Jakob Riis, Heribert Friedl, Yolande Harris

Extended techniques in live laptop music

2 Apr 2008
  • 20:30 -20:30
  • STEIM
  • Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam

Physicality in electronic music has always been one of the central themes at STEIM, but not every musician takes a gestural or bodily approach to performing their music. Physicality of the sound, the space and the location are equally important, especially for laptop musicians and sound artists.
For our next concert we have invited three typically "non-gestural" artists to work in our studios and prepare for this performance. We wanted to create a critical platform for laptop musicians as well where new forms of presentation and performances can be explored. For each of these invited artists, their instrument extends beyond the actual device that they are touching by incorporating the speaker, field recordings and navigational data as essential elements of the performance. We hope to see you at our next event to witness these extended techniques in live laptop music.

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Jakob Riis
Composer, laptop musician, improviser. Active in the experimental fields of electronic music, soundart, sonic webart, improvisation and contemporary composition.
Currently Jakob Riis is performing with: Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Rød Planet (with Liudas Mockunas and Stefan Pasborg), The Ghettoblaster Ensemble, The Minijacks (laptop quartet), Toxicum and Expanded Botanics.
Jakob Riis has been composing-, playing- and released cd's with/for people and ensembles like: Alarm112, Anne Katrine Kallmoes (choreographer), ATAGS, Bidt (performancetheater), Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Den 3. Vej's Kammerensemble, Ensemble New, Hans Fjellestad, Lotte Anker, Lydmuren (DR P1), Peter Ole Jørgensen, Philipp Wachsmann, Pierre Dørge, Randers Byorkester, Roskilde Festival (performance), Ssshhhhh....(soundbiennale in Copenhagen), The Orchestra and Toneart Workshop Ensemble.
www.sonicescape.net/

Heribert Friedl
Heribert Friedl lives in Vienna, and studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts there. In his exhibitions he has been working with scents and its non visual phenomenons - sometimes in combination with sounds. He has had exhibitions, soundperformances and projects in cities of Hungary, Germany, England, Italy, USA, Cuba and Austria.
After more mp3-releases and albums on labels trente oiseaux and and/OAR he founded his label nonvisualobjects with Raphael Moser in 2005. The label releases works by such renowned minimalist artists as Steve Roden, Richard Chartier, Roel Meelkop, Bernhard Günter, among others.
www.nonvisualobjects.com/heribert_friedl

Yolande Harris
Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as Inside Out Instrument, and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies.

Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.
www.yolandeharris.net