Participants of Personal - Collective 2012:

Jean-Luc Guionnet, France
Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, France
Noid, Austria
Klaus Filip, Austria
Tim Blechmann, Austria
Samo Kutin, Slovenia
Neža Naglič, Slovenia
Marko Karlovčec, Slovenia
Peter Šüklar, Slovenia
Boštjan Simon, Slovenia
Seijiro Murayama, Japan, Germany

Programme:

Wednesday, 5. 9. 2012:
20.00 doors
20.30-21.30 solos
22.00-23.00 trios
23.30-24.30 other things

Thursday, 6. 9. 2012:
20.00 doors
20.30-21.30 duos
22.00-23.00 large groups
23.30-24.30 other things

Admission: 5 € (per day)
Organized by: Kud Mreža and Menza pri koritu

Festival participants:

Tomaž Grom (Slovenia)
Double-bass player Tomaž Grom belongs to the musical milieu that draws its expression from acoustic and digitally processed sounds. Playing with the groups Tilt, CPG impro, Grom - Murayama and also as a soloist, he dedicates much time to exploring expanded techniques for playing the contrabass in combination with electronics; he quite deftly steers between free improvisation and predetermined structures. He has created music for numerous theatrical, dance, puppet performances and made appearances at several festivals throughout Europe and Canada. He is also an artistic director of Sploh Institute for art production and publishing based in Ljubljana which engages in music and performing arts production, publishing and education.
http://www.myspace.com/tomazgrom
http://www.sploh.si


Ryuzo Fukuhara (Slovenia)
Ryuzo Fukuhara started his carrier as a dancer after attending Butoh workshop led by Semi-maru from the group, Sankaijuku. In the beginning of nineties Fukuhara joined the Butoh group Maijuku directed by one of the leading figures in Butoh, Min Tanaka. Since the year 2000 on he works in Europe, recently residing in Slovenia. In 2011 he produced Do.Not.A.Void tour together with Slovenian dancer/choreographer Gregor Kamnikar. The tour included a workshop, presentation and dance performance in six Japanese cities.
http://www.geocities.jp/ryuzodance
http://www.federacija.net/projekt/donotavoid


Nikos Veliotis (Greece)
After a brief involvement in the Athens pop / electronic scene during the late eighties Veliotis later devoted himself to the experimental field, working primarily with cello and video. Since the late nineties he involved himself in dealing with sound and image using unorthodox cello techniques, floating long sustained sounds or silences and multilateral abstract visuals, overlays of digital trash and other digital found material. He has extensively performed in international festivals in Asia, Europe and North America.
http://www.nikosveliotis.com


Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (Greece)
Athens based musician Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga plays the zither since 2006. She treats it as the interior of a piano, extending its sonic possibilities by preparing its strings making use of various objects detached from their usual usage, as well as of electronic media as the e-bow. She is particularly interested in the co-articulation of acoustic and electronic sounds on the resonance box of an instrument. She has a stable formation ap’strophe with Ferran Fages which has released two albums. Currently she is preparing a release of her first solo album Stroke By Stroke.
http://www.apstrophe.net


Eric Cordier (France)
Eric Cordier has studied fine arts, body-art & music. He began body-art performances/tape music between 1986 and 1994 under the name of Nadir, with Jean Luc Guionnet and Cécile Maupoux. As a sound engineer he has collaborated with groups coming from more popular musical genres as well as working at concerts of contemporary classical music and in theatre. Later on he started composing electro-acoustic pieces at his own studio. He plays hurdy-gurdy in various formations: as an improvisator (with Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Gionnet, Dominique Regef …) and as a member of several improv, free-rock or industrial bands: UNACD, Schams, Phéromone, Tore, Enkidu. His interest in plastic arts and music is conjugated in sound environment exhibitions.
http://herbalinternational.blogspot.com/search/label/Eric%20Cordier


Jean-Luc Guionnet (France)
Jean-Luc Guionnet (France) is an improvisator and a composer of electro-acoustic music. His primary instrument is the saxophone, but he also deals with electronic instrumentation, the harmonium and the church organ. He studied aesthetics at the Sorbonne in Paris and later also tape music at the conservatory in Bologna. His research focuses intensely on the problems of form and reality in time and space, and on the redefinition of the body in interaction with the pure physical environment. He composes music mostly for theatre, dance theatre and experimental film and is a member of the editorial board of Terres des Signes, the paper for art and philosophy.
http://www.jeanlucguionnet.eu
http://www.myspace.com/jeanlucguionnet


