conservatoire Iannis Xenakis. Her music has been commissioned and created by several ensembles and orchestras, including the Ensemble Intercontemporain (dir. Léo Margue, Simon Proust), Orchestre de Picardie (dir. Arie van Beek), Divertimento Ensemble (dir. Sandro Gorli, dir. Viktoriia Vitrenko), International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Trio Catch, Trio Abstrakt, Ensemble Court-Circuit, Klangforum Wien, Quartetto Maurice, Ensemble Next, Ensemble Ecoute, Ensemble TM+ (Dir. Laurent Cuniot). Her works have been performed at festivals such as Festival Présence (France), Festival Archipel (Switzerland), Tongyeong International Music Festival (South Korea), Festival Sonomundo (France), Festival Ensemble/s/ (France), Festival Ravel (France), Festival Singer-Polignac (France) and Bludenzer tage zeitgemäßer musik (Austria). Also active as a ondes Martenot player, she presented ondes Martenot at the Musée de la musique de Paris of Philharmonie de Paris during the European Night of Museums 2022. She also played at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris; at the Théâtre de Chaillot and Cathedral in Bern. She also played Trois petites Liturgies de la Présence Divine by Olivier Messiaen as a solo ondist with the CNSMDP Orchestra at Saint-Eustache Church in Paris, conducted by Léo Warynski. In 2024, she had her debut of Turangalila Symphonie d’Olivier Messiaen at Royal Festival Hall in London with pianist Thomas Kelly and Royal College of Music Orchestra under maestro Jac van Steen. In 2025, her new scores were premiered notably at the Festival Présence at the Maison de la Radio during the opening concert by Ensemble NEXT. She participated in the composition residency of the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. At the Ravel Festival, Reflets for viola and cello was created and it will also be published by Éditions Durand-Salabert-Eschig. Trio Abstrakt performed Chroma in Köln, Wiesbaden and Paris. SWR Symphonieorchester premiered her new orchestral piece Miro at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025 during the opening concert under the direction of François-Xavier Roth. Imsu Choi is an artist-in-residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac since 2024. […] Read more…
Porto, 1976. Gustavo Costa sonic vision is described by a constant permeability to various musical styles but with a common denominator: experimentation and the constant desire for stylistic renewal. Active in the underground scene since the early 90s, he maintained an interest and parallel activity in the academic world, studying percussion, musical technologies, sonology, theory, composition and digital media, and teaching at various higher education institutions in Portugal. In a period of 30 years, he was part of countless bands and formations from various stylistic spectra, collaborating with hundreds of musicians and performing regularly around the globe. In recent years he has concentrated a large part of his activity in Sonoscopia, the collective and association of which he is a founder and where he dedicates himself to the sonic exploration through various formats of creation and collaboration. […] Read more…
Ivann Cruz studied classical guitar and turned to jazz and improvised music. He graduated from the Conservatoire National de Région of Lille in jazz section, and from The University of Lille with a Master’s degree in Musical Composition and a DEA in Aesthetics and Arts Practice. During his university education he studied musical improvisation with Fred Van Hove. He was a member of the C.R.I.M.E, an improvised and experimental music collective based at la malterie in Lille and is an active member of the Muzzix collective since its creation in 2010. He invests a lot in interpretation, composition, improvisation and experimentation in solo or through projects as eclectic as numerous: TOC, Le Grand Orchestre de Muzzix, Otto, OGR, TOCC Beat Club, Aphar’s Cave, Des Pieds et des mains… He has performed on many stages in France and abroad (tours in Europe, USA, Canada). He regularly composes and performs stage music for the theater or film-concerts.In 2014 he composed and created the documentary performance Trading Litany, and in 2019, the multimedia project Puzzle, based on an augmented guitar device developed with Loïc Reboursière and Olivier Lautem. In 2024, he created the immersive sound and olfactory experience Neroli (Brian Eno). During his studies and activity as a performer/improviser, he met and worked with : Ars Nova ensemble, Sakina Abdou, Didier Aschour, Olivier Benoit, Jean-François Canape, Médéric Collignon, Philippe Deschepper, Marc Ducret, Satoko Fuji, Michel Godart, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Tom Johnson, Liz Kosack, Ingrid Laubrock, Thierry Madiot, Gérard Marais, Jean-Marc Montera, Peter Orins, Anthony Pateras, Edward Perraud, Michael Pisaro, Christian Pruvost, Dave Rempis, James Saunders, Jérémie Ternoy, Fred Van Hove, Camel Zekri… In theater, he has worked as a composer or performer with the companies : Interlude T/O, Cendres la Rouge, the company of the Oiseau Mouche, Thierry Roisin and Blandine Savetier, Arnaud Anckaert, Thierry Poquet and Eolie Songe. For cinema, he composed the music for the film How it begins (Chloé Wasp – Le Fresnoy) and for the video installation And you want to travel blind (Chloé Wasp – Le Fresnoy). He regularly leads workshops on the practice of collective improvisation (Conservatories of Lille and Tourcoing). His artistic approach consists in questioning the processes which are activated between on the one hand, a sound world composed in the moment and on the other hand, the instrumental gesture and the constraints of the environment where it unfolds. Since 2021, he has been developing a work that brings together natural environments and improvised musical creation while integrating an eco-responsible dimension to this approach. […] Read more…
Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a sound artist, DJ, organizer, educator and co-founder of Synth Library Prague – community space for sharing, learning, discussions and experiments not only in the field of electronic music. In her artistic and educational practice, she is focused on feminist perspectives, social and political context, accessibility and dismantling stereotypes, as well as supportive and collaborative strategies. As educator she collaborates on music programs for schools focused on current electronic music, rap, new instruments and critical listening.  […] Read more…
Xuân Mai DANG-LOMBARDI cut her teeth at the conservatory (CRR of Lille), in CHAM classes (music/studies), from a very young age. After receiving solid classical training in piano and baroque recorder, she also earned a D.U.M.I. (University Diploma for Musicians in Education). In 2007, her encounter with composer Alain Savouret, then professor and founder of the free improvisation class at the CNSMDP, proved fundamental to her work in composition, invention, and “phonoculture.” From the conservatory she retained only the hard iron box in which she felt confined—so as to deform it, open it, and escape from it. What remains today in her musical craft is only the quintessence of raw sonic material. In 2008, she naturally collaborated with Alain Savouret on a commission from the French State and the IMEB (Vie-Vent; fable haut parlante, premiered in 2009 at the Synthèse Festival), followed by many shared projects up to the present day. After cutting kilometers of magnetic tape for radio (Audioblogs, Arte Radio, Radio Libertaire, etc.) and composing several theme tunes, Xuân Mai worked as an electroacoustic composer at ART ZOYD Studios, collaborating with Gérard Hourbette