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IMPROVISED MUSIC
We are proud to invite you to this incredible concert, involving these two Internationally Re(k)nown Improvisers.
VIOLIN AND SAXOPHONE ALTO
Mia Zabelka & Audrey Lauro
Friday April 19th 19:00
Haekem Theatre Brussels
rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels
Metro De Brouckère or Ste Catherine
Mia Zabelka
https://www.miazabelka.com/
In 2021, Mia Zabelka was awarded the Austrian Art Prize in the category „Music“ by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Since 2021 Mia Zabelka has been an „ALUMNI honorary member“ of the „MUK – Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien“.
“Mia Zabelka shows that ambience, electronics and improvisation can imposingly co-exist. That is if the music is composed and performed with decisive goals in mind.” Ken Waxman / Jazzword (CA)
“..If someone had asked for an update for the soundtrack to Tarkowski’s »Stalker«, here would be the answer.” Christoph Benkeser/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
“…a virtuoso escape hatch out of our imaginations”; my advice would be, jump right in.” Ed Pinsent/ The Sound Projector (UK)
“…The Quantum Violin is a fascinating, intriguing, dense and vividly detailed soundworld of plucks, scrapes and less identifiable aural phenomena.” Daniel Spicer/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“…Zabelka proves once more to be a very expressive and self-conscious performer. She likes to keep things a bit rough but is also technically very skilled. So, her improvisations have much to offer, often reaching strongly vibrating and glowing moments. All her ideas and skills are in function of a strong focus and sense of direction. A very solid and convincing work.“ Vital Weekly (NL)
“…If two things are immediately obvious and surprising, then on the one hand the range of the – sometimes dense, sometimes minimal, sometimes repetitive, sometimes unpredictable – repertoire of sounds and patterns, on the other hand the realization that all this can be done with the right touch of a violin.” African Paper (DE)
“…Traditionally the solo violin recital is more commonplace in the so-called classical world than in Jazz. So, it’s no surprise that this high-quality instance of string improvisations arrives from a European whose initial background was in notated music.” Ken Waxman/ JazzWord (CA)
“…Zabelka, Meierkord and Icostech deliberately go deeper and challenge, they form musical arcs of tension that unfold a wonderfully attractive and almost hypnotic effect that you can hardly escape. And it is precisely this aspect that makes the pieces by this trio a real listening experience.” Michael Ternai / Music Austria (AT)
“AFTERSHOCK Vol.1” Best Album 2020/ 2021/ Marlene Schnedl/ ORF Ö1 Zeitton (AT)
“…These complex soundscapes are just phenomenal when listened to in the right mindset. Abstract and touching at once.” Geert Ryssen/ fullcirclemusic (BE)
“If the sounds of Quantum Violin enacted by Mia Zabelka and Glen Hall are remarkable — dense miasma from which undulate denser waves and through which eventually pulses a vibrant heart — so too are the means by which they were accomplished.” Disquiet (USA)
„QUANTUM NOIZE aka Mia Zabelka & Conny Zenk“ Best Live Acts 2019/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
„The excellent experimental Violinist Mia Zabelka“ Shane Woolman/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“Mia Zabelka improvised violin play comes from the Hitchcockian folds of the brain, making hairs stand up, spinal columns straighten and senses sharpen at the sheer menace of her performance.”
Incubate Festival Tilburg (NL)
“Mighty mistress of the contemporary violin takes you further into the sound with malstrom. Mia Zabelka is a wondrous violinist who takes adventurous journeys into uncharted musical territories.” Pauline Oliveros (USA)
“Mia Zabelka`s work is visceral, cerebral and sensual. A gorgeous, haunting sound which employs classical interpretation and experimental improvisation to transcend musical genres, creating a sonic surround uniquely her own. She inhabits a sonic universe lush with soul cleansing vibrancy”.
Mia Zabelka & Audrey Lauro
Friday April 19th 19:00
Haekem Theatre Brussels
rue de Laeken 66 - 1000 Brussels
Metro De Brouckère or Ste Catherine
Mia Zabelka
https://www.miazabelka.com/
In 2021, Mia Zabelka was awarded the Austrian Art Prize in the category „Music“ by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Since 2021 Mia Zabelka has been an „ALUMNI honorary member“ of the „MUK – Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien“.
