[ Archive: 2024 ]
Performance of 'Otherscapes' with Hagai Izenberg
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05 December 2024
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Hagai and I are back with our duo audio-visual performance 'Otherscapes' this December. We'll be performing it as a double-bill evening alongside '3 guitars' with Sharon Kantor, Or Rimmer, and Ariel Kleiner.
Supported with funding from the Rabinowich Foundation and hosted by the Solidarity House. Thursday, 05 December, 20:00 Solidarity House (Beit Ramano), Tel Aviv |
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Performance and Keynote Presentation at the Sounds of the Metaverse Conference, Warsaw, Poland
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23 November 2024
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I'm so excited to join AOM in Warsaw as we present our new creation 'Entanglements in Cyberspace' at the 'Sounds of the Metaverse Conference.
Entanglements in Cyberspace For the Sounds of the Metaverse Conference, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse (AOM) has created an evolving audio visual landscape in Second Life through a linked and related series of environments, which are all part of a conceptual, multi-sensorial whole. Building on AOM’s long practice of collaborative deep listening in the dynamic landscape of digital space, this new live performance installation focuses on mycelial and oceanic networks. Much like the neural connections of Earth, these networks embody the potential of empathic organisms thriving in cyberspace. ‘Entanglements in Cyberspace’ reflects interdependence and interconnectedness. Just as the ocean and mycelia nurture life beneath the surface, this digital symbiosis resonates within our collective intelligence, transcending traditional and hierarchical structures and physical boundaries. Sounds of the Metaverse Conference Chopin University of Music, Warsaw, Poland https://chopin.edu.pl/research/conferences-scientific-projects/conference-sounds-of-the-metaverse 23 November 2024 Performance - 16:00 CET Presentation - 17:20 CET |
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'Rivers and Stones': Ensemble Musica Nova x Ensemble Ptilia Concert
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09 November 2024
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12:00-14:00 Listening workshop
A short workshop for broadening and deepening attention. Listening practices inspired by Anna Lockwood, Pauline Oliveros, and Morai Shafer. We will explore the presence of sound in the space around us and within us, and delve into the development of listening sensitivity. Parents and children are welcome! Under the direction of Maayan Tsadka, Ilan Barkani and Danni Williamson 19:30 concert Works by Anna Lockwood and Christian Wolff Composer Anna Lockwood (turning 85 this year) and composer Christian Wolff (turning 90 this year) are two central figures in the world of experimental music. Pillars, sources of inspiration and groundbreaking artists in thinking about the limits of listening, musical aesthetics, systems of control and freedom of the composer versus the performer, and the deep meaning of sound in social, environmental and political contexts. In the upcoming and one-off concert, we will perform four pieces with an extended ensemble of 10 musicians. With participation: Or Sinai, Yifeat Ziv, Maayan Tsadka, Adi Snir, Or Rimer, Ilan Barkani, Maya Pennington, Dani Williamson, Bar Eran and Amit Boium Felicja: Art Center and Library, Tel Aviv 09 November, 12:00-14:00; 19:30 |
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Cosy-Radical Storytelling
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22 October 2024
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Cosy-Radical Storytelling;
speculative fiction writing workshop The stories we tell matter. They are all around us shaping our reality as we shape them. A good story has the ability to move through us, metabolically nestled inside the body, until it is ready to diffuse back out into the world, maybe in the form of another story. And like this we world the world with our imaginations and desires. We believe that storytelling is an essential muscles for building more radical queer futures of resistance and regeneration, but a muscle in desperate need of training. So join us for a creative evening of exercising our collective storytelling muscles and allowing our imaginations and desires to flow in colourful and unexpected directions. No prior writing experience is needed, but if you have an existing idea for a story please bring it along! Or perhaps you have an excerpt of an existing story that you want to share with the group? Or a favourite speculative fiction book you want to tell us about? We will propose some short writing exercises to get us started, otherwise we will work with the material you bring and the space will be open for whatever the collective mood invites. See you for a cosy evening for queer imagination and radical futuring. De Opstand, Den Haag 22 October, 19:00-22:00 |
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Entangled Doorways: Hybrid Futures Retreat + Exhibition
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19-20 October 2024
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Queered Futures Lab hosts an in-person creative retreat - a culmination of the ideas and practices we have shared together within the Hybrid Futures online projects throughout 2024.
