Biliana Voutchkova / Charmaine Lee / Aaron Michael Smith
When:
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024 8:00p -
9:30p
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024 8:00p -
9:30p
Where:
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon St.
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
$15
Hosted by:
Categories:
Music
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=25950004
Experimental Music from Germany and the US
Goethe-Institut Boston and Non-Event present
Biliana Voutchkova (solo & duo)
Charmaine Lee (solo & duo)
Aaron Michael Smith (solo)
Biliana Voutchkova
violin, voice
Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged composer-performer, violinist, interdisciplinary artist, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early education 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, focusing on the interconnection between inner world and sound space.
Biliana works internationally as a soloist and in collaboration with many renowned artists/ensembles. She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival, faculty at the Academy of Arts Bern, SHAPE+ Platform artist for 2022/2023, and recipient of multiple grants and awards. Her music has been released on the labels Unsounds, Another Timbre, Elsewhere, Relative Pitch Records, Confront Recordings, Inexhaustible Editions and Takuroku.
"...it seems to me your violin breathes slowly to write l-i-f-e - it is courage and feeling coming from within."
Thomas Millroth
Charmaine Lee
vocals, electronics
Charmaine Lee is an Australian vocalist based in New York. Using the voice, feedback, and live processing, Lee's practice is primarily concerned with risk-taking, playfulness, and improvisation. She has been recognized as “extraordinary” by New Yorker and has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, and Wire Magazine. As a composer, Lee has been commissioned by leading institutions including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and HBO Max. Lee is an Emergent Ventures winner (2024) and was an Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (2019) and a Van Lier Fellow at Roulette (2021). Her long-standing collaborators include Conrad Tao (Forbes 30U30) and Ikue Mori (MacArthur Fellow). Lee frequently guest lectures at undergraduate and graduate-level composition programs around the country. In 2023, she founded a record label & distribution platform, Kou Records, dedicated to pioneering artists in music & sound.
Aaron Michael Smith
Viola, electronics
Aaron Michael Smith is a composer, violist and artist currently based in Boston, MA. Aaron is interested in exploring the way that various practices and mediums overlap, reflect and contradict one another. He is often engaged in collaborations with filmmakers, visual artists, philosophers, poets and other musicians. A large part of his practice since 2012 has been making experimental films which have gone on to be featured at numerous international film festivals. In 2023, Aaron did the music for their first feature-length film, Playland, which premiered internationally at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and nationally at the Tribeca Festival. Aaron is a co-curator, along with Jordan Kokot, of field|guide, a collaborative multimedia art book project. Aaron is one third of grein, a transcontinental experimental improv trio, with Jay Rauch and Jonathan Rodriguez, with one release on Dinzu Artefacts. In 2024 Aaron co-founded a music series/experimental curation space called TRANSPORTER with Jessica Hernandez, hosted at Boston Cyberarts Gallery in Jamaica Plain. They throw shows, host experiments and workshops, and foster community. Listen to Aaron's music at Bandcamp or Soundcloud.
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