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Jakob
Draminsky Højmark presents
"aN eMPTY sPACE? v.1" &
"SONGTALE#04"
at SPAZIO ARKA, Assimini, Sardenia, Italy
This
event marks the moment of a transition, a metamorphosis.
Sound material developed for one purpose turns inside out and
starts a new life.
"aN eMPTY sPACE?" consists basically of a large
collection of sound recordings made by 15 opera singers,
individualy interpreting three scores written by Draminsky Højmark.
This series of scores The dEADLY, The hOLY, and The rOUGH was
written using theatre director Peter Brooks milestone work.
"The empty space" as an artistic point of
departure. Thus creating a multi-tongue sound archive full of
hidden references to the history of theater from Shakespeare to
Friel and in passing Maeterlinck and Artaud.
The sound material has until now been presented in various
forms; as a stationary gallery installation, as mobil
installations on public sites, as museum concerts and lastly as
a pocket-opera adding a live soprano voice.
At SPAZIO ARKA "aN eMPTY sPACE?" will be
presented in its original form as a random 8 channels collage of
the non manipulated sound recordings, suggesting an abstract
epic operatic atmosphere.
Various documentation objects as well as original score parts
and notes from the complex processes will be displayed in the
space.
Up to this point "aN eMPTY sPACE?" only
consisted of human voices, reproduced either digitally
transformed or non treated, "Songtale#04"
brings the material into a new state and hereby combines it with
Draminsky H øjmarks instrumental abilities.
"Songtale#04" turns "aN eMPTY sPACE?"
into one hour long concert situations based around two
woodwind instruments; the bass clarinet and the sopranino
saxophone and a laptop computer. Using the interactive software
MAX/MSP to trigger and manipulate samples from the original "aN
eMPTY sPACE?" archive, and to process the sounds of his
acoustic instruments, Draminsky Højmark creates an instant
realtime soundscape inspired in storytelling.
It will be possible to attend a work-in-progress version of
"Songtale#04" on the evening of Thursday 22/3
and parts of the piece in the morning of Friday 23/3. The
premier will take place on Friday evening 23/3.
"aN eMPTY sPACE?" will be open to
public in SAPZIO ARKA from Thursday 22/3 to Sunday
25/3.
More information :
Teatro ARKA
via Porriono 5
09032 Assemini, Sardegna, Italia
Phone/Fax: 070 940 288
E-mail: arka@tiscali.it
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