The retreat will take place in a private apartment in Berlin, where we will immerse ourselves in the space together to create site-specific performative works which will be shared with the public at the end of the weekend. Wedding, Berlin 20 October, 18:00-22:00 |
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Ptilia Ensemble | Breath Cycles: Day and Night
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12.09.2024
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Breath Cycles Day and Night is a long-form, site-specific performance event of improvisation-based musical and performative works written and performed by Ptilia Ensemble in collaboration with performance initiatives by other local artists. The content of the works focus on deep listening practices established by American composer Pauline Oliveros, in which we intently study the sounds of the locale both within and outside Beit Hagefen and use those impressions as material for site-specific works which we create for the space. Joining Ensemble Ptilia (Dani Williamson, Ilan Barkani, Maya Pennington, Bar Eran, and Laila Mazal Yennishen) are local guest artists Avigail Sfez, Dorin Amitzur, Maayan Tsadka, and Yael Sadi. Together we drift between the many corners and spaces within the Beit Hagefen gallery to perform a stream-of-consciousness event whose sounds and movements will take place throughout different rooms within the gallery. A more detailed program will be published closer to the event.
midnight | Niggun Gathering This is a gathering of multidisciplinary free improvisation based on deep listening, with the participation of the experimental art scene in Haifa and beyond. The Niggun is intended as a social event - a meeting, a shared experience and space for the greater artistic community in Haifa. The events are taking place as part of " Slalom - Haifa Cultural Activities" with the support of the Haifa Municipality Culture Department, the Haifa Boston Representative Office, the Hadrim Foundation and Beit Hagafen Beit Hagefen Gallery, Haifa 12 September 2024 | 20:00 - 23:00 |
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Point.of.View: Gala Event for Duo Alto Video Project
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18.07.2024
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The video project is a series of audio-visual pieces, the fruits of collaborations between Duo Alto and prominent composers and myself. The aim is to offer the audience a visual experience that will accompany the audio experience, while adding a unique value of pieces that were composed for the video and the video serving as a guideline for the composers throughout their compositional process.
This new concept of composition also fits the duo’s mission in reaching wide and diverse audiences, also those who are less familiar with the scene of contemporary art, as the contents are intended to be highly engaging, easy to access, and simple to disseminate to large audiences. Artists Anat Nazarathy - flutes Noa Mick - saxophones Dani Williamson - video art Commissioned composers Yuval Adler (Canada) Asia Ahmetjanova (Switzerland) Tom Belkind (Germany) Jodie Rottle (Australia) Mara Winter (Switzerland) Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa 18 July 2024 - 19:30 |
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Breath Cycles II
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15 June, 2024
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In her Sonic Meditations, Pauline Oliveros emphasizes the importance of the breath, of being an observer of one’s own breathing. Inspired by this attention, we invite you to ‘Breath Cycles II’, a performance event of new site-specific scores by Ptilia Ensemble, which are contoured to the venue space : Pyramida Center for Contemporary Art. The concert comes after a day-long retreat where Ptila meets to study pieces from Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations workbook, deepen our own creative practices as a group and develop the new scores together.
20:00 | 15 June 2024 Pyramida - Center for Contemporary Art, Haifa facebook event |
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Randy performs "Lonewolf" at Club Church
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25 April, 2024
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Randy joins the lineup of drag performances to sing his single "Lone Wolf" ~1 AM, 25 April 2024 Club Church, Amsterdam |
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Hybrid Futures: Songwriting/Performance Workshop
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24 April, 2024
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Queered Futures Lab presents Hybrid Futures; a 4.5 hour-long songwriting and performance workshop. This will be part of an experimental journey towards collectively creating a sci-fi futurist theatre play which engages more deeply in social justice, queerness, community, technology and the environment through a queer feminist lens. This process takes place throughout the year between Berlin and Amsterdam, culminating in a translocal community theatre production at the beginning of 2025. Hybrid Futures: Songwriting and Performance Workshop directly follows a scriptwriting workshop, which takes place the week prior in Berlin. Materials created from the Berlin workshop will be ingested, reinterpreted and “songified” in our songwriting workshop. Together, we will explore songwriting basics and popular chord progressions in order to create simple, musical drafts of the working script. We hope that this will serve as a playful experience of polyvocal writing. 16:30 - 21:00, 24 April 2024 Bar Bario, Bilderdijkstraat 186, 1053 LD Amsterdam |
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Hybrid Futures: Scriptwriting/Storytelling Workshop
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19 April, 2024
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Queered Futures Lab presents Hybrid Futures; a half day scriptwriting workshop in collaboration with local playwright, Jara Nassar. This will be part of an experimental journey towards collectively creating a sci-fi futurist theatre play which engages more deeply in social justice, queerness, community, technology and the environment through a queer feminist lens. This process takes place throughout the year between Berlin and Amsterdam, culminating in a translocal community theatre production at the beginning of 2025. Friday, April 19th from 14:30 - 19:00 Hopscotch Reading Room, Gerichtstraße 45, Berlin |
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Breath Cycles |
13 April, 2024
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In Pauline Oliveros’ ‘Sonic Meditations’ works, she emphasizes the importance of the breath, of being an observer of one’s own breathing. Inspired by this attention, we invite you to ‘Breath Cycles’, a performance of new scores created by Ptilia. The concert comes after a weekend-long retreat where Ptila Ensemble meets to study pieces from Oliveros’ ‘Sonic Meditations’ workbook, deepen our own creative practices as a group and develop the new scores together.
