Second Edition: Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji + Áine O'Dwyer + SAWTOUT

Saturday 11 February 2017

Poster for "Second Edition — En Festival För Annan Musik," held in Stockholm from February 9-12, 2017, listing events and performers.

tickets: 180 adv / 200 door
festival pass: 500

Angharad Davies & Tisha Mukarji

“I have around 20 releases featuring Angharad Davies's fine playing….(but) I think this one might be the finest, due in no small part to the improbably heightened telepathy connecting her to her unsung playing partner Tisha Mukarji.” — Jesse Goin

Tisha Mukarji's appearance has been made possible with the support of the Goethe Institut Schweden.

Áine O'Dwyer

O'Dwyer presents her second festival appearance for the day with a solo performance for harp.

SAWT OUT — Mazen Kerbaj / Burkhard Beins / Michael Vorfeld

Mazen Kerbaj performs with percussionist Burkhard Beins and Michael Vorfeld.

SAWT OUT's appearance has been made possible with the support of the Goethe Institut Schweden.

O’Dwyer is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is informed by both the conceptual concerns of sound art and traditional composition techniques, embracing the broader aesthetics of sound and its relationship to environment.

She has created works for large-scale and intimate settings that allow for both planned and unplanned compositions to co-exist in live situ. Recent works include 'Poems for Daedalus’ , a series of site-specific performances developed in Athens 2018; the book 'Poems for play', a collection of scores for a Jesuit monastery; 'Accompaniment for Captives’ , a performance for two fishing boats; 'Performance for Live Stream' (Cafe OTO, 2021), an audio-visual work; 'Song of Place' (2022) a street opera staged in Bristol suburbia and ‘Sing in the Dark’ ( 2024 ) a live vocal performance for acousmonium.

Angharad Davies

Angharad Davies is a Welsh violinist based in London working with free-improvisation, compositions and performance.

Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument, her classical training and performance expectation.

Much of her work involves collaboration. She has long standing duos with Tisha Mukarji, Dominic Lash and Lina Lapelyte and plays with Common Objects, Cranc and Skogen. She has been involved in projects with Tarek Atui, Tony Conrad, Richard Dawson, Gwenno, Roberta Jean, Jack McNamara, Rie Nakajima, Tim Parkinson, Eliane Radigue, Georgia Ruth and J.G.Thirlwell.

Most of her records are released on Another Timbre but she also has releases on Absinth Records, allthatdust, Confrontrecords, Emanem, Potlatch, NI VU Ni CONNU and winds measure recordings. Her first orchestral piece was commissioned by LCMF in 2019 : I ble'r aeth y gwrachod i gyd....?/ Where did all the witches go...? She has since been commissioned by Explore Ensemble: Sitting with Emptiness (2022); GBSR duo: Empty Spaces II (2023) and will be making new pieces for andPlay, Dominic Lash and Heather Roche in 2025.

www.angharaddavies.com

Mazen Kerbaj

Mazen Kerbaj was born in 1975 in Beirut and is active with comics, painting and music, publishing his first personal graphic works in 2000 and also starting to play publicly that year.

His first concert — at Strike's pub in Beirut — a duo with Lebanese sax player Christine Sehnaoui can possibly be regarded as the first improvised music concert in the Middle East. In 2001, together with guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui ,he created the MILL association that curates IRTIJAL — an annual international festival for free music in Beirut.

Mazen Kerbaj currently lives in Berlin.

www.kerbaj.com

Burkhard Beins

"one of the most distinctive percussionists in European free music" — The WIRE

Burkhard Beins is an acclaimed solo performer on percussion and electronics and also a member of the ensembles Polwechsel, Activity Center, The Sealed Knot, Perlonex, Trio Sowari, Tree, Junk Orbit, Fracture Mechanics, and Splitter Orcheste. He also works with composers/musicans such as Sven-Åke Johansson, Andrea Neumann, Keith Rowe, Axel Dörner, Tarek Atoui, John Tilbury, or Charlemagne Palestine.

www.burkhardbeins.de

Michael Vorfeld

Michael Vorfeld lives in Berlin, working as musician — playing percussion and self-designed string instruments — and visual artist. From early experiences with site specific art projects, Vorfeld's visual interest shifted towards the use of light in three dimensional spaces. As a musician this is reflected in his concerns for the mixture and relation of different sound characters and their horizontal and vertical organisation.