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In the Local Stop concert series STEIM presents <B>Rasmus Jørgensen</B>, <B>Sonsoles Alonzo & Jorrit Tamminga</B>, incidental trio <B>Audrey Chen, Seamus Cater & Jeff Carey</B> and a short electronic composition by <B>Robert van Heumen</B>. <BR>
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<B>Date: Wednesday November 8<BR>
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam<BR>
Time: 20.30 hour<BR>
Entrance: 5 euro<BR>
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690<BR>
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Note: the order suggested here is not necessarily the order in which the artists will appear.<BR>
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Danish artist <B>Rasmus Jørgensen</B> works with the extended voice and physical theater. In his performances speech patterns become odd singing and ordinary gestures spill into twisted dance. He has an MA in Composition from Mills College in Oakland, USA, and a BA in music from The University of Oslo, Norway. In addition to voice and composition, he has studied theater, performance art and dance/choreography. He is currently based in Oslo, but performs frequently internationally. Jørgensen will perform two pieces: 'idle hands' and 'men in chairs'. <BR>
http://kunst.no/rasmusjoergensen/ <BR>
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The electronic improvisations by pianist <B>Sonsoles Alonso</B> and <B>Jorrit Tamminga</B> range from chaotic eclectic to intimate soundscapes. Alonso uses the entire piano as instrument, Tamminga transforms and manipulates these sounds, emancipating the role of the sound.<BR>
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<B>Sonsoles Alonso</B> is a versatile pianist. The past ten years, she has forged, from The Netherlands, where she lives since 1996, an impressive career with solo performances both in The Netherlands and abroad, multidisciplinary projects and concerts with other musicians and ensembles. Besides interpreting a both classical and contemporary repertoire she improvises with other musicians and explores the possibilities of live-electronics. Recently she has been heard as a soloist during the Festival Traces of Voices (Tilburg), Festival Punto Aparte (Spain), Randspiele Festival (Berlin), EULEC (Lüneburg, Germany), AKBank (Istanbul), Treveszaal (Second Chamber, The Hague), German Embassy in The Hague, Goethe Institute Boston (US), Deep Listening Space of Pauline Oliveros (New Vanguard Series, New York) and with different ensembles during the Gaudeamus Week, Suite Muziekweek, Festival Boulevard (Den Bosch), Festival Spazio Musica (Cagliari, Italy), 'Week van de Hedendaagse Kamermuziek', Festival 'Tango à la carte' (Alkmaar) and the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt, Germany).<BR>
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<B>Jorrit Tamminga</B> (1973) studied Music & Technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts and Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. During this studies he concentrated on electronic composition, live electronics and sound synthesis. In most of his works electronics play an important role. He composed works for speakers only (Barst), string quartet en live electronics (Powerchords), saxophone and live electronics (Klep Dicht!), carillon and soundtrack (Inside Out) and gamelan and live electronics (Tijdverspilling). As a performer Tamminga plays live electronics in several ensembles such as Herautronique with trumpetplayer Hans Leeuw and a duo with Sonsoles Alonso. Together with Martijn Buser he forms the dj-duo Rumor Soundsystem. Tamminga teaches electronic music at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and sounddevelopment at Music & Technology. <BR>
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Incidental trio <B>Audrey Chen, Seamus Cater & Jeff Carey</B> will combine the extreme acoustic sounds of Chen on voice and cello with the extreme electronic sounds of Carey on laptop, glued together by Cater on room sampling and harmonica.<BR>
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<B>Seamus Cater</B> is an English musician and composer resident in Amsterdam. His musical output spans works for modern dance, improvised electro acoustic music, jazz which is almost straight ahead, and new song forms in electronica. He plays lots of different kinds of harmonica (big, small, chromatic, diatonic), and he plays the laptop. http://www.seacater.com/<BR>
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Playing music in many contexts, as a computer musician, electro-acoustic composer and improviser, <B>Jeff Carey</B>'s music ranges many aspects of computer music from non real-time acousmatic composition, electro-acoustic composition, to improvisation and performs in a number of units such as Office-R(6), USA/USB, the acclaimed feedback project 87 Central, and N-Collective related projects. Having spent years carrying around too much heavy gear playing no-input mixer he is happy to trade for a laptop: with feel that is more organic than digital -- drones, gentle and otherwise multiply against hyperactive noise bursts and crackling phrasing. <BR>
http://www.radiantslab.com/87central/<BR>
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<B>Audrey Chen </B>is a Chinese-American musician and performance artist born outside of Chicago in 1976. Using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. Her performance work incorporates sound, movement and simple visual/sculptural concepts. Chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. Some current projects include duos with Gianni Gebbia, Tatsuya Nakatani, Alessandro Bosetti and Nate Wooley. Chen is currently based in Baltimore, MD, USA where she is a member of the Red Room and High Zero collective, an on-going series and festival devoted to experimental music. <BR>
http://www.audreychen.com/<BR>
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<B>Robert van Heumen</B> (1968/NL) is electronic composer and musician, making electronic music in the studio and on stage. Recent compositions include the 5.1 composition '12 Bullets' for STEIM's Noiseroom, music for the choreography 'STAU' by Anouk van Dijk, and the audio-visual composition 'Solitude' (with multi-media artist Arnoud Noordegraaf) based on a book by Paul Auster. He is active as a member of the electro-acoustic sextet OfficeR, electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ and part of the N Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz, Jeff Carey, Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno, Luc Houtkamp, Roddy Schrock and Nate Wooley. <BR>
Van Heumen will present part one of his 5.1 surround composition 'Fury (after anger)', commisioned by the Sonic Circuits festival 2006.<BR>
http://hardhatarea.com<BR>
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{ the Local Stop concert series is curated by Robert van Heumen }<BR>
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STEIM <BR>
(studio for electro instrumental music)<BR>
(studio voor elektro instrumentale muziek) <BR>
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Achtergracht 19<BR>
1017 WL Amsterdam<BR>
The Netherlands<BR>
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Tel: 020-6228690<BR>
Fax: 020-6264262<BR>
Email: knock@steim.nl<BR>
Website: www.steim.nl<BR>
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