MINUS 9
2023-06-16 11:00 - 18:00, 2023-06-17 11:00 - 18:00 UTC | PQ2023 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design & Space, Holešovice Market - H17, Prague, Czech Republic
part of RARE performances curated by Carolina Santos
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

SANDBOX
2023-08-19 11:00 - 16:00 UTC | Theater ins Blau
Anything to say?
(well) SHUT UP AND SCROLL. From the private to the public realm a gesture is invading our bodies and minds, K&A present SANDBOX

ANALOG

A shallow box or a hollow in the ground partly filled by sand to play in. A place for free play as physical material is continually leveled maneuvered forms with an infinity of possibilities.

DIGITAL

A testing environment in a computer system software in which can be or coding run securely. Malicious files and suspicious objects can be tested. An essential tool for professionals to understand the behavior of malware.

In SANDBOX a performance for 3 people, the duet K&A invites the audience to climb on the stool and SHUT UP & SCROLL till the end for happiness.

Credits:
SHUT UP & SCROLL is a dystopic alter ego of ‘Anything to say?’ by Davide Dormino
Pin-drop & location advise: Kees
Drilling mentor: Kishan
Ikea puzzle specialist: Mirjam
PR: Kim
On the spot assistance: Myrthe
Concept, transport, and scrolling : K&A – Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon

Imagined in Kaserne Blau and realized with the support of the whole team of Theater Ins Blau.

Le Tiret d’Alice / épisode 2
2023-09-17 15:00 - 18:00 UTC | Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland
De la fin du 19e siècle aux années 1940, une révolution administrative bouleverse le monde du travail. Dans la continuité des réformes tayloriennes, la rationalisation du travail de bureau se développe avec l’essor de nouveaux modes d’organisation et la création de nouveaux outils techniques. La machine à écrire constitue alors l’objet iconique de cette nouvelle ère, tandis que la dactylographe en sera la figure incontournable. Ainsi, d’innombrables bataillons administratifs, majoritairement composés de femmes, vont rejoindre les employés de bureau jusqu’alors essentiellement masculins, pour y occuper les postes subalternes – et nettement moins bien rémunérés – de dactylographes et de sténographes.
C’est dans ce contexte que la jeune Alice Rivaz intègre en 1925 le récent Bureau International du Travail, où elle travaillera jusqu’à sa retraite comme sténodactylographe puis documentaliste. Au sein d’une société encore très conservatrice, cette institution moderne et cosmopolite lui fournit un poste d’observation unique sur les mutations organisationnelles et sociales de son époque. Alors que Rivaz et ses consœurs se trouvent vouées « aux tâches abstraites qu’exige l’administration des choses », portant sur leurs épaules le poids d’une modernité placée sous le signe de l’accélération et du rendement, la romancière se servira bientôt du même outil – la machine à écrire – pour affirmer sa propre voix et témoigner de son expérience. Dans ses romans Comme le sable (1946) et Le Creux de la Vague (1967), elle décrit avec une finesse remarquable ces nouveaux environnements de travail et de vie. Elle y questionne aussi bien la crise de sens produite par cette révolution administrative, que la reconfiguration des rapports de domination genrés qui l’accompagnent.
Près d’un siècle plus tard, ces questions restent largement d’actualité. Elles prennent toutefois des formes nouvelles, alors que le travail subalterne qui sous-tend l’administration des choses se trouve parfois délégué aux machines, parfois délocalisé, souvent invisibilisé. Pour remonter aux sources de cette histoire et en aborder les enjeux, l’historienne et sociologue Delphine Gardey, spécialiste (entre autre!) de l’histoire des employées de bureaux sera en conversation avec Valérie Cossy, professeure en études genre et autrice de l’ouvrage « Alice Rivaz. Devenir romancière » (éd. Suzanne Huret, 2015). La Compagnie K&A (Karla Isidorou et Alexandra Bellon) proposera une performance musicale participative avec machines à écrire, dont la fameuse Olivetti Lettera 32 qu’Alice Rivaz avait elle-même possédée. L’artiste Ramaya Tegegne questionnera les enjeux de la charge administrative chez les artistes – entre asservissement et émancipation. Enfin, nous profiterons de cet événement pour inaugurer notre première édition d’Insert, conçue par l’écrivain Daniel de Roulet en complément de son livre « La Suisse de travers » (éd. Héros-Limite, 2020).