“Mia Zabelka shows that ambience, electronics and improvisation can imposingly co-exist. That is if the music is composed and performed with decisive goals in mind.” Ken Waxman / Jazzword (CA)
“..If someone had asked for an update for the soundtrack to Tarkowski’s »Stalker«, here would be the answer.” Christoph Benkeser/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
“…a virtuoso escape hatch out of our imaginations”; my advice would be, jump right in.” Ed Pinsent/ The Sound Projector (UK)
“…The Quantum Violin is a fascinating, intriguing, dense and vividly detailed soundworld of plucks, scrapes and less identifiable aural phenomena.” Daniel Spicer/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“…Zabelka proves once more to be a very expressive and self-conscious performer. She likes to keep things a bit rough but is also technically very skilled. So, her improvisations have much to offer, often reaching strongly vibrating and glowing moments. All her ideas and skills are in function of a strong focus and sense of direction. A very solid and convincing work.“ Vital Weekly (NL)
“…If two things are immediately obvious and surprising, then on the one hand the range of the – sometimes dense, sometimes minimal, sometimes repetitive, sometimes unpredictable – repertoire of sounds and patterns, on the other hand the realization that all this can be done with the right touch of a violin.” African Paper (DE)
“…Traditionally the solo violin recital is more commonplace in the so-called classical world than in Jazz. So, it’s no surprise that this high-quality instance of string improvisations arrives from a European whose initial background was in notated music.” Ken Waxman/ JazzWord (CA)
“…Zabelka, Meierkord and Icostech deliberately go deeper and challenge, they form musical arcs of tension that unfold a wonderfully attractive and almost hypnotic effect that you can hardly escape. And it is precisely this aspect that makes the pieces by this trio a real listening experience.” Michael Ternai / Music Austria (AT)
“AFTERSHOCK Vol.1” Best Album 2020/ 2021/ Marlene Schnedl/ ORF Ö1 Zeitton (AT)
“…These complex soundscapes are just phenomenal when listened to in the right mindset. Abstract and touching at once.” Geert Ryssen/ fullcirclemusic (BE)
“If the sounds of Quantum Violin enacted by Mia Zabelka and Glen Hall are remarkable — dense miasma from which undulate denser waves and through which eventually pulses a vibrant heart — so too are the means by which they were accomplished.” Disquiet (USA)
„QUANTUM NOIZE aka Mia Zabelka & Conny Zenk“ Best Live Acts 2019/ SKUG Magazine (AT)
„The excellent experimental Violinist Mia Zabelka“ Shane Woolman/ The Wire Magazine (UK)
“Mia Zabelka improvised violin play comes from the Hitchcockian folds of the brain, making hairs stand up, spinal columns straighten and senses sharpen at the sheer menace of her performance.”
Incubate Festival Tilburg (NL)
“Mighty mistress of the contemporary violin takes you further into the sound with malstrom. Mia Zabelka is a wondrous violinist who takes adventurous journeys into uncharted musical territories.” Pauline Oliveros (USA)
“Mia Zabelka`s work is visceral, cerebral and sensual. A gorgeous, haunting sound which employs classical interpretation and experimental improvisation to transcend musical genres, creating a sonic surround uniquely her own. She inhabits a sonic universe lush with soul cleansing vibrancy”.
Lydia Lunch (USA) “Cellular Resonance is best when firmly maximalist-minded. Check the fractal, resin-scorched havoc ‘Cellular Resonance #5’ brings to bear, or how the industrial-metal loop-de-woooooo ‘Cellular Resonance #2’ threatens to sprain eardrums and peel paint from hubcaps. What life is all about.” Raymond Cummings (USA)
„Highly inventive work from the Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka on her M… Zabelka’s full of variations and ideas on this album“ SoundProjector Magazine (UK)
„Mia knows like no other to tell a story with her instrument(s). Fascinating, beautiful and thrilling stories that will move you. If you can do that, besides all virtuosity, then you are a big one.
The capital M from Masterful, Magical and Mesmerizing …” Caleidoscoop (NL)
“The Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka performs miracles on her instrument. Her solo album Cellular Resonance makes clear how far she can push the limits of her strings.”
