Improv Sessions XIII: Emilié Girard-Charest and Sami Klemola
Museum of Impossible Forms M{if} continues the improvisation and experimental music sessions in 2019, where seasoned local and international improvisors meet up on the stage of M{if} in Kontula creating unique performances. The event continues with our regular practice of 'Blind Date Jamming', where members of the audience may ask other audience members and/or the invited guests for the opportunity to "jam" or play a short improvised piece together.
Schedule:
19:00: doors open
19:30: Emilie Girard-Charest
19:50 to 19:55 break
19:55: Sami Klemola
20:15 to 20:20 break
20:20: Emilie and Sami Improv Jam
20:40 to 20:50 break
20:50 Improv Blind Dates Jam
Museum of Impossible Forms is excited to host the final Improv Sessions of 2019 with Emilié Girard-Charest and Sami Klemola. For Improv Sessions XIII, they exemplify collaborative improvisation of noise and analogue sound.
Emilié Girard-Charest’s improvisational work displays a powerful development of the cello extended playing techniques within a very personal language that emphasises a sophisticated treatment of noise. Namely, the former element is explored in diverse dynamic and expressive ranges. Also, Girard-Charest keeps a very active career as a contemporary music performer and composer, collaborating with artists from different disciplines all around the globe.
Sami Klemola is an electric guitarist, electronic musicians and composer. In his improvised performances Klemola explores diverse timbral layers within the guitar, using mainly analogue processes. Constrained-fragmented rhythmical patters, and noise are also present. All these features show his influences of rock and contemporary music. Klemola keeps himself very active within the Finnish music scene not only as an artist but also as an artistic producer and manager.
Improv Sessions is a part of the Museum of Impossible Forms and is both a platform for listening to and performing Experimental Music and Sound Art, curated by Sergio Castrillón.
Museum of Impossible Forms is a cultural space, located in Kontula, Helsinki. It is a contested Space and it represents a contact zone, a space of unlearning, formulating identity constructs, norm-critical consciousness and critical thinking. Impossible Forms are those that erase and facilitate the process of transgressing the boundaries/borders between art, politics, practice, theory, the artist and the spectator. For 2019-2020, Museum of Impossible Forms operates under the curatorial theme of ‘The Atlas of Lost Beliefs (For Insurgents, Citizens and Untitled Bodies)’
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