#Tapiwa Svosve

[iamlisteningto]

Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve’s The Sport Of Love

[etrangersvoyageant]

Rewire, day 3

Third and final day, head’s still a little weird, but I set out to catch a few more performances.

First off Tim Hecker & Vincent De Belleval. I came in late, just off the train, so I found myself in the back with other latecomers and people who needed to their phone to either communicate with another or update their social media profile, because either way they were making and sharing pictures of the performance.

Now describing said performance is a little tricky, I think mood plays a big role in this. Imagine a dark room, a beam of blue light appears, smoke follows and engulfs the first 5-7 rows. Over time the beam changes patterns, then characters and finally colours. At some point, I expected the words Los Angeles 2019 to appear, but alas no words materialized in the string of code.

Music wise, there’s noise, it builds up. Following the smoke, it engulfs the audience, this time the whole audience. It may sound boring, yes. Even if nothing happens, something happens. I’d say this performance borders between music and art in a minimalist sense. Like I said it’s about mood, it’s an experience. Hecker is great at turning/elevating noise into art.

That also means to me that if you commit to sit down, you’re committing for the whole thing. Of course, this is a festival, so people did leave, but generally speaking: the only way out is through. If I’d have left halfway, I might still wonder what would have happened…

After about an hour I and many with me emerged from the temporal tomb with a story, more of sound than of actual words.

Next up: Patrick Belaga, Asma Maroof & Tapiwa Svosve. This performance was the coming together of saxophone and flute player (Svosve), a cellist (Belaga) and electronic producer (Maroof, of Nuzunguzu fame). There were no visuals, but all wore red in their own respective styles (Belaga had wooden clogs on), with white, yellow and red light shining down upon them. It was a great collaboration to witness and listen to. The lack of visuals weren’t the problem, but some people in the back valuing their conversation over the performance were.

(Free suggestion: have something to share in a moment like this? Either leave or send each other messages with the notification sound off. Thank you!)

Fortunately, at times, the music was intense enough, that by concentrating on it, you could to dive in deep. When they were done, the players were visibly relieved and happy, especially Maroof appeared glad to have pulled it off.

With an empty hour, Sunday’s programme was rather weak, ahead of me, I decided, I wanted to check out a venue I hadn’t visited until now. By accident, I ended up at a séance with a dead rainforest in the catacombs of a church (-insert whippy comment here, if you like-). The attendees were witness of Vivian Caccuri & Thiago Lanis creating a rainforest in sound (and occasionally light). Especially Lanis was impressive, creating animal sounds with his voice: mosquitoes, various monkeys, a tiger already passed us… Yeah, a bit odd, but not bad. After the applause, they briefly spoke about their project, mentioning spending a month to create the project from scratch.

Then, I wanted to check if I could see Ana Roxanne, but the queue was long. It went through the venue’s lounge and into the street. Thus, I walked around, letting my thoughts wander, the night air was good for the head anyway.

After a while, I went to the last venue and caught the end of Zebra ‘And what the fuck do you know about that?!’ Katz’ performance and it seemed like a lot of fun, people were cheering a lot.

About 40 mins waiting and presided by a group cheer backstage, Kelela appeared upon a stage. It was just her and 4 units/pillars of light.

Beforehand I wondered if she’d fit at a festival like this, in my mind she’s a pretty big rnb star… I imagine she graces larger stages. And offence to Rewire, but no venue is exceptionally big. Funnily enough, a few songs in Kelela remarked how intimate the room was. Anyway, more importantly, she was great. Opening with ‘Washed Away’, followed by more off ‘Raven’ and calling her show a dance party with live vocals, brought cheers and applause. But there was more, ever so often she stopped to talk about things that matter to her. Nothing sermon-like, she led her songs do the talking, but just addressing male stoicism, emotional stuntedness and being emotionally available was important. Though, as an introvert, I’m not sure I can comment. Really though, I thought it was great, she said she felt the world is unkind enough already.

