green piece by Anne Wellmer (composition) and Julia Eckhardt (viola)
About the piece:
green piece | memory maze is a composition by anne wellmer for viola, feedback, laptop and light. The piece explores the acoustic and architectural properties of a performance space, which undergoes a transformation through the enlarged micro-cosmos of the resonating viola strings and the site specific resonances excited by feedback. The title of the piece refers to Les Bains in Brussels, an out-of-use swimming pool building, where the piece was originally conceived.
green piece was commissioned by Q-O2 in Brussels for DoUndo/recycling G, a project that was initiated by Ludo Engels and Julia Eckhardt. It proposed the use of a monochrome viola-sound reservoir to a selected group of composers and sound artists.
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About the artists:
Anne Wellmer is a composer, performer and media artist based in The Hague. Wellmer uses field recordings, live sound processing and electronically generated sound in her work, which shifts between tape music, improvisation, installation and performance. Feedback, electromagnetic disturbances and barely audible acoustic phenomena make out essential aspects of her work. In 2007 she received an honoray mention in digital musics from the Prix Ars Electronica in Linz.
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Julia Eckhardt is a musician and curator in the field of the sounding arts. She is founding member and artistic director of Q-O2 workspace in Brussels. As a viola player, she has been involved in various collaborations with composers and improvisers. She has taught and lectured at art institutes in Leuven and Brussels. Eckhardt is co-author of The Second Sound, conversations on gender and music.