The Complex Songs - radioart-residency.net https://radioart-residency.net/en Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:11:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.11 https://radioart-residency.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-test2-Kopie-32x32.png The Complex Songs - radioart-residency.net https://radioart-residency.net/en 32 32 The Complex Songs at Radiolab https://radioart-residency.net/en/the-complex-songs-im-radiolab/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:52:55 +0000 https://radioart-residency.net/?p=1516 Sara Hamdy’s performance project The Complex Songs will be continued during the Radiolab at Seanaps Festival for transdisciplinary music in Leipzig.
The performance is based on recordings of birdsongs the artist collected in Halle, Leipzig, Cairo and Alexandria, and transformed into scores for vocal interpretation. For the Radiolab edition of the performance a temporary choir of six singers and voice performers developes its own interpretation of the scores.

On air: Saturday, November 9, 3 pm on Radio CORAX 95.9
Online: http://sphere-radio.net/en/
On site: Villa Plagwitz, Karl-Heine-Straße 108, Leipzig

 

Graphic: Mote Studio

 

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For the performance The Complex Songs we want to found a temporary choir. The performance is part of the RadioLab Program of the transdisciplinary music festival Seanaps in Leipzig.

The Complex Songs is a singing/voice performance by visual and sound artist Sara Hamdy. The performance is based on recordings of birdsongs the artist has collected in Halle, Leipzig, Cairo and Alexandria and transformed into scores for vocal interpretation.

For realizing a collective voice performance we invite singers who are curious to play with their voices and keen on experimenting.

You don’t have to be an experienced choir singer, but you should bring a musical ear and sense and be able to use your voice confidently.

In the workshop on November 3, Hamdy will introduce the project and her working process, and the participants will improvise on the scores and develop a collective interpretation for the performance. Following an evening for rehearsing on November 8, the performance will take place on Saturday, November 9, 3pm at Villa Plagwitz and live on air on the RadioLab stream and on Radio Corax 95.9 FM.

Workshop

Sunday, November 3, 12pm-5pm // Leipzig, tba.

Rehearsal

Friday, November 8, 3pm-6pm // Leipzig, tba.

Performance at Seanaps RadioLab

Saturday, November 9, 3pm (30 min.) // Villa Plagwitz & airing on the RadioLab stream as well as on Radio CORAX 95.9 FM in Halle/Saale & radiocorax.de

If you are interested, please send us a mail until Friday, November 1, to: residency@radiocorax.de

]]> Opening Performance: The Complex Songs https://radioart-residency.net/en/eroeffnungs-performance-the-complex-songs/ Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:46:44 +0000 https://radioart-residency.net/?p=1351 On September 21st, Sara Hamdy performed “The Complex Songs” for the opening of her residency in Halle at WUK Theaterquartier.
The performance is based on records of birds songs, Hamdy has collected and transformed into singing scores in the past years. For the performance in Halle she invited the singers Angelina Ivanova and Lorenz Pfützenreuter to interpret with her the scores.

 

Extract from “The Complex Songs” by Sara Hamdy, with Angelina Ivanova and Lorenz Pfützenreuter, 21.10.2019, WUK Theaterquartier and Radio CORAX 95.9

 


 

Photo: Marcus-Andreas Mohr

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Sara Hamdy from Cairo is the fourth scholar of the Radio Art Residency. Hamdy graduated in fine in arts at the Helwan University in Cairo. Her poetic artistic practice includes visuals and sound as well as text and performance. What leads her works is the hidden and concealed – this what we cannot see nor hear, but only sense:

Obviously I’m fascinated by what we call ›madness‹. In Arabic ›mad‹ means the hidden, in the sense of concealement. There is something of whose existence we know but we don’t see it, like the unspoken history of memory, like the gardens behind the walls or the woods with their hidden seeds in the earth.

Sara Hamdy, Performance, The Complex Songs, 2016.

 

For the opening of her residency in Halle (Saale), the artist performs her work The Complex Songs, on the 21st of September as part of the Radio CORAX anniversay celebrations.

 

 

 

 

 

Sara Hamdy about her art work and ideas for the Radio Art Residency (40 min.)

 

Picture: Sara Hamdy

 

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