SPACE IS THE PLACE SOLOS: Hans Leeuw + Gianluca Elia + Alberto Novello

Thursday, September 22, 20:30, Entrance: €8 / CvA €5

An evening devoted to the art of the solo performance.

HANS LEEUW
Hans Leeuw is a trumpet player and composer. He has been active in the world of Jazz and Improvisation music since 1990, most noteworthy as the bandleader of the Tetzepi Bigtet: a 15-piece Big Band that only plays originals. Hans received a number of commissions to write for this band and occasionally other ensembles. Since 2007 Hans developed the Electrumpet; a new hyper instrument combining the acoustic and digital controls on a trumpet in such a way that the expressive qualities are blended. The Electrumpet won the Guthman price for new musical instruments at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia in 2013 (the unofficial world champignonship for new musical instruments). Hans received a grant from the Dutch government to further develop the instrument in a solo programme through composition in 2015.

ALBERTO NOVELLO (w/ live visuals by ERIN MCKINNEY)
Alberto Novello a.k.a JesterN (Italy, 1977) creates evolving data architectures, where electricity branches into itself creating unpredictable results. From digital system to analog modular synthesizers, using brain sensors to drive lasers and stochastic visuals. His works have been presented in international venues and festivals such as Seoul International Computer Music, Monaco Electroacoustique, New York Computer Music Festival, Sonic Circuits Washington, Rewire Den Haag, Amsterdam Dance Event, DOM Moskow. He has released his works with Bowindo, Modisti, Hybrida, DobiaLabel and CPSR. He’s currently teacher of Multimedia at the Conservatory of Padua.

At Cafe de Ruimte he will present a modular live set axed on spirals of polyphonic harmony, glitchy rhythms and dronic soundscapes with live visuals by Erin McKinney (Indiana, 1982) using whimsical footage shot over the last years of traveling around the world.

GIANLUCA ELIA
Gianluca Elia is a tenor sax player active in the fields of improvised and electroacustic music. Originally from the jazz, free jazz and underground scene of Milan (Italy), he’s now visiting scenes and academies of different european cities, oscillating between Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin and Italy.

This evening he presents the work ‘Me(at), a plastic gun.’ This projects springs from the need of solitary work that you can often feel while being immersed in a dense flux of stimulii, influences, duties and events of a human’s social life. It has two fundamental points: the first is a middle point between controlling and being controlled, a state in which you can be lost into sound beyond any will or technical condition. The second is the relationship between development and time, that is understanding how long to stay into one sound, listening to the duration that the sound itself suggests as a need. Feedback systems and machine listening are together with human feedback and listening system of a man with a saxophone, searching for thresholds between individual and environment, action and listening, manipulation of the sound’s matter and conditioning of a logical system.