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TRACE
Alison Isadora and Jan-Bas Bollen (alias SYNC) have worked together on interdisciplinary performances since Hoofdwas, their popular show for computer controlled washing-machine and mezzo-soprano in 1995.
Their performance of The Deep South, relflecting on a residency in Dunedin, was premiered in the DPAG in 2001 before touring Europe. In 2003 they created Born and Bred which was premiered in De Balie in Amsterdam and dealt with the sense of belonging within a culture, a land or a family.
Currently SYNC is working on a new piece that will be premiered in the Netherlands in 2008 entitled TRACE -Studies in Audio Theatre.
In July 2008 SYNC travel through New Zealand with a combined performance/lecture format. A trip to the States is planned for later in the year.
Jan-Bas Bollen performs solo electric-bass throughout Europe and is also a member of Peter van Bergen's seminal group LOOS and the new offshoot LEAMO. He is frequently commissioned by ensembles wanting to explore interactive electonics in the realms of audio and projected image.
Both Isadora and Bollen are active in tertiary education in the Netherlands. Jan-Bas Bollen teaches electronics and composition in Rotterdam Conservatorium, Enschede and Zwolle. Isadora gives classes in music to choreographers in Arnhem and runs a music-theatre project for theatre- makers and composers in Utrecht.
Many of Isadora's recent works deal with cultural identity and the use of biographical material. She performs as both a soloist and in ad hoc combinations.
TRACE -Studies in Audio Theatre, is a 60 minute programme consisting of a number of works dealing with the consequences of loss and alienation.
The work considers on a poetic level the dynamics of trauma and tracks the role that time can play.
plus new films by reclusive Wellington film maker DENIS CLARE with a live soundtrack by DANIEL BEBAN, GERARD CREWDSON AND JEFF HENDERSON and a performance by outstanding new computer taskforce
the MICRO SOFT VOICES
plus collaborative improvisation.
SUNDAY 20 JULY 2008 8.30pm
PUNCHBOWL EP release
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TUES 22 July 8pm
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Wed 23 8.30pm
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Thurs 24 doors open 7.30pm
ROOTS ROCK, REGGAE AND DANCEHALL PARTY with
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DJ DOZEN
MC JINETERO
HANNAH HOWES and CHAPTERS BURNING
Fri 25 July 9pm
NEWTOWN
THE AESTHETICS
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PANDA BATTLE BATTLE PANDA
Sat 26 July 9pm
KITTEN ET ME
Tues 29 July 7.33 PM
OM THE SPACE 2008
WELLINGTON'S AANNUAL FESTIVAL OF INTERESTING MUSIC PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS BOMB THE SPACE
THE ATMOSPHERE HAS ALREADY SUFFERED FROM TOO MANY VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS.
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TUESDAY 29JULY 7.30PM
OPENING NIGHT PARTY WITH....
- THE WOP WOPS
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- GERARD CREWDSON / HERMIONE JOHNSON
- CHRIS PROSSER / SOPHIE WILSON
- MICRO SOFT VOICES
- FREEBOOTER BAZAAR
- DJ ALPHABETHEAD
AND MORE
WED 30TH JULY 7.30PM
- THE TURNS
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- MARK WILLIAMS / JEREMY COUBROUGH
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Bollen, Jan-Bas (b. 1961, Amsterdam). Dutch composer of mostly stage and chamber works that have been performed throughout the world; he is also active as a violinist.
Mr. Bollen studied violin privately with Jan Bor in Amsterdam from 1967-72 and with Herman Krebbers at the Sweelinck Conservatory of Music in Amsterdam from 1972-79. He later studied composition with Joep Straesser at the School for the Arts in Utrecht in 1987 and with Gilius van Bergeijk, Theo Loevendie and Klaas de Vries at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag from 1989-93. He has also attended masterclasses in Poland and the UK, as well as a workshop on the classical music of southern India with Janhavi Jayaprakash in Amsterdam in 1998.
