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Chefa Alonso and Albert Kaul

isaac — 2010-06-15T12:56:52Z

Chefa Alonso, (Spain, 1955)
Soprano sax. Percussion.
email: chefaalonso at yahoo dot es

Chefa Alonso studied Saxophone at the Conservatory San Lorenzo del Escorial, in Madrid, and Percussion in Madrid and Colombia. She has been practising and teaching improvised music since 1995, as well as composing and perfoming music for theatre and dance. She gives improvisation workshops to musicians, dancers, actors, poets ... in Spain (univesities, conservatories and music schools) and other countries (Belgium – Brussels, Brasil – Sao Paulo, Niteroi) and conduct the Omega (Spontaneous Music Orchestra from Galicia).

Alonso leads three Spanish based ensembles: Uz, winds jazz trio, Akafree, a free jazz group that performs her compositions, and Sin Red, a quartet that performs both poetry and improvised music. Alonso has played with numerous internationally acclaimed musicians in the improvised music circuit including Tony Marsh, John Russel, Roger Turner, Vanessa Mackness, Philipp Wachsmann, John Edwards, Steve Noble (U.K.), Ute Voelker, Gunter Heinz (Germany), Christine Wodraschka, Le quan Ninh (France), Lou Grassi (U.S.A.), Barbara Wagner, Co Streiff (Switzerland), Augusti Fernandez, Pelayo Arrizabálaga (Spain).

She has also played her own music and improvised music in the following festivals: Jazz and More (Sibiu, Rumanian), R-De-Choc (Paris), Poesie Dans Les Chais (Jurançon, France), Semana de Poesia Salvaje (Ferrol, Galicia, Spain), Improvisation Festival (Bucarest, Rumanian), Freedom of the city (London) Improvisation Festival in Dresden (Germany), WIM, improvisation festival from Zug and Zurich (Switzerland), Gaudi Festival of Improvised Music (León/ Spain), Music and daily sonority (Albi/France), Periferias (Huesca/Spain), Real Time Creation festival (Madrid/Spain) Madrid en danza (Madrid/Spain), Situaciones (Cuenca/Spain), Improvisa (Barcelona/Spain), El Grec (Barcelona/Spain), A Journey to Polynesia (Barcelona/Spain), La Filibuste (Toulouse/France), Escucha (Madrid/Spain), Experimental Music in Metronom (Barcelona/Spain), Iba (Barcelona/Spain).

As a member of the colective “Musicalibre”, she has co-organized and produced the annual International Festival of Improvised Music Hurta Cordel, and in 2003 and 2004 she served as the festival's head coordinator. She lived in London from 2004 to 2007, where she completed a Phd at Brunel University on free improvisation and composition. She currently belongs to the London improvisers orchestra.

She conducts Omega, Spontaneus Music Orchestra from Galicia, Entenguerengue, Improvisers Orchestras from Andalucía and belongs to the FOCO, Improvisers Orchestra of Musicalibre, Madrid and LIO (London Improvisers Orchestra). Her publications include the book: Improvisación libre. La composición en movimiento, in Dos Acordes, Spain.

MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS

Compositons for theatre and dance: 1996 “La Lavandera” 1998 “Roseta, Estate Quieta” 1999 “Feirantes” 2000 “A Celestina” 2000 “O pais Acuático” 2001 “A cacatúa Verde” 2001 “Alta Comedia” 2002 “As Damas de Ferrol” 2004 “Ensayo”. 2009 “69”

Composition for video Shores, by Barbara Meyer. London 2007 Ruido Blanco by Barbara Meyer and Raquel Sánchez. 2008

Compositions for improvisers “Five colours in seven minutes”. For six or more improvisers (2004 “Western Calypso” for quartet of sax and three percussionists (2004) “Music is not necessary”. For three voices and one cello (or double bass) (2004) “Three games for seven improvisers” (2005) “Collage”. For orchestra or a big group (2005) “Their faces were blue” (2005) “A beginning, a middle and an ending” (2005) “Two in three. For percussion and wind (2006) “Amazonas” (with Barbara Meyer). For soprano sax, cello, percussion, voice and electronics (2009).