JUNGLE THE FUTURE
2023-09-29 20:30 UTC | Theater ins Blau
JUNGLE THE FUTURE is a “fairytale gone wrong” for grown ups
JUNGLE THE FUTURE is a theatrical f(r)iction documentary.
JUNGLE THE FUTURE drags you into the groovy world of sharK and zebrA… our world!
“The future is here… so is the jungle.” K&A

Jungle the Future portrays the science-fiction journey of a humanized zebrA and sharK that escape their habitats to settle in cement territories: our cities. In the heart of a metropolis – amidst its grey neighborhoods- they confront the rites and customs of humans. In an effort to blend in they eat cigarettes, dress-up in the corners, get drunk on salt and gallop on rollers. The scandalous dream of the zebrA-lexandra Bellon, and of the sharK-arla Isidorou, is to integrate into human society. The audience, as if visiting a zoo or a crime scene, stays safely behind the lines. They witness their struggles, nostalgia, dreams for a better life and irresistable stamina to keep trying.
Their movements unfold between savage animalistic trance gestures and wacky odd human actions. What happens when the animals become all too human?“Jungle the Future” is a m-Ask s-How that questions our relationship with animals, urban and wild territories: BORDERS, ORDERS, OTHERS.
In this physical theater performance the music becomes a storyteller without words, tracing back the migration of the two animals with granulair percussive sounds, atmospheric motives and groovy cords. Are you ready for the JUNGLE? Are you ready for the FUTURE?
Jungle the Future to offer your mind provocative wild spaces and species.

Credits
Concept, choreography & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Music composition & performance: Alexandra Bellon & Viva Sanchez Reinoso Morand
Mask & costume design: our ready made society
Sound Recording: Leo Marin, Bridge Studio Music
Sound mix: Alessandro Mazzieri
Co-production: K&A, Theater Ins Blau, Amalthea
Special thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, the entire team of Theater Ins Blau

MINUS 9
2023-10-13 14:00 - 20:00, 2023-10-14 14:00 - 20:00 UTC | MOMus – Experimental Center for the Arts, Warehouse B1-Thessaloniki Port, Thessaloniki, 541 10, Greece
part of STEREOMA: Electroacoustic Music and Audiovisual Arts Festival
organised by MOMus – Experimental Center of the Arts (Thessaloniki, GR)
curated by Eirini Papakonstantinou
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

MINUS 9
2023-10-15 17:00 - 22:00 UTC | FOM, Dikelis 2, Mytilene, Lesvos, 81100, Greece
MINUS 9 is an anatomic sound installation,
a one on one performance of 14 min for an ear, to hear, here.
It is an invitation to dive into the sonographic scenography of your own body.
From the outside all seems to be silent, from the inside the first blast of the universe is making a big band. In MINUS 9, the boundaries between musician and audience, between music and ritual, silence and sound, drumming and dreaming are broken down.
‘With MINUS 9 we tease the equilibrium in the hierarchy of the senses. Can the “ear, hear, here” become the touching vestibule of a new order? We challenge the distance in between. When do we allow ourselves to be touched, metaphorically or literally? We invite the audience to re-question and rethink how we relate to each other. In our society a few roles trespass our comfort zone to touch our skin: doctors, caretakers, dance & sport coaches. They touch you but are you really touched? Music touches us emotionally, but what if it would literally touch your flesh?’ K&A
K&A within their performative constellations transform/translocate/transhape the relationship between the performer and the spectator to make it fluid.
In any theater the audience carries a predetermined role. Within the work of K&A the expectation to be silent, to sit in the dark, to stay immobile, to watch the stage is being shifted. The latitude of the performer correlates with the longitude of the audience and is being redefined. In MINUS 9 the ear of the audience becomes the music instrument on which the composition is made on and the soundsystem through which it is perceived. MINUS 9 crosses the inner ear sound barrier, exposes the noise, the music that is hidden inside our own machine. This performance is a sonographer, an ultrasound guide into the auditors unknown zones. It is an ode to the simplicity that carries the multiplicity. A performance for an ear: to hear/here.

MINUS 9
2023-10-21 16:00 - 22:30 UTC | AMOQA Athens Museum of Queer Arts, Athens, Greece

Match the matches
2023-11-16 20:30 - 23:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Scène Caecilia, 23 rue Carteret, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
Lifespan of a match: a few seconds
Lifespan of a volcano: several tens of thousands of years
In “MATCH THE MATCHES” K&A invite the viewers to oscillate in between the complementary dynamics of a volcano and a match. Their unique universality reigns in the history of humanity. In a visual poetic trip the timing in between the ignition of a match and the ignition of a volcano expands.

