Alternating Lunes (Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, Siamak Anvari, and Leslee Smucker)

All three artists involved in this project work with non-traditional approaches to instruments and sound. Leslee Smucker has developed a series of metal resonators for prepared violin; Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn designs and performs with hybrid acoustic instruments built from metal, wood, and strings; and Siamak Anvari composes electroacoustic works that frequently incorporate broken or recuperated instruments. Through this performance, we bring these distinct practices into direct dialogue—creating a collaborative framework where our methods intersect, collide, and evolve together. The title Alternating Lunes is based on a poem by American poet and artist Bernadette Mayer, whose work often challenges poetic conventions through formal experimentation and collaborative authorship.

can you hear sunrays?

see trumpet calls?

taste the shape of words?

-excerpt from “Alternating Lunes”

by Bernadette Mayer and Philip Good

This project is supported by Netherlands America Foundation.

https://www.splendoramsterdam.com/agenda/111410580/fusions

https://ot301.nl/nl/agenda/15589

two compositions performed, performing on prepared violin

https://www.rewirefestival.nl/event/rewire-x-korzo-21-midori-takada-presents-japan-on-film

Leslee Smucker is a performer-composer utilising violin, voice, synthesisers, electronics, film, and poetry. For Rewire 2023’s Sensory Sensitive Concert, Smucker developed the performance Worlds Within, a concert performance that evokes and invites discovery of sound within ourselves. Through this concert — suitable for stimulus-sensitive audiences — she invited the audience into sound worlds and resonances that reside within us by creating an environment conducive to listening, accompanied by resonances that invite deep listening and reflection.

The concert takes the setting inspiration from a prehistoric cave, and travels through six tableaus composed for solo violin using octave lower strings, mutes, low-rosined bows, and handmade ceramic resonators. The hope of the work is to celebrate what is usually unheard or unnoticed—illuminating resonances with our ancient selves.

Performance of Luigi Nono’s work La Lontananza with Veniero Rizzardi (sound)

Sensory Sensitive concert. Commissioned by Rewire Featival

Performance of “tableau vivant” by Michela Amici for bray harp, transducers, and live electronics

Michela Amici Performs my work Tableau Vivant and other works by Roché Van Tiddens

Black 10 for 8ch

Performance of “tableau vivant” by Michela Amici for bray harp, transducers, and live electronics

Black 10 for 8channel

Performance of “tableau vivant” for harp, transducers, and live electronics

Work by Lucie Nezri