Saturday evening in Utrecht: Genetic Choir goes poetry during the Vorlesebühne. more info? click here
With authors: Paulien Cornelisse, Ariadne Verstegen, Kasper C. Jansen, Bernhard Christiansen, Sylvia Hubers
Sunday morning in Amstelveen: Lindai Boogerman with STAPEL!
A performance for kids from 2-4, that I created/directed together with Lindai. more info? click here
Be welcome!
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Another Wonderland-edition, today at half past 3!
music/ Felicity Provan( Trumpet),Yedo Gibson(Sax), Alan Gunga Purves( Percussion)
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Join us next Thursday for a new Radio Kootwijk Live adventure!
The Perfect Moment
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This Sunday I will be peforming with some great musicians and dancers in the lovely Wonderland-project:
Kidnap a child from somewhere and join us in OT301 (Overtoom 301, Amsterdam), it’ll be worth your time…
dance/ Silvia Bennett, Manuela Tessi, Thomas Johannsen, Makiko Ito
music/ Alfredo Genovesi( Guitar), Nina Hitz(Cello), Felicity Provan( Trumpet)
lights/ Ellen Knops
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I am late with posting, so unfortunately you already missed the Genetic Choir on Toon&Taal Festival Alkmaar (10th of February 2013). There, we did another memorable edition of “Genetic Choir sings Tanja Smit”
But no worries, you can also catch us next week Thursday (28th) in Amsterdam:
Axolot Aquarium #1: Space Odysseyin Dokhuis Gallery, Plantage Doklaan 8-12, Amsterdam
THE GENETIC CHOIR will sing three exciting instant compositions, spreadout through the evening. The ladies of the neotenic aXolot collective (recorders) are collaborating with us.
facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/events/437027349699001/
The same evening, there will also be:
AXOLOT with a.o. transdisciplinary, contemporary acoustic and electronic music visualized by Marjolijn Zwakman and a special Dutch premiere of a tripomatic composition by Michiel Mensingh.
KIM-JOSÉ BODE & ANA LADAS: dance/music improvisation
THE WEST SIDE TRIO: classical Jazz Weirdness Brilliance
Vera van der Bie- violin/ Isabella Petersen – viola/ Annie Tangberg – Cello
DODÓ KIS TRIO: fusion rock
Dodó Kis – EWI, Bernhard Höllinger – bass, Aron Nyuri – drums
AXONAUT: trespassing contemporary Jazz
Cesar Latorre – piano/Rafael Morales Aguin – bass/ Marcos Baggiani-drums
DJ JUHA: Half Finnish, half DJ. Interested in ubiquitous culture and urban rhythms. Likes Richie Jackson sliding down escalators.
MANUEL DAHM: aquatic media installation
The Dokhuis is offering a very tasty vegan dish for a low price and there will be classic and (a special aXolot) cocktails!
RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS: 06-13080119
http://www.facebook.com/dokhuis.galerie
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Dear music friends,
we will sing a concert tomorrow (Thursday) evening as part of the Ephémère series in LOOS, Den Haag. We are second in the line-up and our set lasts about 45 minutes.
10th of January 2013
20:00 doors open
20:30 concert starts
click here to see the rest of the program
The concert will consist of pieces that are instantly composed on text-images created by visual artist Tanja Smit. www.tanjasmit.com
More info about this concert? Look here on the Genetic Choir website.
adress:
Studio LOOS
De Constant Rebequeplein 20B
2518RA Den Haag – http://www.studioloos.com/
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Tagged a capella, Concert, graphic scores, improvisation, instant composition, music, new music, vocal, voice
I just started reading the Dutch translation of the new book by French philospher Michel Serres, titled “Muziek” (fr: “Musique”). Not yet past the first chapter about Orpheus (“Noise”), I am already totally consumed by the mythological landscapes he paints concerning the relationship between random sounds, music and meaning.
It is amazing how it reads like ‘Genetic Choir literature’, describing in other and much more profound ways what we attempt to do with this ongoing vocal instant composition project. Merci, Michel! 
I will write a more informative review on the Genetic Choir blog, as soon as I have read the other two chapters: “Voice” / “Word”)
If you’re not French or Dutch, I think you are in bad luck (at least, checking quickly on Amazon, I couldn’t find an English edition of the book, yet.)
But if you’re proficient in one of these languages, this is a very much recommended read covering white noise, musicianship, how music connects chaos and meaning, complexity, the human condition… – and all that only in the first chapter 
« le fleuve musical qui descend des bruits du Monde vers le sens des langues et les performances des sciences … »
Michel Serres, musique, Philosophie de la musique qui incarne le vrai langage du monde et des vivants, Edition Le Pommier, ISBN: 9782746505452, mars 2011, 166 pages
Michel Serres, Muziek, te vinden bij Uitgeverij Boom, ISBN: 9789461058911, November 2012, 200 bldz.
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Genetic Choir blog: Interdisciplinary Instant Composition Research
