A live performance with Rothko's painting was organised by Stedelijk Museum when the quarantine was announced in the Netherlands and it had to be cancelled. However it shouldn't stop creation and a music piece was composed but from a different concept. In solitude while composing I realised that piece should be about feeling longing, but not in a defeated way. More like feeling the pause and delay, what we
actually experience in our everyday life during the quarantine. Even though we are not sharing space with the art it still exists out there, and there is a hope to connect after all.
I still made use of the melody line, which I’d created during my time with the painting in the museum. Also there is another factor which was very important for this project; the legacy of Morton Feldman, the American composer who had already composed pieces for Rothko’s art and I refer to that whit a short segment in the final piece.

Rothko and me in the time of quarantine

Mári Mákó (HU) is a composer and sound artist based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In her solo practice she plays with live electronics, which she combines with acoustic sound sources: voice, amplified instruments and objects. In her performance she is looking for unconventional music practices to give space for her own compositional processes and she is aiming to challenge the ‘recital form’ of concerts.
Along with that she is designing her own performative tools with sensors and self-built oscillators.
With her inventive musical instruments, her music has been described as a mix of the roots of industrial music, experimental electronic and glitch music contrasted with drone textures.

As a composer Mári Mákó has worked together with ensembles such as: Maze Esenmble, But What About ensemble and Klang ensemble. In her pieces she seeks to explore the experience of musical flow between the muscians and composer. For that she is using her own compositional technique as conducting with graphic symbols.

She is actively performing in Europe with various projects and currently working on her debut album.

Exiles Electronics are a small label of wonder and intrigue.

James O’Callaghan is a composer and multimedia artist based in Berlin. His work has been described as “very personal… with its own colour anchored in the unpredictable,” (Goethe-Institut). It spans chamber, orchestral, live electronic and acousmatic idioms, audio installations, video-music, site-specific performances, electronic dance music, and interdisciplinary collaboration — most recently with choreographer Edouard Lock and artist Lois Brown. In 2016 an album of his acousmatic works, Espaces Tautologiques, was released by empreintes DIGITALes, and his extended collaboration with Ensemble Paramirabo resulted in a portrait album of his works in 2019, entitled Alone and unalone.
	His music has received nearly forty prizes and nominations, including the ISCM Young Composer Award (2017), the Salvatore Martirano Award (2016), and the SOCAN Foundation John Weinzweig Grand Prize (2014). Significant nominations include those for the Gaudeamus Award (2016), Prix Métamorphoses (2018), and two JUNO Awards (2014, 2020). In 2021 he received the Prix Opus for “Composer of the Year.” 
	Active as an arts organiser, he co-founded and co-directed the Montréal Contemporary Music Lab. Originally from British Columbia, he lived in Montréal for 11 years and since 2022 has been based out of Berlin.

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Sat, 7 Jul 2018 /
KGR’n / Tokyo, Japan 

Thu, 5 Jul 2018 /
Volnost / Seoul, South Korea 

Tue, 3 Jul 2018 /
Shadeless / 絶影  / Busan, South Korea 

Sat, 30 Jun 2018 /
Constant Value 29: Archetype 十二中六   / Seoul, South Korea

Fri, 8  Jun 2018 /
Voitax Night at  Desonanz Festival  / Skopje, Macedonia 

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 /
LP Release Party w/ Voitax at La Machine / Paris, France

Fri, 24 Nov 2017 /
Time Out at ​Petit Bain / Paris, France

Wed, 25 Oct 2017 /
Techno Evening x Le 45 Tours at ​Le 45 Tours / Paris, France

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Space Baghdad at ​Solfa / Tokyo, Japan

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DOMMUNE / Tokyo, Japan

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Rouge, The Last Vision at ​Gallery Unofficial Preview / Seoul, South Korea

Sat, 24 Jun 2017 /
Constant Value 18  / Seoul, South Korea

Fri, 24 Feb 2017 /
Lunacy  at ​CO² Club Origin / Nantes, France

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Techno Evening x Le 45 Tours at ​Le 45 Tours / Paris, France

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Sport National / Asnieres, France

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