IV22: Lisa Ullén, Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks, Vasco Alves, Conal Blake

Name: IV22: Lisa Ullén, Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks, Vasco Alves, Conal Blake
Start: 2025-02-15T20:00:00+01:00
Location: les ateliers claus

Schedule

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

les ateliers claus | Brussels, BU

On February 15th, we return to our beloved venue, les ateliers claus, with a selection of artists at the intersection of improvisational music practices and contemporary composition.

In vitro #22

Lisa Ullén
Lisa Ullén is one of Sweden’s most influential pianists in the free jazz, improvisational, and contemporary music scene. Internationally recognized as a distinctive and uncompromising musician and composer. Born in Seoul, Ullén grew up in the northern part of Sweden. She has studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, and has conducted further studies in the USA, and at Royal Institute of Art.
In 2018, Ullén was awarded the prestigious Jazz composer of the Year- prize by the Swedish Radio, and her recordings have received several awards, including the 2019 Manifest Gala prize for her triple solo album Piano Works, 2024 Break a Leg with the Gahlmm Ensemble.
She has been working and touring for many years with a number of groups and projects and is currently working with her solo project ‘Heirloom’, Space trio, chamber sextet GAHLMM, Reading Music and a duo with Nina de Heney.

https://lisaullen.bandcamp.com/music
https://lisaullen.com/

Weston Olencki & Laura Cocks
Weston Olencki and Laura Cocks present ‘Music for Two Flutes’, two pieces for two flutes. Through various deconstructions of the instrument, they pull uncanny resonances from these modest means—locating sites of intensity and spectral saturation where they aren't always found.
1. ceòl meadhonach
From the Kilberry Book of Ceol Meadhonach, published in 1908 by Captain John Campbell and Archibald Campbell:
"The music of the Highland bagpipe is usually said to be divided into three categories: Ceol Mor, the "big music" or Piobaireachd; Ceol Beag, the "little music," that is quicksteps and dance music, and Ceol Meadhonach, the "middle music" which lies between the other two, and consists of such tunes as are neither constructed in the measure of Piobaireachd, nor adapted for the quick march or dance."
2. SLUB
As an instrument activated via buzzing, the flute’s scales and acoustic systems are reconfigured; SLUB is the act of submerging into the instabilities of this reconfiguration, building a world of internal physical disturbance that shifts, envelopes, and becomes quasi-environmental as it moves along the body of the flutes.

Weston Olencki is a composer, musician, and audio engineer; originally from South Carolina, living and working now in Berlin. He’s currently making work focused around questions of instrumental music and its contexts/constructs, and the technological, material, and cultural histories of vernacular art-making. His recent work deals with the non-linear relationships between experimental sound, geography, historicity, and (mostly American) musical traditions.
Laura Cocks is a flutist with “febrile instrumental prowess” (The New York Times), who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of experimental music. They are the executive director and flutist of TAK ensemble, one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States, and an active member of the Talea Ensemble.

https://hideousreplicalabel.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-two-flutes
https://www.westonolencki.com/
https://www.lauracocks.biz/

Vasco Alves
Vasco Alves' work investigates the materiality of sound and aspects of acoustic phenomena through the use of minimal and unstable processes, which may include synthesis, amplification techniques or the gaita de fole (portuguese bagpipes).
With the bagpipes, the focus lies in exploiting the instrument's physical limits, its morphology —in permanent development—and the performative act. Fundamentally acoustic, his work can also be presented against computer generated sound.
He leads the exploratory bagpipe ensemble As Rochas da Ajuda, approaching the instrument from a collective perspective and exploring the possibilities of polyphony. Other ongoing collaborations include OndaXoque (with Pedro Rufino), a duo with Margarida Garcia and GAX (with Seymour Wright).

https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/album/estrada-longa
https://vascoalves.info

Conal Blake
Conal Blake is a musician from Glasgow. He plays solo and frequently improvises with Li Song, Regan Bowering & Hannan Jones. He can be found using a mixture of electronics (feedback, sampling) and percussion (misc breakables). He also runs the Feedback Moves label, releasing artists such as Vasco Alves, @xcrswx and Pat Thomas.

https://feedbackmoves.bandcamp.com/
https://conalblakereganboweringlisong.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-snare-drums-and-portable-speakers

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This event is a collaboration with les ateliers claus and supported by Flanders State of the Art.

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Entrance: €12
Doors: 20h00

les ateliers claus
Rue Crickxstraat 13
1060 Brussels