25.07.21 / 7 p.m. / Door: 6.30 p.m.
3D audio concert with audience and livestream (use headphones for binaural soundexperience!)
Lignes de niveaux (en. level lines) is a new solo project from Leipzig-based French saxophonist Sébastien Branche. It is an extension of his Tenor-sax-on-a-stand solo work, which is this time brought into an electroacoustic and immersive experience through the use of Supercollider and the Ambisonics 3D-sound technique.
His usual elements are present: as always, long tones, multiphonics and breath are modulated through the use of various objects or extended techniques, but this time multiplied by the use of electronics, sampling, movement or modulation through space.
The saxophone can be built down and rebuilt in a phantasmagorical version that fills the room and surrounds the listener, who is invited to dive into the sonic mass he is presented to.
BIO:
Since he moved to Leipzig in 2015, Sébastien has been organising concerts for experimental music and started the initiative LeipziXP e.V. with fellow artist Diane Martinot, in order to bring the local scene together and as a platform for creation and exchange on a local and international basis.
As a musician, he describes himself as a sound-crafter, exploring the infinite possibilities of the saxophone, extending it with various objects or the computer, and working on several projects from solo with soprano or tenor, duo with fellow saxophonist Artur Vidal in Relentless or with electronic musician Miguel Garcia, to orchestra with IMO.
He also works from time to time with contemporary dancers or accompanies soundwalks; lately, he has been working on a solo for saxophone and ambisonics (3D sound technique) with the programming language Supercollider.
Atlantic Tales
Selanchophila: Centorhinus Maximus - Limaria
weaves together mythologies and sciences, humans and non-humans, to speak of our ability to address challenges in the age of the Anthropocene. Stories unfold carried by the migratory Basking Shark (cetorhinus maximus) and the flame shell (limaria hians), a small species endemic to the North Atlantic waters. Robertina had the opportunity to experience both sea creatures during her residency on the RV Celtic Explorer.
This immersive audio installation intertwines sean-nós vocals with the narration of a storyteller and field recordings of above and below the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
Concept, development, text, sound editing by Robertina Šebjanič, Sean-nós vocals by Caitríona Ní Cheannabháin and Róisín Seoighe, Narration by Polona Torkar, Recording of narration by Rok Kovač, Sound mastering by Aleš Hieng Zergon, the sound work is part of a project Aerial/Sparks curated by Louise Manifold, project premiered in September 2020 at Island Inis Oírr, as part of the programme of EPK Galway 2020, production 2019/2020: Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, production 2021: Kino Šiška, Sektor
BIO:
Robertina Šebjanič is an internationally awarded artist, whose work revolves around the biological, chemical, political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and explores humankind’s impact on other species and on the rights of non-human entities, while calling for strategies emphatic towards other species to be adopted. In her analysis of the theoretical framework of the Anthropocene, the artist uses the term ‘aquatocene’ and ‘aquaforming’ to refer to humans’ impact on aquatic environments.
25.07.21 / 7 p.m. / Door: 6.30 p.m.
3D audio concert with audience and livestream (use headphones for binaural soundexperience!)
Lignes de niveaux (en. level lines) is a new solo project from Leipzig-based French saxophonist Sébastien Branche. It is an extension of his Tenor-sax-on-a-stand solo work, which is this time brought into an electroacoustic and immersive experience through the use of Supercollider and the Ambisonics 3D-sound technique.
His usual elements are present: as always, long tones, multiphonics and breath are modulated through the use of various objects or extended techniques, but this time multiplied by the use of electronics, sampling, movement or modulation through space.
The saxophone can be built down and rebuilt in a phantasmagorical version that fills the room and surrounds the listener, who is invited to dive into the sonic mass he is presented to.
BIO:
Since he moved to Leipzig in 2015, Sébastien has been organising concerts for experimental music and started the initiative LeipziXP e.V. with fellow artist Diane Martinot, in order to bring the local scene together and as a platform for creation and exchange on a local and international basis.
As a musician, he describes himself as a sound-crafter, exploring the infinite possibilities of the saxophone, extending it with various objects or the computer, and working on several projects from solo with soprano or tenor, duo with fellow saxophonist Artur Vidal in Relentless or with electronic musician Miguel Garcia, to orchestra with IMO.
He also works from time to time with contemporary dancers or accompanies soundwalks; lately, he has been working on a solo for saxophone and ambisonics (3D sound technique) with the programming language Supercollider.
Atlantic Tales
Selanchophila: Centorhinus Maximus - Limaria
weaves together mythologies and sciences, humans and non-humans, to speak of our ability to address challenges in the age of the Anthropocene. Stories unfold carried by the migratory Basking Shark (cetorhinus maximus) and the flame shell (limaria hians), a small species endemic to the North Atlantic waters. Robertina had the opportunity to experience both sea creatures during her residency on the RV Celtic Explorer.
This immersive audio installation intertwines sean-nós vocals with the narration of a storyteller and field recordings of above and below the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
Concept, development, text, sound editing by Robertina Šebjanič, Sean-nós vocals by Caitríona Ní Cheannabháin and Róisín Seoighe, Narration by Polona Torkar, Recording of narration by Rok Kovač, Sound mastering by Aleš Hieng Zergon, the sound work is part of a project Aerial/Sparks curated by Louise Manifold, project premiered in September 2020 at Island Inis Oírr, as part of the programme of EPK Galway 2020, production 2019/2020: Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture, production 2021: Kino Šiška, Sektor
BIO:
Robertina Šebjanič is an internationally awarded artist, whose work revolves around the biological, chemical, political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and explores humankind’s impact on other species and on the rights of non-human entities, while calling for strategies emphatic towards other species to be adopted. In her analysis of the theoretical framework of the Anthropocene, the artist uses the term ‘aquatocene’ and ‘aquaforming’ to refer to humans’ impact on aquatic environments.
