Ghédalia Tazartès / Maya Dunietz + Rie Nakajima / Guy De Bièvre
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A pleasure as ever to welcome back legendary musical autodidact Ghédalia Tazartès, alongside Israeli pianist, composer and improviser Maya Dunietz to collaborate on a new performance that includes two live voices, 12 tiny speakers and electronic soundtrack. Tazartès defies categorization; switching from musique concrète to – existing or invented – ethnic music, from poetry to noise, or from loops and collages to sad and extremely beautiful tunes in a second, but constantly is in flux and coherent. Maya Dunietz makes a very welcome return to Cafe OTO, with the 'Hit & Run' residency that she curated here having seen her perform some stand-out sets alongside the likes of Daniel Higgs, Oren Ambarchi and Assaf Talmudi. Also on the bill, a duo of Japanese composer and OTO Associate Artist Rie Nakajima, and Belgian musician/sonic artist/theorist Guy De Bièvre.
Born in 1947 in Paris to Turkish parents, Tazartes has spent 30+ years within musical practice and experimentation, letting his musical work wander from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. Utilising magnetic tape recorders, he paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian an hydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. Don’t become a black, an arab, a Tibetan monk, a jew, a woman or an animal but to feel all this stirring deep inside of you.
Tazartès defies categorization. It switches from musique concrète to – existing or invented – ethnic music, from poetry to noise, or from loops and collages to sad and extremely beautiful tunes in a second, but it constantly is in flux and coherent.
Maya Dunietz, born in 1981, is a composer, pianist and sound installation artist. Her work ranges between solo performances, composing for ensembles around the world, writing for theatre, creating sound installations, building electronic instruments, playing and singing. Dunietz founded the experimental vocal ensemble "Givol Choir" and is a member of the Israeli band "Habiluim". Among her recent works: Sound installations for the LunaPark and for Ausland in Berlin and for Tectonics festival in Iceland, a solo performance for the 2011 Venice arts Biennale (Swiss Pavilion), musical director of the concerts and notation project of composer Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebrou (with JSOC) including arrangements for string-orchestra. Her recent compositions include "Olive Tree" (2011) - for ensemble and electronics - commissioned by Hyperion Ensemble, premiered at George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest, "Six Waves" (2013) - for quintet and electronics - commissioned by Meitar Ensemble, premiered at Shtricker Conservatory Hall in Tel Aviv, and "Hegel Psalm" (2013) - for ensemble and choir, premiered at the HAU Theater, Berlin. Dunietz also performs regularly around the world playing free improvisation and has played with numerous artists such as John Butcher, Zeena Parkins, Ghedaliah Tazartes, David Moss and Steve noble, to name a few.
"Maya Dunietz is one of the most gifted and resourceful musicians on the Israeli alternative music scene. She plays with local alternative bands including HaBiluim and Midnight Peacocks, takes part in John Zorn's Cobra musical game, leads the avant Givo'l choir, jams in New York with such forward-thinking musicians as trumpeter Taylor Ho Bynum, harpist Zeena Parkins and guitarist Mary Halverson and, in Europe, with Na Maquina Quartet, featuring drummer Steve Noble and bass player Marcio Mattos." - All About Jazz
RIE NAKAJIMA
Rie Nakajima was born in Japan in 1976, and lives and works in London. Nakajima works with installations and performances that produce sound. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of audio materials and found objects. She is the current associate artist at Café OTO, London. Having studied art in her native Japan, he completed a BA in Sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and an MA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Nakajima has exhibited and performed widely, both in the UK and overseas.
De Bièvre is a composer, musician, arranger, sound designer, sound art curator, theorist, and sound engineer. As a composer/performer he focuses on experiments, which combine computer, live electronics, acoustics and standard arrangement formats. He had works commissioned and/or performed by musicians such as Guy Klucevsek, Seth Josel, Anne La Berge, The Bozza Mansion Project, Annette Sachs, Zivatar Trio, and various local and international organizations.
As a performer (performing internationally in Europe, the USA and Japan) next to his own works, he has collaborated with various composers and musicians such as Phill Niblock, Anne La Berge, Tom Hamilton, Ensemble Champ d'Action, and Peter Zummo. Since 2002 he has curated the 'Earwitness' sound art series at CCNOA center for contemporay non-objective art (Brussels, B), and after working for various contemporary and experimental music related organizations (e.g. the Logos Foundation (Gent) and the IPEM (Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music of the Gent University), he is currently finishing a two year term as a researcher in the theory department of the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.