She also did some older songs, which was great. To watch her sing ‘Rewind’(?) under 2 white spotlights while being engulfed in smoke was simple yet outstanding. Plus, hearing the ‘Bank Head’ brought me back to the time I listened to Hallucinogen and a few select Boiler Room sets, while editing my thesis.

Finally, because all things must come to an end, she did ‘All the Way Down’ in a flurry of light and sound. (Testing my vampire eyes once more, I’ve been working inside too much.) Making her performance a great closing act to a solid festival.

It’s a shame it was over, but I wouldn’t have it any other way: Friday should be good, Saturday amazing and Sunday ends alright. That way you get closure. If Sunday ends with a bang, you may end up wandering for more while the festival has nothing left to give.

[tiagssssspace]

KEISKA - delulu; Quit Life - Aperion (feat. e6c41); Semka - Envy 2020; Carro - Barbara Bandeira (did I loose the love of my life? - RE-IMAGINING by Odete); Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Scorpions, Bats & Spiders; Semka - Technic Angel (w/ Tapiwa Svosve); Romance Relic - never esprit; Almaazz - 123; Rx Papi - 12 Stout Street (suta remix)

Visuals by @vvverse

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[till-langschied]

https://www.kunsthauslangenthal.ch/ausstellungen/your-voice-keep-breathing/

Your Voice, Keep Breathing

03.09.–19.11.23

with Ludwig Berger, Till Langschied, Nils Amadeus Lange & Mario Petrucci Espinoza, Anina Müller, tina omayemi reden & Tapiwa Svosve, Sarina Scheidegger & Jimena Croceri, Jennifer Merlyn Scherler, Julie Semoroz, Taiga Trigo und Martina-Sofie Wildberger

[fantasy-vibes-with-the-magi]

9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Lil Durk, Water From Your Eyes, Arlo Parks, and More

Stream new releases from Lil Durk; Water From Your Eyes; Arlo Parks; Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano; Sparks; HiTech; Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga & Tapiwa Svosve; M. Sage; and Pines of Rome from RSS: News https://ift.tt/fnODHVj

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9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Lil Durk, Water From Your Eyes, Arlo Parks, and More

Stream new releases from Lil Durk; Water From Your Eyes; Arlo Parks; Jay Worthy & Roc Marciano; Sparks; HiTech; Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga & Tapiwa Svosve; M. Sage; and Pines of Rome from RSS: News https://ift.tt/o05sTCz via IFTTT

[roseartart]

Alfatih, Day in the Life, 2023 Moving image, two-channel sound, 59:18:40 On view at Swiss Institute, NY, Jan 25 to Apr 23, 2023

"In the film, scripted by AI with prompts from the artist and scored by musician and theorist Tapiwa Svosve, over the course of a narrated, abridged 24 hours, we watch the baby move through its daily routine and rituals including sleeping, drinking coffee, working on a laptop, reading, and playing the piano. Observing the baby as it passes the time with different actions and choices, we may feel a sense of satisfaction, our own urge to be productive satiated as it swiftly grows and learns. Time stamps demarcate each recurring action of the mundane day, revealing the quiet melancholy of this solitary life." (Text via the Swiss Institute.)

