TEMPERATURA
20:30 (doors: 20:00)
Tickets online: regular €10 / discount €7 – at the door: €12,5/€7,5*
Sunday 1 November, TEMPERATURA
Join us at GROND for our first TEMPERATURA event of the season!!!
The GROND members and live electronics performers Jasna Veličković and Fani Konstantinidou invite a special guests: Biliana Voutchkova (violin), Maya Felixbrot (viola), Aaron Lumley (doublebass), Milana Zarić (harp) and Ivo Bol (electronics).
A free improvisation evening with the seven artists coming together for the first time!!!
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Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early training in classical music and the years of development as contemporary artist-performer, she explores states of spontaneity and intuitive resonance embodied in her multifaceted activities.
Aaron Lumley is a Canadian contrabassist living in Amsterdam since 2019. He is an exploratory musician who tunes his bass in fifths and plays with a self-made bow. In addition to solo work, Lumley plays in Bioluminus (w. Ada Rave & Onno Govaert), Old Adam on Turtle Island (w. John Dikeman, Marta Warelis & Sun Mi Hong), Duke Garwood and Parkland Music Project among others.
Maya Felixbrot is a musician and movement artist working at the intersection of sound, movement, and performance. Her practice explores the poetics of chaos through playfulness, interdisciplinarity, and Winnicott’s concept of the Transitional Space.
Ivo Bol creates his own sound world using found sounds: the hum of a refrigerator, a forgotten cassette tape, the crackle of a vinyl record before the music begins. During performances he manipulates these sounds using plants, radios and brainwaves. Under the name Vinkepeezer, Bol composes music for dance and theatre productions, filmmakers and visual artists in the Netherlands and abroad.
Over the past two decades the work of Netherlands-based, Belgrade-born harpist and composer Milana Zarić has continually pushed the boundaries of her instrument and forged new ground in collaborative creation. Formerly principal harpist with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, she specialises in post-1960 repertoire, new composition and free improvisation.
Fani Konstantinidou is a composer and sound artist interested in cultural, cross-cultural, and social identities, and their sonic imprints. Her main topics of interest are urban and rural sonic environments, spoken language, and culturally associated musical instruments. She creates various types of works such as site-specific and multichannel compositions, along with live, often improvised, performances.
Jasna Veličković is a Belgrade-born composer and performer based in Amsterdam. Her artistic output has been developed through an interaction between a life-long fascination with sound and an inclination toward experimentation. Her work investigates how magnetic phenomena can become compositional systems, with a particular focus on magnetism as both sonic material and compositional method.
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TEMPERATURA is a contemporary music concert series, improvisation hub, and everything in between, initiated by composers/performers J. Veličković and F. Konstantinidou. The series focuses on contemporary music from the Netherlands and beyond, aiming to bring together its diverse expressions.
* Ticket fees go to the artists. If you wish to attend but can’t afford our entry fee, please send us an email to temperatura.amsterdam (at) gmail (dot) com and we ‘ll make sure you can join us.