Artist Talk: Magda Mayas (DE)
A118, RMC
Leo Mathisens Vej 1
1437 KBH K
Magda Mayas: Orchestrating Timbre
[English below]
Oplev Magda Mayas undersøge forskellige aspekter af en instrumentel tilgang til klaveret via præparetioner, genstande, bevægelse og gestik på tærsklen til improvisation og komposition.
Gennem de sidste 20 år har Magda Mayas udviklet et sæt teknikker der - mens de trækker på det historiske vokabular om præpareret klaver - er yderst individualiseret. De teknikker Magda Mayas anvender, er ikke så meget ”præparationer” i John Cage'sk forstand, som ofte involverer en fast opsætning til specifikke stykker musik, men er fleksible i den forstand, at alle præparationer er øjeblikkeligt tilgængelige og mobile, og dermed kan tilpasses klaverer; akustikker i forskellige koncertrum og forskellige musikalske krav. Klaveret er forvandlet, men kan vende tilbage til sin u-præparerede tilstand på øjeblik.
Kombinationen af de resonerende materialer, som Magda Mayas anvender, danner en sonisk og fysisk forbindelse mellem Mayas og klaveret og transformerer til tider endda koncertrummet – en organisering af lyd, instrumenter, krop og bevægelse i rum.
Om Magda Mayas
Magda Mayas (1979) er pianist og komponist, bosat i Berlin. Hun har udviklet et ordforråd, der udnytter både de indvendige såvel som de ydre dele af klaveret ved hjælp af forstærkning, præparationer og genstande, der bliver til forlængelser af selve instrumentet.
Hun har en ph.d. i Music Performance and Interpretation fra Göteborgs Universitet i Sverige. Siden 2019 har hun været programkoordinator og underviser i improvisation ved Luzern University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Mayas optræder internationalt solo og i samarbejde med en lang række musikere og komponister. Aktuelle projekter er Spill, en duo med trommeslager Tony Buck, en duo med Christine Abdelnour (sax) Jane in Ether med Biliana Voutchkova (vl) og Miako Klein (blokfløjter) og The Splitter Orchester Berlin.
Hun har optrådt og turneret i Europa, USA, Australien, Mexico og Libanon og samarbejdet med mange førende kunstnere inden for improvisation, og komponister som Marilyn Mazur, John Butcher, George Lewis, Andy Moor, Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Eddie Prévost, Phill Niblock, David Sylvian, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Ken Vandermark, Okkyung Lee, Nic Collins, Elliot Sharp og Maja Ratkje.
Læs mere om Magda Mayas: magdamayas.com
ENGLISH
In this lecture performance Magda Mayas explores different aspects of instrumental approaches with the piano; through preparations and objects, movement and gesture on the threshold of improvisation and composition.
Throughout the last 20 years, Magda Mayas has developed a set of techniques that, whilst they draw on the history of prepared and an inside piano vocabulary, are highly individualized and extend the possibilities for internal piano music-making. The techniques that Mayas uses are not so much “preparations” in the Cagean sense, which often involve a fixed setup for specific pieces, but are rather flexible in the sense that all preparations are instantaneously accessible and movable, and thus adaptable to different pianos, the acoustics of different concert spaces, and different musical requirements. The piano is transformed but it can be returned to its unprepared state in an instant.
The combination of resonating materials Magda Mayas uses form a sonic and physical connection between her and the piano and at times even transform the performance space - an organising of sound, instruments, body and movement in space.
About Magda Mayas
Magda Mayas (1979) is a pianist and composer performer living in Berlin. She has developed a vocabulary utilizing both the inside as well as the exterior parts of the piano, using amplification, preparations and objects that become extensions of the instrument itself. Mayas expands the language for internal piano music making.
She holds a PhD in Music Performance and Interpretation from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Since 2019, she is the program coordinator and teaches improvisation at Luzern University of applied Sciences and Arts.
Mayas performs internationally solo and in collaboration with a large number of musicians and composers. Current projects are Spill a duo with drummer Tony Buck, a duo with Christine Abdelnour (sax) Jane in Ether with Biliana Voutchkova (vl) and Miako Klein (recorders) and the Splitter Orchester Berlin.
She has performed and toured in Europe, the USA, Australia, Mexico and Lebanon and collaborated with many leading figures in improvisation and composers such as Marilyn Mazur, John Butcher, George Lewis, Andy Moor, Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Eddie Prévost, Phill Niblock, David Sylvian, Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, Hamid Drake, Joelle Leandre, Paul Lovens, Ikue Mori, Ken Vandermark, Okkyung Lee, Nic Collins, Elliot Sharp and Maja Ratkje.
Read more about Magda Mayas: magdamayas.com