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@ Notes from Anatolia, new Research Project

Notes from Anatolia, a practice based research project towards the fusion of Turkish traditional music with experimental electronics. We aim at providing a foundation for musicians and composers in how to approach the unique electroacoustic-sound possibilities of the Turkish traditional instruments, and how to approach non-western sound possibilities from an western electroacoustic point of view.

Season 2008-09. More info will be published soon.

 
@ Next masterclass: Classical karaoke?

On May 24th 2008 (Rokin 111, Amsterdam), a special music café, lasting the entire day, will focus on music for classical instruments and electronics, commemorating the death of Dutch composer Ton Bruynèl 10 years ago.
How to perform this music? What is the relation between the electronics and the musician? How do composer, performer and technician work together?
The masterclass will focus on the successful combination of score and tape; it will also look at new developments.
In the morning, there will be a workshop by Annelie de Man, Jorge Isaac and Jan Panis on the performance of this music.
In the afternoon, there will be short presentations by Hannah Bosma, Huba de Graaff, Barbara Lüneburg, Roderik de Man, René Uijlenhoet en Jos Zwaanenburg discussion and drinks.
For more information and subscriptions you can e-mail Muziek Centrum Nederland. Phone nr. +31 (0)20 3446060

 
@ New multimedia version of MARIONETTE

M. Wierckx "Black Noise White Silence"

We are currently working on a new multimedia version of Roderik de Man’s MARIONETTE, in collaboration with the video artist & composer Marcel Wierckx.
The première is scheduled on June 06th 2008 in Rotterdam (NL) at the COM.POST series.

 
@ Papapa Vrouw vrouw vrouw at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam

31 March 2008, 20:15 hrs
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Musictheatre performance: Pa Pa Pa Woman Woman Woman
music & libretto: Klaas de Vries
text: Han Shaogong
stage director: Oscar Siegelaar, Ad de Bont
with: Wiebe-Pier Cnossen (bariton), Gerrie de Vries (mezzo-soprano),
Jorge Isaac (recorder), Tatiana Koleva (percussion), Michiel Weidner (cymbalon).

Click HERE for performace dates & further info.

 
@ are you here? music & multimedia

A multimedia installation about intimacy. An innovative, sensorial theatre created for one spectator. A theatre installation in which odours, sound, image and temperature changes provide an all-round experience. The virtual reality of are you here? has been created by blockflutist/electronics specialist Jorge Isaac and composer Roderik de Man.

NEXT PERFORMANCES:

Den Bosch: 14 t/m 18 november 2007, 18:00 tot 22:00 uur, November Music Festival

Amsterdam: 20 november 2007, vanaf 19:00 uur, Jur Naessens Muziekprijs 2007

 

 
@ CD-rom Visisonor overview of our productions 2004-07

 

A new CD-rom, with a full overview of our productions in the period 2004-2007. Audio, video, photos and more. Free of charge (!), available during all our live performances.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ Papapa Vrouw vrouw vrouw musictheatre

A new musictheatre productions of the company De Helling. Music by Klaas de Vries.

Click HERE for performace dates & further info.

 

 

 

 

 
@ MARIONETTE at the Prix Ars Electronica 2007

Jorge Isaac and Roderik de Man received a Honorary Mention for the work MARIONETTE (blockflutes & live electronics) during the "Prix Ars Electronica 2007" in Austria. The mention was given in the category Digital Musics.

The Ars Electronica is a world famous festival for the experimental arts and technology of the digital age. It is a meeting-point for international artists who are concerned with the new possibilities for combining electronic technologies with the arts.

More info: Prix Ars Electronica 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ MARIONETTE coming performances

next performances:


25 May ’07, 20:30
Theater De Regentes DEN HAAG, 20:30 uur:::

Rerserv. +31 (0)70- 363 77 98

26 May ’07, 20:30
Theater Pakhuis De Zwijger AMSTERDAM, 20:30 hr:::

Rerserv. +31 (0)20- 788 44 40

30 May ’07, 20:30
WORM, ROTTERDAM, 21:00 uur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ Premiere of M a r i o n e t t e in Krakow

MARIONETTE
Multimedia MusicTheatre goes on premiere at the Audio Art Festival in Poland

November 04th 2006

More info at: http://www.studiomch.art.pl/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ Research project Sensorial Acts is concluded

The Research Project Sensorial Acts was finished with big success!


Take a look at the overview of the project HERE


Video files will be added soon. Stay tuned!

More research is planned for 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ Jorge Isaac, Recorder Professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory

After more than 30 years as the head of the Blockflute department of the Amsterdam Conservatory, Walter van Hauwe, an icon of the XXth century blockflute, decided to stop his brilliant teaching career.

