Event Details
Tuesday May 13 • The Music Gallery and Rough Idea present
FRANZISKA BAUMANN + MATTHIAS ZIEGLER
Part of VTO eight
Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets: $15 advance; door: $20 regular/$15 member + senior/$10 student
Advance tickets available at www.ticketweb.ca
Franziska Baumann — voice + SensorLab electronics (“cyberglove”)
Matthias Ziegler — flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, loops
VTO eight, the Toronto outpost of activity affiliated with the 25th annual FIMAV in Victoriaville, Quebec, launches May 13 with the Swiss duo of Baumann and Ziegler. These two musicians came together in 2007 to produce a stunning collection of ambient compositions for Leo Records entitled Voices and Tides.
Franziska Baumann (CH)
After a training in classical music that included “contemporary” trends, the composer, vocalist and flautist Franziska Baumann has made a name for herself as a performer, improviser and specialist in live electronics, and for her sound installations and theatre music. This spectrum reflects the immensely diverse perspectives of today's creative musicians: from purely acoustic music to sensors and digital technology, between the two poles of composition and improvisation, between spatial sound projects and concert performances.
Using electronically processed sound, she develops a form of acoustic scenery in her concerts, involving space itself as a score and into which she integrates her singing and vocal actions aurally and theatrically. As “artist in residence” at the STEIM “Studio for ElectroInstrumental Music” in Amsterdam, she developed an interactive SensorLab based “cyberglove” to enable her to control articulations of voice, sounds and space in real time via gesture and movement. She has developed her sound language in various ways: from solo concerts, various small and large groups, via projects spanning several media (sound in space, theatre, radio, visual art, dance), to recording with musicians including Fred Frith, Fritz Hauser and Charlotte Hug.
Matthias Ziegler (CH)
Matthias Ziegler is one of the world’s most versatile and innovative flautists. He is committed both to the traditional literature for flute as well as to contemporary music that crosses the boundaries between classical music and jazz. Accordingly, his performances take place in a vast range of contexts: he plays principal flute with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, has toured with percussionist Pierre Favre and performed with pianist George Gruntz as well as the American contrabass player Mark Dresser. He is also a member of the Collegium Novum Zurich, where he has worked with Mauricio Kagel, Heinz Holliger and George Crumb.
Searching for new sounds, he has enormously broadened the expressive potential of the traditional flute and the electro-acoustically amplified contrabass flute. Amplifying the flute allows him to increase the volume of the micro-sound structures of the flute to an audible level. Inspired by the new dimension of sounds of these instruments, composers such as Michael Jarrell (Switzerland), Benjamin Yusupov (Tadjikistan), Matthias Rüegg (Vienna Art Orchestra) and Mark Dresser have written flute concertos for him.
http://www.franziskabaumann.ch/
http://www.matthias-ziegler.ch/
http://www.barnyardrecords.com/bio%20christine.html
