In Bloom: Fifth edition (again)

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world."
Herman Hesse, Demian

The debut album of Mári Mákó, Oudemian, fuses introspective instrumental and vocal textures with live electronics. It is a sonic journey of finding inner strength through crisis, of overcoming existential angst and rebirth.

The title was invented as a combination of two-words: "Ouroboros" and "Demian." Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a snake biting its own tail representing the circle of life, and Hesse's novel Demian depicts a young boy struggling to find his new self-knowledge and his place in an immoral world. As it happens, Oudemian also holds an actual meaning in ancient Greek: "none."

The meeting of these concepts drive the narrative and musical evolution of the album, which moves from a place of fragility and mystery and arriving at a place of reflection.

Waves

This track is a preview. To listen to the whole piece and buy the record please visit martaforsberg.bandcamp.com.

Swedish composer and sound artist Marta Forsberg debut album "To All Frequencies I Can Not Sense for Quartet" on Havtorn Records.

"To All Frequencies I Can Not Sense for Quartet" is composed for electric guitar (Ellen Arkbro), electric bass (Emil Skogh), drums (Konrad Agnas), trumpet (Niklas Barnö) and electronics. It is a minimalist piece which deals with lingering spatiality - a meditation on the subtle frequencies which exist outside human perception, but nevertheless surround us, ever-present.

Together, the four musicians create a detailed timbral environment encompassing both complexity and simplicity, a contemplative evolution of a dynamic sound-world that is characterised by a shifting emphasis between tones, chords and noise.

Coming from the minimalist tradition of drone music, Marta Forsberg moves between composing for instrumental ensembles (Serenus Zeitblom Oktett, Berlin), creating sound and light installations (Konserthuset, Stockholm) and an ongoing solo practice (3HD festival - Berlin, Unconscious Archives festival - London). As the initiator of the feminist network Konstmusiksystrar, she also actively works for gender equality within the Contemporary Music scene.

Each digital copy of ”To All Frequencies I Can Not Sense for Quartet” includes a limited-edition large pattern print by Swedish artist and illustrator Elvira Varghans.

Release date: November 3rd 2017
Form: Digital release + Limited edition A2 poster by Elvira Varghans
Mix: David Granström.
Master: Saintpid Mastering

To All Frequencies I Can Not Sense for Quartet (Preview)

CUTOUT (Simon Berz) REMIX BY TOKTEK

Organo (Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Riccardo Marogna, Ábel Fazekas) perform at In Bloom: Second Edition on 3 October 2019

listen to more of their work at:
organo.bandcamp.com

Organo - Improvisation (excerpt)

Lam Lai & Miri Lee are a duo of composer / electronic musician Lam Lai and  choreographer and real-time performer Miri Lee.
 ---In Bloom: Third Edition
----12 Dec 2019

for more of Lam Lai's work go to https://lamlai.net/
to see Miri Lee's work go to https://www.mirilee.nl

Lam Lai & Miri Lee (excerpt)

Ctrl Freq (Kacper Ziemianin) performs on his LSe (light sequencer) instrument.
In Bloom: Second Edition
3 October 2019

See more of his work here:
https://ctrlfreq.wordpress.com/

Ctrl Freq - LSe improvisation (excerpt)

Toktek (Tom Verbruggen) feat drummer Wouter Jaftoran.
In Bloom: Third Edition
12 December 2019

for more of Toktek's work go here:
https://www.toktek.org/

Toktek & Wouter Jaftoran (another excerpt)

You know it's true

In Bloom is a new concert series hosted by Korzo Theatre and curated by Hague-based composer/performers James Alexandropoulos-McEwan and Lise Morrison. They select and present a showcase of young musicians and projects that haven’t yet broken to the surface. These are works developed by their peers and collaborators working in the local music and art scene - be it in the context of local squat-based and D.I.Y. concerts, or projects born from Dutch music and art academies.

Toktek & Wouter Jaftoran (another excerpt)

In Bloom

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