2019 was the year of the Genetic Choir project (Non)Corpus: God and a new edition of Loop-Copy–Mutate on November Music 2019.
(Non)Corpus: God, a research and performance project that brought together secular, Christian and Islamic music sources in the spirit of improvisation culminated in two evening concerts in the monumental Dominicuskerk in Amsterdam on 22+28 december 2019.
The plans for a tour of this concert in 2021 and subsequently for part II and III of the (Non)Coprus trilogy are underway!
On November Music, the acclaimed yearly festival for new music in the Netherlands, we launched a new edition of the Loop-Copy-Mutate project, this time on the basis of basketball sounds and -playing.
The Huis van Lied en Geluid project started in September 2019 with a preparation phase in collaboration with the Flevohuis in Amsterdam. The deployment of improvisation singers in the living groups of people with dementia on a weekly basis commenced from January 2020. The project is planned to last 1,5 years, so the current pauze on being able to work in the Flevohuis (due to Covid19) doesn’t threaten the project’s execution, and the first months of experiences and steps in developing a new methodolody to work with people who’s verbal capacities have been impaired, are very promising.
Inspired by the current Covid19 crisis, stichting Here&Now has launched another project to created something beautiful and new in a situation where improvisers and audiences are all locked-in at home:
An Expandable Networked Universe for the Art of Improvisation
Funding applications are underway, we expected the results by the end of May 2020.
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