„Ce s-a intamplat in 11 martie 1990 la Timisoara? 11 martie!? 11 martie!? Nu stiu! Cate puncte are Proclamatia de la Timisoara? Nu stiu! Punctul 8 este cel mai important. Pe acesta il stiu toti prostii si il stiu si eu”, a declarat Caprice El Drum, presedintele RPM Timis.

Alex Simu is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed clarinetist, saxophonist, and composer. Born in Romania, Simu followed a music education from a young age. In pursue of an international music career, he moved to the Netherlands at age 22, where he began his studies at the Prins Claus Conservatory in Groningen, obtaining a Bachelors degree in Jazz Saxophone, followed by a Masters degree from the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 2007 he received an HSP Huygens scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. In 2008 he was awarded the First Prize of the Utrecht Holland Casino Jazz Contest. The same year he won first prize of the Dutch Jazz Competition at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, and in 2009 was awarded with the EBU jazz scholarship, and became a member of the European Jazz Orchestra for the project Swinging Europe lead by Peter Herbolzheimer.  After completing his studies, Alex Simu co-founded the Dutch-based quartet Arifa. Their debut album Beyond Babylon was released in 2010, followed by Anatolian Alchemy in 2012. Both albums were awarded the Best World Music Release of the year in the Netherlands, and distinguished with 5 stars by various publications. In 2017, Alex Simu released Echoes of Bucharest, his debut album as a band leader together with his quintet. The release at Bimhuis in Amsterdam was highly received by the national press:
 “Adventurous and stunningly beautiful. How much it was shared with the audience was evident from the daunting discharge after the end of the first set: an applause eruption that lasted so long that it seemed almost as if the final was reached." – Ton Maas, MixedWorldMusic  “Alex Simu shows his versatility and sense of beauty by playing clarinet in a style that unites his native city of Bucharest and his current city of Amsterdam. From a completely integral attitude, the quintet made the Balkan songs with their melancholy and beautiful melodies. Amsterdam seemed a little like Bucharest tonight." – Het Parool ****  Also a film music composer, Alex Simu has worked since 2010 on a great number of award-winning international film productions. In 2016, he was awarded with the Golden Calf  by the Dutch Film Academy for the Best Music of Beyond Sleep.  Since 2015, Simu is Head and Professor of clarinet within the jazz and world music departments of the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam. He is active in the field of organology and clarinet synthesis, and has innovated the tenor clarinet, as well as brought into contemporary use the alto clarinet, clarinet d’amour, and the bass clarinet d’amour.  Active on the jazz and world music scene since 1999, Alex Simu performed and toured professionally in 41 countries over 5 continents, and shared the stage with important figures such as Alvin Queen, Brian Lynch, Benny Golson, Bennie Wallace, Peter Herbolzheimer, Mari Boine, Jorge Reyes, Naseer Shamma, Ghalia Benali, Aynur Dogan, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, and many others.

sound, performance and temporary objects.
lo-fi electro-acoustic material: diverted machines, amplified broken objects, tapes, no-fi field recordings, no input mixing board, feedback, nervousness and necessity

who knows! words pulled alphabets gathering grasping ears seeking sense within sound

Ludic is an interdisciplinary collective of artists with backgrounds in scenography, neuroscience, sound, dance, performance arts, design
and psychology.  We present the idea of each participant as a co-producer
of mutually created situations. Musicians can dance, scenographer can choregraphe, and scientists can be visual artists. 

We create performances, installations, somatic workshops, soundscapes, sense and nonsense.

Ludic has conducted projects at: Seoul Dance Center (Seoul, KO); National Dance Center Bucharest (Bucharest, RO); KyivDanceResidency (Kiev, UA), ArtHub (Bucharest, RO); HALA FiX (Iasi, RO); CloudDansLab (Den Haag, ND), Konstepidemin (Gothenburg, SWE); Summerhill School (Suffolk, UK), etc.

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