Jorge Isaac was chosen as his successor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ New Production: M a r i o n e t t e

MARIONETTE
Musictheatre & Electronics production.

New works by:

Roderik De Man, Marko Ciciliani, Jos Zwaanenburg

Performed by:

Jorge Isaac (blockflutes & multimedia)

Marko Ciciliani (no-input-mixer & live electronics)

Season 2006-2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ OMONIA in Amsterdam/NL, 06 April 2006

next performances OMONIA:


AMSTERDAM
06 April '06
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, 20:30 hrs
reserv. +31 (0)20- 788 20 00

 


ALKMAAR (NL)
13 April '06
Provadja Theater, 20:15 hrs
reserv. +31 (0)72- 511 01 36

 

EINDHOVEN (NL)
14 May '06
Van Abbe Museum, 14:00 hrs
reserv. +31 (0)40- 238 10 00

 

ROME (I)
15 June '06
Festival Musica Scienza, 20:00 hrs
reserv. +39 (0)6- 4464161

 
@ next lecture: STEIM - Amsterdam, 04 April 2006

STEIM presents a lecture by Jorge Isaac:
During this talk he will refer to the creative process of the multimedia production OMONIA and his approach to live electronics. Composer Roderik de Man (http://www.roderikdeman.com) and scenographer Nikolaas Vande Keere (UR architects), two of his artistic partners, will present as well their ideas towards multidisciplinary productions.  

Location: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Date: Tuesday April 4 2006
Time: 20:30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ New research project: Sensorial Acts

Sensorial Acts


A practice based research project towards the use of smells and temperature changes as musical parameters in multimedia compositions.

The project will start in April 2006. The results will be presented through a multimedia installation from September 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ New Production: PANOPTICON

PANOPTICON, the all seing place
New Multidisciplinary production.

In collaboration with architect/scenographer Nikolaas Vande Keere, composer Roderik de Man, choreographer Jack Gallagher, dance company Bodies Anonymous, technician Vincent van Roon, video artist Arnoud Noordegraaf

Music performance by:

Jorge Isaac (blockflutes & multimedia)

Season: year 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ SICARIA: new production music library


Cues comprised completely of sound design elements that are outlined to set an emotion and build on it - while suggesting visuals and telling a story. Editable modular hits/transitions throughout can be used interchangeably to create new stroke-inducing frameworks. All cues with sounds of blockflutes available from June 2006 at VideoHelper Music Library (New York) http://www.videohelper.com
blockflutes & electronics: Jorge Isaac
cues' composition: Elik Alvarez, Freddy Sheinfeld
sound design: Daniel Birczynski

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ Jorge Isaac & Roderik de Man in Venezuela

J. Isaac & R. de Man (Caracas, 2006)

Masterclasses and performances were given in Valencia (Cultural Centre CCEAS and the State Conservatory Sebastián Lozano) and Caracas (University Simón Bolivar) during the tour of OMONIA in Venezuela.
The activities were made possible by the Gaudeamus Foundation, Dutch Embassy in Caracas, Faculty of Composition of the University Simón Bolivar, and Cultural Centre Eladio Alemán Sucre.


Click hereunder to check out some of the reviews:

review 1, review 2, review 3, review 4, review 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
@ OMONIA in Venezuela, 11 - 20 January 2006

The next performances of OMONIA will be taking place in Caracas and Valencia, between the 11th and 20th January '06. The performances and master-classes will be given by Jorge Isaac and composer Roderik de Man, at the concert halls of University Simón Bolivar and Cultural Centre CCEAS.
The tour in Venezuela is co-sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Caracas.

 
@ NEW CD Releases, WATT?, November 2005

"WATT?, The Longest Mauvais Quart d' Heure" is now available via FMR-records.
Although meant as a live performance piece it is presented here in a special CD version which preserves
the feel of its original format to spellbinding effect.
Check out our AUDIO section for more info.