CD-Productions: *John Russel, dúo. Emanem. Londres. 2007 * Freedom of the city 2006. Emanem. Londres * Sin Red (Víctor M. Diez, Cova Villegas and Ildefonso Rodríguez) 2005. Sound Deluxe Producciones. * Freedom of the city 2005, con la LIO (London Improvisers Orchestra). Emanem. * La visita de la salamandra. Akafree. 2003. Xingra Producciones. * No pais dos ananos Baldo Martinez Quintet. 1997

Qualifications • PHD on Composition and Improvisation at Brunel University (London). 2007. • Saxofonist and saxophone instructor (Conservatorio “Padre Antonio Soler” de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 1991). • General Medicine and Surgery (Santiago de Compostela, Medicine University, 1980) • Postgraduate Course: “Music Schools: models of action”, organiced by el Aula de Música de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. • Pedagogical Aptitude Course (CAP). Madrid.

Albert Kaul (1963, Trier, Germany)
piano, clavichord
email: albertkaul at gmx dot de

Albert Kaul studied piano (Karin Germer) and composition (Karl-Josef Müller) at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universiy in Mayence and currenty resides in Marburg, Germany where he teaches piano, composition, improvisation and musicology.

His musical career began in the mid 1980's and since that time he has continued to refine his focus on contemporary and experimental music, composed or improvised, often in connection with other arts including theatre, film, and video. Kaul is the founder and a member of the „Grisette-Orchester“ (ensemble for experimental music) since 1995.

He received his PhD in 2008 with a doctoral thesis that discussed theories for teaching musical improvisation, His present research is a project analysing and developing working structures for children improvising in various group formations.

Albert Kaul's main musical interest is to cross boundary lines. This includes not only the lines between different musical styles, improvisation and composition, music and other genres but it reaches further to aspects of communication such as teaching and learning and performing and audience experiences.

Musical compositions (selection) 1988 “Hinter dem Ofen” (chamber opera for 3 actors/singers and 8 instrumentalists) 1989 “Tschimborasso raus” (trio for fl, git and db after a poem of Oskar Pastior) 1989 piece for treble recorder and trash can 1996 98 small pieces for violin solo 2002 Todesfuge (for chorus and three military drums, after a poem of Paul Celan) 2003 piece for saxophon (or other solo instrument) and applauding audience 2005 ...leaving the cage (guided improvisation for 13 instrumentalists) 2007 Triumph! Adler! Triumph! (trio for 3 amplified mecanical typewriters) 2008 Aton Hymnus (for female voice, flute and piano, after Akhenaten's Great Hymn to the Aten)

Publications (selection) 2001 “Nach Hause, Bartolomeo!” (musical theatre piece for children, publicated together with Lorenz Hippe), Deutscher Theater-Verlag Weinheim 2003 Kreativität – ein Bildungsziel? (Creativity – an Intention of Education?), Ringgespräche Berlin 2006 Hören? Fühlen? Spüren? Ahnen? Was ästhetische Theorie mit der Praxis der Improvisation zu tun hat (Hearing? Feeling? Sensing? Believing? About the Connection between Aesthetic Theory and Practise of Improvisation), Ringgespräche Berlin 2008 „Musikalische Bildung der Differenz“ (theory and teaching methods of musical improvisation) , Dohr Verlag Köln 2008 Musik direkt. Ein Improvisationsprojekt für große Gruppen (about organizing improvisation projects with large groups), Shaker Verlag Aachen

Chefa Alonso e Albert Kaul

isaac — 2010-06-15T12:18:55Z

Chefa Alonso, (A Coruña, 1955) Soprano sax. Percussion. email: chefaalonso at yahoo dot es

Chefa Alonso dedícase desde 1995 á interpretación e ensino da música improvisada e á composición e interpretación de música para teatro e danza, formando parte do colectivo Musicalibre, co que organiza anualmente o Festival Internacional de Improvisación de Madrid, Furta Cordel. É coordinadora das edicións Furta Cordel 2003 e 2004, na Casa Acesa. É profesora de improvisación.