and André Serre-Millan (Hôtel Électrique, Voyage dans la Lune, 44 1/2, etc.). She then created sound installations with visual artist Charlotte Lanselle and sculptor Alessio Oru. With artistic cross-disciplinarity at the heart of her projects, she has also taken part in numerous creative residencies with puppeteers, circus artists, actors, and dancers (Collectif 23h50, Cirque du Bout du Monde, Compagnie ActArts, etc.). As a vocalist, she was a member of Phil Minton’s Feral Choir, then of the female vocal ensemble VOYelles directed by Adélaïde Stroesser, where she met Meredith Monk. Each year she is invited as a chorister for large-scale baroque concerts (“Grands formats,” Un Autre Souffle association), during which she collaborates with conductors passionate about early music (Nicolas Bucher, Freddy Eichelberger, Blaise Plumettaz, etc.). As a hybrid and experimental musician (voice, objects, traditional instruments, electronics), she has worked with Claude Colpaert and Frédéric Loisel (Trio Tzara), Michael Pisaro-Liu (Radiolarians), Christian Pruvost (Flumunda), Ingrid Laubrock, the ARFI collective, Jean-Philippe Harchin, Tayeb Benamara, Raphaëlle Prost, Alaric Chagnard, among others. She is currently active in the Muzzix collective, Compagnie ActArts, and Compagnie Théâtre dans les Nuages. The omnipresence of musical theater in her inventions stems from her practice of Kabuki, which encompasses song (歌 ka), dance (舞 bu), and technical virtuosity (伎 ki). “Each of my improvisations is inspired by the context in which I am called upon to play.” Her inventions are site-specific, built in space with architectural rigor and the sensitivity of a sad clown. She continues to delve into silence and mime, perhaps one day to break through the sound barrier. […] Read more…
Aina Font is a Valencian saxophonist currently based in Amsterdam and Berlin and she is the Portrait Artist 25’ hellerau by VAN MUSIC MAGAZINE. She is also Selmer Artists and Vandoren Paris ambassador. She specialized in innovative approaches for classical music, contemporary music and music for an inclusive society. As a soloist with an international presence, she has performed solo with orchestras at some of the world’s leading concert halls, including the renowned Berliner Philharmonie. This season Aina celebrates a milestone in her artistic journey, she will debut as a soloist at the iconic Palau de la Música Catalana after bringing her music to audiences across Thailand. Throughout her musical career, she has captivated with her musicality juries of important venues such as Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, BBC Artists, Jeunesse Vienna, Muziekgebouw, BIMHUIS… “Aina Font really impressed with her nuanced and well thought-out interpretation (…) With her joy of playing and her strong stage presence, she creates a direct connection with the audience with ease.” Johannes Schultz – Konzerthaus Berlin “Aina is a versatile artist with a strong vision and a warm heart, creating unique and touching musical moments.” Hanni Liang – pianist lecturer at Univ of Music and Theatre Munich and Bbc artist. “Creative, fresh and so authentic!“ William Coleman – Jury Tokyo Viola competition, jury Geneva Competition, teacher at Univ Mozarteum Salzburg Aina is the artist in residence spring 2025 at HELLERAU European Centre of Arts, showcasing her solo project throughout the festival next to Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris and Ensemble modern. Aina is artist-in-residence since 2022 at Splendor Amsterdam with debut at the Royal Theatre Carrée , she is also the saxophonist of the ensemble in residence at GAUDEAMUS23 one of the reference contemporary music festivals in the European scene, premiering pieces by awarded contemporary composers from Europe, Asia, USA… Her musical career also extends to the pedagogical field, being invited as a guest teacher for bachelor and master students in renwoned international institutions, such as Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, The Mahidol University Conservatory in Bangkok, Thailand, Princess Galyani Royal Institute of Music, Breitner Academy (University Pedagogy in the Arts in the Netherlands ), or the Conservatorio Superior Nacional de Música de Puerto Rico. STUDIES Aina graduated her master studies in classical saxophone at Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Arno Bornkamp and Willem Van Merwijk. After her graduation she studied post-master in Karnatic Rhythms, specializing in methods to understand and work with complex rhythmical precision. She also pursued chamber music in Berlin with Artemis Quartet, one of the referent string quartets of this century, leaded by Vineta Sareika (Concertmaster of the Berliner Philarmoniker). Previously, she studied her Bachelor Degree with saxophonists Mariano García (CSMA-ESMUC) and Ignacio Gascón (ESMUC) also broadening her horizons attending masterclasses with saxophonists from all over the world including the Universitée Europeéne du Saxophone. PRIZES & ACTIVITYShe is a multi-award winner artist, highlighting: Winner of the artist prize in the prestigious Berlin Prize For Young Artists 2024 , Klaus Thimm award 2025 for upcoming relevant artists in the German Music scene, Keep an eye Project award 2024 NL, “Jeunes Talents Atist France 2023” with Duo Nim, Semifinalist in Andorra Sax Fest 2019. She is the current tenor player of Synthèse Quartet. A saxophone quartet based in Berlin that holds more than 25 national and international awards. She is also part of Duo Nim (saxophone and cello), Moving Strings, and Font-Tegnander ensemble (sound art). Aina collaborates with NBE (Netherlands Blazers Ensemble) and several Dutch Orchestras: upcoming tour NNO Second Love – Nederlandse Resi opera. She has performed orchestral solos and chamber music in renowned concert halls and festivals such as: Concertgebouw, Berliner Philarmonie, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, Tivoli Vredenburg,Royal Theater Carrée, Muziekgebouw Eidhoven, Musée des Archives Nationales Paris, Auditorium de Versailles, Sala Mozart, Festival Klassiek op Het Amstelviend, Amphion Theater, Abbaye Aux Dames, ADDA ,Hanzehof Theater, Aarhus Musikhuset Denmark, Grachten Festival, Oranje Woud Festival, Wonderfeel. […] Read more…
Lucija Gregov is a cellist and improviser based in Rotterdam, NL. She has been developing projects and researching in the fields of classical music, electro acoustic music, improvisation, experimental music, radio and sound art. Through many interdisciplinary collaborations, Lucija seeks to push the boundaries of traditional cello playing which further extend her interpretation, technique and ideas. Her cello practice is a starting point of the sonic exploration through which over time she disintegrated traditional techniques in order to discover a more personal and sincere sound aesthetic. Lucija uses a visceral approach to improvisation as a way to propose a distinctive way of creating and performing. She found improvisation to be a significant tool in enabling emergence of practice and sound materials that are open-ended and continuously transformative.In various collaborations, Lucija has further explored sound through practice of deep listening and environmental sounding to better understand the social power of sound and extended recognition of its sources. Her numerous collaborations include working with visual artists, sound installation designers, dance companies, film directors and composers. In her work as a programmer of music events, Lucija has curated sound based events for music label Futura Resistenza and venues such as Roodkapje and Worm in Rotterdam, NL.Lucija has performed as a soloist and as a member of different group formations in festivals and venues such as Moers Festival (Moers), Conflux Festival (Rotterdam), NSRT Festival (Rotterdam), Into The Great Wide Open Festival (Vlieland), Explore The North Festival (Leeuwarden), Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht), Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), WORM (Rotterdam), Space Is The Place (Amsterdam), Les Atelier Claus (Brussels), Bimhuis (Amsterdam), iii (The Hague) and many more. […] Read more…