Among his honors are Third Prize as a violinist in the Oscar Back competition in Amsterdam (1970) and more recently, two invitations for him and the HEX Ensemble to attend the International Music Forum in Kyiv (1995-96). His works have been performed in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the USA.
As a violinist, he has primarily performed his own music and works by other contemporary composers. In addition, he played with the techno ensemble Seafood in 1998.
He is also active in other positions. He co-founded with his wife Alison Isadora the HEX Ensemble in Amsterdam in 1991 and has since served as its artistic director and manager. He often collaborates with choreographers, including Ross Cooper from the Curve Dance Company in Edinburgh and Keith Derrick-Randolph from the Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam.
He has taught music theory and violin privately in Amsterdam since 1985, taught at Outside Art Drenthe in 1995-96 and has lectured on electronic music and violin at the School for the Arts in Utrecht since 1997. Moreover, he has guest-lectured in New Zealand, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine.
Donemus publishes his music.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: jbali@xs4all.nl
Street address: Mr. Jan-Bas Bollen, Swammerdamstr. 18/3, 1091 RT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telephone/fax: + 312 0692 8291
E-mail address for consulting scores: info@donemus.nl
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Die Turm des Empedocles (music theatre work, text by Cees Nooteboom), male voice, MIDI-grand piano, sampler, 1994; Mana (2 act ballet), voice, 3 female speakers, 9 dancers, saz (Turkish lute), piano (+ sampler), tabla, drumkit (+ sampler), gamelan orchestra, 2001; Born and Bred (music theatre work), live electronics, live image processing, 2001 (collaboration with Alison Isadora); The Deep South (music theatre work), live electronics, live image processing, 2002 (collaboration with Alison Isadora)
ORCHESTRAL: Dokadans, piano, small orchestra, 1994
CHAMBER MUSIC: On Freedom and Architecture, clarinet, violin, 2 violas, double bass, accordion, 1990; De Sprong, baritone saxophone, tuba, violin, double bass, percussion, 1991; Étude II, violin, 1991; Vacuum/Lament (in memoriam Olivier Messiaen), violin, piano, 1992; Étude IV, 'Unstable, Artificial', cello, 1992; PTOOMA, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, 2 French horns, trumpet, trombone, tenor-bass trombone, tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, percussion, 1993; Nastay (Étude No. 5), electric guitar, 1997; Tube, Kingma System quarter-tone flute, percussion, 1997; Zoab, 8 players, DJ, 1997; Bug, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, 2 French horns, trumpet, trombone, tenor-bass trombone, tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, sampler, percussion, 1999; Time Flexor, flute, bass clarinet, piano, live electronics, 2000; Softloader, flute (+ piccolo), 2 clarinets, 3 saxophones, French horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, bass guitar, piano (+ sampler), 2001; Pusher, Tacker, MIDI-violin, synthesizers (1 player), sampler, 2001 (collaboration with Alison Isadora)
VOCAL: Bauh I-III, countertenor, bass, harpsichord, 2 percussion, tape, 1991; Hammer (text by Friedrich Nietzsche), mezzo-soprano, tape, 1993; Ah, Sweet Mysteries of Life (text by Richard Huber), voice, synthesizers (1 player), sampler, 2001 (collaboration with Alison Isadora)
PIANO: Étude I, 1991; Slants, 1991; Das nervöse wohltemperierte Disklavier, MIDI-grand piano, 1992; Inner Mobiles, 2000
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Sync, tape, live electronics, 1995; Looking for Peter, tape, 1996; De Karmellenberg, tape, 1998
MULTIMEDIA/PERFORMANCE: The Big Shop, 1998 (collaboration with Alison Isadora); In Situ, tape, film, 2000; It Was a Sunday (text by Alison Isadora), MIDI-violin, synthesizers (1 player), sampler, sound processing, film, 2001 (collaboration with Alison Isadora); Kokako, sound processing, film, 2001 (collaboration with Alison Isadora)
DISCOGRAPHY
Bauh I-III. Antoon Bekken, countertenor; Kees Jan de Koning, bass; Riko Fukada, harpsichord; 2 percussion (Philips)
(Last updated on May 10, 2005)
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Isadora, Alison (b. 1962, Port Chalmers). New Zealand-born Dutch composer of stage, chamber, vocal, electroacoustic, and multimedia works that have been performed in Asia, Europe and North America; she is also active as a violinist.