Realiza seminarios de improvisación libre orientados, non só a profesores de Escolas de Música e Conservatorios, senón tamén, a estudantes universitarios e interesados na improvisación en xeral: músicos, actores, poetas, bailaríns.

impartiu seminarios solicitados pola Comunidade de Madrid, as Escola Municipais de Música de Salamanca, León e Tres Cantos, as Universidades de León e Oviedo, a Casa Acendida en Madrid, etc. Ademais dos seus grupos estables de improvisación, tocou ocasionalmente cunha gran variedade de músicos do panorama internacional da música improvisada como Lou Grassi (EEUU), Vanesa Macknes, Philipp Wachsmann, John Edwards, Steve Nobre, Terry Day, Tony Marsh, Orphy Robinson (Reino Unido), Christine Wodraska, Lle Quan Ninh (Francia), Ute Voelker, Gunter Heins (Alemaña), Barb Wagner e Co Straiff (Suíza), Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga, Agustí Fernández (España), etc. actuou en numerosos festivais: Freedom of the city (Londres. 2007, 2006 e 2005), WIM, Festival Internacional de Improvisación de Zug, (Suíza. 2005 e 2004); Festival de Improvisación de Dresden (Alemaña. 2007 e 2004); Música e cotidianeidad sonora (Albí, Francia), A Flibuste (Toulouse, Francia); e numerosos festivais en España, como: Periferias (Huesca); Festival de Creación en tempo Real (Madrid); Festival Furta Cordel (Madrid); Situacións (Cuenca); Madrid en danza (Madrid); Improvisa (Barcelona); O Grec (Barcelona); Viaxe á Polinesia (Barcelona); Escoita (Madrid); Música Experimental en Metronom (Barcelona)...

Actualmente vive en Madrid e terminou un doutoramento en composición e improvisación na Universidade de Brunel, Londres. Foi bolseira, para esta actividade, polo Ministerio de Cultura de España. Forma parte da Orquestra de improvisadores de Londres (LIO), a orquestra de improvisadores de Madrid (FOCO) e a orquestra de improvisadores galegos (OMEGA).

En xaneiro deste ano publica o libro: Improvisación libre. A composición en movemento, na editorial musical "Dous Acordes", en colaboración co Ministerio de Cultura de España.

CD Producións:

* London Improvisers Orchestra. Improvisations for George Riste. Emanem 2008. *John Russel, dúo. Emanem. Londres. 2007. * Freedom of the city 2006. Emanem. Londres 2007. * Freedom of the city 2005, coa LIO. Emanem. Londres 2006. * Sen Rede. Sound. Deluxe Producións. León 2005. * A visita da salamandra. Akafree. Xingra Producións. 2003 * Non pais dous ananos Baldo Martinez Quinteto. 1997

Albert Kaul (1963, Trier, Germany) piano, clavichord email: albertkaul at gmx dot de

Albert Kaul estudou piano con Karin Germer e composición con Karl-Josef Müller na Universidade Johannes-Gutenberg en Mayence e actualmente vive en Marburg, Alemaña, onde ensina piano, composición, improvisación e musicología.

A súa carreira musical comeza a mediados dos oitenta e desde entón centrouse fundamentalmente na música contemporánea experimental, composta ou improvisada, a miúdo en conexión con outras artes que inclúe teatro, cine e vídeo. Kaul é o fundador e membro de ?Grisette-Orchester? (grupo de música experimental) desde 1995.

Terminou a súa tese doutoral (2008) sobre o ensino da improvisación musical e actualmente leva a cabo un proxecto de investigación analizando e desenvolvendo estruturas de traballo para nenos improvisadores en diversos grupos e formacións.

O principal interese de Albert Kaul é atravesar as fronteiras que marcan os límites. Isto inclúe non só as fronteiras entre os diferentes estilos musicais, entre improvisación e composición, música e outros xéneros senón tamén sacar á superficie aspectos da comunicación talles como o ensino, a aprendizaxe, a actuación e a experiencia da audiencia.

Selección de composicións musicais

1988 "Hinter dem Ofen" (ópera de cámara para tres actores/cantantes e oito instrumentistas). 1989 "Tschimborasso raus" (trío para frauta, guitarra e contrabaixo). 1989 Peza para gravador e lata. 1996 98 pequenas pezas para violín só. 2002 "Todesfuge" (para coro e tres tambores militares, logo dun poema de Paul Celan) 2003 Peza para saxofón e aplausos do público. 2005 "Leaving the cage" (improvisación guiada para 13 instrumentistas). 2007 ¡Triumph! ¡Adler! ¡Triumph! (trío para 3 máquinas de escribir amplificadas). 2008 "Aton Hymnus" (para voz feminina, frauta e piano, logo de Akhenaten?s Great Hymn to the Aten).