Václav Kalivoda is a Czech trombone player, musician, composer, and performer. After studying trombone at the Prague Conservatory and Bard College Conservatory of Music (USA), where he received degrees both in music and classical studies, he went to study traditional gamelan music at ISI Yogyakarta (IDN). Václav works with theatre, dance, and theatre companies (Archa+, Divadlo Ponec, Studio Alta, Crew collective, tYhle, Z druhé strany, NIE theatre, Wariot Ideal, Czech National Theatre and others) with whom he performs, composes, and develops music for the performances. He composed music for performances souHra, Now We Are Here, Icarus, Košilice, Mikrosvěty, Jeden a Jeden a Jeden, Crooners, Pošli pohled odněkud, kam nepojedeš, and others. In the theater and dance projects, he doesn’t stay as a passive musician, but actively steps into the performances, making the music not only a decoration, but rather an equal partner to the words, movements, lights and other theater attributes. He participates in some educational programs connected with music, theater, and dance, both as a musician and an instructor. Although Václav is trained as a classical musician he goes way beyond classical music to other styles and genres including free improvisation, music for the theater, and Javanese gamelan. He has been cooperating with many musicians and music groups such as: Tomislav Federsel/B4, Prague Improvisation Orchestra, Orchestr Berg, PMP Orchestra, EnsembleSpectrum, Contemporaeus, Voříšci, Moving Orchestra, Petr Vrba, Zdeněk Závodný, Iva Bittová, Čikori, Secret Aerobic, Drozdi a Droždí, Anna Romanovská, Petr Tichý, Pasi Mäkelä, Jiří Konvrzek, Helder Deploige, Michal Hrubý, Vložte Kočku, Anna Pančenko. Václav has been part of many site-specific projects and public interventions with projects like Moving Orchestra, 4+4 Dny v Pohybu, Meziprostory, Zažij mesto jinak, Živé mesto, and Funebráci. He has a wife and a son and lives in Prague. […] Read more…
Matěj Kotouček is a musician and sound artist living in Prague. He is currently a member of the Noise Kitchen platform and makes music in the electro-acoustic duo Thistle, solo as Loops of Decay, and occasionally in other collaborations, for example with John Clardy (Tera Melos, Waterbased) or Freddie Hudson. He is also a member of the AVA kolektiv – a collective of like-minded producers, artists and promoters based in Brno (Czech Republic). He founded the audiovisual turned-band-later project Sky To Speak. He worked at Bastl Instruments as a head of the Noise Kitchen store, directed the Nona Records label, and organized lectures, events and residencies at Vašulka Kitchen. In addition to his own work, he composes music for theater plays (Divadlo Feste), video games and audiovisual projects.  […] Read more…
Graduated from Escola Superior Artística do Porto , Augusto Lado is a Director, Editor, Motion Designer for videographic works within the areas of music, experimental, performative and multi-disciplinary visual arts, as well as institutional, commercial and documentary projects. He collaborates recurrently with independent artists and art collectives, engaging through creative concepts, arching from experimental, live performances to music videos for National and European projects. […] Read more…
Pasi Mäkelä (b. 1975)Finnish performer, musician, director, educator, choreographer, conceptual artist.Mäkelä studied at Turku Arts Academy in Finland, where he received a degree as a theatre director and educator. He is a long-time member of the Finnish theatre communities Reality Research Center and Circus Maximus. He is currently involved in the musical projects The Spermbankers, Fart Armers and various improvisation collaborations. His notable original works include solo performances of Tonttu and Walrus Vampire Show, FUGK – Finno-ugric Garage Kabuki and projects with his own international music/performance collective Sabotanic Garden. He regularly appears as a guest actor, performer or musician in a variety of one-off and staging works. Has teached regulary in art academies in Helsinki and Prague. […] Read more…
Aya Masui, from Japan, is currently based in Vienna, Austria. She works across a broad spectrum of media, encompassing percussion, improvisation, composition, field recording, installation, art performance, and audiovisual works involving gesture and motion. While she built the foundation of her artistic path through continuous collaborations as solo percussionist and guest performer with international ensembles and orchestras, her current work focuses on bridging solo practice, collaborative creation, and experimental approaches. Since autumn 2025, Aya has been conducting a doctoral artistic research project at the Artistic Research Center, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw). […] Read more…
Andria Nicodemou is a multidisciplinary musician, sound artist, and educator from Cyprus working internationally across improvisational, experimental, and interdisciplinary performance. Her practice centers on vibraphone and percussion, improvisation, sound art, and interactive performance, exploring extended, embodied, and multisensory approaches to sound-making. An active touring artist, she performs internationally in ongoing collaborations, including duos with Marina Tantanozi and Petr Vrba, and a trio with Vasco Trilla and Drew Wesely. She has collaborated with artists such as Joe Morris, Ikue Mori, Joe McPhee, Ingrid Laubrock, Anthony Coleman, Tayler Ho Bynum, Anne La Berge, Ab Baars, Gerald Cleaver, and Hans Koch, among others. Her work has been presented at major festivals and venues including MoMA PS1 and The Stone (New York), Earshot Jazz Festival (Seattle), Irtijal (Beirut), Borderline Festival (Athens), the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, and with the Royal, Prague, and London Improvisers Orchestras. Her discography includes The Industry of Entropy (Relative Pitch), R̔ aven (Glacial Erratic Records), and The River Is Full(Subcontinental Records). She has been invited as a speaker at international conferences including the Change Maker Conference (Boston) and Ignite at Lesley University. As an educator, she develops process-driven, exploratory learning environments that emphasize creativity, listening, embodiment, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has worked in public and private schools in Massachusetts, designing alternative curricula beyond traditional music education, and collaborates with Young Audiences of Massachusetts. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the NGO Make Music Cyprus and the founder and curator of Breach Festival, Cyprus’s first festival dedicated toimprovisational and experimental music. […] Read more…
Gintė Preisaitė is a Lithuanian artist based in Copenhagen where she works with piano, electronics, composition, improvisation, field recordings. Through a variety of timbres, textures, collaged melodies and percussive figures she is interested in transcending the sound of acoustic instruments and electronic processing of contemporary compositions into the space she feels connected to and personal with. She moves in between the ambient-drone-dream pop and experimental songwriting exploring escapism and memory topics through sound and different collisions between her classical and improvisation background meeting conventional, playful sample based material with vocals. Gintė is very active in organizing and playing solo as well as in various constellations and ensembles in Copenhagen and abroad. Past release: https://baraboro.bandcamp.com/album/spring-mass […] Read more…