20:00 | 13 April 2024 Haifa facebook event |
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Breath Cycles (workshop)
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13 April, 2024
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“Breath Cycles” is a public workshop hosted by Ptilia Ensemble in which we invite members of the public to come together to learn about the deep listening and Sonic Meditations practices created and composed by Pauline Oliveros. Participants will be guided through a series of mental and (gentle) vocal exercises/scores.
The workshop comes after a weekend-long retreat where Ptila Ensemble meets to deepen our own creative practices as a group and develop new scores together. A concert of these works will follow the workshop so we invite all participants to stay for the performance. The workshop will be led in a hybrid of Hebrew and English. Please message us to reserve your place. We have spots for up to 12 people. [email protected] 18:00-19:30 | 13 April 2024 Haifa facebook event |
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Randy Miller and LA LI: 'כולנו חיות'
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04 April, 2024
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'כולנו חיות' / 'we're all animals'
An evening of performances by Randy Miller and LA LI video works by LA LI collaborative liver performance, followed by more live songs from Randy Miller's upcoming album 'Randy Miller and the Earthly Crisis' 20:00 | 04 April 2024 Mezo Gallery, Sirkin 3, Haifa facebook event forthcoming |
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Hyperdirection 3.0 premiere at CCA Tel Aviv
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07 March, 2024
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Hyperdirection 3.0 is the third in our series of interactive AV performances which explore the intersection points between live and per-recorded materials.
Performed by: Adam Cohen (drums) Tom Klein (cello) Orr Sinay (composition, live audio mixing) Dani Williamson (filming, MaxMSP) the project was supported by Mifal HaPais. for more about Hyperdirection, visit this page. Thursday, 07 March 2024 19:00, CCA Tel Aviv facebook event |
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עד העונג העא with Randy Miller at Syrup
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17 February, 2024
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live music | Ballroom | Performance | Party
❁גאות להציג: ״עד העונג הבא״ -הופעות ומסיבה בסימן וולנטיין❁ אמניות מוכשרות ממדיומים מגוונים יציגו לנו פרשנויות שונות למושג התשוקה בין המופעים ואחריהם דיג׳יי דורבי יתקלט לנו שעטנז מוזיקלי ♡הכניסה חופשית♡ ליינאפ 20:00 פתיחת דלתות 21:00 Randy Miller 22:00 Ballroom Showcase 23:00 Michal Meg על עיצוב האווירה, בשעות משלה: Zaza בין ההרים לים, מלב הדר ועד עיר תחתית, בית הקהילות מתארח לראשונה בסירופ ♡ Thursday, 17 February 2024 | 21:00 Syrup, Sderot HaPalyam 2, Haifa facebook event |
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Queer Futurity in Practise
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13 February, 2024
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Queered Futures Lab Presents: Queer Futurity in Practise
How do we practise futuring in our daily lives? What does queer futuring as both everyday micro-action and larger scale initiative look like? While we have pondered a lot on what a queer future is in theory and speculation, for this session we turn our attention towards queer futures as practical and everyday action. We will identify existing choices and structures in our lives that could be considered actions of queer futuring, as well as brainstorming new practices we can introduce. Throughout this conversation we cut, stick and reassemble these thoughts into small handbooks that treat the mundane and everyday as a site for speculative reshaping. Online event takes place 13th February, 19:30 - 21:30 CET. |
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