Selección de Publicacións

2001 "Nach Hause, Bartolomeo" peza de teatro musical para nenos publicada con Lorenz Hippe, Deutscher Theater-Verlag Weinheim. 2003 ?Kreativität ? ein Bildungsziel" (sobre a creatividade na educación). Ringgespräche Berlin 2006 “¿Hören, Fühlen, Spüren, Ahnen?” (sobre a relación entre estética, teoría e práctica da improvisación). Ringgespräche Berlin 2008 "Musikalische Bildung der Differenz" (teoría e métodos de ensino da improvisación musical).Dohr Verlag Köln 2008 Musik direkt. Ein Improvisationsprojekt für große Gruppen (sobre proxectos de organización musical en grupos grandes). Shaker Verlag Aachen

El ojo del huracán

berio — 2010-06-13T22:38:26Z

El ojo del huracán is a free inprovisation work by Chefa Alonso playing soprano sax and Albert Klaus who plays piano.

Chefa Alonso (A Coruña) has been practising and teaching improvised music since 1995, as well as composing and perfoming music for theatre and dance. She gives improvisation workshops to musicians, dancers, actors, poets ... in Spain (univesities, conservatories and music schools) and other countries (Belgium – Brussels, Brasil – Sao Paulo, Niteroi) and conduct the Omega (Spontaneous Music Orchestra from Galicia).

Albert Kaul (Germani). His main musical interest is to cross boundary lines. This includes not only the lines between different musical styles, improvisation and composition, music and other genres but it reaches further to aspects of communication such as teaching and learning and performing and audience experiences.

Art work by Antía Sánchez

El ojo del huracán

berio — 2010-06-13T21:55:26Z

El ojo del huracán é un traballo de improvisación libre realizado por Chefa Alonso ao saxo soprano e percusións e Albert Kaul ao piano.

Chefa Alonso (A Coruña) adícase dende 1995 á interpretación e ensino da música improvisada e á composición e interpretación de música para teatro e danza, formando parte do colectivo Musicalibre, co que organiza anualmente o Festival Internacional de Improvisación de Madrid, Hurta Cordel. É coordinadora das edicións Hurta Cordel 2003 e 2004, na Casa Encendida.
É profesora de improvisación.

Albert Kaul (Alemaña) está interesado en atravesar as fronteiras que marcan os límites entre os diferentes estilos musicais, entre a improvisación e composición, música e outros xéneros. Está interesado en sacar á superficie aspectos da comunicación tales como o ensino, o aprendizaxe, a actuación e a experiencia da audiencia.

Deseño e ilustración por Antía Sánchez

Feeixa

berio — 2010-04-04T15:31:19Z

Feeixa

Feeixa is the name we have chosen for naming the improvisation that Xedh (Miguel A. García) and Berio Molina did on December 9 of 2009 at Alg-a Lab.

This work is a nine minutes sound action where Xedh manipulates electronics sounds and Berio plays a Galician Bagpipe.

The artwork was made by María Viñas.

Links:
Xedh
Berio Molina
María Viñas

Feeixa

berio — 2010-04-04T15:15:29Z

Feeixa

Feeixa é o nome que lle demos á improvisación que levamos a cabo Xedh (Miguel A. García) máis Berio no Lab Alg-a o pasado 9 de decembro do 2009, dentro do evento Accións sonoras no Lab Alg-a.

Trátase dunha acción de nove minutos onde Xedh manipula electrónica e Berio unha gaita galega.

O traballo de deseño está feito por María Viñas.

Ligazóns:
Xedh
Berio Molina
María Viñas

Blezna

berio — 2010-03-09T22:34:17Z

Blezna é un proxecto sonoro creado en 2008 por Juanjo Palacios.
Nado en Estella en 1966 e residente en Gijón dende 1993.
Na actualidade blezna está traballando en varios proxectos. Entre eles destacaremos: árbole, ruíu e blezna project (blezna + thr3hold visuais).

blezna ten participado en:

Fluído Rosa. Programa de Radio3 que presenta e dirixe Rosa Pérez (Portada: Texu)
Fundación Ladines. Centro de investigación artística dirixido por Cuco Suárez (Taller broadcasting art 1).
Valles eléctricos. Festival de Música Electrónica, arte multimedia e clubpop organizado por AMCppbocanegra. (Live e tallr guajes eléctricos).
Arena movedizas. Circuíto de propostas artísticas en espazos non convencionais, comisariado por Fiumfoto, asociado aos Encuentros Internacionales de Juventud de Cabueñes. (Live e peza broadcasting art 1).
Broadcasting Art 1. Mapeando a paisaxe sonora/Asturias. CD de tirada limitada que reúne os traballos realizados por varios artistas asturianos. Este proxecto pretende mapear a xeografía asturiana a través dos seus arquivos sonoros, postos ao día grazas á acción de novos creadores. (Peza: Viesca).
Optica. Festival Internacional de Videoarte. É un dos primeiros festivais no seu xénero de España, organizado pola Asociación Cultural COlectivo Interferencias. (blezna+thr3hold Live Audiovisual).
XIZidium. Festival de música electrónica e creación audiovisual. (blezna+thr3hold Live audiovisual).
Asturies VV.AA [Miga36]. CD recopilatorio, que reúne os traballos de varios artistas asturianos que empregan a música electrónica como forma de expresión. editado por Miga. netlabel de Granada que leva anos traballando a favor da creación audiovisual. (Peza: Ablanu).

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Blezna

berio — 2010-03-09T22:23:11Z

Blezna is a sonorous project created in 2008 by Juanjo Palacios. The pieces are composed of field recordings mixed with sounds and atmospheres generated in the studio. Today blezna is working in several projects, among which árbole, ruíu and blezna project (blezna+thr3hold visuals) are the most outstanding.

Blezna took part in:

Fluido Rosa. Program of radio3-rne, that Rosa Perez presents and directs. (Front page: Texu)
Foundation Ladines. Center of artistic research, directed by Cuco Suárez. (Workshop Broadcasting art 1)
Valles Eléctricos. Electronic music Festival , art multimedia and popclub, organized by AMCPPBOCANEGRA. (Live and Workshop guajes eléctricos)
Arenas movedizas. Circuit of artistic offers in unconventional spaces, organized for Fiumfoto associated with the Cabueñes' Youth International Meetings. (Live and Piece Broadcasting art 1)
Broadcasting art 1. Mapeando el paisaje sonoro / Asturias. Limited edition CD that gathers works realized by several Asturian artists. This project tries to map Asturian geography through its sounds, now updated thanks to many new creators. (Piece: Viesca)
Optica. Videoart International festival One of the first festivals of its genre in Spain, arranged by the Cultural Association Colectivo Interferencias. (Blezna+thr3hold audio-visual Live)
XIZidium. . Electronic music and audio-visual creation festival. (Blezna+thr3hold audio-visual Live)
Astúries VV.AA [Miga36]. Compillation CD that brings together the works of several Asturian artists who use the electronic music as form of expression. Edited by Miga, netlabel from Granada that has been working in favour of the audio-visual creation for years. (Piece: Ablanu)

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Árbole

berio — 2010-03-09T21:58:24Z

Árbole is an experimental sound project, inspired by the Asturian forest and its trees. Each one of the tracks is done experimenting with field recordings taken from the forest. The sound recordings are processed along with other sounds that were generated on the studio. The final result is again a soundscape, where the organic and synthetic are one.

Juanjo Palacios: soundscapes recordings, virtual instruments, plugins, sample manipulations, composition, process, photography and graphic design.

This work was made between 2008 and the beginning of 2010. It is dedicated to Luisa. I would like to thank thr3hold, Carlos Suárez, Juan Antonio Nieto, Carmen, Rosa Pérez, Berio Molina, Comunidad alg-a, Jordi Giráldez, José Antonio Vega, Alex Camblor, AMCppbocanegra , Arenas movedizas, Optica, XIZidium, and Miga for their support.

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Árbole

berio — 2010-03-09T21:57:51Z

Árbole é un proxecto sonoro experimental, inspirado nos bosques asturianos, máis concretamente nas súas árbores. Cada tema está baseado nunha árbore autóctona, toma o seu nome e realízase experimentando con gravacións de campo feitas nos bosques, procesadas xunto a outros sons xerados no estudio, pretendendo que o resultado final se convirta nunha paisaxe sonora, onde o orgánico e o sintético estean perfectamente fusionados.

Juanjo Palacios: gravacións de campo, instrumentos virtuais, plugins, manipulacións de samples, composición, procesado, fotografía e deseño gráfico.

Este traballo realizouse entre 2008 e comezos do 2010. Está adicado a Luisa. Agradecer o apoio que me prestaron thr3hold, Carlos Suárez, Juan Antonio Nieto, Carmen, Rosa Pérez, Berio Molina, Comunidade alg-a, Jordi Giráldez, José Antonio Vega, Alex Camblor, AMCppbocanegra , Arenas movedizas, Optica, XIZidium, e Miga.

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