Slower Evolution

UNFORTUNATELY WE HAD TO CANCEL THIS CONCERT.

Warm minimalist drones where time and place can be left behind. An afternoon of music by composer / performers Fani Konstantinidou, Sietse van Erve, Luke Deane, Phil Maguire and Anne La Berge.

Set 1: Fani Konstantinidou - electronics

Set 2: Orphax - electronics

Set 3: Luke and Anne - electronics and flute

Set 4: Maguire / La Berge - electronics and flute

Fani Konstantinidou is a composer and sound artist living and working in the Netherlands. She has a particular interest in cultural and social identities and their influence in music composition. Since 2015 she works on her personal artistic project, Sound Topographies, where she uses a variety of sound sources inspired by her own surroundings. From musical instruments to spoken language and from everyday sound[scape]s to computer-generated sounds, her music is characterized by shifting sonic textures that circulate between drones, noise, arrhythmic melodies, and atonal rhythms. Inspired by the influence of space and time in music, she creates and recreates timelines of sonic events aiming at musical dialogues and public communication through sound.

Amsterdam based Sietse van Erve (Orphax) plays electronic drone and microtonal music. As a result in his most recent work, time and spatiality become more important factors. The goal of the music is for the listener to lose the sense of time and place. Live this is combined with room for improvisation. This way of working results often in an organic form of drone and minimal music. He has released over 50 releases, as Download, CD-R, Tapes, CD’s and Vinyl, on various labels, as well as self-released online since he started working on music. This includes collaborations with Machinefabriek and Martijn Comes. Furthermore, he contributed to many remix projects including work for Kenneth Kirschner, Martijn Comes, TVO and Chris Dooks among others. Artists that he has shared the stag with include Martijn Comes, Jos Smolders, Frans de Waard (Modelbau), Zeno van den Broek, TVO, BJ Nilsen, Philip Jeck and Yann Novak. Besides making music, Sietse van Erve runs Moving Furniture Records and curates concerts in the Netherlands.

Splendor artist Luke Deane is a composer / performer based in Amsterdam, NL // Birmingham, UK who claims that his work is associated with the 4th Viennese School of composition, although research questions the reality of such a school. Luke creates mixed media compositions that range from high-tech interactivity to sublime solo piano. He also appears under the guise of Pop Idol Lisa and has just released an EP with the band Lisa's Lense. Recent and upcoming projects include: Lisa's Lens EP; Accordion Solo for Sofie de Klerk; TOTEM(s) 2020 for Asko Schoenberg; syrup tracing {or, on the significance of rising and/or falling} for the Waste Paper Opera Company; Before/After for Club Guy and Ronie, NNT, Asko Schoenberg KAOS; the Colours Tour for the Riccotti Orchestra; Faust 2021 for Silbersee in the OperaForwardFestival 2021

Phil Maguire plays analog synthesizers and Max patches. Anne La Berge plays flutes and the Kyma System. They come together through their love of structures that slowly evolve through extended time. When they are together, they play detailed drones that color the perception of time and place. Phil Maguire is an artist from Scotland working with sound. Utilising computers, synthesisers, and tape equipment, Maguire produces music and sound works that explore emptiness and malfunction, of self and of machine. Works by Maguire are released on various independent labels. He also collaborates in projects with musicians including Anne La Berge, James L. Malone, Mark Lyken and Eleanor Cully. Maguire runs verz, a tape label and concert series. He lives and works in London.