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Date: Friday, 14 March 2025
Door: 19:30u CET
Start: 20:00u CET
Entrance: 0/3/5/7/10 euro (Pay What You Can)
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
Just one day before the new year started, on December 31, 2024 to be precise, the American composer Tom Johnson passed away at his home in Paris. Although The Platform For Extratonality was never able to welcome this pioneer of minimal music to our program, we have always felt a connection to his work within our extratonal efforts. The way in which Johnson combined theatrical and visual elements with theory, philosophy and music has been a great source of inspiration and a direction that we continue to pursue in our programs to this day.
Therefore, we would like to start 2025 with a celebration of graphic notation and illustrative music in the form of a two-day program. On Friday, March 14, we organize an evening with three lectures/performances on graphic notation at varia. One day later, on Saturday, March 15, we will give a workshop on this same topic during the Rotterdam Illustration Festival at Roodkapje. This functions as a bridge to an evening program at the same location, in which the interaction between illustration and music is explored.
Floris Vanhoof combines homemade electronic circuits and forgotten projection technologies for installations, expanded cinema performances and music publications. By translating one medium to another, he investigates how our perception operates and what new perspectives arise. Vanhoof is interested in the hybrid form of music, art and cinema. Projections with 16mm film and sounds from a modular synthesizer are central to his work. From this modular musical instrument, in which cables connect electronic sound modules, the belief grew that all possible instruments and ideas can be connected to each other. He makes his own translations from sound to image and vice versa, by connecting one medium to another - not always compatible - medium.
https://florisvanhoof.com/
Bodyscores is a workshop/interactive performance by Karina Dukalska, where you play with communicating ideas through scores and control the movements of performers. How would you transcribe movement into graphics, or sound into text? Karina is a graphic designer, dance educator and interdisciplinary workshop facilitator. Her work often revolves around scores, the documentation and (mis)translation of dance, and the socio-cultural impact this may have.
https://www.karinadukalska.com/
(d)RAW is an electronic instrument controlled by a graphic notation system build Riccardo Morogna. The graphic score acts as a map, navigated by semi-autonomous scanners that translate visual signs into waveforms, patterns, and sound. Inspired by optical sound experiments by Avraamov, Fischinger, McLaren, and Xenakis’ UPIC system, (d)RAW tries to challenge the boundaries between notation, composition, performance, and instrument design. Riccardo Marogna works with electronics, electroacoustic improvisation and fixed media. His works have been featured also at NIME 2018 (US), MusLab 2016 (Mexico), Matera Intermedia Festival (Italy, 2017), Biennale Musica (Venice, 2008), Experimental Intermedia (NY), Auditorium Parco Della Musica (Rome).
https://riccardomarogna.com/
This event is made possible with the kind support of Popunie Rotterdam, Stichting Volkskracht, Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Rotterdam and Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.