Marija Rašić (1998) is a classical guitarist and lutenist from Belgrade, Serbia, currently based in Rome, Italy. She completed her Bachelor’s degree for guitar in 2020 at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and went on to earn her Master’s degree with highest honors at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2022. Marija is currently pursuing her second Master’s degree, this time in lute performance at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. In recent years, her projects and performances on the guitar have primarily focused on contemporary music. Her debut CD, Guitarization, released in 2023, features five world-premiere recordings of works by Serbian composers. She took part in different workshops dedicated to improvised music and open scores (as SZIM – Szeged Improvisation Workshop 2022, International workshop for improvised music 2022, 2023, 2024 in Senta and Veni Academy 2021 in Banská Bystrica) but has also been curating and organizing her projects aimed at promoting contemporary music. Notable among them are guitARevolution, a multimedia project that merges graphic scores with augmented reality visuals viewed through a camera lens, and the Karika Project, an initiative fostering artistic exchange between performers and composers from Hungary and Serbia. As part of the Belgrade Guitar District, a collective of young professional classical guitarists, she is involved in organizing the concerts and other musical projects. Besides on the guitar, Marija is actively performing on the lute as soloist and part of few ensembles. Among the recent concerts, the following stand out: the Re-Patched Tour 2024 (as part of an ensemble performing open scores and partially improvised music) in Banská Bystrica (Bábkové divadlo na Rázcestí), Bratislava (Slovak National Gallery), Budapest (Három Holló / Drei Raben), Prague (Alternativa Festival, Atrium Žižkov), Novi Sad (Eđšeg), and Belgrade (Art Get Gallery); a series of solo performances with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra 2022 in Budapest (Solti Hall), Szeged (Korzó Zeneház), and Kanjiža (The House of Arts); solo lute recitals in Bucharest 2025 (Mogoșoaia Palace and Dalles Hall); as well as solo recitals in Serbia 2024 — at the Theatre Museum (Zaječar) and in the Cultural Center Kovačica. During her education, she won more than 40 awards at national and international competitions and improved her skills through masterclasses with some of the most prominent guitarists of today. She is the recipient of several national and international scholarships. Marija has been teaching since 2016 at various private and public schools, including full-time positions as a guitar and chamber music teacher at the Davorin Jenko primary and secondary music school in Belgrade, as well as a part-time role at the Budapest British International School. […] Read more…
Clara Torner (Barcelona, 1997) is an emerging voice in Barcelona’s free improvisation and experimental music scene. With a background in classical and contemporary performance, she turned to free improvisation to explore a new relationship with the cello and sound creation. She builds spontaneous sonic ecosystems through extended techniques and a prepared cello, drawing on fragmentation, memory, and the expressive power of gesture. Her sound ranges from subtle and crystalline textures to energetic and noisy layers, often collaborating with dance and visual arts. She is part of RANGES Collective—founded in 2024 during a residency at Casa della Musica in Montaldeo—and HYPAR, an experimental duo for cello and live electronics with Gerard Erruz. She has participated in projects including the Art Quartet (Genís Bages), Eidos Daimonium (Diego Caicedo), Flying Trees (Sarah Clamans), and the Signs of Freedom Ensemble (Iván González). […] Read more…
Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged composer-performer, violinist, interdisciplinary artist, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early education in classical music, and the years of development as contemporary artist-performer, she explores states of spontaneity and intuitive resonance embodied in her multifaceted activities. Her work spans a wide range of sound, vision, movement and includes concert performances of improvisation, contemporary composition and original site specific work, exhibitions, long durational / multidisciplinary performances, audiovisual works and installation formats with focus on the interconnection between inner world and sound space. Biliana works internationally as a soloist and in collaboration with renowned artists and ensembles. She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival and the touring DARA Strings, faculty at the Academy of Arts Bern/HKB Bern, SHAPE+ Platform artist for 2022/2023, recipient of the Berlin Residency Stipend at Cité des Arts / Paris and Villa Aurora / Los Angeles, the Composition Stipend from the Berliner Senate, and multiple awards and grants. She has releases onthe labels Unsounds, Another Timbre, Elsewhere, Relative Pitch Records, Confront Recordings, Underflow Records, Inexhaustible Editions and Cafe Oto’s Takuroku. “I am now mostly interested in creating new work, collaborative or solo, composed or improvised, acoustic, electro-acoustic, audio-visual or multidisciplinary, always allowing space for spontaneity and response to the current moment and place. I connect to intuition and the knowledge locked within us, searching for the circumstances that enable them to arise to the surface. Through sound and deep listening, I engage with the ephemeral, transient and dreamworld through various kinds of verbal and non-verbal communication, tracing the connectivity between people, places, and all of life, allowing the occurrence of touching and meaningful experiences.” […] Read more…
Petr Vrba is one of the most active figures in Czech experimental music and a tireless promoter of free improvisation. He plays trumpet, clarinet, synthesizers, and other electronic instruments. He collaborates with filmmakers, dancers, and visual artists and regularly performs with important figures on the European free improvisation scene (including Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Xavier Charles, Peter Orins and Franz Hautzinger) and experimental and sound artists such as Birgit Ulher, Yan Jun, Jérôme Noetinger, eRikm, and others. He co-founded and is a permanent member of the Prague Improvisation Orchestra and the groups Poisonous Frequencies, The MoND, Kesherul Neg Pineg, 4& and others. He has performed at festivals in Australia, North America, Europe, and Asia. He has released over fifty albums on labels such as Inexhaustible Edition, Circum-Disc, Another Timbre, Mikroton, Corvo, mappa, Kandala, and others, and on Czech labels such as Polí 5, Meteorismo, Klangundkrach, 13 raw, etc. For over a quarter of a century, he has been broadcasting on Radio 1 (among other things, he is the co-author of the program 13 syrových), organizing concerts and festivals, and was the dramaturgist of the now defunct “communication space” Školská 28. In the late 1990s, he studied traditional gamelan instruments at the Institute of Art of Indonesia in Yogyakarta. “As a trumpet player, Vrba explores the use of the trumpet in new contexts and the creation of new contexts through other means, both acoustic and electronic. In doing so, he demonstrates remarkable inventiveness driven by his fascination with the acoustic experience.” (composer and educator Jaroslav Šťastný aka Peter Graham on PV) […] Read more…
