The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns Workshop III – Eigengrau

The Warp Audio Visual Spatial Performances

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns Workshop III

December 3, Saturday 10 pm,

December 4, Sunday 4 pm—12 midnight

at the Kunstkapel Prinses Irenestraat 19

 

▷ Zalan Szakacs presents Eigengrau (A Contemporary Phantasmagoria) ◁

Eigengrau, meaning ‘dark light’, is an immersive cinematic experience, a ritual in total darkness that solely uses light, haze, sound, smell, and movement. A light cylinder, a reference to the magic circle, takes the audience through a narrative of various mental states. The installation is inspired by phantasmagorias, which were originally built upon mythological stories, political, sociological, and religious propaganda as reflections of the zeitgeist. Eigengrau frames the negative space, creating a perceptual illusion and a temporary escape in a contemporary setting.

Eigengrau is a project by Zalán Szakács in collaboration with Sébastien Robert (sound design), Marta Wörner (choreography), Renske van Vroonhoven/Attic Lab (smell design), Rein Reitsma (product design), Daan Jonkers/RAITO (production design), Martijn van Boven (mentor), and Riccardo de Vecchi (architecture/photography/videography).

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

FallBack: Eternal Returns IV: Fall Back into the Mist

 

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial Performances

The Warp FallBack: Eternal Returns IV: Fall Back into the Mist

December 3, Saturday, 8 pm

at the Kunstkapel Prinses Irenestraat 19

Tickets are 10 euro at the door, students 5 euro.

As the Fallback program continues on its sojourn, the backwards motions make for grander leaps into the misty uncertainties of not so much the past but the very ability to anymore claim a great deal of certainty regarding anything… While things have changed we may seek to fall back into former understandings but we may have to surrender to the ineffable.

▷ Kacpar Ziemianin performs Light Seq Returns

Kacper Ziemianin a.k.a. ‘Ctrl Freq’ has background in classical music and a lot of adventures in modern sound and music. Sound designer, circuit bender, vagabond, improviser, producer, audio-hacker, instrument designer, nomad, radio presenter, workshop leader, squatter, soon-to-be a published writer. His audio installations and sounds have been shown/played in many places around Europe. ‚LSe‘ aka LightSeq is a DIY instrument and performance system for live electronic music. It allows users to program sequences of lights which are then translated into sounds. This combination opens up a lot of possibilities for controlling, structuring and interacting with sound. This instrument tries to address an issue of ‘liveness’ of electronic music performance. In the case of ‘LSe’ every sound is created and manipulated by various light sources. This creates a direct link between the visual and sonic realm.

▷▷ Francisco Garrido and Xico Ribas Tur perform Alexithymia

Venezuelan Guitarist Francisco Garrido unites with Spanish keyboardist Xico Ribas Tur to create immersive soundscapes that take the listener into an unexpected train of thought. Thought provoking sounds in a great dynamic range, from loud and in your face to timid and soft.” “Everyone has experienced how hard it can be to put one’s feelings into words from time to time. After the years that we spent together with Covid being a harsh reality, most people’s mental health has been a bit affected. And now with how suddenly it appears that we’ve moved on and completely forgot about it, it feels as if we didn’t have enough time to process it. To put all the feelings that we went through on the table and deal with them, to get closure.”

▷▷▷The Pitfall Ensemble performs Figural Vertical Hallucinationscores

As a counteraction to the previous project presented several times in the context of the Shadow Floriade as well as the Fallback season this year which was about the horizontality of the ground and the horizon, the attention now turns to the verticality that is the basic nature of the warp in the process of weaving. While Pitfall explores dynamic and unusual scoring processes here it goes one step further into retinal burn and visual spectra to establish its vertical score. Performers include Gareth Davis, Dario Calderone and Salvoandrea Lucifora.

▷▷▷▷An Overt Enclave performs Atsivata

One of the first projects ever developed at The Warp in terms of the kind of extended production workshops that are now a regular part of each year’s programming in 2013 was created by an interdisciplinary ensemble that determined to perform entirely in a thick fog bank which created an intense immersiveness and unpredictability. The piece was entitled Atavista playing on the very idea that “when the fog clears one will find one’s self at a vista.” For this performance, An Overt Enclave will not exactly recreate this performance but create an entirely contrary one still within a thick fog bank. Thus the title has been reversed to Atsivata.

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns III – Taxing Returns: Back to the Drawing Borders

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial Performances

The Warp Fallback: Eternal Returns III – Taxing Returns: Back to the Drawing Borders

November 26, Saturday, 8pm

At the Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19

The third Fallback outing concentrates on works which witness the fracturing borderland between deeply internal experiences and an estranging outer world… the small crevices that open between these realms can suggest a mad repetition cycle in which every connection is simultaneously a disconnect… Where do we find the way through the apparent chasm?

▷ The Blacklightmen perform Waking Up Inside My Skull

Jaap Pieters’ considers his Waking Up Inside my Skull, as a work in progress. It is composed of analogue slides simultaneously viewed in the round with six projectors. The work is largely composed of ‘Light & Dust’; shifting ‘Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise’ through the same spaces over & over again, thus setting Light (& Fire) to the endless new details, slowly gathered over the years. Pieters also incorporates the work of Bart Prinsen & Marnix Carpentier Alting with their dreamlike ‘Walks through the Nights’ of Antwerp, Budapest & Dublin. Pieters means to show these Night walks inside Jaap’s Skull. before the sunlight fades those dreams away…. The soundtrack is made up on field recordings made on the visualized site…

▷▷ Antti Uimonen performs Better Person (a) ?

