Konzert: Ji Youn Kang & Clara de Asís | Luc Döbereiner & Leonie Strecker | Vanessa Scarpaccini & Ayşe Deniz Birdal
This evening consists of three sets:
Ji Youn Kang A performance as a live construction of an unstable sonic machine, circuits, metal plates, and electromagnetic feedback form a system where sound emerges from shifting relations between material, performer, and signal. Through acts of tinkering, the piece reveals the hidden vitality of matter and its dynamic behaviors.
Ji Youn Kang is a composer and performer of electronic and instrumental music. Her work often draws from Korean shamanistic traditions while exploring spatial sound and handmade electronics. She teaches at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and performs internationally.
- Clara de Asís & Luc Döbereiner The duo unfolds reduced sound textures with synthetic (analog and digital) sources, moving between isolated harmonic states and noise. The music emphasizes spatiality, the materiality of listening and sound reproduction, and the interplay between reduction and multiplicity of sound sources.
Clara de Asís is an artist and composer working with electronics, objects, and instruments to investigate listening, perception, and social-material contexts. She creates works of different formats encompassing performance, audio pieces and installations.
Luc Döbereiner is a composer, musician and researcher exploring the fragility and materiality of sound, often using generative processes and synthesis.
- Leonie Strecker In her solo performance, Strecker explores presence, absence, and memory through concrete and synthetic sound, evoking ambiguous meanings and creating spaces for individual and collective listening.
Leonie Strecker is a composer and sound artist based in Vienna. Her work includes electronic and electro-acoustic music, compositions for soloists and ensembles, as well as performances and installations. She explores ideas around the hybridity of form, presence and absence, the connection of memory and experience, and the meaning of concrete and synthetic sound.
Ayşe Deniz Birdal (Istanbul, 1996) started studying at the Istanbul University State Conservatory at age 10. She continued her studies with Julius Berger in Augsburg. She won first place in the Rudolf Matz Strings Competition and second place in the International Johan Andreas Stein Strings Competition, where she played, among others, her own composition Sky-Cut. Birdal played multiple festivals, including the Menuhin Festival Gstaad String Academy and the Kronbeg Academy Cello Festival, and played as a soloist with the Kaunas Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. She has a strong interest for contemporary classical music and music from her home country. She is also an enthusiastic improviser. With her artistic identity, she is building a bridge between genres and cultures, to express her identity as a human being and a woman who migrated from Turkey through Europe to pursue an artistic career, and to narrate her experience through life and cultures.
Vanessa Mattei Scarpaccini (2004) is an Italian-Polish dance artist currently based in Florence. She collaborates with Sosta Palmizi and develops her own choreographic work. Her practice moves through improvisation, composition and interdisciplinary dialogue — working with musicians and visual artists across Europe.
She has performed in works by choreographers such as Virgilio Sieni, Natalia Di Cosmo, and Paulina Rewucka, and is part of the improvisation collective FREE FORMS OF ART.
Vanessa trained between Florence and Vienna, with formative experiences also in Germany, Belgium, and Spain. Alongside her artistic practice, she is currently studying philosophy.