Marta Zapparoli is a Berlin-based Italian sound artist, improviser, performer, independent researcher whose work explores the invisible electromagnetic spectrum through site-specific, live performances and analog sonic experimentation. In the recent years her work mainly involves the intersection of the visible and the invisible aspects of physics – seeking to activate all the poetic and conceptual levels. She capture unique self-made recordings of the “energetic environment” surrounding us, electromagnetic radiation coming from the outer space and the atmosphere : (Natural Radio phenomena VLF, astronomical radio sources like stars, the Sun, Northern Lights among others..) and, (electro-smog, wireless, radio wave communication) coming form the technological world. In her artistic work, she questioning and exploring on the themes : “Technological Nature”, nature imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age – The behavior, transformation of nature contaminated by the technological world – The “other-then-human” as a medium fostering awareness of our cosmic connections, offering new perspectives of our anthropogenic reality, and deep listening as political practice. She believe that electromagnetic radiations contain also life, history, wisdom, and they became the medium that she use for live performances, sound collage, composition, site-specific interventions. Her artistic work spans sound art, science, radio ecology, radio astronomy, cosmic imagery, psychoacoustics, and spirituality. Her main instruments are a vary of sculptural antennas (some of them self made), a wide range of radio receivers, detectors, sensors, tape recorders which she use during live performances . In 2019 she started an ongoing collaboration with the Astronomical Observatory (Astrofili Urania) in (Italy) to develop a part of her artistic research and project, diving into the vast field of radio astronomy. Since 2010 She is a member of Splitter Orchester (an ensemble of 24 musicians focusing on improvise music, experimentation, and site specific). She is a member of numerous international collectives, like Pareidolia with Liz Allbee, Vertigo Transport with Burkhard Beins, THE ELKS with (Liz Allbee ,Kai Fagaschinski, Billy Roisz), M.Z.A.L. duo with Albrecht Loops, Liminal Resonatrix with (Sebastian Hofmann, Martin Lorenz), among others. Marta has performed at major festivals including MaerzMusik (DE), CTM (DE), Borealis (Norway),Tsunami Festival (Chile),The Listening Effects fest at Planetario of Porto (Portugal), High Zero (USA), Noise Fest(Turkay), Oscillation (Belgium), TEA Art Museum (Tenerife), MusraraMix (Israel), Soundprotokoll (Austria), Meakusma (Belgium), Artact (austria) among others. Her works have been broadcast across Europeon WDR3 Open Studio Elektronische Musik Deutschland, RTS.ch, Radio Deutschland Kultur, SWR2, Rai3 (Battiti), among others, and supported by INM, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds, Goethe-Institut, and Italian Cultural Institutes. […] Read more…

Cycle 1 – Residences 2024-2025

João Almeida is a Portuguese trumpet player, improviser and composer based in Lisbon, Portugal. His solo, HOCUS, is focused on creating freezing sound layers, with drastic changes of scenery. He has shared the stage with some of the most relevant musicians in the international music scene, such as Peter Evans, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Brandon Lopez. He has played in festivals such as OUT.FEST, Guimarães Jazz, Festa do Jazz, has toured extensively through Europe and is part of Robalo Association, releasing music, organizing concerts, festivals and events. […] Read more…
Pavol Béreš (*1998) is a graduate of the J. L. Bella Conservatory (composition, piano) and the Academy of Arts (composition) in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia). Through the Erasmus+ program, he spent his first year of master (2023-24) at HAMU in Prague. As a composer and performer, he experiments with various styles and genres, aiming towards aleatoric, open and graphic scores, free improvisation and electronics. He is a threefold participant of the international Veni Academy project. In April 2024, he took part in the experimental music artistic residency project Re-patched in Serbia. He is also the founder of the alternative music band MPNP.  […] Read more…
František Chaloupka composes mainly instrumental music and scores for classical instruments, chamber and symphony orchestras, opera and multimedia works. After finishing his studies of composition at the Janáček conservatory in Ostrava, he went on to study a degree in Composition at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno where he finished his PhD in composition. He was studying composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Louis Andriessen, Clarence Barlow, Martijn Padding and Richard Ayres. In 2012 he studied composition at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien and California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. His pieces were commissioned and performed by internationally renowned ensembles e.g. Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern & Péter Eötvös, New Century Players Los Angeles, Aleph Gitarrenquartett, IEMA International Ensemble Modern Academy, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, ONO Orchestra, Ostravská banda, Trio Accanto, Oxbridge Singers, Prague Modern, BERG Orchestra, Prague Singers Choir, South Bohemian Philharmonic, Hradec Králové Philharmonic, VENI Academy, Ballet of National Theatre Brno, Solaris3 among others. Festivals and venues such as Musica Viva Munich, Musikprotokoll Graz, Czech Centre in New York, Wien Modern, Ostrava Days of New Music, Prague Spring, Gaudeamus Muziekweek Utrecht, Autumn Chamber Music Days Riga, Contempuls Prague, NODO New Opera Days Of Ostrava, Autumn Introspection Prague and many others. He worked with conductors Peter Eotwös, Lucas Vis, Anu Tali, Jakub Hrůša, Petr Kotík, Jiří Rožeň, Jurij Galatěnko, Marko Ivanovič, Pavel Šnajdr and others. He worked also with Michal Pavlíček, Iva Bittová, David Koller, organist Kateřina KATTA Chroboková and other various artists. In May 2011, he was invited to Frankfurt for a workshop with Ensemble Modern (Frank Zappa, Heiner Goebbles, etc.) and conductor-composer Peter Eötvös. Within the project “Myths-Nation-Identities” he composed a piece called Mašín Gun (Seven Rituals for purging the Czech Lands from the Spirit of Communism) premiered by Ensemble Modern and Peter Eötvös at Musica Viva festival in Munich in 2012. The concert was recorded and broadcasted live at Munich Broadcasting. In April 2011, he founded Dunami Ensemble and performed his opera-installation Eve and Lilith at NODO festival New Opera Days of Ostrava 2012. Ensemble consists of recognized Czech jazz, classical and experimental music players, composers and improvisers. In 2016, Dunami Ensemble performed another opera-installation composed by Chaloupka called Chata v Jezerní kotlině at festival MusicOlomouc. In 2022 ,Dunami Ensemble performed his techno-optimistic flash-mob opera “Bachelor Party” for four saxophones and two sopranos. He participated in international courses for composers and percussionists in Trstěnice 2004 and 2005 and was given scholarship for both international festival Ostrava Days of New Music 2005 and 2007. In 2007 and 2009, the festival premiered his orchestral pieces An Ancient Calligraphy and Smooth The Heavens both performed by Janáček Philharmonic and conducted by Petr Kotík. His composition Allegory of the Cave II nominated by Czech Radio has succeeded at the 70th edition of the International show Rostrum of Composers 2024 and was ranked among the nine most outstanding in its category works recommended for world broadcasts and concert performances. […] Read more…