Seijiro Murayama (Japan/France)
Seijiro Murayama started out as a drummer in rock oriented groups Fushitsusha and Absolut Null Punkt. After visiting New York in the early eighties he became interested in free improvised music in the frame of which he continues to explore sonoric possibilities of the snare drum and cymballs together with the use of contact microphones. Murayama is a leader of the electro-acoustic quartet Off-Cells. He performs most frequently in long-term collaborations or in occasional duets (with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Stephan Rives, Lionel Marchetti, Eric La Casa, Michael Northam, Renato Rinaldi, Axel Dörner, Robin Hayward, Diego Chamy…)
http://seijiro.murayama.name


Annette Krebs (Germany)
Annette Krebs has been developing her independent musical language on the guitar since the early nineties, keeping a strong connection with her earlier experiments in the field of visual arts. In her pieces, she is exploring the aesthetics and tension between tone and noise, action and silence, and the possibilities of a dramatic very free and abstract music. Throughout the recent years she is intensifying her research in combining tones and noises with the involvement of language material and concrete levels of meaning, constructed and composed in a way, that leaves all involved parameters appear as musically equal. The musical approach, situated between improvisation, composition and sound art, that she developed during these years as well alone as in collaboration with other musicians, was sometimes named as “Berlin reductionism” or “Echtzeitmusik”. Currently, she works as a soloist, sound artist, improviser and composer, plays in various duos and ensembles and develops projects, combining performance, video and sound in interactive ways.
http://www.myspace.com/sberk1


Nhandan Chirco (Italy)
Nhandan Chirco is a performing artist working as author, performer and pedagogue among Italy, Croatia and Serbia. Since the late nineties she collaborated frequently with the directors from ex-Yugoslav countries: Serbian director and actor Branko Popović, Slovenian theater director Tomi Janežič and Croatian drama director Zlatko Sviben. After attending courses of contemporary dance and butoh-dance she developed long-term collaborations in the field of contemporary dance (with Maja Delak, Mala Kline and others). In 2004 she was teaching as a docent in the post-graduate course at the University of Novi Sad, later at Art Academy of Osijek. She is author of numerous performances. In her recent collaborations with musicians from the field of contemporary and electronic music she combines performance with the use of voice.
http://www.myspace.com/nhandanbranko


Enrico Malatesta (Italy)
Enrico Malatesta is a percussionist, active in the field of contemporary, electro-acoustic and improvised music. After studying classical percussion at the Bruno Maderna Conservatory in Cesena, his personal activity and research began to focus on the redefinition of the percussionist role in different contemporary areas, as well as the acoustic dimension and the material quality of percussion instruments. He frequently collaborates with dancers, visual artists and performers. Since 2007 he has been working for the theatre company Teatro Valdoca. Malatesta has collaborated with numerous improvisators and frequently organizes events and concerts with the purpose to improve the diffusion of contemporary music in his area. He performs regularly with his solo projects as well as with the soloist repertoire of the 20th century, including graphic scores by J. Cage, M. Feldman, K. Stockhausen, E. Brown.
http://www.myspace.com/enricomalatesta


Ivan Palacky (Czech Republic)
Ivan Palacky is a musician and an architect. In the eighties and at the beginning of the nineties he played with various groups and took part in several music projects. At the end of the nineties he founded the group Slede, žive slede (Herring, live herring). Since 2003 he has performed in an audiovisual duo Koberce, zaclony (Carpets, Curtains) together with the VJ Vera Lukasova. He likes to take part in one-shot improvisational groups or duos, as well as playing solo performances. Since 2005 his main interest has been digging out sounds from an amplified Dopleta knitting machine from the seventies.
http://www.palacky.org/koncerty.html


Gaël Leveugle (France)
Gaël Leveugle, an actor, director and educator completed his studies at the Jacques Lecoq school for theatre, mime and movement in Paris. He has been active in theatre and film since 1994. Leveugle appeared in multiple theatre performances and wrote the scripts for short films 5h40 (which he also directed) and Le dosseier Satchel (directed by Gautier About). In 2004 he founded the theatre group UN™ with Renaud Chauré. Amongst other projects the group also performed the production DACB. He also collaborates with Seijiro Murayama, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Eric La Casa on the experimental music project House.


Marc Perron-Bailly (France)
Born in Grenoble in 1963, Marc Perron-Bailly studied art history and visual arts in Paris. He lives and works in Lyon. During the festival he will be doing live painting simultaneously with musical performances.
http://perronbailly.free.fr/accueil.francais.html


François Bidault (France)
French Painter from Savoy is comitted to painting as a „total experience“. Creating his pieces, he often collaborates in multidisciplinary art performances, which is how lately we can find him working with the Japanese percussionist Seijiro Murayama, who invited him to participate in the festival Personal – collective.