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2023

Ahnnu - Pattern Play (2020) Nuovo Testamento - New Earth (2021) Biosphere - Insomnia (1997) Nailah Hunter - Spells (2020) 1000 eyes - 1000 eyes (2021) Nene H - Trifecta Ssaliva - Honeycomb Giant Swan - Fantasy Food sideproject - kingfisher (2022) Omaar - Marcha (2022) Kelela Raven DBBD, Miss Bashful - SLUT BOPZ VOL.II (2022) Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You Frou Frou - Details (2002) Doon Kanda - Celeste Docx - iN Docx - AHHHHHHH!!! EP Fatima Al Qadiri - Gumar EP Tim Garland, Jason Rebello - Life to Life Aksadk Maboul - Une aventure de VV (Songspiel) Made to Measure Vol.48 water feature - Various birds Tsuzing - Green Hat Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love (1978) Cruel Diagonals - Fractured Whole Dj Lostboi - The Blue Stallion (2020) Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! Tim Hecker -No Highs Martyna Basta - Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering Colin Steton - When we were that what wept for the sea Asma Maroof, Patrick Belaga, Tapiwa Svosve - The Sport of Love Logic1000 - In the Sweetness of You Leon Vynehall - Nothing is Still (2018) Wilson Tanner - II (2019) Carlos Niño & Friends - Flutes, Echoes, It's All Hapenning! (2016) MATRiXXMAN - Dust World Vantage - Metro City (2015) stud1nt - undertones (2020) Desired - FRESH (2021) Ashley Henry - My Voice Disclosure - Alchemy Lustmord - Heresy (1990) 1tbspn - It's Very Loud Jim O'Rourke - To Magnetize Money and Catch a Roving Eye (2019) BABYNYMPH - Pornopop: Abhorrence Urias - HER MIND Lustmord - Carbon/Core (2004) Addison Rae - AR Blank Banshee - 4D crimeboys - Very Dark Past Docx- Docx Nueen - Dusting Intersection (2022) Klein - STAR IN THE HOOD (2022) Tirzah - Trip9love...??? Mhm, Mhm - CALLING FOR A PEOPLE TO COME (2022) Hajj - No Soul, No God, No Devil, No Existence Jonnine - Maritz Tinashe - BB/ANG3L Eartheater - Powders Slayyyter - STARFUCKER LSDXOXO - Delusions of Grandeur Severin Black, Vanessa Bedoret - First Passage / Excommunicated Laurel Halo - Atlas Oneohtrix Point Never - Again KOAN Sound - Led by Ancient Light Hans Appelqvist - In the Basement of Apollo Hall Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other Purelink - Signs Ylia - Ame Agaru Gigi Masin, Greg Foat - Dolphin Klein - touched by an angel Odetari - XIII Sorrows Aleksi Perala - UNITY III III III Aleksi Perala - ALITHIA A' Aiden Marceron - seede.(ep4). Dean Blunt - Burberry ss24 ML Buch - Suntub Actress - LXXXXVII Pinkpantheress - Heavens knows André 3000 - New Blue Sun Kelly Moran - Vesela J. Albert, Will August Park - Flat Earth Lucy Railton - Corner Dancer Dj Ramon Sucesso - Sexta dos Cria Celia Hollander - 2nd Draft Odetari - DOOR TO DUSK Chuquimamani-Condori - DJ E

[arcimboldisworld]

Orpheus - Schauspielhaus Zürich/Schiffbau 22.09.2021

Orpheus – Schauspielhaus Zürich/Schiffbau 22.09.2021

Der Mythos “Orpheus” inspiriert immer wieder, mit den unterschiedlichsten Umsetzungen in jeglicher Form und Art und Weise. Nun gibt es zum Saisonbeginn eine Produktion des Schauspielhaus Zürich in der Regie von WU TSANG gemeinsam mit ihrer Gruppe MOVED BY THE MOTION im Schiffbau zu sehen… Continue reading

[dustedmagazine]

Lotus Eddé Khouri / Gamut Kollektiv / Eric La Casa — 7 Lines (Edition Gamut)

Photo by Binta Kopp

7 Lines by Gamut Kollektiv, Lotus Eddé Khouri, Eric La Casa

The CD of 7 Lines documents a realization of French choreographer Lotus Eddé Khouri's composition commissioned by the Gamut Kollektiv, a group of musicians working together since 2016 as a cultural platform for experimental music in Zurich. As third component to the project, noted sound recordist Eric La Casa captured and mixed the 50-minute performance.

Eddé Khouri writes in her liner notes, "Each musician's part has just as much to do with the sound to be produced as his or her presence and gestures on stage." The idea of applying a choreographer's sensibility to composing for a musical ensemble is perhaps the most interesting aspect of this project. Trying to translate a background for movement in space to a musical context allows for the central premise of this project to unfold, "to broaden our ways of thinking and to dare to do something none of us was comfortable with."

