Nebbia/Togander/Mattrey/Parkins · Zimmermann/Lienhard

Nebbia/Togander/Mattrey/Parkins

Barbara Togander, vocalist and turntablist (SE/AR); Camila Nebbia, saxophone player (AR/DE); Joanna Mattrey, violist (US/IE); and Andrea Parkins, accordionist, amplified objects, and laptop electronics (US/DE): Together, their music explores abstract textures of free improvised music, encompassing a wide range of dynamics from minimal and ethereal to frenetic dark expressionism.

Andrea Parkins is an electroacoustic musician, composer, and sound artist who engages with interactive electronics as a compositional/performative process. Working with an array of sonic materials – electronically processed accordion, custom-built software, amplified objects, and electronic feedback – her performances and installations explore connections and slippages between the body, materiality, sound, site, and space. Parkins’ projects include multi-channel sound performances and intermedia installations, electroacoustic solo and ensemble compositions; and sound for contemporary dance, experimental film and intermedia performance. She performs as a solo artist, and has collaborated with artists such as Ute Wassermann, Magda Mayas, George E. Lewis, Nels Cline, The Necks, choreographer Vera Mantero, and filmmaker Abigail Child, among others. Her performances and installations have been presented at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Café Oto, The Kitchen, Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Kunsthalle Basel, and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg. Festival appearances have included NEXT/Bratislava, Cyberfest/St. Petersburg, All Ears/Oslo, Jazz im Augusto/Lisbon, Music Unlimited/Wels, and many more. Parkins’ recent projects include The Stray II, a site-responsive 8-channel spatial audio and visual installation that was featured at Momentum 12/The Nordic Biennale at Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway; her intermedia installation, Sonic Spaces for the Stray, presented in 2021 at ROM for kunst og arkitektur in Oslo; and her performance/installation, Two Rooms, Variation 1, for 40 loudspeakers and Solo Performer, premiered in 2016 at Akousma Festival in Montreal. Andrea Parkins has been an invited resident artist at Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida; Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm; Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (NYC); and by Frei und Hanseastadt Hamburg Kulturbehoerde. Her recordings are published by Important Records, Infrequent Seams, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Henceforth Records and Creative Sources; and she can be heard as a contributor on numerous other labels. In 2022-2023, she is a fellow of the Berliner Förderprogramm Künstlerische Forschung / Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme.
www.andreaparkins.com

Barbara Togander is a vocal artist, turntablist, free improviser, composer and sound artist born in Uddevalla, Sweden, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since her adolescence. She studied bass at Walter Malosetti’s Jazz School, at the Conservatorio de Música López Buchardo and at the Conservatorio de Música Popular de Avellaneda. In the early 90’s he ventured into free and experimental music and free improvisation where he delved into the sonic possibilities of voice, turntables and electronics. She has played and collaborated with a great number of musicians such as Otomo Yoshihide, Julián Galay, Enrique Norris, Christoff Kurzmann, VIU, Manolo Rodriguez, Carlos Costa, Larry Polansky, Chris Mann, Shelley Hirsch, La Bomba de Tiempo, Dieb13, Walter Malosetti, Norberto Minichilo, Santi Vazquez, Joan Monné, Paul Pignon. Dokkhuset (Trondheim), Kafé Haeverk (Oslo) Roulette (NY), Il Conserieri (Milan), Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón (Arg), Roseti, Teatro General San Martin, Teatro Cervantes, Festival Internacional de Jazz de Buenos Aires, M3 Festival (NYC), Air Festival, Mínim Festival and Festival 30nits (Barcelona), Der Bloede critte Mittwoch Series and Smallforms in Vienna, Vicente el Absurdo, Prez, Virasoro Bar , Thelonious, Uppsala (Swe), VII International Improvisation Festival Hurta Cordell, Madrid, Experimenta’97 and Experimenta’98, are some of the stages and festivals where she has performed. Her albums to date are Perccontrvozcorn (2001), MBM Trio (2004), Lovemanual (2007), The MuniMuni Xperience (2009) and Discado Internacional (2015) in duo with Enrique Norris, Come Ranas, FOTO (2014), NANCY (2019) and Cinco, ett, två (2021) and MuniMuni’s 33 (2022).
https://www.barbaratogander.com/

