25/03/2010 - 20:30
Q-O2 werkplaats
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34, 1080 Brussel, tel. 02 245 48 24
During her first residency at Q-O2 in Rue de la Senne, Felicia Atkinson created an installation called "Little Fires". It was composed on the floor with very simple materials such as different kinds of paper, fabrics and wood. Like a large score to walk through. Felicia Atkinson will continue this experience in the Q-O2-space in Rue de la Buanderie by inviting dancers and musicians to improvise in response to the composition. This formal approach to space confronts dance, music and installation from the perspectives of gesture, shape and space.
Annette Krebs was born 1976 in Germany. Already during her schooltime, she engaged herself intensively in music, composition, improvisation and the visual arts. She studied concert guitar at the "Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst" in Frankfurt/ Main, and finished her studies with the diploma. Beside her studies, she also worked in the developpement of a own visual-abstract language, and participated in exhibitions in Frankfurt.
After her studies, she moved 1993 to Berlin. There, she concentrated on the development of a independent musical language on her instrument, the guitar. This language was also strongly influenced by her previous work in the visual arts. She explored the instrument concentrating on extended techniques to discover new sounds and noises.
Since 1997, she continued to work in the exploracion of her instrument, amplified via different soundsysthems, and the influence of extendet techniques and her musical materials to different possibilitys of musical forms. Both as a solo player and as a member of various duos and ensembles, she is participating in numerous concerts and festivals since that time. In her pieces, she is exploring the aesthetics and tention between tone and noise, action and silence, and the possibilitys of a dramaturgic very free and abstract music.
The musical approach, situated between improvisation, composition and soundart, she developed during these years as well alone as in collaboration with other musicians, was sometimes named as "berlin reducionism" or "Echtzeitmusik", and presented ,discussed and reviewed in several press media of New and Improvised Music.
Since 2003, she is intensifying her research in mixing tones, noises and fieldrecordings, integrating fragments of spoken language. In her pieces, all used sound materials are composed in an equal, abstract way. So, the possible superior function of noise beside tone, and sound beside voice is averted. Like in an acoustic collage, fragments of language, words and fieldrecordings are integrated as musical materials together with tonal and rhythmical abstract instrumental sounds, noises and silence. She works as a solo player and composer, in different duos and ensembles, and develops projects, combining performance, video and sound in interactive ways.
Annette Krebs
Annette Krebs studied music and concert guitar in Frankfurt/ Main, and lives and works in Berlin as a freelanced musician- as improviser, composer and soundartist.
She is exploring the aesthetics and tention between tone and noise, action and silence, and the possibilitys of a dramaturgic very free and abstract music.
Since 2003, she is intensifying her research in mixing tones, noises, fieldrecordings and spoken language as musical materials. In her pieces, all used sound materials are composed in an equal, abstract way. Like in an acoustic collage, fragments of language are integrated as musical materials together with tonal and rhythmical abstract instrumental sounds, noises and silence.
She was as well working in solo pieces and compositions, as collaborating with musicians and artists in musical and interdiziplinary projects, as with: Steffi Weismann, Robin Hayward, Andrea Neumann, Ana Maria Rodriguez, Rhodri Davies, Toshimaru Nakamura, Taku Unami, Taku Sugimoto, Sachiko M, and many others.
She was participating in many concerts and festivals, among others: "Donaueschinger Musiktage",Germany; "Vancouver New Music" and "Musique Actuelle", Canada; "What is Music", Australia; "Exposition of New Music", Czech Republik; "Musique Action", France; "LMC" ,London; “no idea festival”, Texas; "Dublin Electronic Arts Festival DEAF", Dublin; "Nous Sons", Barcelona, "Festival International de Música Contemporánea de Alicante", Spain.
She has released Cds on several labels, like: Charhizma(Vienna/Berlin), Fringes(Italy), Another Timbre( UK), Soseditions (NY), Grob (Cologne), CDR-X(self releases), Potlatch (Paris), „Improvised music from Japan“, a.o.
Her music was presented and reviewed in different medias, a.o.:
"Nutida Music" (Stockholm), "His Voice" (Czech Republik), "Positionen"(Germany), „The Wire“ (UK), „Deutschlandradio“, „Deutschlandfunk“, „WDR 3“ (Radio, Germany)
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Felicia Atkinson
Félicia Atkinson currently resides in Brussels, Belgium. She's got an english name because of her grand grand father but she was a lonely child raised by her polish mom and her parisian father in an appartment surrounded by books. When she was a kid, she learned a lot of weird things for her age, many of them she had forgotten now, such as chinese, sword, baratanatyam, tibetan, harp, dance or theatre. This education made her creative and playfull. The work of Felicia Atkinson is inspired by two ways of thinking: the Japanese wabi-sabi philosophy of the unfinished, and the lo-fi folk in music. Imperfections, raw materials, rock culture are the materials of her body of work which includes performance, writing, music, drawing, photograph....
The main theme that follows her is the perspective of the poetry of small things in which are hided the deep questions of existance: the missing, the death, the desire, the unspeakable. How to play with important thoughts through game, rhymes and songs. She plays in a sound project called Roman Anglais with Sylvain Chauveau and have released an album "Roman Anglais" on O Rosa Records in 2008. Felicia is also involved in two other bands, Stretchandrelax with her best friend Elise (doing a sexy reductionism with catch helmets and bird noises) and Louisville, a rock band inspired by trees and strange places. She had played and showed her work in many places such as La Foundation Cartier Pour l'art Contemporain (Paris), The Empty Bottle (Chicago), The Knitting Factory (New York) ...
http://www.feliciaatkinson.be