Tag: REMAIIN

OUT.FEST 2022: new confirmations

Tiago Franco

Three new names have been announced for the 18th edition of OUT.FEST – Barreiro International Exploratory Music Festival, which will take place between October 5th and 8th, with close to thirty concerts taking place in various different venues throughout the city centre.

The North-American AMIRTHA KIDAMBI will present her quartet ELDER ONES, an acclaimed formation that crosses contemporary jazz with the Indian influences and roots of its leader, while the Australian percussionist WILL GUTHRIE will be accompanied by the Parisian ensemble NIST-NAH, where together they will pay homage and build new worlds of sound via the traditional gamelan from Indonesia. Meanwhile, the British DAVID TOOP will make a rare live appearance, bringing with him more than four decades of his repertoire as a musician, writer and thinker of music, sound and listening in its multiple facets. Beyond the concerts, these artists will take part in open talks with the public about the work they bring to the festival as part of REMAIIN, a European project organised by entities from four countries, whose purpose is to showcase extra-European influences in current and historic avant-garde music.

A reminder that OUT.FEST has announced thirteen other names in the beginning of July, which include the Japanese PHEW,, the North-Americans NICOLE MITCHELL and PRISON RELIGION, as well as the Portuguese SEREIAS and LUÍS FERNANDES.

Festival passes can be purchased for 30€ via BOL and its associated points of sale: https://outra.bol.pt/ 

Kontraklang: The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito

Diogo

Release date: 03/15/2021

Concert series Kontraklang – REMAIIN’s Berlin partner organization – focuses on the film music of composer Teiji Ito for its first activity as part of the project. A lecture performance/film titled "The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito", created by Michiko Ogawa and Manuel Pessoa de Lima, will be published online on March 15.

The groundbreaking experimental films of Maya Deren and Marie Menken rightly enjoy cult status among connoisseurs. The music of these films, on the other hand, is largely unknown, despite being an essential componen. Originally planned as a live concert in which Teiji Ito's works would be performed for the first time in Berlin along with the screening of the films, Michiko Ogawa and Manuel Pessoa de Lima are now realizing their lecture performance as a video work that will be accessible online free of charge. In it, the two artists interweave aspects of Ito's, Deren's and Menken's work with biographical details, absurd background information on the creation of the films and music, as well as their influence on experimental art in the mid-20th century to create an associative collage.

The main points of reference are four films and their soundtracks by Teiji Ito: Meshes of the Afternoon and The Very Eye of Night by Maya Deren, as well as Dwightiana and Bagatelle for Willard Maas by Marie Menken. Ito originally conceived the music as "aural scores": he recorded all the instruments himself on tape, one after the other, and then superimposed the recordings to create the finished piece, rather than notating the music and having an ensemble play it. The composer drew musical influences from a variety of genres, practices and styles, including Japanese gagaku, flamenco guitar, Andean folk music and Western classical music. The soundtracks were transcribed by ear as part of Michiko Ogawa's research, making them accessible for further artistic exploration for the first time.

The film "The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito" is expected to be released via Kontraklang's website and social media channels on March 15, 2021, and will then be available online free of charge.

The film "The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito" is expected to be released via Kontraklang's website and social media channels on March 15, 2021, and will then be available online free of charge.

More information will be available shortly at www.kontraklang.de, www.remaiin.eu or via social media.