Joanna Mattrey is a NYC violist and composer active in both the new music and free improvisation communities who’s playing often incorporates textural gestures, preparations, and electronic alterations. She is searching for moments of ceremony and ritual in a modern soundscape. As a 2021 ISSUE project room artist-in-residence, she presented her new works THRUM, a staged film performance piece with poet No Land, POV: Simulation, a synesthesia collaboration with physicist Dr. Graham Walker, and New Compositions for Improvisor, a performance of 5 world premieres written for Mattrey’s unique playing style, featuring works by Nick Dunston, Leila Bordreuil, Lucie Vitkova, Weasel Walter, an a new piece for improvisor and installation by Mattrey.  Recent releases include Mattrey’s second solo record ‚Dirge‘ (Dear Life Recs, 2021), featured in the Wire’s Under the Radar, Bandcamp’s New and Notable, and Bandcamp Daily’s ‚Contemporary Recordings on Historical Instruments.“Death in the Guilded Age‘ with Ava Mendoza, gabby fluke-mogul, and Matteo Liberatore (Tripticks Tapes, 2021) ‚Oracle‘ duo with gabby fluke-mogul (Relative Pitch Records, 2022). Additional upcoming records include a duo with Elliott Sharpe (zOaR records, 2022), Mattrey’s third and fourth solo records, (Relative Pitch Records, Notice Recordings, 2022), Anna Webber’s Idiom (Pi Recordings, 2022), Caroline Davis’s Portals (Sunnyside) Notable collaborations this year include Tyshawn Sorey, Billy Martin, William Parker, Miya Masaoka, Kathleen Supove, Anthony Coleman, Matt Mitchell, Morgan Guerin, Miriam Parker. Mattrey is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, alumni of Banff Composer Collective Residency, Wild Project Residency, 14th Street Y Residency. Mattrey is also a certified Alexander Technique Teacher, and certified Hatha and Kundalini Yoga Teacher.
https://www.joannamattrey.com/

Camila Nebbia is a saxophone player, composer, improviser, visual artist, curator and educator debasing hierarchical systems by exploring counterpoints of migrational longing through multiple, but minimally separated, mediums. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, based in Berlin, Germany, the multidisciplinary artist layers her practice through the creation and destruction of archival memory. Has released as a band leader and solo performer “A veces la luz de lo que existe resplandece solamente a la distancia” (Kuai 2017), “De este lado” (Club del disco 2019), Aura (ears&eyes records 2020),“Corre el río de la memoria” (ramble records 2021) and “Presencias” (Sound Holes 2021) “Una ofrenda a la ausencia” (Relative Pitch Records 2023). Played and recorded with many artists of the international scene such as Valentin Garvie, El devenir del río, Burka, Paula Shocron, Barbara Togander, Patrick Shiroishi, Paul Pignon, Vinnie Sperrazza, Katt Hernandez, Kenneth Jimenez, Lesley Mok, Violeta García, Axel Filip, Susana Santos Silva, Tom Rainey, Elsa Bergman, l’ Arfi collective of Lyon, Joanna Mattrey, Micheal Formaneck, Vincent Dromowski’s Flow regultaor, Sofia Borges, John Hughes, among others. Co-creator and curator of the collective interdisciplinary group and improvised music series “La Jaula se ha vuelto pájaro y se ha volado”, the interdisciplinary festival “Guillotina Fest“ and creator and curator of the streaming concert series called “The warmth of proximity” and “A door in the mountain”. Runs the concert series and independent label “Disfigured Rivers” based in Berlin. Participated of many festivals around the world such  Buenos Aires Jazz Festival (ARG), Lima Jazz Festival (PE), Diskurs Festival (DE), Ultima Oslo (NO), among others, and has assisted to several residencies such as, ART OMI (NYC), SIM (NYC) Jazz & Creative Music dictated by Tyshawn Sorey and Vijay Iyer (CA), Konvent Zero (ES) UNCOOL (CH), Ensemble Evolution (US), CirkusVranen (SE), CCK with Tim Berne, Marilyn Crispell & Ben Goldberg (AR), among others.
https://www.camilanebbia.com/

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