Filmstill «All We Got Is Us in the Moment» (Rebecca Salvadori, UK 2023)

Messengers

- CET
Live
Screenings
London, Milano
Dampfzentrale

a project by Rebecca Salvadori

w/ live acts Kenichi Iwasa & Maxwell SterlingSandro Mussida
GAISTER (Coby Sey, Olivia Salvadori, Akihide Monna)
lights by Charlie Hope
talk moderated by Lucia Udvardyová

Seit 2019 entwickelt die Ko-Kuratorin des Norient-Festivals, Rebecca Salvadori, eine Kombination aus Live-Performance und Bewegtbild, die bestimmte Beziehungen in der experimentellen Musikkultur Londons erforscht. Messengers umfasst vier Kurzfilme, die auf Dokumentationen aus zehn Jahren experimenteller Musik basieren. Mit Live-Auftritten von Kenichi Iwasa, Maxwell Sterling, Coby Sey, Olivia Salvadori, Akihide Monna, Sandro Mussida, dem Lichtkünstler Charlie Hope und der Musikjournalistin Lucia Udvardyová. Die Veranstaltung ist gleichzeitig Konzert und Filmset für die Aufnahme von Filmmaterial, das in künftige Fortsetzungen des Projekts einfliessen wird.

Since 2019, Norient festival co-curator Rebecca Salvadori has been developing a combination of live performances and moving images, which explores certain connections in London’s experimental musical culture. Messengers include four short films based on documentations of experimental music produced over a decade. With live performances by Kenichi Iwasa, Maxwell Sterling, Coby Sey, Olivia Salvadori, Akihide Monna, Sandro Mussida, light artist Charlie Hope, and music journalist Lucia Udvardyová. The event will simultaneously be a concert and a film-set for the shooting of film material that will be included in future iterations of this project.


The Sun Has no Shadow

21:00 · 9pm
a film by Rebecca Salvadori

Filmstill «The Sun Has no Shadow» (Rebecca Salvadori, UK 2023)

Eine intime Reise durch Raves, Clubs und experimentelle Live-Performances; zugleich ein persönliches Manifest und eine Hommage an London. Rund um den FOLD-Club und das UNFOLD-Day-Rave-Format, bei dem DJs mitten auf der Tanzfläche stehen, taucht The Sun Has no Shadow ein in die Communitys der elektronischen Musik und die Intimität zwischen den Tanzenden.

An intimate journey across raves, clubs, and experimental live performances; a personal manifesto as well as a tribute to London. Centering on the FOLD club and the UNFOLD day rave format which puts the DJ in the middle of the dancefloor, The Sun Has no Shadow goes deep into electronic music communities and the intimacy between dancers.


Messengers

21:30 · 9.30pm
a film by Rebecca Salvadori
live sonorization by Kenichi Iwasa & Maxwell Sterling

Filmstill: «Messengers» (Rebecca Salvadori, UK 2024)

Messengers findet in einem ehemaligen Kloster im PAF Olomouc und Marsèll Paradise in Mailand statt. Salvadori filmte eine Reihe von Live-Performances und Dialogen über das Wesen von Freundschaft, Musik und Beziehungen zur Stadt London. Mit dabei waren die Musiker*innen Kenichi Iwasa, Maxwell Sterling, Sandro Mussida, Coby Sey und Olivia Salvadori, der Lichtkünstler Charlie Hope, die Schriftstellerin, Herausgeberin und Kuratorin Elaine Tam und der Fotograf Henerico Rossi. Die dekonstruierten Filmsets waren öffentliche Events, bei denen auch das Publikum Teil des Films wurde.

Messengers takes place in a former monastery at PAF Olomouc and at Marsèll Paradise in Milan. Salvadori filmed a series of live performances and one-to-one conversations on the nature of friendship, music, and ties with the city of London. It features musicians Kenichi Iwasa, Maxwell Sterling, Sandro Mussida, Coby Sey, and Olivia Salvadori, light artist Charlie Hope, writer, editor, and curator Elaine Tam, and photographer Henerico Rossi. The deconstructed film sets were at the same time public events, whose audience became part of the film as well.