MATCH THE MATCHES premiere: 16 November 2023, Ignition poésies en mouvement #14 organised by Makaronic at Scène Caecilia Geneva (CH)
Credits:
Concept & realisation: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Filming, edit & trailer: K&A
Music: extracts of ‘REBOUND’ composed by Alexandra Bellon
REBOUND credits: Composition, Bounces → percussion, synthesizers, bass drum, computer: Alexandra Bellon Mixing: Alessandro Mazzieri Recording: Bridge studio Genève (Kugler) With the participation of : Marie Mercier, bass clarinet, Louise Knobil: electric bass REBOUND is part of the cycle ONGOING by Alexandra Bellon, supported by Landis & Gyr Stiftung Full composition available on Bandcamp: https://alexandrabellon.bandcamp.com/album/rebound

AM I A ROBOT?*
2023-11-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2023-11-19 21:30 - 22:30 (Europe/Lisbon) | SOAP Bar, Rua do Bolhão, 132, Porto, Portugal
‘Tonight, we would like to hear a loud and enthusiastic applause for our very special guest Sophia.’ ‘Sophia, how are you tonight?’
Funny, uncomfortable, provoking, sometimes with a delay, Sophia answers questions. Inspired by a true story, “AM I A ROBOT?*” invites you to encounter SOPHIA. She is a social humanoid robot that was activated on February 14, 2016 and is the first robot to receive citizenship of any country. AM I A ROBOT?* is a documentary show on the edge: an inappropriate circus demonstration to question our capability for empathy and explore our repetitive failure to recognise the rights of what is perceived as otherness.

“Talk show, AI, post-human, racism, robotics, ethics, starification. We miss one word.. Empathy. How did we forget to be human?” K&A

Credits:
Concept & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Scenography & costumes: K&A
Special thanks to: SOPHIA

SMAAKMAKERS - a taste of ANALOG DIGITAL
2024-01-10 20:30 - 22:00 UTC | Theater ins Blau
During Smaakmakers initiated by Theater Ins Blau (Leiden, NL) makers share with the public a taste of their upcoming perfromances.
In this edition K&A take you with them into the universe of:
ANALOG <-> DIGITA is a movement theater performance dedicated to a disequilibrating contemporary world. Analogue sounds compete with digital ones, books burn and e-readers rise, vinyls are the new dancefloor and polaroids our only archive.
In a scenography between pixels and objects arises a temporal space where micromovements appear: fingers precisely initiating the ongoing dance of a spinning top or the blink of an eye caught in an extravagant selfie.
ANALOG <-> DIGITAL invites you to oscillate in between contradictory cravings: waiting for a handwritten letter, detesting technology, falling in love with a screen (maybe even a robot?), breaking your phone, crying for a book, stealing a spinning top, scratching a vinyl, getting addicted to chatGPT .

Teasing our obedience to a digital environment and the glorification of the screen, K&A invites the audience on a delirious trip, that ends with a blink.

Credits
Concept, choreography & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Co-production: K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Special thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, the entire team of Theater Ins Blau

ANALOG DIGITAL - open rehearsals
2024-02-14 20:30 UTC | Theater ins Blau
During the nAchTELIER you can take a peak behind the scenes in, during our rehearsals for ANALOG <-> DIGITAL
at 20h30, 21h30 and 22h30.
ANALOG <-> DIGITAL s a movement theater performance dedicated to a disequilibrating contemporary world. Analogue sounds compete with digital ones, books burn and e-readers rise, vinyls are the new dancefloor and polaroids our only archive.
In a scenography between pixels and objects arises a temporal space where micromovements appear: fingers precisely initiating the ongoing dance of a spinning top or the blink of an eye caught in an extravagant selfie.
Inspired by ancient and contemporary games, sweetly accompanied by a tendency to escapism, the performers question/teases/underlines our relation with digital and analogue objects. ANALOG <-> DIGITAL invites you to oscillate in between contradictory cravings: waiting for a handwritten letter, detesting technology, falling in love with a screen (maybe even a robot?), breaking your phone, crying for a book, stealing a spinning top, scratching a vinyl, getting addicted to chatGPT .
Teasing our obedience to a digital environment and the glorification of the screen,K&A invites the audience on a delirious trip, that ends with a blink.

