Oscillation ::: Materia Forma Bulletin ep. 3 …finishing touches
Esteemed corporeal forms,
Our sonic feast will be opened tonight at VK Vaartkapoen in [removed];Ok, it is the sixth edition of the festival, but its number is apparently not inversely proportional to the amount of excitement we feel at its onset. Unlike last year, day tickets will still be available at the doors (except for the discourse program, which is sold out), as well as dinner, which will be provided by VK the days we’re at their place. And as for the pre-, inter-, and post-performance hangouts that Oscillation fans have come to love, this year they’ll be sound-tracked by some of Q-O2’s extended family: starting tomorrow with the Brussels-based artist Soumaya Phéline (Club Détour / Psst Mlle).
Tonight’s timetable:
20:00 – Laura Mello – Composing For Many Media Including Me:Composing For Many Media Including Me is a self-referential performance series composed through the media of sound, video, experimental electronics and the performer herself. In each new performance, composition is approached via the tension between the fixed and the improvisational. The culturally-determined power relations in the construction of the performer’s body, as well as the potential and limits of the technical media used, are performatively questioned in interaction with each other.
21:00 – Michiko Ogawa & Lucy Railton – Fragments of Reincarnation: Fragments of Reincarnation began as a timbral exploration of the combined tuning systems of our instruments: the shō (Pythagorean tuning with a frequency of A=440 Hz fundamental, including fluctuation with inhalation and exhalation), cello (flexible, of course) and Hammond organ (equal temperament, broken). The structure of the piece is loosely based on the round shape of the shō and the 11 gagaku chords of ‘aitake’, moving through progressions that overlap and smudge, unfold in variations and demolish in cycles. The title Fragments of Reincarnation draws from these thoughts and how each voice emerges and disappears in the shimmer of the dusty old hammond organ.
22:15 – Evicshen: Evicshen is the nom de guerre of sound artist, experimental music performer, and inventor, Victoria Shen. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analogue modular synthesisers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Shen’s music eschews conventions of harmony and rhythm in favour of extreme textures and gestural tones.