NEKO3 x 'stay with me'
For the Ekkozone Offbeats festival NEKO3 presents two concerts of varied program by modern-day composers, both works written specifically for the ensemble and others worked on in close collaboration with their creators. The focus has been laid on the composer and the ensemble functioning as a unity, blending artistic research with a profound interest in inter-human connections. Such is the uniting theme - up close and personal. Over the two concerts the ensemble will be met with a variety of multimedia effects like visual art, game engines, lights and electronics. Apart from Alexander Schubert's 'vertex hand' as the repertorial uniting factor of the two concerts, works will be presented by Marcela Lucatelli and Xavier Bonfill
link: OFFBEAT
Marcela Lucatelli: The Other Heading (2021)
Xavier Bonfill: three_four_maybe (2020-2021)
Alexander Schubert: vertex hand (2021) *
*live version premiere, arranged by NEKO3.
About Xavier Bonfill
Xavier Bonfill is a Catalan composer and performer living in Copenhagen. His artistic output encompasses works for traditional instruments, electronics, video and other multimedia formats such as interactive websites and apps. In his works, a form of dialogue between different media and art forms is created between text, images, acoustic and electronic sound. Duality, opposition and even contradiction are a characteristic of his aesthetics: where the poetic is set against the immediately superficial, the extravagant against the intimate, the crooked against the naive.
About Marcela Lucatelli
Marcela Lucatelli can already be hailed as one of the most innovative vocalists and composers of her generation. Born in Brazil and based in Denmark, Marcela has earned international recognition for her extremely original, sensuous and politically charged performance works. Her works have been premiered at diverse festivals and international events such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Nordic Music Days, KLANG, Copenhagen Jazz Festival and All Ears Festival for Improvised Music.
About Alexander Schubert
Alexander Schubert studied bioinformatics, multimedia composition. He’s a professor at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. Schubert’s interest explores the border between the acoustic and electronic world. In music composition, immersive installation and staged pieces he examines the interplay between the digital and the analogue. He creates pieces that realize test settings or interaction spaces that question modes of perception and representation. Continuing topics in this field are authenticity and virtuality. The influence and framing of digital media on aesthetic views and communication is researched in a post-digital perspective. Recent research topics in his works were virtual reality, artificial intelligence and online-mediated artworks. Schubert is a founding member of ensembles such as “Decoder“. His works have been performed more than 700 times in the last few years by numerous ensembles in over 30 countries.