Credits
Concept, performance: K&A
Text: K&A with quotes of Marguerite Duras, James Baldwin, Kae Tempest, Orhan Pamuk, Sarah Cane, Chat GPT, Terence Winter, June Jordan, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Taylor, Cory Doctorow, Cookie Monster, Eminem, Coi Leray, Hildegard of Bingen
Set Design: K&A
Technical support: Andries van Duijvenbode (Theater Ins Blau) Harwin Wegner (Theater Ins Blau)
Composition & realization of music: Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Voice recording: Alessandro Mazzieri
Mix of composition: Alessandro Mazzieri
Coproduction: Stichting Public Frequencies, K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Special Thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, Kishan Buldeo Rai, Mirjam Hensgens, Kim Vissers, Theater Ins Blau, Kaserne Blau
The composition of ANALOG <-> DIGITAL is supported by Nicati-De Luze

ANALOG DIGITAL
2024-02-15 20:30, 2024-02-16 20:30, 2024-02-17 20:30 UTC | Theater ins Blau
ANALOG <-> DIGITAL s a movement theater performance dedicated to a disequilibrating contemporary world. Analogue sounds compete with digital ones, books burn and e-readers rise, vinyls are the new dancefloor and polaroids our only archive.
In a scenography between pixels and objects arises a temporal space where micromovements appear: fingers precisely initiating the ongoing dance of a spinning top or the blink of an eye caught in an extravagant selfie.
Inspired by ancient and contemporary games, sweetly accompanied by a tendency to escapism, the performers question/teases/underlines our relation with digital and analogue objects. ANALOG <-> DIGITAL invites you to oscillate in between contradictory cravings: waiting for a handwritten letter, detesting technology, falling in love with a screen (maybe even a robot?), breaking your phone, crying for a book, stealing a spinning top, scratching a vinyl, getting addicted to chatGPT .
Teasing our obedience to a digital environment and the glorification of the screen,K&A invites the audience on a delirious trip, that ends with a blink.

Credits
Concept, performance: K&A
Text: K&A with quotes of Marguerite Duras, James Baldwin, Kae Tempest, Orhan Pamuk, Sarah Cane, Chat GPT, Terence Winter, June Jordan, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Taylor, Cory Doctorow, Cookie Monster, Eminem, Coi Leray, Hildegard of Bingen
Set Design: K&A
Technical support: Andries van Duijvenbode (Theater Ins Blau) Harwin Wegner (Theater Ins Blau)
Composition & realization of music: Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Voice recording: Alessandro Mazzieri
Mix of composition: Alessandro Mazzieri
Coproduction: Stichting Public Frequencies, K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Special Thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, Kishan Buldeo Rai, Mirjam Hensgens, Kim Vissers, Theater Ins Blau, Kaserne Blau
The composition of ANALOG <-> DIGITAL is supported by Nicati-De Luze

ANALOG DIGITAL
2024-02-22 17:00 - 20:30 UTC | A LAB, Overhoeksplein 2, Amsterdam, 1031KS, Netherlands
ANALOG <-> DIGITAL listeningsession
Experience ANALOG <-> DIGITAL during the monthly LAB CRAWL organised by A LAB
Is dedicated to a disequilibrating contemporary world. Analogue sounds compete with digital ones, books burn and e-readers rise, vinyls are the new dancefloor and polaroids our only archive.
In a tiny scenography between pixels and objects arises a temporal space where micromovements appear: fingers precisely initiating the ongoing dance of a spinning top or the blink of an eye caught in an extravagant selfie.
Inspired by ancient and contemporary games, sweetly accompanied by a tendency to escapism, the sounds question/teases/underlines our relation with digital and analogue objects. ANALOG <-> DIGITAL invites you to oscillate in between contradictory cravings: waiting for a handwritten letter, detesting technology, falling in love with a screen (maybe even a robot?), breaking your phone, crying for a book, stealing a spinning top, scratching a vinyl, getting addicted to chatGPT .
Teasing our obedience to a digital environment and the glorification of the screen,K&A invite you to delirious trip, this performative listening session that ends with a blink.
Credits
Concept, performance: K&A
Text: K&A with quotes of Marguerite Duras, James Baldwin, Kae Tempest, Orhan Pamuk, Sarah Cane, Chat GPT, Terence Winter, June Jordan, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Taylor, Cory Doctorow, Cookie Monster, Eminem, Coi Leray, Hildegard of Bingen
Set Design: K&A
Technical support: Andries van Duijvenbode (Theater Ins Blau) Harwin Wegner (Theater Ins Blau)
Composition & realization of music: Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Voice recording: Alessandro Mazzieri
Mix of composition: Alessandro Mazzieri
Coproduction: Stichting Public Frequencies, K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Special Thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, Kishan Buldeo Rai, Mirjam Hensgens, Kim Vissers, Theater Ins Blau, Kaserne Blau
The composition of ANALOG <-> DIGITAL is supported by Nicati-De Luze