 
@ OMONIA in Russia, 18 - 22 October 2005

* 18 October '05, Moscow, cultural centre DOM, 20:00
* 20 October '05, Ekaterinburg, Philharmonic Theatre, 18:00
* 21 October '05, Cheljabinsk, masterclass at the Academy of Art and Culture, 15:00
* 22 October 05, Cheljabinsk, Opera & Ballet Theatre, 18:00

 
@ OMONIA in Venlo/NL, 09 October 2005

Muziek in het Museum:

Jorge Isaac, OMONIA
zondag 9 oktober 2005, 15.00 uur

Blokfluitist & multimediakunstenaar Jorge Isaac brengt tijdens Muziek in het Museum in oktober zijn programma OMONIA ten gehore. OMONIA is een veelzijdige one-man-art voorstelling over begeerte, obsessie en de speling van het lot.
OMONIA brengt muziek samen met theater, video en live elektronica, waarbij de nadruk op de muziek ligt. Het project resulteert in een multimediale eenheid waarbij de electro-akoestische composities de motor van de uitvoering vormen en de grenzen van de muzikale expressie in de theatrale ruimte wordt verbeeld. OMONIA presenteert drie nieuwe muziektheater werken, speciaal gecomponeerd voor dit project, door de Nederlandse componisten Roderik de Man en Arnoud Noordegraaf.
OMONIA (Griekse woord voor "elkaars aanvulling", "compleet") is een veeltalige eenheid van geluid en beeld waarbij indrukken worden achter gelaten op de waarneming van de toeschouwer in verschillende lagen. Elk teken drukt een bepaald sprookje uit binnen de multimediaal context van de hele voorstelling.
Drie werken komen aan de orde:
1. "Voix égales" (Roderik de Man, 2005)
2. "Strung" (Arnoud Noordegraaf, 2005)
3. "Mensa Secunda" -condensed version voor één musicus en video- (Roderik de Man, 2005)

 
@ OMONIA on tour 2005-2006

The composers Roderik de Man and Arnoud Noordegraaf have written one-man-art musictheatre works for Jorge Isaac. OMONIA (the Greek word for "each-others compliment", "complete") is a multilingual unification of sound and visual media through which the spectator is drawn to observe in various layers. The three pieces are presented in the order:
1) "Voix égales" (Roderik de Man, 2005),
2) "STRUNG" (Arnoud Noordegraaf, 2005), and
3) "Mensa Secunda" -a condensed version for one musician and video- (Roderik de Man, 2005).

The video material is based on three principles:
Desire: presented in "Voix égales" through the strong extension to which can be uttered.
The game of chance: played out in "STRUNG" through the unexpected change of an alter-ego,
Obsession: worked out in "Mensa Secunda" through the insane search of a cook for the ultimate recipe.

 

The tour includes performances in The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Venezuela.

Scheduled performances:

- 09 oktober 2005, Venlo / NL, Museum van Bommel van Dam, 15:00 uur
- 18 oktober 05, Moskou/ Rusland, culturele centrum DOM
- 20 oktober 05, Ekaterinburg / Rusland, Filharmonie theater
- 22 oktober '05, Cheljabinsk / Rusland, Opera & Ballet Theater
- 15 januari '06, Caracas / Venezuela, concertzaal Univ. Simón Bolivar
- 19 januari '06, Valencia / Venezuela, concertzaal El Carabobeño
- n.n.b. Februari '06, Bensheim / Duitsland, Parktheater
- 13 april '06, Alkmaar / NL, Provadja Theater, 20:15
- 14 mei '06, Eindhoven / NL, Van Abbe Museum, 14:00 uur

(more performances for the season 2005-2006 coming up soon)

With the support of / met de steun van:
@ Jorge Isaac wint de JNMprijs in Paradiso

Op 27 oktober 2004 heeft tijdens een drukbezochte Finale in het Amsterdamse Paradiso de Venezolaanse componist Jorge Isaac samen met componist Roderik de Man en dansgroep MorphoDidius uit Rotterdam de Jur Naessens Muziekprijs 2004 gewonnen met hun interdisciplinair spektakel met muziek, theater, dans, video en interactie van electronische media: "Mensa Secunda". Nadat Jury-voorzitter Jur Naessens de naam van de gelukkige bekend maakte, werd de prijs uitgereikt door de JNMPrijs-voorzitter Han Reiziger, muziekjournalist en sinds enige tijd zelf actief als pianist bij het popproject Spinvis.
Ook de jury was op en rond het podium aanwezig: fluitiste Eleonore Pameijer, gitariste en bandleider Corrie van Binsbergen, popmuzikante Fay Lovsky, dirigent Conrad van Alphen, acteur Sander Commandeur, choreograaf John Wisman en de contrabassist Meinrad Kneer, winnaar van de vorige JNMPrijs(2002). Meinrad Kneer wordt als jurylid opgevolgd door Jorge Isaac tot en met de volgende Finale (2006).
De Finale werd gepresenteerd door Hans van den Boom, bekend van klassieke muziekprogramma's van de Avro. In 1999 is de JNMPrijs ingesteld ter ondersteuning van in Nederland wonende musici (tot 36 jaar) met nieuwe muziek, in welke stijl dan ook.