Improv Sessions XVII
Amanda Blomqvist, Johanna Vahtola, Adriano Adewale, Michael Sagulin
Thursday, November 26, 2020
19:00 to 22:00
Museum of Impossible Forms
Schedule:
19:00-19:40: Amanda Blomqvist
19:45-20:05: Johanna Vahtola
break
20:15-20:25: Adriano Adewale
20:30-20:50:Michael Sagulin
break
21:00-21:30: Combined jams with all invited guests
Join us for the last Improv Session of 2020.
This session marks three years of Improv Sessions conducted in Museum of Impossible Forms, curated by Sergio Castrillón.
Amanda Blomqvist is a drummer, singer, and composer from the Åland Islands who is interested in free improvisation as well as in more precomposed popular music. She is active in FRANK FRANK FRANK and birdpeople, and with a fresh project as solo artist.
Johanna Vahtola is an expressive and colorful performer who moves fluently across genres from free improvisation to jazz and contemporary music. In her improvisation, she explores the capabilities of human voice and finds fresh and surprising ways to use voice as an instrument. She has performed with various groups and vocal ensembles in Finland and abroad. Along her career as a performer, she is also a singing teacher and composer. Johanna has a Master's degree of Contemporary Improvisation and a Bachelor of Music Pedagogy. Over the years, she has studied with many top improvisers and jazz singers such as Anne-Liis Poll, Anto Pett, Kadri Voorand and Jenny Robson.
Brazilian percussionist/composer Adriano Adewale is a versatile musician and performer, known for his unconventional and exploratory approach to music, and for his ability to create magical soundscapes from the seemingly banal. Adriano’s distinctive sounds come from organic materials, connected to nature. They are made out of wood, clay, metal, skins and the philosophy behind it is the connection with the four classic elements: water, earth, air and fire. Playing percussion is about making music. Drums are very powerful, however they do not have to be loud. The idea of percussion has changed dramatically with the great late percussionist Nana Vasconcelos, who is Adriano’s percussion master and inspiration.
Michael Sagulin is a Finnish classically trained violist, improviser and musicologist. He holds MA in contemporary improvisation from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Michael has performed around the world in various groups, mainly in the Nordic countries and central Europe but also in the Baltic countries and the Middle East. Besides free improvisation, Michael performs early music and classical music.
Please note that due to Covid-19 pandemic, our gathering will follow the social distancing standards and we will follow the official regulations and recommendations for gatherings to include 10 people.
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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