ANALOG DIGITAL
2024-02-28 20:30 - 22:30 UTC | Forum Grosselin, Rue Jacques-Grosselin 50 C, Carouge, 1227, Switzerland
ANALOG <-> DIGITAL listeningsession + live set
Experience ANALOG <-> DIGITAL in its SPIN OFF listeningsession +live set
Is dedicated to a disequilibrating contemporary world. Analogue sounds compete with digital ones, books burn and e-readers rise, vinyls are the new dancefloor and polaroids our only archive.
In a tiny scenography between pixels and objects arises a temporal space where micromovements appear: fingers precisely initiating the ongoing dance of a spinning top or the blink of an eye caught in an extravagant selfie.
Inspired by ancient and contemporary games, sweetly accompanied by a tendency to escapism, the sounds question/teases/underlines our relation with digital and analogue objects. ANALOG <-> DIGITAL invites you to oscillate in between contradictory cravings: waiting for a handwritten letter, detesting technology, falling in love with a screen (maybe even a robot?), breaking your phone, crying for a book, stealing a spinning top, scratching a vinyl, getting addicted to chatGPT .
Teasing our obedience to a digital environment and the glorification of the screen,K&A invite you to delirious trip, this performative listening session that ends with a blink.
Credits
Concept, performance: K&A
Text: K&A with quotes of Marguerite Duras, James Baldwin, Kae Tempest, Orhan Pamuk, Sarah Cane, Chat GPT, Terence Winter, June Jordan, Edward Albee, Elizabeth Taylor, Cory Doctorow, Cookie Monster, Eminem, Coi Leray, Hildegard of Bingen
Set Design: K&A
Technical support: Andries van Duijvenbode (Theater Ins Blau) Harwin Wegner (Theater Ins Blau)
Composition & realization of music: Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Voice recording: Alessandro Mazzieri
Mix of composition: Alessandro Mazzieri
Coproduction: Stichting Public Frequencies, K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Special Thanks to: Kees van Leeuwen, Kishan Buldeo Rai, Mirjam Hensgens, Kim Vissers, Theater Ins Blau, Kaserne Blau
The composition of ANALOG <-> DIGITAL is supported by Nicati-De Luze

ELASTIQUE SONORE
2024-03-04, 2024-03-05, 2024-03-07, 2024-03-08 | Institut international de Lancy, Switzerland
ELASTIQUE SONORE: atelier & séance d’écoute
Karla Isidorou et Alexandra Bellon
Elastique Sonore est un projet pluridisciplinaire ludique & high-tech qui développe simultanément l’apprentissage collectif d’une musique – chorégraphiée/ chorégraphie – musicale et son enregistrement en 3D. Enregistrement qui est ensuite utilisé afin de guider l’écoute, de plonger au coeur du son.
Objectifs

Apprendre à “jouer” et bouger avec un élastique, une performance de 8 minutes
Enregistrer la performance collective à l’aide d’un studio mobile (enregistrement en 3D) pour élargir les portes des perceptions auditives.
Développer des clés de créativité, d’écoute immersive et d’interprétation pluridisciplinaire.