Though the CD doesn't afford a visual perspective of the realization, we can sometimes hear the musicians moving to various positions in the performance space, as indicated by the sound of their footsteps and shifting acoustical presence in the room. Eric La Casa mirrors the itinerant state of the ensemble by himself traveling around the performance space and recording from different angles. His final mix distends and compresses the listening field, adding a further prismatic element to the piece. This in itself makes for an interesting listening experience.

The CD credits indicate a decidedly theatrical approach to each musician's presence, casting them in the following roles: (1) Philipp Eden (piano commentator), (2) Tobias Pfister and (3) Tapiwa Svosve (saxophone’s couple), (4) Paul Amereller (hollowed out drums), (5) Vojko Huter, (ghost’guitar), (6) Xaver Rüegg (resoluted bass), (7) Silvan Schmid (robinbird) [trumpet].

The relatively minimal text score omits any indications of dramaturgy, timing or specific musical directives:

1 - Description - Ellipsis - Imitation – Counterpoint 2 - On - Off -On - Off - On - Off - On - Off – On 3 - On - Off -Off - Off - On - Off - Off - On – On 4 - Deaf - Walk Around - Less - More 5 - Continuous - Receptacle - Loud Minute 6 - Gravity - Slowness - Tenuous 7 - Variation - on - Variation

The music appears to be largely improvised, with the group returning to various strategies and motifs throughout the piece. Long tones and droning arcs from the contrabass, saxophones and guitar (played with a bow) appear and disappear intermittently like waves surging majestically through the performance space. A four-note melody played in various deconstructions by Silvan Schmid's trumpet works as a kind of melodic ghost haunting the length of the piece. Paul Amereller's drumming adds the occasional punctual element with explosive jazz-inflected full drum set phrases, tiny percussive accents and at times thunderous bass drum drops. Philipp Eden's piano hovers somewhere between impressionistic note clusters and the occasional arpeggio flourish. He begins the piece in a pensive manner, sounding in a refreshing way like someone who has just sat down at a piano for the very first time.

At several points during the performance long stretches of relative silence serve to interject spaces of tension in, for the most part, a gradual and constant development of musical events. Ambient sounds also play a key role in the recording, with La Casa paying particular attention to the rustlings, scrapings and bumpings of the collective as they slowly traverse the performance space. At times, the CD comes across as more like a field recording of found sounds than a concert documentation.

Eddé Khouri sums up her approach with, "The audience is as much a spectator as a listener." This missing visual element to the project leaves many questions unanswered. Only the sounds of the performance remain, a kind of aural residue. Which of course is always the case with any sound recording. But in this instance, one of the central components to the piece remains hidden from our view, leaving a lingering feeling that something has gone missing.

This leads to the biggest question, of whether such a project can adequately be documented through only a CD release. Though the collective's playing is strong and at times imaginative given the relatively little information for them to work with from the score, the music sometimes comes across as untethered to those — hidden to the listener — very performative cues which have enabled the music's shape and direction in the first place.

Perhaps this is merely a conceptual problem. Had 7 Lines only been presented as a recording of improvised music, none of these questions would be important. But the knowledge that somewhere unseen in the background to these sounds lurks a process involving visual performative elements central to the concept of the piece, complicates our position as listeners.

The recording ends mysteriously with the sounds of footsteps and chairs scraping across the floor as the musicians leave the performance space. Off in the distance, and barely audible, one last door bangs shut as the piece comes to a quiet close.