As a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American (born 1976) living in Berlin, Audrey Chen’s work has long dealt with and continues to explore the displacement of story and history due to the migration and integration processes, loss and adoption of language, untold stories, and how the past can be accessed and traced through inherited and lived experience. Her practice is deeply intertwined with this act of invocation, calling upon the physical body to remember beyond the limitations of its own memory, beyond its lifetime into generations past, simultaneously echoing into the present and forwards. Through extreme and unprocessed hyperextensions of her voice, she invokes a highly amplified joint resonant body/space transforming itself in a feedback loop of imagination, touch, vibration, sound and aural sensation. Aside from her solo concerts, Chen performs currently, since 2005, in duo with Phil Minton; BEAM SPLITTER with Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø; MOPCUT with Lukas Koenig and Julien Desprez; in duo with electronic music artist Kaffe Matthews; and as a duo for voice/live digital process with Mexican sound artist Hugo Esquinca. Some album releases include, “By the Stream” with Phil Minton – Subrosa (BE), “Hiss & Viscera” with Richard Scott – Sound Anatomy (Berlin), “Rough Tongue”, BEAM SPLITTER’S debut LP – Corvo Records (Berlin) and latest “Split Jaw” on Tripticks Tapes (US), her solo album “Runt Vigor” – Karl Records (Berlin) and two records with MOPCUT, “Accelerated Frames of Reference” – Trost (AT) and “Jitter”, a split release on Opal Tapes (UK) and Ventil Records (AT). Chen has performed across Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Canada and the USA. Past festivals include: Festival Beyond Innocence (Osaka, JP), Maerzmusik (Berlin, DE), Klangspuren (Schwaz, AT), NUMA Circuit (Tenerife, ES), Sound of Stockholm (Stockholm, SE), Jazz Saalfelden (Saalfelden, AT), Plateaux Festival (Torun, PL), Color Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Music Unlimited (Wels, AT), 2PI (Hangzhou, CN), Jazz à Luz (Luz-Saint-Saveur, FR), Festival Muzzix (Lille, FR), La Voix est Libre (Toulouse/Paris, FR), Total Meeting (Tours, FR), Now Now (Sydney, AU), Uncool (Poschiavo, CH), the Next Festival (Bratislava, SK), Colour Out of Space (Brighton, UK), Donau Festival (Krems, AT), Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville/FIMAV (CA), Festival Ecuatoriano de Música Contemporánea (Quito,Ecuador), Elevate (Graz, AT), Ear We Are (Biel, CH), Meteo (Mulhouse, FR), Angelica (Bologna, IT), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, AT) and Wien Modern (Vienna, AT). And venues such as: Covent Garden (London, UK), Radialsystem (Berlin, DE), Zacheta National Gallery (Warsaw, PL), Musée du quai Branly (Paris, FR), Radio France (Paris, FR), Théâtre Bouffes du Nord (Paris, FR), Auditorio de Tenerife (Tenerife, ES), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires, AR), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, NL), Rote Fabrik (Zurich, CH), Teatro Fondamenta Nuove (Venice, IT), DOM (Moscow, RU), Wiener Konzerthaus (Vienna, AT), Opéra de Lille (Lille, FR) and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center (Water Mill, NY, US). “Singing with Audrey is like working with all the possible noises of the universe and beyond, earthquakes, colliding galaxies and slugs sliding down a wet window, very quiet.”  – Phil Minton, Minton at 80, The Wire Magazine December 2020 […] Read more…
Marcell Csuka is a dynamic musician specializing in contemporary music. He has participated in numerous prestigious events, including artistic residencies, international festivals, and masterclasses. Notable achievements include performances with the Danubia Symphony Orchestra, UMZE Ensemble, and at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. Marcell has collaborated with renowned artists such as Péter Eötvös and Fabian Panisello, and has premiered works by composers like Jörg Widmann and Augustin Braud. […] Read more…
Born in 1978 Beirut Lebanon, Tony Elieh is a self taught musician, composer and photographer. He is one of the pioneers of rock and experimental music in Lebanon, founding member of the first post-rock group of post-war Lebanon, Scrambled Eggs, one of Beirut’s most prolific and talented rock bands of the early 2000’s, and remained with the group from its beginnings until its demise in 2015. He has recorded many acclaimed albums, and composed music for several movies including an award winning movie soundtrack. At the same time, he has started developing his own sound, expanding his approach to electric bass performance, allowing him to shift from punk rock and pop rock to improvisation, jazz and experimental music. Nowadays a member of the improvising groups Karkhana, Calamita, and Wormholes Electric, Elieh is part of the Lebanese experimental music scene where he has collaborated with Lebanese musicians such as Sharif Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj, Raed Yassin, Charbel Haber, Tarek Atoui, Jad Atoui, Fadi Tabbal, Youmna Saba, Cynthia Zaven, Rabih Mroue, Jerusalem in My Heart a.o. International collaborations include Tony Buck, Saadet Türköz, Roger Turner, JD Zazie, Chris Corsano, The EX, Elliott Sharp, Magda Mayas, Jean Francois Pauvros, Hassan Khan, Mike Cooper, Michael Zerang, Jean Marc Montera, Sam Shalabi, Kayyam El Lami, Julian Santorios a.o. Elieh has performed solo and with his own projects at renowned international festivals and venues such as the Berlinale, Ruhrtriennale, Berlin Biennale, Frankfurter Buchmesse, DAAD Mikromusik Festival Berlin, Konfrontationen, Austria, Klangspuren Festival, Austria, Le Guess Who?, Cannes Film Festival, Printemps de la Danse Arabe, Paris, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Roskilde Festival a.o. His interdisciplinary projects are numerous. He has composed and performed music for cine-concerts, as a homage to classic renowned silent movies with live improvised music. He has also composed and performed live music for different plays and dance performances which have toured internationally. On January 2021, Elieh received the Weltoffenes Berlin, a one year residency supported by Akademie Der Künste. […] Read more…
Susanna Gartmayer, born 1975 in Vienna, studied painting and printmaking at the academy of fine arts (Vienna) and has been working as a bass clarinetist, composer and improviser in various fields of experimental music since the early 2000s. She is member and founder of numerous ensembles for improvised and organized music and her particular interest lies in the polyphonic sound possibilities of low clarinets, open forms of composition as well as theory and practice of collaborative work processes. Since 2015, together with Thomas Berghammer and Didi Kern, she has been organizing the Monday Improvisers Session at Celeste in Vienna – a weekly musicaly multiideomatic platform for improvisers in Vienna and far beyond. She has performed at Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Museum of Modern Art Indianapolis, Unlimited Wels, Avant Art Festival Wroclav, Festiwal Musikofilia Torun, Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Hongkong City Hall, Meakusma, Musikprotokoll, Wien Modern, Fusion Festival, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, artacts, Taktlos Festival and many more. […] Read more…