Gonzo (NL)
“Viennese violinist Mia Zabelka has, with Cellular Resonance, produced one of her most panoramic soundscapes to date, a miasmic, tactile, kinesthetic, cautiously exuberant voyage to far-off and far-out sonic spaces.” The New York City Jazz Record (USA)
“A plethora of slanting melodic lines, spiraling ravishment in mostly mono-tonal environments, coarse timbres clogging the throat quite a bit, droning components with a punkish edge. In general, engrossing material. When Zabelka raises the gestural franticness of the arco up to higher levels things get even more intense.” Touching Extremes (IT)
“Pressing play on Cellular Resonance is like stumbling upon an ancient tree in the middle of a forest, standing before a structure that has endured years of growth and self-nurturing before I arrived. That profound depth is always there, orchestrating those seemingly haphazard collisions, turning each rabid rasp of static into a sculpture of beautiful angles and deftly pinched edges. Like a storm, the sudden drama of the event is merely the fleeting final consequence of a precise, long-nurtured orchestration of elements.” ATTN:MAGAZINE (UK)
Austrian violinist-vocalist Mia Zabelka is considered to be a leading figure in the international scene of electroacoustic music, known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to music, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her compositions. Using a unique musical language that she describes as ‘automatic playing’. Zabelka allows the sounds to be generated by her own body and gestures in combination with acoustic and electric violin, her own voice, electronic devices and all kinds of strange sound objects. Using this set up she is given the opportunity to expand the sound range so extensively that the violin itself becomes an interface and/or an electronic sound generator. She has released multiple album
Audrey Lauro
„Highly inventive work from the Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka on her M… Zabelka’s full of variations and ideas on this album“ SoundProjector Magazine (UK)
„Mia knows like no other to tell a story with her instrument(s). Fascinating, beautiful and thrilling stories that will move you. If you can do that, besides all virtuosity, then you are a big one.
The capital M from Masterful, Magical and Mesmerizing …” Caleidoscoop (NL)
“The Austrian violinist Mia Zabelka performs miracles on her instrument. Her solo album Cellular Resonance makes clear how far she can push the limits of her strings.”
Gonzo (NL)
“Viennese violinist Mia Zabelka has, with Cellular Resonance, produced one of her most panoramic soundscapes to date, a miasmic, tactile, kinesthetic, cautiously exuberant voyage to far-off and far-out sonic spaces.” The New York City Jazz Record (USA)
“A plethora of slanting melodic lines, spiraling ravishment in mostly mono-tonal environments, coarse timbres clogging the throat quite a bit, droning components with a punkish edge. In general, engrossing material. When Zabelka raises the gestural franticness of the arco up to higher levels things get even more intense.” Touching Extremes (IT)
“Pressing play on Cellular Resonance is like stumbling upon an ancient tree in the middle of a forest, standing before a structure that has endured years of growth and self-nurturing before I arrived. That profound depth is always there, orchestrating those seemingly haphazard collisions, turning each rabid rasp of static into a sculpture of beautiful angles and deftly pinched edges. Like a storm, the sudden drama of the event is merely the fleeting final consequence of a precise, long-nurtured orchestration of elements.” ATTN:MAGAZINE (UK)
Austrian violinist-vocalist Mia Zabelka is considered to be a leading figure in the international scene of electroacoustic music, known for her innovative and boundary-pushing approach to music, incorporating elements of noise, drone and improvisation into her compositions. Using a unique musical language that she describes as ‘automatic playing’. Zabelka allows the sounds to be generated by her own body and gestures in combination with acoustic and electric violin, her own voice, electronic devices and all kinds of strange sound objects. Using this set up she is given the opportunity to expand the sound range so extensively that the violin itself becomes an interface and/or an electronic sound generator. She has released multiple album
Audrey Lauro
http://www.audreylauro.com
Brussels-based saxophonist A.L trained in composition, jazz and contemporary music. She then devoted her energies to experimental music and particularly to improvisation, constantly questioning the language of instrument, phrase and sonic event.
«From phrase to sonic event through all kinds of atoms and particles».
A.L started in 2002 a jazz cursus at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels and contemporary composition cursus at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège. Since then she has spent the last decade developing her music on experimental music scenes in Belgium and abroad.
