IT’S ABOUT TIME!!

New series of events where we meet COMPOSERS IN FIRST PERSON.
GROND Bijdorpstraat 1, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20:00 (doors: 19:30)
Donation based

IT’S ABOUT TIME!! proudly presents composers Katarina Kadijević and Hansko Visser

During the presentation I will talk about my approach to presence, awareness, and sounding with space.

katarina kadijević, (ID~)entity work in progress, likes to seek in-into-at different kinds of communication mechanisms, ways, possibilities, connections with the space, place, plants, animals, objects, human. Cohabiting her body, she communicates through movement, voice, poetry, listening to spaces. Between memory and presence. Delusion of time. Layers in between. Polyphonical structures. Extremities. Process within process, landscape undertones. Silence is a dear friend and compass which guides me. Moving as sound/light technician, researcher, and doula.
Part of multidisciplinary collective OUTSIDEININSIDEOUTINSIDEOUTOUTSIDEIN.

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The Turtle asked the Lizard what he would do.

(Anton Webern was a shaman, too)

…when the Gypsies woke up in the first days of the war, they witnessed how the other people fleeing, now all together on this road, appeared inapt in coping with the new circumstances they found themselves in. We can learn so much from those, who remained flexible enough not to conform to a sick system, but who, instead, stayed resistant enough to be able not only to adapt to change, but to help us, too, by bringing it about.(after reading The Gypsies, Jan Yoors)

“experiments show that while competition is usually dominant under benign conditions, facilitation is common in harsh environments” (theory of critcal transitons, page 26, Critical Transitions In Nature and Society, Marten Scheffer)

All of this gives me a bit of hope in a so totally divided, postdigital, neo-feudal world at war: Animism might be a better way out than functional harmonics… In my workshop Iuse theory of complex systems alongside grafic lino-cut scores and radical counterpoint, to equally distribute and share freedom and responsibility in choosing the sounds we want to make.

Hansko was born in a village, formed his first band when he was eleven years old (and Sjoerd was ten) and played ever since. Meanwhile studied russian literature and eastern europe history, harvested apples and travelled with Plan Kruutntoone (and much later on studied classical composition at Peter Laport ‘s Academia Musica, and at Artez Conservatory). He is currently working with Bezhanija Trio and painting, and has two small books out with poems, a poetics on radical counterpoint and drawings. (He loves to draw when listening to others, when not playing himself.)

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IT’S ABOUT TIME!! is initiated by composers Jasna Veličković and Danya Pilchen. We invite you to GROND to meet, listen and to plant some seeds for future possibilities together.

***Thank you for helping us bring this event to life! Your contributions directly cover our production expenses, allowing us to keep it running.***