John Cage Year 2012
[ polski ]

[Program]

28 September, 2012 [8.00 PM]klub Mózg, ul. Gdańska 10

Audrey Chen / Götz Rogge, John Cage - songbooks

Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American musician who was born into a family of material scientists, doctors and engineers, outside of Chicago in 1976. Parting ways with the family convention, she turned to the cello at age 8 and voice at 11. After years of classical and conservatory training in both instruments, with a resulting specialization in early and new music, she parted ways again in 2003 to begin new negotiations with sound in order to discover a more individually honest aesthetic. Now, using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work delves deeply into her own version of narrative and non-linear storytelling. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is extremely personal and visceral.

Her playing explores the combination and layering of a homemade analog synthesizer, preparations and traditional and extended techniques in both the voice and cello. She works to join these elements into a singular ecstatic personal language. Recently, her primary focus has been her solo project but she is also involved in many various collaborations with musicians such as: Toshimaru Nakamura, Ko Ishikawa, Tomomi Adachi, Elliott Sharp, Aki Onda, Phill Niblock, Mats Gustafsson, Mazen Kerbaj, Michael Zerang, Le Quan Ninh, and many more. Some more current projects have included: duos with Robert van Heumen (Abattoir), Katt Hernandez (Isabel), Nate Wooley (Heave and Shudder) and Id M Theft Able. This year Chen will be touring solo and with her two current duo projects with Phil Minton and Kamama with drummer Luca Marini. Two album releases include a trio with Nate Wooley and C. Spencer Yeh on Monotype (Warsaw), and a duo record with Phil Minton on Subrosa (Brussels). New upcoming projects include work with guitarist and composer, Jean-Yves Evrard, the German artist, John Bock and with the widely acclaimed Kronos Quartet.

Born in Berlin, Götz Rogge has been working as an actor for German Public Radio and TV from age seven. During his education in New York City he worked on documantary films about contemporary architecture, dance and music as well as on music videos. In 1990 he turned to the performing arts, audio-visual installations and stage projections. His collaborators span the diversity of his work, such as the dancer Kim Itoh, musicains like Henry Grimes, Keiji Haino and Sainkho Namtchilak or the theater groups Survival Research Laboratories and Generic Vapeur.
In the field of photography Götz works with extremly large format pinhole cameras. Artwork production and Workshops teachings took him to Frankfurt, Damaskus, New York, Los Angeles and Auroville/India.
He is author of many children documentations.
In 2006 he was curator and artistic director in the department of „Wilderness + Art“ at the virgin forest Saarbrücken.
He work-travelles continuously in all remote corners of the globe.
www.halqa.de