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, 2024-05-31 | 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

CHANGE THE GAME - vinyl release (CH)
2024-10-05 18:00 - 21:00 UTC | pavillon bleu, Rue Cité-de-la-Corderie 10, Geneva, 1201, Switzerland
We are pleased to invite you to the release of the vinyl of CHANGE THE GAME
When? 5 October 2024|18h00 – 21h00
Where? Pavillon Bleu
Rue Cité-de-la-Corderie 10, 1201 Genève (CH)
The composition of CHANGE THE GAME, recorded binaurally, derives from a unique project in which the comic “Un Monde en pièces” was brought to the stage and became a 3D experience. On 5 October, we invite you to a special event to celebrate the release of its music on vinyl. We are excited to announce the presence of Ulysse and Gaspard Gry, the creators of the comic “Un Monde en pièces”.
Program:
18h00 Opening
welcome, opening of the exhibition & vinyl presentation
19h00 Listening session
of the binaural composition of CHANGE THE GAME
20h00 Chess lottery
Win a vinyl, a comic book, or the complete collection
20h30 Guided visit
Immerse yourself in two worlds between comic and theater
Ongoing: Comic book & vinyl signing sessions, exhibition, & drinks

CHANGE THE GAME is an edgy multidisciplinary physical performance that underlines the political and poetical frames of our society: determinism, social class, migration and citizenship. This performance wes based on the successful comic Un monde en pièces from Gaspard & Ulysse Gry. The vinyl of CHANGE THE GAME carries the unique binaural sound of this performance.

KAHVE
2024-10-31 20:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-01 20:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-02 20:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Theater ins Blau
KAHVE is an intimate theater performance, a warm invitation to experience the history, political, social, and economic power of coffee in an immersive theatrical way during the preparation of a cup of coffee. Binaural sound recording of music and text, smell, movement, and narration come together on stage.
Coffee is a migrant, born and raised in countries miles away, which we can now associate with our lifestyle and sometimes even with a “national identity” (Greece, Turkey, Italy, etc.). The conditions under which and where the coffee beans are produced, who profits from them, and how they end up in our cups are rarely questioned.
With this performance, K&A pay tribute to coffee and investigate the social and political conditions that have led to the practice of drinking coffee. Fascinated by how multiple cultures have embraced this drink and integrated it into their cultural identity, K&A explore its origins and development.
“Because goats danced in the moonlight, because monks fell asleep praying, because the Turks attacked Austria, because Mohammed IV sent an embassy to Louis XIV, because the English drank hard, a new historical engine appeared… this is how we might sum up the prodigious adventure of coffee” Heinrich Eduard Jacob – L’épopée du café
Between history and fiction, legends and myths, the audience follows the journey of the coffee bean and coffee itself through time and space.
About the sound of the performance In “KAHVE,” the spectator listens to the composition through headphones that have been recorded binaurally. Binaural audio mimics the way human ears capture sound waves. By using this technique, sounds are placed in three dimensions, providing the listener with a fully immersive experience. Binaural audio places the listener in the middle of the recording location, thus creating a 360° sonic bubble.

Cast & Credits

Concept, Artistic direction & performance: K&A (Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon)
Binaural recording, research & mix: David Poissonnier
Music composition & execution: Alexandra Bellon
Coproduction: Stichting Public Frequencies, K&A, Theater Ins Blau
Special thanks to: the whole team of Theater Ins Blau

ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE workshop
2025-01-09 08:00 - 14:00, 2025-01-16 08:00 - 14:00 UTC
ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE is a participatory music performance with typewriters, based on a graphic score dedicated to Alice Rivaz. An orchestra of typewriters has been
formed with a group of nine people following a precise score composed by K&A. The performance includes a model of the famous Olivetti Lettera 32 that Alice Rivaz herself used, transformed into a musical instrument by Théo Soulié as well as an orchestra of 20 typewriters.
The performance was part of “Le Tiret d’Alice/Episode 2“

The workshop:
ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE is a playful, literary, and musical multidisciplinary project that introduces students to the works of Swiss writer Alice Rivaz while also developing their collective musical skills.
During the workshop you get to:

Get acquainted with the Swiss writer Alice Rivaz.
Rehearse and perform a graphic score inspired by her work, using a typewriter as a musical instrument.
Develop skills in following a conductor and experience the dynamics of an orchestra rehearsal.
Foster creativity and musicality using an analog machine.
Work on rhythms and timbres.
Discover the hidden percussive sounds within a typewriter.

Cast & Credits

Concept & composition: K&A – Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Workshop Participants
Olivetti Lettera 32 / creation music instrumemt: Théo Soulié
Olivetti Lettera 32 /musician: Alexandra Bellon
Conductor: Karla Isidorou
Orchestra: Workshop Participants
Sound engineer: Christophe Egea
Created in collaboration with Caroline de Cornière Aurélien Gamboni and l’Institut d’étude des intervalles
Dedicated to: Alice Rivaz (1901 – 1998)

ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE - workshop
2025-01-09 15:30 - 16:00, 2025-01-16 15:30 - 16:00 UTC
ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE is a participatory music performance with typewriters, based on a graphic score dedicated to Alice Rivaz. An orchestra of typewriters has been
formed with a group of nine people following a precise score composed by K&A. The performance includes a model of the famous Olivetti Lettera 32 that Alice Rivaz herself used, transformed into a musical instrument by Théo Soulié as well as an orchestra of 20 typewriters.
The performance was part of “Le Tiret d’Alice/Episode 2“

Cast & Credits

Concept & composition: K&A – Karla Isidorou & Alexandra Bellon
Voice: Workshop Participants
Olivetti Lettera 32 / creation music instrumemt: Théo Soulié
Olivetti Lettera 32 /musician: Alexandra Bellon
Conductor: Karla Isidorou
Orchestra: Workshop Participants
Sound engineer: Antoine Hordez
Created in collaboration with Caroline de Cornière Aurélien Gamboni and l’Institut d’étude des intervalles
Dedicated to: Alice Rivaz (1901 – 1998)

ORCHESTRE DE MACHINES À ÉCRIRE
2025-01-09 16:00 - 16:30 UTC
