Assaf Gidron (laptop, casio keyboard)
Assaf
Gidron is a composer, improviser and sound designer. Originally from
Tel Aviv, where he was part of the local experimental electronic music
scene, Assaf studied composition in London and The Hague before moving
to New York in 2014. Assaf's recent work focuses on economical setting
of lyrical gestures. Assaf works as sound designer for film and
collaborates often with Berlin/LA based indie film production outfit
Spektakulativ Pictures.
Teodora Stepančić (piano)
Teodora
Stepančić is active in fields of contemporary music, free
improvisation, music theater and performance art. She is collaborating
with many composers, performing and premiering their pieces . As a
performer and composer she appeared all over Europe, Middle East, North
and South America on the festivals such as BBC Proms (London), Gaudeamus
Music Week, Dag in de branding, International review of composers,
BEMUS (Belgrade), Zwei tage Zeit (Zurich), Hawler International Theater
Festival, Erbil (Kurdistan/Iraq). She is a pianist of Ensemble Modelo62
and Ensemble Studio 6. Teodora is also performing and collaborating with
Rosa ensemble, Netherlands Blazers Ensemble, Veenfabriek,
Diamantfabriek, Opera Spanga, Asko Schoenberg ensemble, Holland Symfonia
and others. She was founding member of several ensembles focused on
experimental music, improvisation and performance: SZ, Den Haag All
Stars, RIO and The Endless Maladies. Teodora studied piano and
composition at the University of Art in Belgrade and composition at the
Royal Conservatory in The Hague. She also finished ballet school. She
won the first prize on the 2nd Pre Art Composition Competition in
Zurich, Switzerland, was a finalist of PJC composition competition in
the Netherlands and won prizes on the international competitions as a
pianist. Teodora was artist in residence in Villa Strauli, Winterthur,
Switzerland and in Studio LOOS, Den Haag. She attended many piano
workshops with renowned pianists as well as composition courses. In 2010
she took part at the International Summer course for New music
Darmstadt with Ensemble Modelo62.
Andagainandagain (laptop, voiceloops)
Andagainandagain is an ambient – electro-acoustic duo
established as a synthesis of a cold ambient (Pièces froides) and
textual researches followed on from the radical (l=a=n=g=u=a=g=e) practice of
the latter part of XX century. They see their music as a constant matter
situated between the respective methods of reduction and repetition
which, accompanied by theoretical –poetic speeches on the very process
of creation, they introduce into the lecture performance field. In
September 2013 they had their debut album released by a Spanish label
48LAWS. In August 2014, their track ‘oO’ appeared on the compilation
‘Sequence8’ (Future Sequence). The intense concert activity also
resulted in a split release with a Berlin musician Aidan Baker for
Italian label Manyfeetunder. Another live recording from Sofia, recorded for
Bulgarian National Radio, has recently appeared on Cathedral
Transmissions.
https://soundcloud.com/
Eruption Duo (violin, cello, objects)
ERUPTION
appears on Belgrade artistic scene in the late 90' as an
electro-acoustic duo, bringing progressive approaches in instrumental
string performing.
Two then students of Belgrade Music
Academy – Manja Ristić, violin and Ivana Grahovac, cello – started the
series of experimental sessions and improv concerts with the aim of
discovering new synthesis in auditive arts. While
researching acoustic capacities of their instruments and at the same
time building solutions for interpretation of specific electro-acoustic
textures, duo focused on developing performing skills toward intuitive
improvisation and live composing.
Since 98' duo
collaborated with wide range of academic composers, multimedia artists,
conceptual artists, underground musicians, theater and movie directors.
After performing at the celebration of 150 years from Nikola Tesla's
birth (2006), ERUPTION started permanent collaboration with Rastko
Lazić, progressive electronic music composer and performer.
Some
of the improv/conceptual performers ERUPTION collaborated with: Tomaž
Grom, Giovanni di Domenico, Mathieu Calleja, Pak Yan Lau, Exploding
Plastics, Igor Stangliczky, Matjaž Manček, Brane Zorman, Birgite
Lyregaard, Rune Kaagaard, Ivan Kadelburg, Daniel Buess, Antoine Chessex,
Saskia Edens, Bettina Wenzel, Georg Wissel, Carl Ludwig Hubsch, Echo
Ho, Blank Disck, Milana Zarić, Nenad Marković, Franceska Mizzoni, Ivan
Jovanović, Mina Mitrušić, Anna Tretter, Marica Radojčić, Ivana
Vukosavljev, James Watts...