Jason Kahn

[hellopanique]

On air: Ink! for Radio Bollwerk

—> LISTEN HERE: https://soundcloud.com/radiobollwerk/ink-radio-bollwerk-04052020?in=ink_ous/sets/beats

Ink! for Radio Bollwerk

A quarantine DJ set from home, aired on Radio Bollwerk, going from slow rolling beats to eternal harmonies. I Promise! Tracklist: 01: Paper Dollhouse - We Walked Through the Woods Holding Hands - MoonDome 02: Lucy - A Selfless Act - Stroboscopic Artefacts 03: Laurie Spiegel - Drums - Unseen Worlds 04: Mingle - Coma - Kvitnu 05: Rrose - Open Cell - EAUX 06: Marcel Dettmann - Torch - Ostgut Ton 07: Scorn - Talk Whiff (featuring Jason Williamson) - Ohm Resistance 08: Ourea - From Chaos Came Erebus - Horo 09: Vaghe Stelle - 6520 (Original Version) - Shabu Recordings 10: Tapiwa Svosve and Tina Reden - Polyrisings - Kashev Tapes 11: Jabu - Wounds (SKRS 2nd Cut Remix) - Young Echo 12: Paper Dollhouse - This is not the End - MoonDome 13: Pyrit - Inside - ClubCultureCH 14: Eartheater - Claustra - PAN 15: Zoë Mc Pherson - Learn ur language faster feat. Elvin Brandhi - SFX 16: HSXCHCXCXHS - BUN - Rösten 17: Peder Mannerfelt - Come - Peder Mannerfelt 18: Andrea - Drumzzy - Ilian Tapes 18: Pessimist & Karim Maas - A7 - Pessimist Productions 19: Lemna - The Bottom Of The Deep Layer - Horo 20: Lemna - Crawling With Body Fluids Running Down - Horo 21: Lakker - 100 Bars - R&S 22: Varuna - Masdar - A Walking Contradiction 23: Steve Reich - Come Out (Ken Iishi Remix) - Nonesuch 24: Heith - Yoga Of Stealth - Saucers 25: Charlotte Isabelle - Moso - Lemme 26: Puce Mary - The Size Of Our Desires - PAN 27: Mingle - Wreck - Kvitnu 28: Steve Reich -  The Four Sections (Andrea Parker Remix) - Nonesuch 29: Grebenstein - Strong Proud Stupid and Superior - Downwards 30: Productid - Shadows - Kashev Tapees 31: Andy Stott - Versi - Modern Love 32: Varuna - Jewel Changi - A Walking Contradiction 33: Andrea - Lana - Ilian Tapes 34: Nicola Ratti - Cuarto feat. Dale Cornish - Students of Decay 35: Aphex Twin - Nanou 2 - Warp

++ Additional bits by: Mark Fell, Puce Mary, Madteo, Andreas Oskar Hirsch and Jen Reimer & Max Stein

[clrclmx]

ALLTAG + WIRREN #4 𝙃𝙀𝙐𝙏𝙀 ab 20:00 im @helsinkiklub. Mit Steve Buchanan, Tapiwa Svosve und @daveeleanor (hier: Helsinkiklub) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8edF4XgtDO/?igshid=13lk3srlfq6ri

[mmultiversal]

