Convergence II
Schedule
Sat Apr 20 2024 at 08:00 pm
Location
Lettrétage, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin | Berlin, BE
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A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Experimental Arts. With Days Like Television & Wilma Sävström, Von Jeglichem Wort, Mire, Rachel Micallef Somerville, Paul Brody and Severin BlackEntrance fee: 10 euros
CONVERGENCE is an evening of experimental, multi-sensory performances organized by Kross Collective, which explore dialogues between sound, text, and visuals.
For our second event, we are delighted to premiere a new, live A/V performance by vocalist Wilma Sävström and experimental musician Days Like Television. Von Jeglichem Wort- a sound & text project- will present an ambient sound performance of poetry and video. Mire is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu, and for this evening she will present a sound and art performance. Rachel Micallef Somerville is an experimental visual artist and researcher and we'll present a screening of one of her short video-art.
Two extended musical sets will follow- Paul Brody’s live electronics & poetry performance will feature the voices of poets that he recorded in the past year. As a trumpeter and improviser, Brody will present his electronic based compositions in a form that is open for his trumpet and acoustic improvisation. Finally, British experimental musician Severin Black will present an improvised clarinet and feedback loop performance to close the evening.
Immerse yourself within CONVERGENCE 2, as we delve deep into a collective liminal state, and explore the outer reaches of cross-disciplinary experimentation.
Days Like Television & Wilma Sävström
Wilma Sävström (born 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Berlin-based visual artist focusing on mixed media paintings. By combining oil painting with handicraft, Sävström explores the middle point of two artistic practices and lets yarn and thread abstract or concretize her images. Former founder and member of the Stockholm-based artist collective BNKR (bunker) productions she participated in workshops connecting young artists as well as creating a meeting space for women to share and develop their artistic practices.
Days Like Television is the solo moniker of Daniel Bryden (born 1997 in Newcastle, UK), an experimental musician and video artist based in Berlin. Using found-sounds, improvised instrumentation, and manipulated samples, Bryden crafts immersive aural landscapes which pulsate with an underlying tension and tactility. Live shows are evocative, expansive, and moving- spanning ambience, improvised noise, music concrète, and a fractured, unhinged electronica. Bryden has presented A/V performances at ICA (London), La Vallée (Brussels), Madame Claude (Berlin), and VEKKS (Vienna).
For CONVERGENCE, they will present their first live, collaborative AV performance together, ahead of the release of their debut single on Bonambi Records in Summer 2024.
https://days-like-television.bandcamp.com
https://www.daysliketelevision.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/days_like_television/
von jeglichem wort
„von jeglichem wort“ is a sound- and text project. Last published: „von jeglichem wort das durch den mund den menschen vernewet“ (Gedichte, KLAK Verlag 2023), and the records (vinyl): „es gibt für den menschen keine innere leere mehr“ (2022), and „um außer uns im leeren nichts zu suchen“ (2024).
https://vonjeglichemwort.bandcamp.com/
Mire
“Mire” is the dark-ambient drone and atmospheric soundscape project of Andreea Hriscu, and for this evening she will present a sound and art performance.
Andreea Hriscu is a Romanian visual, performance and sound Berlin based artist. With a background in architecture, she opened her first solo painting exhibition in 2016 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Beijing, China, and her first live painting performance in 2018 in Beijing, followed by other performances in Bangkok and Berlin. Her photography and painting are mostly abstract, her sound projects constitute of dark ambient soundscapes, and her painting performances are dark, emotional, and viscerally intense. They explore and embody different aspects of the psyche: the subconscious, the hidden aspects of the self and the unfelt raw emotions. Within this embodiment, she becomes fully immersed in the artistic process, blurring the boundaries between the self, the process, and the object.
https://mirelands.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/andreea.hriscu.art/
https://andreeahriscu.wixsite.com/andreeahriscuart
Rachel Micallef Somerville
Rachel Micallef Somerville is an experimental visual artist and researcher based between Malta and Berlin. Through her art practice, she navigates the intermeshing realms of landscape and body, blending ideas from posthumanism and queer feminist film theory. Her work embraces polyvocality, explores the intricacies of outer and inner space, and invites people to question the ingrained dualities that shape our human experience.
Her first solo photography exhibition, Fragmented and Whole, took place in Malta in June 2021. She holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Creative Media Production from the MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts, and an MA in Filmmaking from MetFilm School Berlin.
https://www.rachelmsomerville.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rachelmsomerville/?hl=en
Paul Brody
Paul Brody was born in California, USA, and trained as a musician at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Brody works regularly as a sound artist, composer and trumpeter at the Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Berliner Schaubühne, the MC93 Paris, the New York Harlem Opera and the Vienna Burgtheater, among others. He works closely with the music producer John Zorn. His album "Hinter allen Worten'', which features artists such as Clueso, Meret Becker and Jelena Kulijic, was on the best list of the German Record Critics' Award. Paul Brody was nominated for the Europe Broadcasting Festival and the Vienna International Feature Festival for his work as a sound artist. His sound art works have already been heard on WDR, Deutschlandradio, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the MuseumsQuartier Vienna and at Transmediale Berlin. He composed an opera based on interviews about love for the Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy. Currently he is starting on an opera project with the State Theater in Karlsruhe.
Paul Brody’s live electronics & poetry performance for Convergence II will feature the voices of poets that he recorded in the past year. Together with trumpet and electronics, one of Brody's main compositional tools has been recording interviews and using the voices as musical instruments. This performance will not only feature whole poems but the voices of the poets cut into rhythmic and tonal fragments.
This type of composing is often thought of as between sound installation and theater. While his compositions are independent of the poems, Brody thinks of them as musical translations of the poems he's recorded. This crosses paths with an obscure technique of translation poems called homophonic translation, in which the translator translates a poem, not by the meaning of the words, but by the sounds in the poem. As a trumpeter and improviser, Brody will present his electronic based compositions in a form that is open for his trumpet and acoustic improvisation.
paulbrody.net
Severin Black
Running the experimental label and event series Archaic Vaults, Severin Black has been forming a worldwide community around marginal music since 2020; the most recent collaborations including shows and released material alongside John T. Gast, YL Hooi, oxhy, Ewa Awe, Flora Yin-Wong, Nexcyia, Lisa Lerkenfeldt and Christoph de Babalon. Using the label as an outlet for ongoing projects with violinist Vanessa Bedoret and sound artist Owen Pratt, Severin also has a sizeable discography under the techno alias Nape – the most recent being the album Ten Tonne Angel on Nick Klein’s Psychic Liberation imprint. They have played in spaces such as the ICA (London), KM28 (Berlin), Le Poisson Rouge (New York), Mission To Seafarers (Melbourne) and on a giant pipe organ in a north-east London church.
https://severinblack.com/
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Lettrétage, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, GermanyEvent Location & Nearby Stays: