2018 has seen the second beta edition of the International Interdisciplinary Improvisation festival (What IIIF?), this time in London, and several noteworthy interdisciplinary projects of Genetic Choir singers in the Netherlands. To name a few:
18 November 2018 – “Nature’s Nickelodeon” on IDFA 2018, a collaboration with Amy Cutler (UK) to create a live improvised soundtrack for nature documentary footage. Performance at De Kleine Komedie, Amsterdam
30 September 2018 – BIRDSCORE I – FloorScore for Catalogue d’Oiseaux by Olivier Messiaen, in collaboration with Jeroen van Westen en Michiel Pestel. Zone2Source, Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam
14 September 2018 – “Conversation Balance” – two performances for the Opening of art exhibition ‘A Balancing Act’, singing on Julien F. Thomas’ unstable stage. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
14 July 2018 – ODYSSEIA – a ten hour reading and concert of Homer’s Odyssey with 200 readers and in collaboration with Giorgos Gripeos and the International Readers of Homer on Over het Ij festival 2018 – Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
1 June 2018 – a new version of CIRKEL, in collaboration with Cathalijne Smulders en Tamara van Scheppingen in Theater Perdu, Amsterdam
3 April 2018 – “Shouts, Whispers, Feets & Beats” – Genetic Choir samples Matthäus Passion fragments and performs with other musicians in an evening full of improvised music, curated by Marije Nie (tap) in Splendor, Amsterdam
In 2019 two long-term ambitions of stichting Here & Now are starting into a new round of exciting activity:
Huis van Lied en Geluid (the House of Sounds and Song) will be a 18 months project in collaboration with Genetic Choir singers ‘in residency’ at a home for people with dementia (and other brain afflictions) in Amsterdam.
The (Non)Corpus project will continue the ambition started with the Church Songs for the 21st Century series and investigate how improvisation and voice can bring together people from different believes and create arresting, contemporary new music on the edge of age-old cultures and modern music approaches.
More info about these projects, soon!
There will also be the third beta edition of What IIIF? from 16-19 May 2019 in Gothenburg, Sweden, collaborations with the MESH dance project from England (public space swarm intelligence), and an Amsterdam edition of the Offhand Opera from Berlin.
stichting here and now 