Pink Monads // #PANDAjazz

This event is part of the PANDAwomen 2025 Festival’s side programme.

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Marialuisa Capurso (I) - voice

Edith Steyer (GER) - alto saxophone, clarinets

Celine Voccia (FR)- piano

Sofia Borges (PT) - drums, percussion

"These are four musicians who create extremely exciting improvisational art. And all along the way, the music changes dramatically, taking us on an extremely varied and exciting journey. They are four exceptionally creative musicians who are experts on their instruments, and who challenge us as listeners throughout." Jan Granlie, salt-peanuts*

Pink Monads are four extrovert, unique, indivisible metaphysical and real landscapes. Four identities travelling underground, aerial, invisible and concrete roads. Four women who affirm and ironically challenge the precarious position of being a woman in a patriarchal society. Their music unites the four personalities into one that creates and destroys itself in a continuous creative flow of instantaneous composition.

Marialuisa Capurso, Edith Steyer, Celine Voccia, Sofia Borges are four accomplished musicians, improvisers, composers and creative noise-makers, much in demand for the most diverse international projects. Together they form the quartet Pink Monads whose first album released in 2023, was acclaimed by international critic.

"The quartet's energy is magnificent and surprising. You can never get enough of an album like this." Franpi Barriaux, Citizen Jazz

Music

https://4darecord.bandcamp.com/album/multiple-visions-of-the-now

Marialuisa Capurso is a singer, performer, sound activist and radio artist. Her work is multidisciplinary, she researches in the fields of voice, movement, sound, body art and rituality, and triggers individual and collective creative processes, anti patriarchal practices, interacting with various disciplines such as dance, theatre, sculpture, installations, and visual arts. She trained and collaborated with international artists such as Meredith Monk, Patricia Bardi, Faheem Mazar , Gianni Lenoci, Carl Berger, Chiara Guidi, William Parker, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, and many others.

Edith Steyer is a free improvising clarinet and saxophone player with her roots in jazz and classical music of the 20th century. She is dedicated to the exploration of her instruments and works with different preparations and elements like drum skins, water and wind and lately also with electronic devices. Aside from working on a solo concept, her foremost interest is to create intelligently woven interactions and sound scapes with other artists. For that she is using timbre, noises and tonal or melodic fragments. She is currently also working on expanding the technical possibilities, that are inherent to the awkward fingerings of the „old fashioned“ german clarinet system. The challenge to the motor skills acts as a source for inspiration to develop ideas for tonal and instrumental deconstruction and compositional constructions. She is also working in different musical theatre groups and has great interest in using the space as an element in her work.

Céline Voccia is a french pianist, composer and improviser in the Free Jazz scene in Berlin. She studied classical piano at the Geneva Conservatory and jazz music and improvisation in Paris and Berlin. Her music is a fusion of the jazz vernacular with classical piano technique, thus culminating in an abstraction of contemporary music with Free Jazz. Having been influenced by the likes of Olivier Messiaen and Toru Takemitsu, Céline Voccia belongs to the circles of New European Improvisation.

Sofia Borges chose a risky but stimulating path: to explore, to experiment, to enlarge the established languages. She does it in two ways. One is the solo format – adding objects, some of them of her own invention, music boxes and toys to the jazz drumkit and the orchestral percussion instruments, and also analogic and digital electronic devices enabling her to process, in real time, her acoustic constructions, including in the mix a good number of field recordings. Another is the association with some of the most remarkable spontaneous noisemakers of our time, like Craig Taborn, Mat Maneri, Axel Dörner, Robyn Schulkowsky, Ignaz Schick, Ryeko Okuda, Sanem Kalfa, Michael Thieke, Cansu Tanrikulu, Chris Pitsiokos, Mia Dyberg, Nick Dunston, Camila Nebbia, Stefanie Egedy just to name a few, and integrating unavoidable bands such as Pink Monads and SLOTSCH.

Admission: 10 euro

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