Context: Lunch-hour-performance-lecture
04.04.25 - 12:15-13:00
Dynjandi, Skipholt 31, 105 Reykjavík
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In this lunch-hour performance-lecture, three international and international musicians meet at Art University to share the sprouts of their new collaboration. Fluent in improvisation, new music, jazz, sound poetry, and experimental opera contexts, Joe Sorbara, Matthias Mainz, and Angela Snæfellsjökull Rawlings will share their sonic excitations through both performance and conversation.
Matthias Mainz (*1972) is a transdisciplinary musician, curating artist and author. From 2001 to 2012 he realised electro-acoustic music, scenographic works and theater. Since 2012, Mainz focused on questions of transcultural music and its embedding in national and international cultural policy with research in Kabul, Tehran and Istanbul and has been realizing curatorial, musical and artistic-scientific work as managing director of the transcultural Neue Music. As an instrumentalist, the combination of improvisation, microtonics, extended play and artificial changes in the development of the alternative and artificial symbols.
Canadian drummer and percussionist Joe Sorbara has spent decades developing a reputation as a dedicated and imaginative performer, composer, improviser, collaborator, organiser, listener, writer, and educator. They have performed and recorded with Norm Adams, Ken Aldcroft, Anthony Braxton, J.P. Carter, Nikita Carter, Christine Duncan, Paul Dutton, Friendly Rich, François Houle, Jonathan Kay, Germaine Liu, Thollem McDonas, Joe McPhee, Hafez Modirzadeh, Evan Parker, Allen Ravenstine, Clyde Reed, Steve Sladkowski, and Bry Webb, among many others Joe has worked extensively as a worker and guest lecturer, and expert of the University of the Society and director of the Arts, and best director of the art director of the art.
Dr. Angela Snæfellsjökull Rawlings is a Canadian-Icelandic interdisciplinary artist-researcher. They work with languages as dominant exploratory material. Rawlings’ books include Wide slumber for lepidopterists (Coach House Books, 2006), Gibber (online, 2012), o n (CUE BOOKS, 2015), si tu (MaMa Multimedijalni Institut, 2017), and Sound of Mull (Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology, 2019). In 2022, Rawlings co-curated SPHERE Festival for the Canadian National Arts Center's Orchestra in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature, Royal Danish Library, and Nordic Bridges in 2024, and Nordic Bridges in 2024, and Nordic Bridges in 2000, presented to Iceland.