Irena Tomažin (Slovenia)
Irena Tomažin is a dancer, performer and singer, mostly working in dance and theater performances. She collaborated with many different choreographers, directors and sound artist, performing in Slovenia as well as abroad in Europe and in Japan. In the last five years she started to work more on voice, creating her own voice performances. With her solo project iT for voice and dictaphones she works on her own experimental voice materials. As iT she has performed in Vienna, Berlin, Bratislava, Mostar, Belgrade (DisPatch), Budapest (UltraHang), Krakow... At the moment she performs also in a duet with Slovene improvisator Marko Karlovčec on saxophone and electronics with whom she released an album That Which Happens Is Itself Dripping Red and in a duet nnit with piano improvisator Neža Naglič.
http://www.myspace.com/torarobit
http://www.myspace.com/bastkolektiv


Neža Naglič (Slovenia)
Neža Naglič is a pianist, who after taking studies in the fields of classical music and jazz focused her interests towards free improvised music. She is comitted to exploration into the sonic possibilities of the piano, which surpass it's functionality and tempered tuning. Reaching inside the instrument, she manipulates sound from the strings and the body with the use of various objects. She is a long-term member of the experimental music collective Salamandra Salamandra. Beside performing in numerous ad hoc improvising formations, she collaborates with the performer/vocalist Irena Tomažin in the duo nnit and plays in the prepared piano/electronic improvising duo saul kripke.


Franz Hautzinger (Austria)
Unexpected lip paralysis prematurely ended Franz Hautzinger's jazz studies at the Graz academy. After a few years break he started exploring sonic possibilities utilising his new limitations and so developed a completely personal style of playing the quarter tone trumpet. His collaborations include numerous leading names of today's sonic avantgarde. He currently educates in Vienna, composes by commision and is a member of the Berlin based orchestra Zeitkratzer. Meanwhile he travells the world centers of improvised and contemporary music.
http://www.franzhautzinger.com


Paul Wenninger (Austria)
Paul Wenninger is a freelance dancer and author of choreographical works. He lived in France in the mid-nineties while working as a dancer taking part in several international productions. Up until 1998 he danced at Cie. Catherine Diverrès at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et Bretagne, Mathilde Monnier at the Centre Chorégraphiquie National Montpellier Languedoc and many others. In 1999 he founded Kabinett ad Co. together with Loulou Omer. Kabinett ad Co. is an independent artistic platform which enables artists to carry out projects without a hierarchical structure.
http://www.kabinettadco.at


Daniel Marinčič (Slovenia)
Accordionist Daniel Marinčič works in different musical fields. He attended several workshops of the Italian musician Simone Zanchini. Currently he is active as a choirmaster, musical teacher and accordionist in the groups Sport Billy Krši Embargo, Saltana and Samsonn. He wrote music for a few dance and theater performances. Recently he is focusing mostly on exploring the sound outside of conventional musical genres.
http://www.myspace.com/sportbillykrsiembargo


Slávo Krekovič
He splits his official identity into being a cultural producer, musicologist and musician. Member of experimental music projects Shibuya Motors, Voice Over Noise, Frutti di Mare, Musica falsa et ficta, Etnoise Orchestra and others. Organizer and curator of the Next festival of advanced music since 2000, co-founder of cultural centre A4 - Zero Space in 2004. His music is spanning from live plunderphonics to exploration of improvisation and interaction possibilities with both hardware and software devices.
http://kraa.sk/shibuya-motors
http://voiceovernoise.com


Miro Tóth
Composer, saxophone player, music teorist and fan of SAAB Automobile brand. Founder and artistic leader of ensembles Frutti di Mare, Musica Falsa et Ficta, Dunkeltherapie and member of other experimental music projects (Shibuya Motors, Q30J666222). In his music, he is interested in both composition and improvisation, often crossing borders between the genre and style contexts, ranging from free improv to noise and contemporary classical music.
http://kraa.sk/shibuya-motors
http://kraa.sk/frutti-di-mare
http://kraa.sk/musica-falsa-et-ficta


Julij Borštnik (Slovenia)
Julij Borštnik graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Ljubljana in 2007. He was awarded Prešeren student award in 2005 and an international Essl Award for artists. After graduating he enrolled in the postgraduate study of philosophy, currently preparing a master's degree. He is active as an artist and an organiser of artistic events in Metelkova Mesto and Art središče.