Patrick Guionnet offers a unique carreer into the world of performing arts. Pure autodidact, it is both clown (for circus Joseph Bouglione (1999-2000), since 1999 in the hospital with the association “Clowns of Hope”, in improvised street wanderings with companies “Les Pas Sages of Clowns” and “Articho” in April 2009 he moved to the Philippines with “Clowns Without Borders”), singer or rather “voice player” in Lille different formations (“One DPI” or “Princes of the Universe”) and dancer, or rather “body player” for companies “Intro Visu” (Jean-Luc Caramelle), “Spiral Carolina” (Olivia Grandville) and “Hop We Live Here” (Corine Petitpierre and Yvan Clédat)… Without proper technique but with true energy, Patrick Guionnet sees himself primarily as a performer improviser always seeking to develop and highlight the intimacy that can exist between improvisers and as far as possible, move the audience. […] Read more…
Arnold Haberl, aka noid (b. 1970), studied cello and mathematics, and currently teaches MultiMediaArt. As a composer, sound artist and performer, his work spans cello solos, ensemble pieces, electronic music, and sound installations. His approach is fundamental research, challenging conceptions of music and performance. He collaborates with various artists across genres and performs at international festivals such as musikprotokoll Graz, tuned city Messene, and Wien Modern. He is a member of Künstlerhaus Wien and organizes the concert/performance series ‘DerBlödeDritteMittwoch’. […] Read more…
Praised for her equally intense and boldly dramatic performance style, Sylvia Hinz is one of the world’s leading recorder players, specializing in contemporary music & improvisation. In addition to intensive sound research for the instrument recorder, Hinz breaks new ground with the combination of sound, electronics and video art, and works with numerous international composers such as Mathias Spahlinger (DE), Jeanne Artemis (DE), Zeynep Gedizlioglu (TR), Cat Hope (AU), Michele Abondano (CO) or Sarah Angliss (UK). She studied recorder at the Berlin University of the Arts with Gerd Lünenbürger, experimental music with Dieter Schnebel, chamber music with Nigel North, and ensemble conducting at the BAK Trossingen. She curates and performs solo programmes and concerts with ensembles and orchestras, loves unusual instrumentations and collaborations with other arts, promotes international collaborations, undertakes concert tours worldwide, gives master classes and workshops. Her most recent interdisciplinary works engage in dialogue with art by Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman, and the phenomenon of optical and geological caustics. […] Read more…
With a wealth of experience in the Belgian experimental music scene, the French alto saxophonist, who lives in Brussels, has been devoting her energies to experimental music and improvisation for years, constantly questioning the language of the instrument, the phrase and the sound event. Following her motto “From phrase to sound event through all kinds of atoms and particles”, Audrey Lauro demonstrates a carefully considered use of sound vocabulary. For more than fifteen years, she has been performing in various venues and festivals in Belgium and internationally, and collaborates with the Antwerp-based innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction. Her discography includes more than fifteen releases since 2008, in 2022 she recorded a solo album “Sous un ciel d’écailles” on the Gent label El Negocito Records, retracing a work for saxophone solo she started in 2011. A second solo album “prose métallique” will be released in autumn 2024 on the Relative Pitch Records label. She has recorded three albums in the last decade with the long-standing trio Lauroshilau, which also includes Pak Yan Lau and Yuko Oshima. She is also a member of the saxophone ensemble La Nuée and forms the duo Dark Ballads with guitarist Giotis Damianidis. She recently joined the Canopée Improvisation Music Ensemble (C-IME), an all-female, 8-piece improvisation ensemble formed out of a desire to experiment with the confluence of timbres, emptiness and fullness that silence brings. As an alto saxophonist, Audrey Lauro focuses on free improvised music and is also involved in multidisciplinary music projects. On 23 May 2024, she was invited by the Canadian ensemble GGRIL to create her piece “Ritournelle Reverse”. Since 2007, she has been conducting music workshops with teenagers and children and regularly works in secondary schools. […] Read more…
Vicente Mateus (1996) lives and works in Porto and has a background in visual and sound arts studies. His work navigates through fields related with sound and drawing, using drum/percussion objects as tools for his work. He takes interest in collaborative movements and DIY methods, using repetition and error to construct instruments, sounds and images. Since 2022, he has been an active member of Sonoscopia Associação Cultural, a platform for creation, experimentation and reflection on sound, based in Porto.  […] Read more…
Born in 1986 in Milan (Italy), Elia Moretti researches contemporary and experimental music theatre through an ecological perception of sound. Elia is a PhD student at Charles University in Prague (CZ), where he is developing a research between music and performing arts, with a specific focus on the performativity and agency of sound itself. He is particularly interested in the sonic phenomena that form the basis of performative and theatrical practices, and the ways in which artistic practices participate in the contexts (social grounds) from which they emerge or to which they respond. […] Read more…
Paulina Owczarek – saxophonist and improviser, graduated from the Academy of Music in Krakow. She plays the alto and baritone sax. Interested mainly in free improvisation, she also performs contemporary chamber music, having premiered numerous new works for saxophone in Poland. She is an active member of improvised and experimental music scene, curating and taking part in Krakow free improv projects (such as Institute Of Intuition, Muzykoterapia) and international festivals of contemporary and improvised music (Ad Libitum, Sacrum Profanum, Berlin Jazz Festival, Hurta Cordel, Musica Electronica Nova, Ostrava Days, Lublin Jazz Festival, AudioArt, Sound Exchange, Krakow Jazz Autumn, Mirror Mirror, Discordian Community Riot, No Woman No Art, Unsound, Soundance, Saalfelden Jazz Festival). The founder and conductor of Krakow Improvisers Orchestra, an ensemble dedicated to conducted improvisation. Currently she is also involved in groups such as Morświn, Cranky Ego, WOO, Quadrilateral Exchange, Human.error, Dust Mite Paradise, Figa, Open House, Ute von Bingen and Sambar. She has been a member of Stare Taśmy, OCHO, London Improvisers Orchestra and Satoko Fuji Orchestra; she has worked with theatres and has improvised with poets, dancers and painters. […] Read more…
Lucie Páchová is a sound artist and composer specializing in contemporary composition, experimental music, and improvisation. She often incorporates voice, objects, field recordings, and physical movement into her work. Lucie holds a PhD from JAMU, focusing on live conducted improvisation. In 2011, she founded the quintet Talaqpo, performing compositions inspired by her experiences in Asia and Africa. Additionally, she composes for jazz orchestras such as Concept Art Orchestra and JazzDock Orchestra, as well as chamber groups including Arará, Love_me, Dunami ens., Paliome and Jungle Debris. Lucie collaborates with organizations like Continuo Theatre, Prague Improvisation Orchestra and Stratocluster. Through her sound installations like Imaginary garden, VoiSineAgge, and Voisphere, she explores the physical aspects of sound, voice, and space. Lucie has participated in various music residencies worldwide including AIR Krems in Austria, A4 space in Bratislava, Slovakia, OneBeat in the USA, TAM in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, All about music in India, and workshops in Poland and Uganda. She is actively involved in educational and organizational activities focusing on voice, movement and collective improvisation. Recently, she has been organizing workshops on African folk songs, field recording, conducted improvisation and electronic music within the community. […] Read more…
