Electroacoustic ensemble MAZE plays new music by (and with) cellist Okkyung Lee, an integral figure in New York’s experimental music scene, alongside work by media artist Jacob Kirkegaard.
Amsterdam-based ensemble MAZE is dedicated to performing music that challenges the idea of fixed form and a fixed listening perspective. Following previous collaborations with Robert Ashley, Christian Marclay, Annea Lockwood and Michael Pisaro, MAZE now presents a festival dedicated to sonic textures and field recordings.
For this concert at the Bimhuis MAZE has developed a new composition in collaboration with Okkyung Lee, leading cellist from the New York improvised music scene. Her unorthodox playing draws from noise, jazz Western classical music and Korean folk music. Additionally, the ensemble will perform the acoustic version of 4 Rooms by Jacob Kirkegaard, for which MAZE members Anna La Berge and Yannis Kyriakides have developed new scores for iPads. Their original version of 4 Rooms can be described as a sonic portrait of four abandoned rooms inside the radioactive area around Chernobyl. Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard released it in 2006, 20 years after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl.
Okkyung Lee – New piece for Maze
Jacob Kirkegaard – Church
Anne La Berge – Assail
Barbara Ellison – Instrumental Phantoms // 20 (composed for Maze)
Klik hier voor meer informatie over het MAZE Festival en het concert op 1 juni in Splendor.
The Bimhuis restaurant is open prior to the concert from 6.30 til 8.30PM (reservations via 020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free entrance).
Anne La Berge flute/electronics, Dario Calderone bass, Gareth Davis bass clarinet, Reinier van Houdt piano/keys/electronics, Wiek Hijmans guitar, Yannis Kyriakides computer/electronics, Okkyung Lee cello