MULTIGORA MIAO! - Saturday 26 March at Rote Fabrik, Zuerich. MULTIGORA MIAO! is a collaboration between Multiversal, Czarnagora and Amarus collective, condensing their noisy activities into a fast and core, highly improvised one night stand festival. with: BEEATSZ v3.0999 (Omnicore from Barriera) https://utkutavil.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-haardcore-5 Calf Laxity (F.E.N.! Tokar - sax/mic, Emre -electronics, Gökalp Ergecen - electronics, Steve - sax/electronics) https://endtitles.ch/artists/feyz/ Del_F64.0 (Antigenitalisticrrrriot Speedcore from Berlin) https://soundcloud.com/delf64_0 KAPUTT (Tizia Zimmermann - Akkordeon, Pablo Lienhard - No-Input Mixer) https://wideearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kaputt Nihil Fist (Extremecore Riotcore Speednoise gaze from Berlin) nihilfist.bandcamp.com S2｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡ (movement, discreet noise w/ Titilayo Adebayo, Shuyue Miao Zhao and Florian Schlessmann) https://layooadebayo.wixsite.com/tadeabayo https://soundcloud.com/miaozhao/zai4jia1 sitbQ (high tech - low life from Amsterdam) https://sitbq.bandcamp.com TDOTWK0000000000 (Tapiwa Svosve XXXLsax) https://soundcloud.com/cullllt/2009i Unprofessional (No future vynil set from Berlin) https://soundcloud.com/unprofessional uranes (Nofigore Super Harsh Noise from Copenhagen) https://soundcloud.com/jonatura WAT TAKLEAW (Militant Temple @Webarchivemusic ) https://webarchive.bandcamp.com/ zky // onx (Patrycia Pakiela - noise, Kay Zhang - sax effects) https://zhangkay.com/ CZARNAGORA is a collective and a label from Zurich affirming community aesthetics and practices, and refusing to define themselves in order to maintain their inclusive and reactive dynamic. Gathered by political values ​​and the ways of life that flow from them, the members feed a musical structure that reflects its environment, producing sound themselves and organizing exhibitions, workshops, concerts, raves or hybrid and wild events. AMARUS is a concert series that explores cutting edge experimental music from Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Its objective is to encourage cooperative debate between Swiss and International artists on questions of identity, eurocentrism, and migration in a community that embraces collaboration, experimentation, and research. AMARUS has also been hosting concerts, workshops, and public interventions in the city of Bern since 2018. MULTIVERSAL is a network consisting of musicians, artists, performers and spaces around the globe. It has its roots founded back in 2011, as guerrilla actions on the border of Friedrichshein and Kreuzberg neighborhoods of Berlin, which in time evolved into an irregular event series that have involved different realities.The aim of Multiversal is to discover independent realities creating platforms and occasions that these realities can meet, collaborate and create/elaborate new ideas and projects. CLUBBÜRO is part of the IG Rote Fabrik. It makes the social and artistic value of contemporary club culture visible through low-threshold access to alternative electronic music. With an annual program of third-party and in-house events, the topic of club culture is addressed in various ways and moments of diversity, participation and inclusion are created. Clubbüro focuses on alternative electronic music and club culture. These include those currents in club culture that testify to quality and stand for character, the will to innovate, social empowerment and the DIY spirit. It is assumed that exactly this debate is underrepresented in today's & local scene. Door open at 21.30, first act starts at 22.00 sharp! __ Free admission for asylum-seekers. Please show "N" or "F" ID card. Only as long as tickets are available. Persons without a residence permit are required to contact the SPAZ www.sans-papiers.ch at least 1 week before the event for free entry.

[burlveneer-music]

District Five - Decoy (Intakt Records)

All in their twenties, the four young men are currently a top tip on the Swiss jazz scene. District Five have taken time over their debut album, the antithesis of short-term project culture. Now, with Decoy, they do justice to the album’s title, throwing us a seductive bait. The aim behind the album is to transcend conventional jazz and offer a statement; it was to sound different from the experience of District Five live, using the possibilities of studio recording to mine the wealth of electronic-based sounds the quartet hear around them. Whether flowing calmly along or sweeping weightlessly through the expanses of ambient soundscapes, whether the concentrated energy of free improvisation shatters the song structure or eruptive clusters of sound and hard-edged grooves emphasise the physical aspects of the music, in the club-friendly anthem ‘Maths’, the multi-layered sound art of District Five is compellingly direct and builds up a hypnotic momentum.

Xaver Rüegg: Double Bass Tapiwa Svosve: Alto Saxophone, Synths / Electronics Vojko Huter: Guitar, Synths / Electronics Paul Amereller: Drums

[monsteratapes]

leaf4 is out featuring drum master Vincent Glanzmann alongside Tapiwa Svosve on alto sax and Silvan Jeger on double bass. A fresh blend of old daddy Free Jazz.

12 copies on chrome tape.

[euledueuleich]

"If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it" Gregory Hari und Tapiwa Svosve on the occasion of «Beyond Every Mountain Lies Another Mountain - A Meeting of contemporary art from China and Switzerland» at Helmhaus.