Rosa Parlato is a flutist, improviser and composer. She graduated in flute at the Conservatory of Rome and at the Academy of Music of Budapest. She obtained several interpretation prizes at the conservatories of Metz and Lille. In 2010, she started training in electroacoustic music at the Art Zoyd Studio. Since then, she has participated in numerous ensembles and improvised encounters. As a composer, her acousmatic works have been broadcasted in several festivals. She has also collaborated on projects for film and video. Rosa mixes abstract compositions, acoustic and electroacoustic collages, the musicality of voice and language, extended instrumental techniques, contemporary music and musical theater. Her musical vision plays with the borders between disciplines and aesthetic constraints in order to privilege the listening, the meeting, the moment. Among her projects : Fatrassons, Isophone, Wasteland noise quartet, sextet 36, Compagnie-i, Collectif 4.6.Art, Collectif Sounding Arts. She collaborates with the Centre de Création Musical Art Zoyd Studio, with Le Fresnoy, with Compagnie BVZK, La pluie d’oiseau, Apo 33, GMVL, Miso Musica, Athénor, Light Cone, Les Détours de Babel… […] Read more…
Maryline Pruvost is a free jazz singer and flutist who lives in the north of France. Graduated of the CFMI in Lille and the Conservatoires of Lille and Montreuil, she has worked for several years as a musician in schools. Maryline Pruvost is a member of the Lille-based musicians’ collective Zoone libre, and in particular of Vazytouille and the trio Washboard and the Jazzy Mates. Maryline Pruvost also plays in the Organik Orkeztra, a project led and co-directed by Kristof Hiriart and Jérémie Ternoy. With the Lagunarte Company, she also created Milia, a solo show for toddlers. She is a member of the Muzzix collective and takes part in different projects and bands. In 2021, she created a solo for voice and Indian harmonium, Out to breathe, exploring the intermingling of the two instruments. Playing voice, flute and Indian harmonium, she is constantly experimenting and collaborating, crossing aesthetics and encouraging artistic encounters. […] Read more…
Clara Saleiro is a flutist specialized in the interpretation of contemporary music who loves the constant new experiences and challenges that music brings to her life. She’s interested in the creative process of pieces and performances, the possible interactions between interpreter and composer and between music and other artistic areas, the symbiosis with electronic music and digital technology, and the interpretation of notated music as well as improvisation. As the founding member of Noviga Projekto (AT) as well as flutist of the ensembles Vertixe Sonora (ES), Barcelona Modern (ES) and SUPERNOVA (PT), she debutes every year dozens of pieces from composers with whom she works directly and participates at several international music festivals. Clara Saleiro is regularly invited to collaborate with different ensembles, orchestras and in different chamber formations, ranging from classical to contemporary repertoire, as well as with exploratory and improvised music groups. She is the flutist of the Pedro Melo Alves’ Omniae Large Ensemble (PT). Clara began to play the flute when she was eight years old at Academia de Música S. Pio X de Vila do Conde, in her hometown in Portugal. Throughout her musical career she studied at renowned institutions of Portugal such as Artave, ANSO-Metropolitana and Universidade de Aveiro. Additionally, she completed a master’s degree at Royal Academy of Music in London, specialized in contemporary music at the flute studio of Stephanie Wagner (Remix Ensemble), completed postgraduate studies in contemporary music at Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), with the Klangforum Wien, and was part at the Lucerne Festival Academy (Switzerland), being a member of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. Furthermore, she studied improvisation at the Interferência’ courses. […] Read more…
Since 2005, Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sonic activity as a material for creation. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He explores ways of creating physical traces of sound, and of channelling and transforming energy, most recently salvaging and repurposing obsolete consumer technology. He performs and exhibits internationally, participating in Sonica Festival, 28.MFRU, phonon~festival, Fresh Winds Biennale, Nakanojo Biennale, ACC Showcase, Tsonami Festival, Madeiradig and Moers Festival; has a large number of published works; and regularly collaborates with artists of other disciplines.  He has received a number of commissions and awards including: 2020: Arts Council England grant to develop studio works2017: British Council supported participation in Tsonami Festival in Chile2009: Grants from Arts Council England and PRS for Music to curate and organise the cultural exchange project ‘Active Crossover’2007: Grant from Arts Council England to attend the Mamori Sound Project, Amazonas, Brazil […] Read more…
Active in classical, composed, experimental and improvised contemporary music, Milana Zaric is a creative musician, solo and ensemble harpist, artistic director of Collective Studio6, composer, curator, educator and researcher. She performed across 3 continents, playing plucked string instruments with small percussion and voice. She has been a member of various ensembles and orchestras and has commissioned over 30 new solo and ensemble works. Having been the principal harpist at Belgrade Philharmonic for many years, she now teaches at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. […] Read more…
Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a sound artist, DJ, organizer, educator and co-founder of Synth Library Prague – community space for sharing, learning, discussions and experiments not only in the field of electronic music. In her artistic and educational practice, she is focused on feminist perspectives, social and political context, accessibility and dismantling stereotypes, as well as supportive and collaborative strategies. As educator she collaborates on music programs for schools focused on current electronic music, rap, new instruments and critical listening.  […] Read more…
Matěj Kotouček is a musician and sound artist living in Prague. He is currently a member of the Noise Kitchen platform and makes music in the electro-acoustic duo Thistle, solo as Loops of Decay, and occasionally in other collaborations, for example with John Clardy (Tera Melos, Waterbased) or Freddie Hudson. He is also a member of the AVA kolektiv – a collective of like-minded producers, artists and promoters based in Brno (Czech Republic). He founded the audiovisual turned-band-later project Sky To Speak. He worked at Bastl Instruments as a head of the Noise Kitchen store, directed the Nona Records label, and organized lectures, events and residencies at Vašulka Kitchen. In addition to his own work, he composes music for theater plays (Divadlo Feste), video games and audiovisual projects.  […] Read more…