After a first residency in Prague (Czech Republic) in September 2024 in a school with teenagers, and a second residency in Lille (France) in October 2024, we organise one last residency in May 2025 in Porto (Portugal) with seven artists that will work in Sonoscopia’s neighbourhood.
During an entire week, the 7 artists will experiment together in different places around Sonoscopia (garden, store, cafe…).
To meet the challenges of Access, the artists will pay particular attention to the listening experience they will be offering to the audience, and will seek to exploit the different playing, movement and listening possibilities offered by the places they will be performing in. They will also focus on proposing a participating experience to the audience, in particular through various exchanges and convivial moments.
Apart from this, they are given complete freedom to experiment as they see wish, sharing their different experiences, approaches and inspirations to create together artistic proposals offering a more opened experience to the audience.
Discover the artistisc team:
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. […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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