She meets on her artistic path recognized musicians such as Mark Sanders, John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Alison Blunt, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble, Bernard Santacruz, Makoto Sato, Alexander Hawkins, Ken Vandermark, Sabu Toyozumi, Marc Ribot, …
Her discography includes more than fifteen releases since 2008, the album solo «Sous un ciel d'écailles» was released in 2022 on the Gent label El Negocito records, retracing a work for saxophone solo started in 2011.
As an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music, she’s also involved in multidisciplinary music projects.
In 2012-2013 A.L curates two editions of the festival Wolves Stories in Brussels. She invites to join the "Wolves" Maggie Nichols, Mia Zabelka, and 8 other improvising musicians to create portraits of women through music, texts, films and experiments. In 2013 she invites Stine Janvin Motland to perform with the collective.
Since 2013 A.L regularly worked with the innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction performing in several productions of the collective :
- 2013 "Hold Your Horses" Grand Opéra de trash in 27 acts and entr’actes more infos - trailer
- 2014 "P-TRAINS (Astrin Phosphora)" in 20 Nov 2014 at DeSingel, "Ann Eysermans et ChampdAction" more infos - trailer
- 2015 "HRZSCHMRZ" "In the opera HRZSCHMRZ Serge Verstockt and ChampdAction put the spotlight on ‘love’. They ponder the ever advancing digital world that engulfs us in our daily reality." more infos - trailer
In 2016 A.L worked currently with Q02 (workspace for experimental music and sound art based in Brussels), B R O N K S (Theater for a young audience / Brussels) and The National Theater "La Monnaie" for the creation "It's Frankestein Stupid", presented in may 2016 during the European Opera Days. more infos
In 2020, A.L is invited to join the collectif C-IME (Canopée Improvisation Music Ensemble) hosted at Le Brass in Brussels to develop its musical research.
In May 2023, A.L is invited by the Canadian ensemble GGRIL for the creation of her piece "Ritournelle Reverse". " video
Since 2007 A.L conducts musical workshops with teenagers and children and regulary works in secondary education.
«From phrase to sonic event through all kinds of atoms and particles».
A.L started in 2002 a jazz cursus at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels and contemporary composition cursus at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège. Since then she has spent the last decade developing her music on experimental music scenes in Belgium and abroad.
She meets on her artistic path recognized musicians such as Mark Sanders, John Russell, Lawrence Casserley, Alison Blunt, Maggie Nicols, Steve Noble, Bernard Santacruz, Makoto Sato, Alexander Hawkins, Ken Vandermark, Sabu Toyozumi, Marc Ribot, …
Her discography includes more than fifteen releases since 2008, the album solo «Sous un ciel d'écailles» was released in 2022 on the Gent label El Negocito records, retracing a work for saxophone solo started in 2011.
As an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music, she’s also involved in multidisciplinary music projects.
In 2012-2013 A.L curates two editions of the festival Wolves Stories in Brussels. She invites to join the "Wolves" Maggie Nichols, Mia Zabelka, and 8 other improvising musicians to create portraits of women through music, texts, films and experiments. In 2013 she invites Stine Janvin Motland to perform with the collective.
Since 2013 A.L regularly worked with the innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction performing in several productions of the collective :
- 2013 "Hold Your Horses" Grand Opéra de trash in 27 acts and entr’actes more infos - trailer
- 2014 "P-TRAINS (Astrin Phosphora)" in 20 Nov 2014 at DeSingel, "Ann Eysermans et ChampdAction" more infos - trailer
- 2015 "HRZSCHMRZ" "In the opera HRZSCHMRZ Serge Verstockt and ChampdAction put the spotlight on ‘love’. They ponder the ever advancing digital world that engulfs us in our daily reality." more infos - trailer
In 2016 A.L worked currently with Q02 (workspace for experimental music and sound art based in Brussels), B R O N K S (Theater for a young audience / Brussels) and The National Theater "La Monnaie" for the creation "It's Frankestein Stupid", presented in may 2016 during the European Opera Days. more infos
In 2020, A.L is invited to join the collectif C-IME (Canopée Improvisation Music Ensemble) hosted at Le Brass in Brussels to develop its musical research.
In May 2023, A.L is invited by the Canadian ensemble GGRIL for the creation of her piece "Ritournelle Reverse". " video
Since 2007 A.L conducts musical workshops with teenagers and children and regulary works in secondary education.
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