a composers' collective
We are happy to play at this year’s klub katarakt festival. It’s actually happening!
We are playing on the opening and closing nights, Wednesday January 19 and Saturday January 22, respectively. On Wednesday we will play Nellys Boudoir by Robert Engelbrecht, and on Saturday giration 4.2 ( a new version of giration 4) by Jan Feddersen.
We are joined for these concerts by our good friends and colleagues Donghee Nam and Fiona McKenzie.
As always, many great other musicians playing. Check it out.
Alvin Lucier has passed away.
We were fortunate to have worked with him, at klub katarakt in 2009. Among other things, we prepared a performance of Vespers. Jens Röhm custom built, together with Olaf Hering, the echolocation devices which are asked for for this piece. Which amazed Alvin. It was a great experience.
On the photo are three quarters of the 2009 Nelly line-up. Two ghosts now.
We are going to play at the Reclaim the Fleets! weekend at Westwerk:
Saturday, August 14, 19:30
We will play a shorter, restructured version of Whirligig.
Lots of other great artists there, too, so come and listen and watch.
We are happy to present our new project WHIRLIGIG at blurred edges 2021 – due to circumstances only as a movie.
WHIRLIGIG is a collective composition by Nelly Boyd with film projections by Christina Hansen.
Thanks to Giuseppe Gagliano for filming.
The movie can be watched on the Youtube channel of Blurred Edges, starting Monday, June 14, at 7 PM.
This concert is part of blurred edges. blurred edges 2021 is funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg and Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
No live concerts this time… We have decided to cancel the performance of our installation at blurred edges, due to the unsecure situation. We think it’s not possible to stream this work, so we will present a new work which we developed over the past months and which lends itself more to a classical concert setting. The filmed performance will be available as a video on Sunday, June 13, via the festival channels. Details follow.
We will perform at blurred edges again and will present our installation work Ultimate Loop Space, which we began to develop with the Reload grant last year, on the last two days of the festival: June 12 & 13, at C45 in Wendenstrasse.
It’s an ongoing audiovisual piece eight hours long. As there is only a very limited audience number, there are going to be time slots, which you can book in advance. More info later. And let’s hope the situation will be better.
klub katarakt is cancelled again. There’s a new date scheduled for May 27, but only one day, and we won’t perform then.
Happy New Year!
We were going to play at the opening of this year’s klub katarakt, performing do nothing, just wait, the singing will start…. sooner or later by Matthias Kaul, who passed away last year. There was also going to be a whole concert by L’art pour l’art dedicated to his memory.
But the festival is cancelled and postponed to February. Let’s hope.
As told, we weren’t able to present our new work to the public. However, we have set the whole installation up and performed two run-throughs of the work in its current state and recorded and filmed the result. Snippets of this may become viewable some time!
Many thanks to Christina Hansen, who built the installation elements and designed the lighting, and to Julia Berg, who did the filming.
We will continue working on this and hope to present it next year.
We are sad to announce the cancellation of the planned presentations of our new installation work with help from the Reload grant, due to the newly imposed lockdown.
We hope to present it next year under better circumstances. Stay safe.