Portraits of Friends

22:15 · 10.15pm
a film by Rebecca Salvadori
live sonorization by Sandro Mussida

Filmstill: «Portraits of Friends» (Rebecca Salvadori, UK 2023)

Der Film Portraits Of Friends (2021) basiert auf neun elektroakustischen Stücken des Komponisten Sandro Mussida aus seinem Album Rueben (Die Schachtel, 2019). Die Animationen sind Teil einer visuellen Sprache sind, die 2012 unter dem Namen Euroemptiness entwickelt wurde. Die Musik ist inspiriert von italienischen Renaissance-Gemälden während Mussidas Kompositionssitzungen und erinnert an Pavel Florenskijs Idee der «umgekehrten Zeitt». Beteiligt sind die Freund*innen und Künstler*innen Kristian K. Robinson, Coby Sey, Madalen Vicassiau, Alina Dolgin, Nhu Xuan Xua, Jack Dove und Yann Binet. Der Film wird von TQS Collective produziert. Bei dieser Gelegenheit wird eine gekürzte Fassung des Films präsentiert.

Portraits Of Friends (2021) is a film work built on nine electroacoustic pieces by composer Sandro Mussida from his album Rueben (Die Schachtel, 2019). The animations are part of a visual language developed in 2012 under the name of Euroemptiness. The music was inspired by Italian Renaissance paintings during Mussida’s composition sessions and recalls Pavel Florenskij’s idea of «reverse time». The project features friends and artists Kristian K. Robinson, Coby Sey, Madalen Vicassiau, Alina Dolgin, Nhu Xuan Xua, Jack Dove, and Yann Binet. The film is produced by TQS Collective. A short version of the film is presented on this occasion.


All We Got Is Us in the Moment

23:00 · 11pm
a film by Rebecca Salvadori
Lucia Udvardyová in conversation with Coby Sey

Filmstill «All We Got Is Us in the Moment» (Rebecca Salvadori, UK 2023)

All We Got Is Us in the Moment ist ein experimenteller Dokumentarfilm über die Zusammenarbeit und Freundschaft des Musikers Coby Sey und Rebecca Salvadori. Der Musiker und MC Sey arbeitet seit 2017 mit der Künstlerin und Filmemacherin zusammen, und im Laufe ihrer Freundschaft hat Salvadori die vielen verschiedenen Gesichter Seys eingefangen. Nach dem Screening unterhalten sich die beiden mit der Musikjournalistin Lucia Udvardyová über Freundschaft, Musik und Beziehungen zur Stadt London.

Part visual mixtape, part experimental documentary, All We Got Is Us in the Moment is a moving portrait of the collaboration and friendship between musician Coby Sey and artist Rebecca Salvadori. The musician and MC Sey has been collaborating with the artist and filmmaker since 2017 and throughout their friendship, Salvadori has captured the many different faces of the mercurial artist. After the screening, the artists will chat with music journalist Lucia Udvardyová about the nature of friendship, music, and ties with the city of London.


GAISTER live

23:30 · 11.30pm
Olivia Salvadori, Coby Sey, Akihide Monna

GAISTER ist die Begegnung der experimentellen Sopranistin Olivia Salvadori, des Produzenten und Songwriters Coby Sey und des Drummers Akihide Monna. Das Projekt lebt von der Lust an intuitivem Arbeiten, bei dem Sound, Stimme und Worte frei zwischen Struktur und Improvisation entstehen. Ihr Debüt-Album, das demnächst erscheint, folgt der Idee eines stetigen Zustands des Zuhörens.

GAISTER is the encounter between experimental soprano Olivia Salvadori, producer and songwriter Coby Sey, and drummer Akihide Monna. The project is driven by an intuitive approach where sound, voice, and words freely emerge between structure and improvisation. Their upcoming debut album pursues the idea of being in a constant state of listening.


Nach dem hier präsentierten Programm schliesst der von Radio Bollwerk präsentierte Hub Dive 02 mit Live-Sets von Samuel Savenberg und Noi Noi an. Die Tickets für Block 07 sind auch für diesen Programmteil gültig.

After the program above, Hub Dive 02, presented by Radio Bollwerk, follows with live sets from Samuel Savenberg and Noi Noi. The tickets for Block 07 are also valid for this part of the festival program.


