Improvisation - Sonia Paço-Rocchia

Mirrors Beams

Installation with performance

21/09/2011

Mirrors Beam is a mirror and light installation by Francis Bowman for which I live-performed and created the music.

Mirrors Beam
by Francis Bowman
with sound and performance by Sonia Paço-Rocchia

The Shunt Lounge, London, April 2010

The Shunt Lounge is a performance venue situated in the victorian brick tunnels, which form the foundation of London Bridge Station. It is about to be closed to make way for the foundations of London’s latest tallest building ‘The Shard’ currently under construction. Street level above is already a building site.

The work is exhibited on the 2nd, 3rd and 9th, 10th April. This is during Holy Week, and just after the spring equinox.

It is a work about the beauty of light on the body, and in dark places.
Live performance and voice following the rhythm of the light.

Thumbnail photo by Ludovic des Cognets

I Became Luminous

experimental multimedia performance

16/09/2011

I Became Luminous is a experimental play produced by The Olga & Clarence Memorial Theatre Company for which I have been commissioned to compose the music.

The music is really important and present in this play. I perform solo, live with bassoon, voice, glockenspiel, melodica and live electronics.

by Ieva Strazdina and Jeffrey Gordon Baker, The Olga & Clarence Memorial Theatre
text by Antonin Artaud, St Augustine, Guy Debord, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Arthur Rimbaud and Patti Smith
music and sound by Sonia Paço-Rocchia

performed by Jeffrey Gordon Baker, Ieva Strazdina and Sonia Paço-Rocchia
produced by Else Prünster
costume design by Anita Gatere
camera by Andrew Crowe
montage by Ana María Reyes

performed in June 2011, in London

LIO LEO LEON: le disque

04/05/2011

LONDON IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
LIO LEO LEON
Emanem Disc

C’est avec plaisir que je vous annonce la sortie de LIO LEO LEON. Ce disque contient une performance extraordinaire, qui a eu lieu lors du festival d’improvisation Freedom of the City 2010, des 38 musiciens du London Improviser Orchestra, dirigé ici par Alison Blunt, Steve Beresford (avec le concerto par Leon Michener), Philipp Wachsmann, Caroline Kraabel et Dave Tucker (avec le concerto par Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith).

Roland Ramanan - - trompette
Ian Smith - - trompette
Robert Jarvis - - trombone
Alan Tomlinson - - trombone
John Rangecroft - - clarinette et saxophone tenor
David Ryan - - clarinettes
Noel Taylor - - clarinettes
Harrison Smith - - clarinette basse
Neil Metcalfe - - flûte
Terry Day - - flûtes et autres instruments à vent inusités
Sonia Paço-Rocchia - - basson
Lol Coxhill - - saxophone soprano
Adrian Northover - - saxophones soprano et alto
Ricardo Tejero - - saxophone tenor et clarinette
Caroline Kraabel - - saxophone alto et baryton
Alison Blunt - - violon
Christoph Irmer - - violon
Ivor Kallin - - violon et alto
Philipp Wachsmann - - violon et alto
Charlotte Hug - - alto
Benedict Taylor - - alto
Hannah Marshall - - violoncelle
Marcio Mattos - - violoncelle
Barbara Meyer - - violoncelle
Dominic Lash - - contrebasse
David Leahy - - contrebasse
Guillaume Viltard - - contrebasse
Adam Bohman - - objects avec amplification
Eugene Martynec - - ordinateur
Tania Chen - - téléphone et mélodica
Roberto Sassi - - guitare électrique
Dave Tucker - - guitare électriquer
Jackie Walduck - - vibraphone
Steve Beresford - - piano
Veryan Weston - - piano
Javier Carmona - - percussions
Tony Marsh - - percussions
Louis Moholo-Moholo - - percussions

Invités:
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith - - trompette (lors de la direction par Dave Tucker)
Leon Michener - - piano (lors de la direction par Steve Beresford)