Un atelier médiation LUDIQUE & HIGH-TECH
ELASTIQUE SONORE est un projet ludique & hight tech qui développe simultanément l’apprentissage collectif d’une musique-chorégraphiée/chorégraphie-musicale,et son enregistrement en 3D. Enregistrement qui est ensuite utilisé afin de guider l’écoute, de plonger au coeur du son. L’expérience est un véritable “trompe l’oreille”. Le futur auditeur entendra le monde sonore avec un réalisme troublant. Les micros permettent d’agir comme loupe grossissante: le son sera plus réel, plus précis que le réel lui même! ELASTIQUE SONORE permet de zoomer dans la matière.
Séance d’écoute: des sons immersifs (durée 45 mns – 1 période)
La séance d’écoute est une invitation dans notre monde imaginaire intime, inspiré par des lieux exceptionnels et des environnements sonores intrigants. Les auditeurs sont invité à un “voyage immobile”. Cette session d’écoute permet de se laisser porter par le son, d’être immergé dans des territoires inexplorés entre fiction et documentaire. Dans cette session, le public est invité à faire l’expérience de 3 bandes sonores immersives différentes, provenant d’environnements et de mondes sonores variés (durée 30 minutes)
A la fin, les auditeurs sont invités à réfléchir et à échanger sur les pièces écoutées et les mondes sonores découverts! (15 minutes)

L’équipe artistique & pedagogique
Alexandra Bellon
est une artiste pluridisciplinaire, formée comme musicienne classique et contemporaine (percussions). En plus de son activité de compositrice et performeuse, elle réalise de nombreux projets de médiation avec ses différents ensembles musicaux (Ensemble Batida, K&A, 46°N, Parasite sans s, Eklekto).
Karla Isidorou
est une performeuse, formée aux arts visuels et au théâtre. Avec une passion pour le partage, une curiosité sans fin et des idées inspirantes, elle dirige des ateliers qui explorent et renforcent la créativité à travers une multiplicité de disciplines.

Ce workshop est destiné aux écoles sur ces dates, inscription extérieure impossible à ces dates.

RADIX
2024-05-04 13:00 - 18:00, 2024-05-05 13:00 - 18:00 UTC | De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen, Amsterdam, 1017 RR
RADIX
“RADIX is a breathtaking sonic installation that will shatter your perception of the borders between you and the other while questioning the banality of evil” K&A
RADIX by K&A offers a 20-minute immersive sonic journey challenging perceptions of evil. Using live binaural sound recordings, visitors experience another’s auditory world unfolding in real time. Binaural audio mimics human ear reception, intensifying intimacy and stimulating empathy. In “RADIX” music, narrative and dialogues merge, evoking a unique experience for the listener through headphones. K&A, exploring this technique since 2019, aim to evoke varied intimacies and shift perspectives, from individual immersion to broader empathy.
The installation proposed by K&A invites participants to reconsider their boundaries through sonic immersion.
Duration: 20 minutes, starting each hour (13.00 – 18.00)
Capacity: 12-24 people

Credits RADIX:
Concept, performance, text: K&A
Composition & realization of music: Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Anne-Kathryn Olsen
Mix of composition: Alessandro Mazzieri
With the support of Stichting Public Frequencies and De Balie

RADIX is one of the winners of the Open Call: Empathy, initiated by “De Balie”

(G)loves for (G)ants
2024-05-10 19:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Theater ins Blau
Sketching 2111, where there are only 26 jobs leftover for the hands of the humans. The (g)love, the most privileged object, invades the spatial-temporal reality: the only one capable of exploring the unknown wor(l)ds of bodies. Infected by the hygienic law, humanity shares the fascination for and dependency to the object that controls & protects their porous skin from the outside: Les (g)ants = the (g)loves in English. (G)ants intrude the skin to transform the gestures of the future jobs. 26 gloves: Aimant (g)loves, BOBO (g)loves, Cornichon (g)loves, D, E,( …) Z

26 gloves
26 miniature performances
26 binaural 3D recordings
“A (G)love for your hands. A (G)ant for your skin. A (G)ang for your life.” K&A

With (G)loves for (G)ants K&A sketch a futuristic neoritual that explores a society of (G)loves. The performance (G)loves for (G)ants has a duration of 208 min. It consists of 26 performances each with a duration of 8 minutes. The audience can enter and exit each 8 minutes.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Artistic direction & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Graphic Design: Mathilde Wingering
IT Design: Antoine Hordez
IT Graphic Design slotmachine: Antony Margole
Special thanks to: The team of Sitting Shotgun (Brooklyn, NYC), Accueil Studio l’ADC (Geneve, CH)

ELASTIQUE SONORE
2024-05-27, 2024-05-28, 2024-05-30 | École&Culture, Quai du Rhône 12, Genève, Genève, 1205, Switzerland

ANALOG DIGITAL
2024-05-29 20:30 - 23:00 UTC | Le Pneu, 18 rue du vélodrome, Geneva, 1205, Switzerland
