Wednesday 7 December 2022, 7.30pm
Naviar Records presents the fifth edition of the Naviar Haiku Fest, an evening of music and poetry reading at Café Oto.
The event will feature performances by members and friends of Naviar, working in the fields of ambient, electronic and contemporary classical music. Each performance will be introduced by haiku poems written and recited by members of the British Haiku Society.
Naviar Records is a music community and label. Through regular publications, open projects and events, we explore the connection between experimental electronic music and traditional Japanese poetry.
Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator and researcher. She graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music (2001) and was awarded a PGDip as a Solo/Ensemble Recitalist from the Royal College of Music, London (2004). As a classical solo and chamber musician as well as a composer and an improv musician Manja has performed all across Europe and the US, and has been involved in collaborations with established conductors and performers, multimedia artists, poets, theatre and movie directors. Manja’s sound related research besides contemporary performance in the field of instrumental electro–acoustics, is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to sound and field recording as well as experimental radio arts.
Manja is the founder of the Association of Multimedia Artists Auropolis (since 2004), that by her guidance developed a distinctive number of cultural events, international projects, cultural conferences and educational platforms in the fields of scene and multimedia arts. She works and lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia.
Simon has worked in theatre & contemporary dance for several years working both as a composer, sound designer and more recently as a sound engineer. His work combines the cello with processing & electronics. His work has been described as “electro-orchestral drone-scapes of, by turns, gauzy intimacy and soaring grandeur”, “highly evocative work of the otherworldly transforms the recognisable into something mysterious, even on occasion, the supernatural”. Being of mixed ethnicity & recently diagnosed with epilepsy these experiences inform & guide his practice, exploring themes of otherness and fragility.
Simon will perform a work inspired by the composing techniques and strategies found in Éliane Radigue’s Naldjorlak, a landmark work for solo cello that explores the instrument’s unstable wolf tone and its extraordinary world of slowly evolving resonance. Through minute shifts in timbre, tuning and harmonic interaction, the piece invites a deep, focused listening in which the smallest sonic changes become richly expressive.
Since 2014 Neil Stringfellow has released music as Audio Obscura - covering a variety of musical themes that touch on ambient, electronics and more experimental soundscapes. Audio Obscura albums have included a post-classical 'Anthropocene Trilogy' based on spoken word pieces around climate change, soundtracking the dystopia of George Orwells' 1984 novel, field recording in rural Norfolk Churches and recently a collaboration with a post-rock group themed around the NASA Voyager missions.
Leon Clowes is a transdisciplinary artist that messes about with his lived trauma for artistic endeavour. He started in music and sound and now does all sorts. Wherever. In music/sound, these days, he mostly tries for quiet and peaceable stuff but does occasionally revisit pounding queer past.
The Ambient/Electronic transmission channel of Munich-based guitarist and producer Roland Reinke, Encym explores un-guitaristic territory by layering, collaging and shaping improvised loops. Fused with polyrhythmic beats and noises to become cinematic, atmospheric, otherworldly ambiences, their grittiness owing to the many years Roland was based in London. He has released numerous albums both as a solo artist and collaborator, most recently the “Music for Meditation” CD on Neotantra.
George Crowley is a saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and promoter based in London. As a performer he is active across a range of styles, with improvisation at the heart of his work, performing with musicians and groups such as Ivo Neame, Melt Yourself Down, Yazz Ahmed, Agile Experiments, Olie Brice and Jeff Williams.
Daniel Green is an artist and educator. His artistic practice explores the objects and media we use to occupy our time, and how they are used to give our lives meaning.
Daniel’s work has been exhibited within Campbelltown Arts Centre, Firstdraft, Pelt, Artspace and BUS Projects, and has performed at Electrofringe, The Now Now Festival, Liquid Architecture, Cementa and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Daniel lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
