SOTU festival Pre PARTY
We happily celebrate the start of SOTU season at ACU Utrecht, vivlant alternative cultural community speace.
Ekster [Experimental, Poetry]
Ekster is a collection of own poems, thoughts and feelings in image and
sound. Curated by Pianist Maarten Bijnen and Artist Carelain Bergtop.
The duo likes to use special guest players. The whole is somewhat
melancholic, avant-garde, eclectic but above all contrarious.
http://www.ekstery.nl/
SaSSy flOOf KAVIA [Experimental, Trumpet, Fieldrecordings]
She
once taught herself to play the guitar, but a few years ago when she
heard a trumpet playing in a band at f.a.s.t. the whole band fell away
and that little trumpet shone and shone to her. Not long after that she
played her own trumpet in the .psychedelic. band OR -with Spacebeest,
Denz and Tim with his lasers from Eerlijk Opgelicht-a real playground; )
apocalyptic soundscapes improvising and learning. And there was a
synthesizer 'ooo' and a sampler 'aaa' and singing became more and more
fun and everything fell into place.
The
sounds that the KAVIA had been collecting for years with microphones in
the ear could finally be used to make music. With guinea pigs, the
roar of trains, singing Peruvian ladies and rhythmic dripping between
the trumpet and her synth. Slowing down, accelerating, improvising
everything, sometimes rousing harmonic singing and like a trance with a
heavy beat or very neat. A musical journey it is
body mustArt [ Noise, Butoh, Visuals]
“body
mustArt” is a collaborative project with schoco mune (a.k.a. Shoko
Nagamachi, sound artist), Joana Cuiko (butoh 舞踏, movement) and Steven
Hoes (light and visual, junk-scrapyard artist) which was formed in the
summer of 2023. This project takes a poetic approach seeking beyond the
boundaries of our bodies, time and space.
"A body is surrounded by air and noise, a mind howls hysterically but a body stays muted."
Manica [Dark ambient]
Manica is a Dark Ambient/Free Improvisation project started in the Autumn of 2008 by L.M.
Wiltens as a solo project(Samples, Vocals, Synths etc.). Later, asfor 2013 Sandra Tenwolde joined the project to complete her duty on vocals in the studio-side
of the project. In 2017, a live team got formed which consists of Mathe Sluijter(synths,electronic percussion, Esther Ton(Guitars), Vredy(acoustic guitars and soundscapes) and Laurens Bijl(cello and percussion instruments). With always dynamic changing live line-ups, it always comes as a surprise on what would happen and no songs will be able to be reproduced it keeps the sounds refreshing and has a from-the-heart experience.
Soles of the feet
Unleashed modular synthesizer system + DIY speakers project
DJ lndpnd
Date & Time:
Friday, 8 March, 2024 - 19:30
Price: 8 euro
online:
https://acu.nl/events/20240308/sotu-festival-pre-party/