Ms. Isadora studied arts subjects at Canterbury University in 1980 and received a BA in political philosophy at Victoria University in 1984. She studied violin privately with Elsa Jenkins in 1981 and studied composition with Jack Body, David Farquhar and Ross Harris and violin performance with Gavin Saunders at Victoria University from 1982–85, where she earned her BMus. She then studied violin privately with Vera Beths from 1986–89 and composition and music theory with Louis Andriessen, Gilius van Bergeijk, Theo Loevendie, and Klaas de Vries at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag from 1989–94. She later had post-graduate studies at DasArts in, an institution for advanced research in theatre and dance, in 2000 and in 2002–03.
Her honors include the Roy Jack Prize for string players (1984) and the Marian Rayward Memorial Scholarship (1985, both from Victoria University), the Music Study Grant from the QEII Arts Council (1992), and the Composition Prize of the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag (1994). She later received the Mozart Fellowship from Otago University in Dunedin (2001).
As a violinist, she has performed with many ensembles and orchestras, including the Wellington Regional Orchestra from 1982–86, the Baroque Players in New Zealand from 1982–86, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1983–86, and the Residentie Bach Orkest from 1991–94. She has played with the Mondriaan Strings since 1987 and performed in the gamelan Gending from 1990–95, the improvisational group Carduelis Carduelis from 1990–97, the HEX Ensemble from 1991–98, the Maarten Altena Ensemble from 1992–2000, the Bashō Ensemble from 1993–95, and the Nieuw Ensemble from 1993–95. As an improviser, she has performed with Derek Bailey, Butch Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, and John Zorn, among others.
Ms. Isadora is also active in other positions. She co-founded with Jan-Bas Bollen the HEX Ensemble in 1991, founded the improvisational quintet Aardvark in 1995 and founded the multimedia group Sync in 1996, of which she has served as artistic director since 1996. In addition, she is a member of the artistic advisory commission of the Nederlands Elektro-Akoestisch Repertoirecentrum (NEAR).
She is married to the composer Jan-Bas Bollen.
She has lived in The Netherlands since 1986.
Donemus publishes her music.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: jbali@xs4all.nl
Street address: Ms. Alison Isadora, Swammerdamstr. 18 III, 1091 RT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Telephone/fax: + 312 0692 8291
E-mail address for consulting scores: info@donemus.nl
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Hoofdwas (music theatre work), mezzo-soprano, MIDI-washing machine, live electronics, 1995; De kleine Was (music theatre work), 2 players, live electronics, 1996; Nachtvlinders (music theatre work), mezzo-soprano, alto, recorder, clarinet (+ baritone saxophone), trombone, electric guitar, violin, double bass, piano, percussion, film (by Sher Doruff), 1999; The Pristine Chapel (music theatre work), any player, live electronics, film, slides, 2000; Het Land der Klaarheid (music theatre work), 5 voices, 11 players, 2000; Native Tongue (music theatre work), flute, live electronics, live image processing (by Sher Doruff), 2001; Born and Bred (music theatre work), live electronics, live image processing, 2001 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen); The Deep South (music theatre work), live audio-image processing, 2002 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen)
