FRIDAY 24 JANUARY
K77 (lichtblik kino) - Kastanienallee 77 - 10435 BERLIN prenzlauerberg
bar opens 21:00 / music starts 22:00
FAUNA: ROSE / STAPLETON DUO
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KAKALIAGOU / KOURTPARADISOU DUO
FAUNA: ROSE / STAPLETON DUO
SIMON ROSE - baritone/alto saxophones
PAUL STAPLETON - bonsai sound sculpture
Encountering one another’s music while performing in the large ensemble ‘Call them Improvisers’, performance at Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast (November 2010), directed by Evan Parker, Paul Stapleton and Simon Rose found an immediate musical affinity. Since then they have performed as a duo in Germany and the UK. The recently released and well received: ‘Fauna’ was recorded by Elmar Susse on 22nd September 2011 in Hoffnungskirche (church) in Pankow, Berlin. In the duet Paul Stapleton’s self designed instrument, the BoSS Bonsai Sound Sculpture, (BoSS, 2010) combines with Simon Rose’s circular breathed baritone/alto, multiphonics and harmonic textures, to explore in real-time interaction. The method of exploration commits to a free improvisation approach: the music is composed at the point of performance.
This is the best kind of improvised music… a very remarkable duet
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg
fauna-stapleton-rose.bandcamp.com
www.pfmentum.com
KAKALIAGOU / KOURTPARADISOU DUO
ELENA KAKALIAGOU - french horn
MARGARITA KOURTPARADISOU - percussion
FRIDAY 24 JANUARY
K77 (lichtblik kino) - Kastanienallee 77 - 10435 BERLIN prenzlauerberg
bar opens 21:00 / music starts 22:00
THURSDAY 30 JANUARY
OT301 Overtoom 301 - 1054 HW AMSTERDAM
AUXXX + Denovali Records present
INCONSOLABLE GHOST
a haunted audio-visual event presented by Denovali Records
bar opens 21:00 / music starts 22:00
image Makino Takashi
ALFREDO GENOVESI - guitar + electronics
HILARY JEFFERY - table rapping
GIDEON KIERS - remote viewing
MAKINO TAKASHI - film + sound
RAPHAEL VANOLI - guitar + electronics
www.ot301.nl
ARTIST INFO
ELENA KAKALIAGOU
Elena Margarita Kakaliagou is a greek-austrian french horn player and performer, currently based in Berlin. Starting out with piano lessons, she moved on to the French horn at the age of 18. After completing her studies in Athens/GR with Vangelis Skouras, she moved on to KUG-Graz/AT to continue her education under the teaching of Hector McDonald. Instructed by Erja Joukamo-Ampuja, Elena obtained her Master’s degree from Sibelius Academy/FI in 2010 /French horn and chamber music. During her career, Elena has received scholarships from Klangforum, Impuls and Ensemble Modern with teachers like Mike Svoboda and Bill Formann. Elena’s field of specialization is free improvised and contemporary music, next to classic chamber music. She has performed premiers and classical repertoire both as a soloist and as a member of Ensembles (Ensemble Linea, Unitedberlin, KNM Berlin) in Festivals like Ultraschall Berlin/DE, Maerz Music/DE, Randspiele/DE, Musica Nova/FI, Lá-bas/FI, Musica/FR, Warsaw Autumn/PL, New Adits/AT ao. She has also worked with individual artists: Riikka Innanen, Samuel Stoll, James Andean, Ingrid Schmoliner, Katharina Klement, Catherine Christer Hennix, Robin Hayward, Simon Steen-Andersen, Thomas Noll, to name but a few. Elena is the co-founder of the Helsinki-based ‘Rank Ensemble’, the Austrian trio ‘PARA’, (“PARA-ligo” cd, creativesources 2012) the performance groups ‘Lúiss’ and ‘Continuous Variation’, as well as the classical wind quintet ‘AEOLIDES’, based in Berlin.
www.elenakakaliagou.com
MARGARITA KOURTPARADISOU
Margarita Kourtparasidou was born in 1981 in Greece. Supported by musical parents in Thessaloniki, Maria-Margarita Kourtparasidou began playing the piano at the age of six, before later taking up percussion. She studied at the Thessaloniki State Conservatoire under Prof. Vassiliadis till 2000. In January 2005, she completed her Performance Diploma at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany) under Prof. Peter Prommel and in February 2006 she finished the Chamber Music Diploma at the same school. In May 2007 she completed the Master Degree at the Conservatorium of Amsterdam with specialisation in chamber music. In 1999 she wins the Panhellenic Percussion Competition and also she was offered a grant to study at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. In Germany she studies with a “Gesellschaft der Freunde und Foerderer of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold E.V.” Scholarship and in Amsterdam she wins a subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Culture. Recently she managed to come through the semi-finals of the Gaudeamus Competition for Interpreters. Maria-Margarita Kourtparasidou has gained work experience at the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Germany), Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, New Music Ensemble, Asko Ensemble and many others. She was Solo-Timpanist at the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, member of the Nederlands Wind Ensemble and the DissonART Ensemble and has founded the Red Chicken Soup Duo with Guido De Flaviis (saxophone). She has toured in Europe, America and Asia. She is living in Berlin since 2012 and she is interested in free improvisation, performance and live-electronics.
margaritapercussion.com
SIMON ROSE
Simon Rose has performed on saxophone in Europe, US and Canada. Interest as a free improviser developed exploring the possibilities created by purposefully limiting himself to the alto saxophone (solo alto ‘Procession’ FMR 2005). In recent years Rose has included baritone sax (solo ‘Schmetterling,’ Not Two Records, 2011). He has also performed with the trio Badland (with Simon Fell and Steve Noble) during the last 15 years. Collaborations have included: Adam Bohman, Jan Roder, Mark Sanders, Kjell Nordeson, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, Pauline Oliveros, Evan Parker, Oluyemi Thomas, Chris Chafe, Kanoko Nishi, Ava Mendoza, Weasel Walter, Dave Tucker, Damon Smith, Pauline Oliveros, Charity Chan, Colin Stetson, Dominic Lash, Hilary Jeffery, Alan Wilkinson, Pascal Nichols, London Improvisers Orchestra, Roland Ramanan Tentet among many others. CD recordings can be found on Bruce’s Fingers, Emanem, FMR, PSI, Rayon, Leo, Bug Incision and Not Two.
simonrose.org
PAUL STAPLETON
Paul Stapleton is a sound artist, improviser and writer originally from Southern California, currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Paul designs and performs with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics, found objects and electric guitars in locations ranging from experimental music clubs in Berlin to remote beaches on Vancouver Island. He is involved in a diverse range of artistic collaborations including: improvisation duos with saxophonist Simon Rose & percussionist Michael Speers, networked installation design and performance with Tom Davis, Eric Lyon's Noise Quartet, and the co-direction of QUBe experimental music ensemble with Steve Davis. Since 2007, Paul has been lecturing at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (Queen’s University Belfast), where he teaches and supervises MA & PhD research in performance technologies, interaction design and site-specific art.
soundcloud.com/paul-stapleton
INCONSOLABLE GHOST
image Makino Takashi
The first presentation of a new audio-visual project - Inconsolable Ghost - produced by AUXXX and Denovali Records will take place at OT301 on Thursday 30 January featuring local guitar heroes Alfredo Genovesi and Raphael Vanoli, plus the great Japanese experimental film maker Makino Takashi, known for his work with Jim O Rourke and Sonic Youth.