This solo multimedia performance uses movement, text, video, and sound that communicate social phenomena around personal development and the self-help industry. The work presents characterizations and perspectives revolving around notions of an existential urgency to be better, more successful, prettier, and more handsome. It seeks to invite collective imagination and challenges audiences to their relationship with self-worth and the self-help industry. The work aims to consider the mechanisms of self-worth to evoke collective action without guilt or blame by framing the content within prescribed conditions. The sound design in collaboration with Dj TuhoJuho

▷▷▷ The Approximate Consort performs Adridged 4,0

Musicians Ada Rave and Alan Purves are featured in this dramatic comedy of domestic showdown with instruments and objects which continues the ongoing sequence of episodes developing incidental narrativity through the channel of Frank Bridge’s early composition Idylls for String Quartet which in turn inspired Benjamin Britten’s masterwork Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge. This project will continue with new sections in 2023.

Tickets: 10 euros CASH at the door, student discount – 5 euro.

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

Fall Back: Eternal Returns II: Returns to Sender: Addresses Unknown

The Warp presents Audio Visual Spatial Performances

Fall Back: Eternal Returns II: Returns to Sender: Addresses Unknown

November 18, Friday, 8 pm

At the Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19

Tickets are €10 Cash at the door

▷ Antrianna Moutoula performs You Can’t Trace The Same Stream Twice

Re working: A woman traces her thoughts through language. A stream which is nonstop, circumstantial and is not being more edited than it already is. An overload of words, thoughts, lyrics, theories, and memories that seek their own linearity. You Can’t Trace The Same Stream Twice is the articulation of the present in an ephemeral encounter between performer and spectator. Antrianna Moutoula has been concentrating on the performance of non stop languaging within the context of contemporary autotheory and she can often be heard on weekly online radio performances.

▷▷ The Approximate Consort (in trio formation) performs Abridged 3,0

Alan Purves (percussion), Lucija Gregov (cello) and Alkistis Misouli (viola) perform the third section of an ongoing project made in response to the distinctive musical relationship between composer Benjamin Britten and his teacher Frank Bridge. Using musical material drawn from Bridge’s Idylls for String Quartet and Britten’s Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge, this group presses the ideas of the idyll and of variations toward paroxysm While the performance is sparked by great reverence to its musical forebears it will just as quickly be noted for an particular and pointed irreverence.

▷▷▷ Eyal Talmor performs Untitled

Eyal Talmor is an experimental musician from Lisbon, Portugal. His works are dealing with the extremities of sound produced by unconventional approaches of music technology, researching stress conditions, chaos and the physical presentation of sound and its influence on the individual and society, along with the goal of uncovering and exploring new territories by experimentation and performance. He Says “My performance is centered around a dysfunctional Access Virus synth that is operating beyond the machine’s capabilities, generating corrupted MIDI data and transmitted to several other machines. This method allows me to create sounds that otherwise would be impossible to reach and have unexpected results every time due to the chaotic nature of the process.”

 

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FALL BACK: ETERNAL RETURNS  October 21—December 12, 2022

The Autumn program of Audio Visual Spatial performances

For the Autumn program The Warp provides the counter balance for the Spring Ahead: The Afterlife program presented earlier this year with Fall Back: Eternal Returns. Just as we are prompted to remember to set the clocks forward by the command to Spring Ahead in the Autumn we know we must always fall back and set the clocks accordingly. For the Warp however, Fall Back means an attempt to return to an apparent new normalcy after the demise of the plans to transform the Kunstkapel into the Conservatory of Amsterdam but also as a reflection of the attempt to readjust after the extended Covid period that began in Spring 2020. With Fall Back: Eternal Returns we explore the recurring aspects that have characterized the work made in the Kunstkapel over the last ten year period.

The concept of the Eternal Return has been with us since Greek Antiquity when the stoics postulated that history was doomed to repeat itself infinitely since the universe and its concomitant energy is recurring. Nietzsche later transforms this into a thought experiment which questions what we would do faced with the information that we could be doomed to repeat ourselves. Nietzsche later had Zarathustra proclaim:

All things are entangled, ensnared, enamored; if you ever wanted one thing twice, if you ever said, ‘You please me, happiness! Abide, moment!’ then you wanted all back … For all joy wants—eternity.

The actual physical reality of the Kunstkapel which we have treated alternately as an instrument, a vessel, a container, a space station, a space of contemplation, a place of madness and at last a place of recovery, is the site of eternal returns and its circular immersive quality provides the perfect object correlative for this proposition. The Autumn program will consist of the regular Audio Visual Spatial spectrum programs that usually combine three performances in a single evening, several ongoing workshops which will produce individual evenings for stand alone performances as well as club nights that create a different context to present a dynamic environment for more impromptu or informal performances.

 

Fallback (Eternal Returns) Underbelly: an Event in the Sour Dough Bakery

The Warp Fallback (Eternal Returns) Underbelly presents an Event in the Sour Dough Bakery

November 12, Saturday, 8:30 pm, beneath the Kunstkapel

 

 

▷ Katie Duck, Erik van de Wijdeven, Maria Mavridou perform Brazen Delinquents

Brazen Delinquents are three fractured (un)female deities who scavenge the ethereal debris of a world at war with itself. A visceral lyrical exploration of the fictional space between wounds. A sublime transfiguration of ferociously fumbling entities that long to be enlightened in the nearness of the other. Brazen Delinquents is a text driven performance where the players execute the lighting, sound and movement in real time.

(The Sour Dough Bakery entrance is via the Klooster, on the left of Kunstkapel, Prinses Irenestraat 19)

Tickets: €10 Cash at door,  €5 for students