ORCHESTRAL: Wedding Dance, small orchestra (17 players), 1995–97; Cramp – A Lullaby, gamelan, 1997
CHAMBER MUSIC: Letter to Liz, cello, 1990; Sun Dance – A Summoning, violin, 1991; Untitled, violin, piano, 1991; Sgraffito, ensemble, 1991; The Fire Within, ensemble, 1992; Namasté, string quartet, 1993; Melody, improvisational ensemble, 1994; For Wiek, electric guitar, 1994; Te Moana Nui A Kiwa II, ensemble, 1994; Alternate/Altercate, flute, violin, double bass, piano, 1995; Morph, improvisational ensemble, 1995; En/Of II, recorder, bass clarinet, trombone, electric guitar, violin, double bass, piano, percussion, 1995; A Thought for Margaret, flute, violin, double bass, piano (+ harmonium, melodica), 1997; Germ, violin, piano, 1999; Nos. 1 and 4, flute, violin, double bass, synthesizer, percussion, live electronics, 1999; Speak, for Steve Sweet 17 and Domestic Rant (Part I), flute, violin, double bass, synthesizer, percussion, live electronics, 1999; Give Me a Sine, cellular phone, electric guitar, violin, 2001; Pusher, Tacker, MIDI-violin, synthesizers (1 player), sampler, 2001 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen)
VOCAL: The (Mis)adventures of Amy Bock, mezzo-soprano, piano, 1996; Condensation, mezzo-soprano, recorder, bass clarinet, trombone, violin, double bass, piano, synthesizer, percussion, DJ, live electronics, 1997; Dancing on Hot Coals, alto, recorder, clarinet (+ baritone saxophone), trombone, electric guitar, violin, double bass, piano, percussion, 1999; Fabel van de Bijen (de Mopperkorf), male voice, harmonium, 1999; Ah, Sweet Mysteries of Life (text by Richard Huber), voice, synthesizers (1 player), sampler, 2001 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen); Sweet Nothings, voice, clarinet, bassoon, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2002
ARRANGEMENTS: America Is Waiting (David Byrne-Brian Eno), ensemble, 1995; Fragments (Nerve), orchestra, 1996
MULTIMEDIA/PERFORMANCE: The Big Shop, 1998 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen); It Was a Sunday (text by the composer), MIDI-violin, synthesizers (1 player), sampler, live electronics, film, 2001 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen); Kokako, live electronics, film, 2001 (collaboration with Jan-Bas Bollen); Isabelle, MIDI-violin, LiSa, 2001; Le Rêve, alto, recorder, clarinet, trombone, electric guitar, violin, double bass, piano, percussion, film, 2001; In the Wake of the Argo, MIDI-violin, live electronics, film, 2002
DISCOGRAPHY (as composer)
En/Of II. Maarten Altena Ensemble (Donemus: CV 69)
En/Of II. Maarten Altena Ensemble (CD: 9596)
The (Mis)adventures of Amy Bock. Jannie Pranger, mezzo-soprano; Tomoko Mukaiyama, piano (Donemus: CV 86)
America Is Waiting. Maarten Altena Ensemble (NM Classics: 92063)
America Is Waiting. Maarten Altena Ensemble (NM Classics: 96001)
America Is Waiting. Maarten Altena Ensemble (Pierrot Lunaire: A1)
MAE Journal. Maarten Altena Ensemble (Stichting X-OR Record Company: X-OR CD 13)
SELECT DISCOGRAPHY (as performer)
Consensus (Splinks). (Kontrans: 1545)
Testament: A conduction collection (Butch Morris). Maarten Altena Ensemble (New World Records: 80485)
Muziekpraktijk. Maarten Altena Ensemble (Donemus: CV 49)
Jaar van de Ensembles. Maarten Altena Ensemble (PolyGram: 454 058)
Sensemayá (Willem Breuker Kollectief). (BVHaast: CD9509)
Psalm 122 (Willem Breuker Kollectief). (BVHaast: CD9803)
De onderste steen (Willem Breuker). (Entr'acte: 2)
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