Projekt mit Anna Sowa + Matheus Leston
Recognition
27.9. + 28.9. | M54 Basel
The inspiration for the piece was the desire to show the value of an encounter: with oneself, with another person, with a group. Hence, there are both instrumental, visual and theatrical elements in the piece. The piece as interpreted is open to the audience. For me personally, it is significant because it contains elements of integration with the audience/listeners (a first in my work), but without requiring any additional action from the audience, just being.
For this new and extended version of the piece, created in collaboration with Brazilian artist Matheus Leston, lights become an integral part of the performance. New layers of encounters are now explored: between sound and visuals, between the body and the space, between perceiving and transforming reality.
Anna Sowa
KlangLab: Adrían Albaladejo, Dino Georgeton | Bertrand Gourdy | Zacarias Maia | Chris Moy | Noa Mick | María Muñoz López | Ioanna Boultadaki Ioanna
Recognition
27.9. + 28.9. | M54 Basel
The inspiration for the piece was the desire to show the value of an encounter: with oneself, with another person, with a group. Hence, there are both instrumental, visual and theatrical elements in the piece. The piece as interpreted is open to the audience. For me personally, it is significant because it contains elements of integration with the audience/listeners (a first in my work), but without requiring any additional action from the audience, just being.
For this new and extended version of the piece, created in collaboration with Brazilian artist Matheus Leston, lights become an integral part of the performance. New layers of encounters are now explored: between sound and visuals, between the body and the space, between perceiving and transforming reality.
Anna Sowa
KlangLab: Adrían Albaladejo, Dino Georgeton | Bertrand Gourdy | Zacarias Maia | Chris Moy | Noa Mick | María Muñoz López | Ioanna Boultadaki Ioanna
Anna Sowa, Anna Sowa (1987, PL)
Anna Sowa ist eine polnische Komponistin, die in Basel lebt und arbeitet. Sie konzentriert sich hauptsächlich auf die Erforschung instrumentaler, elektronischer Musik mit Elementen der darstellenden Kunst.
Am 2011 hat sie ihr Studium an der Musik Akademie in Lodz mit dem Hauptfach Eurythmik und Komposition im Masterstudium bei Zygmunt Krauze (2016) geendet. Im Jahr 2021 schloss sie das Master Special Programm an der Musik Akademie in Basel bei Caspar Johannes Walter und Johannes Kreidler mit Auszeichnung ab.
Ihre Werke wurden aufgeführt: beim ECLAT Festival, Warchauer Herbst Festival (PL), Neue Musik Rümlingen (CH), Transformation Sound Festival in Budapest, Ad Libitum Festival (PL), Sacrum Profanum (PL), Transit Festival (BE), Minu Festival (DK), Biennale Aktuelle Musik in Bremen, Festival Touch the Theatre - Łódź, Musica Polonica Nova (PL), Minu Festival (DK), Transformation Sound Festival in Budapest, Internationales Festival für Akkordeonmusik in Przemyśl (Polen), Bauhaus / Dessau, Pergine Festival (IT), Sao Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival (BR), Periferien Concert Series (NO), Festival of Premiers in Katowice (PL), Experimental Tuesdays Festival (PL).
Anna Sowas Werke wurden in Polen, der Slowakei, der Tschechischen Republik, Deutschland, der Schweiz, Israel, Italien, Norwegen und Belgien aufgeführt.
2021 gewann sie gemeinsam mit dem Verein Anomalia die 3. Auflage des Fringe-Wettbewerbs der Foundatione Haydn Stiftung. Im Rahmen des Preises wurde Anna Sowas Oper Silenzio/Silence im März 2022 im Rahmen des Festivals Oper 2022 in Bozen uraufgeführt.
Sie erhielt Stipendien: Witold Lutosławski Stipendium 2019 (Polen), Nicati de Luze Foundation Stipendium 2020 und 2021 (Schweiz).
©Michal MikulskiMatheus Leston (1986, BR)
Musician and multimedia artist, Leston creates works that critically explore the relationship between music and visuality. He is the creator of Orquestra Vermelha, a band composed of musicians represented by shadows, both pre-recorded and live on stage, which has performed at numerous cultural venues and festivals throughout Brazil and Europe. He also created the projects Moiré, Menos, and Ré, which, like Orquestra Vermelha, examine the live music experience—one of his major artistic interests.
As an artist, he has presented audiovisual installations in various exhibitions, including Luz Æterna (CCBB), Caos e Efeito (Itaú Cultural), and Periscópio (Zipper). Additionally, he creates digital generative art through the series Pedra Pássaro and 256x256x256x256, in which a single system can produce infinite visual possibilities based on its internal rules.
Leston was a member of Patife Band, Paulo Barnabé’s experimental rock group, and has composed numerous soundtracks for advertising and cinema, including the television series Contos do Edgar. Nowadays, his work focuses primarily on experimental electronic music, using modular synthesis and programming to facilitate fully improvised live performances in collaboration with the computer.
Born in São Paulo and holding a degree in Literature, he also develops commissioned art and technology projects for other artists, brands, and events. His portfolio includes projects for Beck’s, Red Bull Music Festival, and Hermès, as well as programming for artists such as Hick Duarte, Fernando Velázquez, The Force, and Aya. He also created the apps generating the visual identities of the bars Matiz and Caracol, with the latter winning a Latin American Design Award. Leston also served as the creative director of Juntxs, Estudio Guto Requena’s Laboratory for Studies on Empathy, Design, and Technology.
©Sofia Colucci