Transmedia

Stefan Prins (B) — live electronics

Performing free improvised music (prepared piano, objects & live-electronics) and composing are the two main directions in Stefan Prins recent musical evolution. The motor behind all this is a constant questioning of existing mechanisms, structures and ways-of-thinking. His goal is to search for contemporary relations between composer, score, performer, technology, audience and society through the medium of music.

He started to play the piano when he was seven. After graduating with greatest distinction at the Music School, he began studying engineering. Graduated as an engineering-physicist in 2002, he studied piano and composition at the Royal Flemish Conservatory in Antwerp, Belgium and Music Technology at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. For a specialisation at the Sonology-department of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (2004-2005), he received a scholarship from the Flemish Government. His interest in contemporary technology (such as computer-driven sound processing and algorithmic composition), its possibilities and shortcomings in musical contexts grew swiftly, and since then, his compositions and improvisations often include the use of contemporary technology.

He received several commissions from the Flemish Government, and has been played by (a.o.) Champ d′Action, the Ensor String Quartet, Agartha and Prometheus Ensemble and has collaborated closely with a.o. Serge Verstockt, Richard Barrett, Karlheinz Essl & Mark Applebaum. He performs as an improviser in Belgium and abroad, using (prepared) piano, amplified objects and live-electronics, in projects with dance, video, film, plastic arts and performance. He was awarded several prices for his compositions (a.o. KBC Aquarius Price for Young Composers 2001; Week of Contemporary Music Composition Award (2nd) 2006) and has been selected for the ISCM World Music Days in 2007 and 2008.

www.stefanprins.be

Jan Pillaert (B) — tuba & stem

While improvising and performing on and with his tuba, Jan Pillaert likes to explore the possibilities of his instrument. Solo-parts and rythme-sections are mixed into one big stream of noise that challenges other performers and audience to interpret and react.

myspace.com/janpillaert

WHEN
Thursday 29/04/2010 – 18h30

WHERE
Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel
Paleizenstraat 70 • 1030 Brussel
Lokaal M32 • Toegang GRATIS

IMPACT sessions – www.impactsessions.be – is een nieuwe performance reeks van Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel

Frank van de Ven (NL) — dance

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Peter Jacquemyn (B) — contrabas & stem

Peter Jacquemyn is een gekend figuur in de Europese improvisatie-wereld. Jacquemyn – op muzikaal gebied een autodidakt – werkt geregeld samen met het kruim van de internationale improvisatiescene (Fred Van Hove, Peter Kowald, Joelle Léandre, Tony Oxley, Geurt Grosfeld, Phil Minton, Takashi Yamane e.a.). Als improvisator begon hij zijn karrière bij WIM (Werkgroep Improviserende Musici). Zijn stijl is zeer energiek en spektakulair. Hij ontwikkelde een eigen speelwijze waarbij blikjes, nagels en 2 tot 3 strijkstokken tegelijkertijd gebruikt worden.

www.peterjacquemyn.be

WHEN
Thursday 01/04/2010 – 18h30

WHERE
Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel
Paleizenstraat 70 • 1030 Brussel
Lokaal M32 • Toegang GRATIS

IMPACT sessions – www.impactsessions.be – is een nieuwe performance reeks van Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel

Phill Niblock (USA) — video and sound installation

Phill Niblock is a New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a foundation born in the flames of 1968’s barricade-hopping. He has been a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. In the history books Niblock is the forgotten Minimalist. That’s as maybe: no one ever said the history books were infallible anyway.

His influence has had more impact on younger composers such as Susan Stenger, Lois V Vierk, David First, and Glenn Branca. He’s even worked with Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo on Guitar two, for four which is actually for five guitarists. This is Minimalism in the classic sense of the word, if that makes sense. Niblock constructs big 24-track digitally-processed monolithic microtonal drones. The result is sound without melody or rhythm. Movement is slow, geologically slow. Changes are almost imperceptible, and his music has a tendency of creeping up on you. The vocal pieces are like some of Ligeti’s choral works, but a little more phased. And this isn’t choral work. A Y U (as yet untitled) is sampled from just one voice, the baritone Thomas Buckner. The results are pitch shifted and processed intense drones, one live and one studio edited. Unlike Ligeti, this isn’t just for voice or hurdy gurdy. Like Stockhausen’s electronic pieces, Musique Concrete, or even Fripp and Eno’s No Pussyfooting, the role of the producer/composer in Hurdy Hurry and A Y U is just as important as the role of the performer.

www.phillniblock.com

Guy De Bievre (B) — live guitar

Self taught composer, arranger, musician, sound engineer and sound designer.

I seem to have decided to quit writing (late) 20th Century music in 1999. Before that my music has been commissioned and/or performed by musicians such as Guy Klucevsek, Seth Josel, Anne La Berge, The Bozza Mansion Project, Gene Carl, Annette Sachs, Zivatar Trio and various local and international organizations. ‘Polka Dots and Laser Beams’ was recorded by Guy Klucevsek and the Ain’t Nothin’ But a Polka Band and issued on CD on the Japanese Eva label and the Italian Pierrot Lunaire label; other works have been recorded and broadcast by the Flemish Public Radio. In 2002 a collaboration with Phill Niblock was published on the Ringtones CD (Touch).

Currently, after a long period of inactivity as such, I am again active as a performer (microphone, guitar and computer), which recently resulted in collaborations with composers Phill Niblock, Tom Hamilton and Peter Zummo. As a composer/performer I now focus on experiments which combine computer, live electronics, acoustics and standard arrangement formats. In addition to all this I am freelancing as a sound engineer, sound designer and advisor, microcontroller developer for various organizations and artists and I am the curator of the audio art series Earwitness at CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non Objective Art).

Fragment op Youtube
www.guydebievre.org

WHEN
Thursday 11/02/2010 – 18h30

WHERE
Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel
Paleizenstraat 70 • 1030 Brussel
Lokaal M32 • Toegang GRATIS

IMPACT sessions - www.impactsessions.be – is een nieuwe performance reeks van Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel

Born in Belgium (April 1971), Mr. Pawlowski first received local attention when, after joining several garage- and weddingbands, he formed ‘Evil Superstars’. Since their split in 1998 he has been doing music for puppet theatre, making guest appeareances and playing free improv. He also recorded a classic rock album under the name of ‘Mauro’. The man is currently working upon new traditional and experimental sounds.

www.mauropawlowski.com
www.mauroworld.net

When
Thursday 26/11/2009
14:00 – 17:00: Impact Sessions by Mauro Pavlovski
18:30 – 20:00: Impact Sessions Concert by Mauro Pavlovski

IMPACT sessions – www.impactsessions.be – is een nieuwe performance reeks van Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas Brussel