Beteiligte Personen / Involved People

Biography

Rebecca Salvadori (1984) is a London-based artist working at the intersection between video art and documentary. She has a long experience in filming environments with a focus on non-hierarchical /chronological layering and sequencing of audio to footage. Her film works act as constellations of highly personal and wilfully elusive heterogeneous elements: multifaceted portraits of moments, people, and environments that can be approached from different angles as they move between personal and transpersonal scales. Over the last 15 years, she has consistently engaged with experimental music, with a great interest in finding ways to connect the moving image with sound practices, live performances and alternative forms of storytelling. Follow her on Instagram, Vimeo, X, or on her Website.

Biography

Kenichi Iwasa is a London-based improviser and multidisciplinary artist from Japan. He plays a variety of instruments including trumpet, flute, percussion, and handmade woodwinds, combined with electronics. His main practice is focused on pure improvisation. He is currently working on developing new ways of self-improvisation for his solo project. Follow him on Instagram, Bandcamp, and on his website.

Biography

Maxwell Sterling is a composer, producer, musician, and artist, originally from Manchester. Maxwell’s debut record Hollywood Medieval (Death of Rave, 2016) set out his fascination with the glitches between the traditions of acoustic and synthesized music. His album Turn of Phrase (AD93, 2021) takes inspiration from both Gregorian chants and hyper-modern digital processing and synthesis. Most recently in early 2022, his EP with Martha Skye Murphy, Distance on Ground (American Dreams, 2022) was released; a tape comprising two long tracks focused on the immediacy of musical communication. Follow him on Linktree, Instagram, Bandcamp, or X, or on his Website.

Biography

Sandro Mussida’s work investigates the relationships between tradition and innovation in music, active listening, the identity of musical languages, and rites. His latest research involves historical, non-equal-tempered tuning systems questioning perception by the Western, standardized ear. On the intersection between acoustical/classical, electric, and electronic fields, he writes for orchestra, chamber and solo instruments, and electronics. He performs his music internationally, as a cellist, conductor, and electronic performer. Follow him on Linktree, Instagram, X, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify, or on his Website.

Biography

Coby Sey is a musician, producer, and DJ from South-East London who offers a shifting, disorienting vision of club music. Coby Sey’s distinguished presence in London has elicited a bold impression of his compositions and performances and the attention of acclaimed artists and collaborators Tirzah, Mica Levi, Kwes, Babyfather, Kelly Lee Owens, and Klein. Sey’s music – as best evidenced on Whities 010: Transport for Lewisham and River – is reflective of his vast spectrum of influences, yet he remains undeniably himself; experimenting with live instrumentation and electronic-based productions, melding sounds with introspective lyrics into dubbed-out anesthesia. Follow him on Linktree, Instagram, or Spotify.

Biography

Olivia Salvadori is an experimental soprano, performer, and recording artist. Her practice investigates the nature of the voice as an instrument for self-observation. In 2014, she co-founded the art collective Tutto Questo Sentire together with composer and producer Sandro Mussida and video and sound artist Rebecca Salvadori. TQS investigates the encounter between different artistic disciplines from contemporary music to visual and performative international scenes. Follow her on Instagram, SoundCloud, Facebook, or X.

Biography

Akihide Monna a.k.a. Monchan is a drummer of the London/Europe-based Japanese alternative rock band Bo Ningen, a composer, and an artist whose main focus is Indian ink-painting and calligraphy. Follow him on Instagram or Linktree.

Biography

Charlie Hope is a visual artist who combines the use of light, space, video, and coding to achieve an extraordinary multi-layered sensory experience for the audience in his installations and performances. He has carried out countless individual and collaborative projects with various galleries, clubs, and public spaces across Europe. Charlie Hope co-founded the London Topophobia collective and has collaborated with Amsterdam’s HetHEM, London’s ICA, and Nottingham Contemporary. Follow him on Instagram and on his Website.

Biography

Lucia Udvardyová is a music journalist, curator, and organizer. In 2010, she co-founded Easterndaze, a project that aims to document and interconnect the emerging underground scenes in Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked with Czech Radio, Resonance FM, Cashmere Radio, The Listening Biennial, The Quietus, and The Wire, Central European University (CEU), and the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), among others. Between 2016 and 2021, she curated and co-organized the Easterndaze x Berlin series that aims to bring together collectives from Berlin and the CEE region. She also gives lectures and talks and leads sound-related workshops. Udvardyová currently works for the SHAPE platform, a pan-European festival initiative that promotes innovative music and audiovisual art, CTM Festival’s discourse program and magazine, and she’s the film curator at WOMEX. Follow her on Instagram, and on her Website.

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