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Dé de dense .3 is a experimental multimedia performance, containing visual work, moving image, video, performance, poetry, sonic art and music. Michel Smith and I received a commission from Pascale Malaterre to make the music/sonic art part of this street theatre show. I was using 6 big boxes as control interface for my music. These boxes contain accelerometers and they positions were determining the type of sound that was going to be heard. I did tape, live computer music and played bassoon live for this performance. This show have been premièred in Paris, 25th and 26th of June 2010, at Square Émile Chautemps - near the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Production was by Pascale Malaterre and 2r2c. 
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Dé de dense .3
23/06/2010
Biography
03/06/2010
Sonia Paço-Rocchia [sonja' pa'so rɔ'kja] is an improviser, composer, sound artist, installation artist, maker, live coder, live electronics musician. Her work has been presented all over North America and Europe.
Sonia Paço-Rocchia’s research is about sounds, timbres, forms ways to communicate the abstract. Composing, she broaden the variety of sonic possibilities either using new techniques, live electronics, invented instruments, found instruments or automated instruments. As for her work on the form, most of her work have a visual/theatrical aspect as well as choices given to the players. She wrote a series of pieces for solo instruments with live electronics, several pieces of chamber music sometime with live electronics, pieces for bigger ensembles including a piece for 32 bassoons (Hommage). She wrote too for non-conventional instruments, such as bus-cards, slinky, bicycle, saws and her invented instruments such as Helixphone, Stemsaw, Metal Harp, Tube Long, Cube and including some automated instruments as the automated saws, automated tubes and automated helixophones.
She is a talented improviser. Improvising, she uses a myriad of sound-makers, invented and automated instruments, voice and mostly bassoon, along with live electronics. She plays solo and in various ensembles including, ZZCC, Bullshit Filter, VibraLib and the London Improvisers Orchestra.
Coder and maker herself it is not rare that she incorporates new technologies into her work such as original real time processing, automatons, web art, interfaces, digital instruments. She writes generative music that she aimed to sound like her own improvised music, either for installations or on the web.
Biography (PDF)
Artist statement (PDF)
Résumé
Photos for biography
AWAY DAY VOICES
26/05/2010
I am going to have some pieces for choir performed in Wandle Park. Pieces are based on new art works and will be performed next to the works.
AWAY DAY VOICES
31st May, 5:00,
Wandle Park, London,
opposite Colliers Wood tube (Northern line) (map)
AWAY DAY VOICES is a series of music pieces for voices freshly composed by Sonia Paço-Rocchia.
Each piece is based on a new art work/installation/sculpture that is presented during AWAY DAY and will be performed next to the work in Wandle Park by amateur singers from the communauty who participated to experimental music for voices workshops given by the composer herself.
Performers (over 30 singers)
Featuring Colliers Wood Chorus and guests
(To take part yourself, see Voice Workshop)
Visual Artists
Katie Gilman, Fiona Long, John O’Hare, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Catalina Garces de los Rios, The Wayward Plant Registry
AWAY DAY
is a contemporary art installations and performances in three south London parks
Over 20 artists present new works as POST returns to Merton in south London with AWAY DAY. Engaging with suburban spaces of leisure, AWAY DAY is a series of site-specific artworks for three public parks: Mostyn Gardens in Morden, Wandle Park in Colliers Wood and Ravensbury Park in Mitcham. Diverse interventions, performances and temporary artworks accost visitors with imagined alternative realities and new mappings of these spaces during weekends in May and June.
www.postartists.com/awayday
POST
is the new peer-led network for artists who respond to place
www.postartists.com
AWAY DAY VOICES
31st May, 5:00,
Wandle Park, London,
opposite Colliers Wood tube (Northern line) (map)
AWAY DAY VOICES is a series of music pieces for voices freshly composed by Sonia Paço-Rocchia.
Each piece is based on a new art work/installation/sculpture that is presented during AWAY DAY and will be performed next to the work in Wandle Park by amateur singers from the communauty who participated to experimental music for voices workshops given by the composer herself.
Performers (over 30 singers)
Featuring Colliers Wood Chorus and guests
(To take part yourself, see Voice Workshop)
Visual Artists
Katie Gilman, Fiona Long, John O’Hare, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Catalina Garces de los Rios, The Wayward Plant Registry
AWAY DAY
is a contemporary art installations and performances in three south London parks
Over 20 artists present new works as POST returns to Merton in south London with AWAY DAY. Engaging with suburban spaces of leisure, AWAY DAY is a series of site-specific artworks for three public parks: Mostyn Gardens in Morden, Wandle Park in Colliers Wood and Ravensbury Park in Mitcham. Diverse interventions, performances and temporary artworks accost visitors with imagined alternative realities and new mappings of these spaces during weekends in May and June.
www.postartists.com/awayday
POST
is the new peer-led network for artists who respond to place
www.postartists.com
Singers invited for a AWAY DAY VOICES performance
14/05/2010
AWAY DAY VOICES is a series of music pieces for voices freshly composed by Sonia Paço-Rocchia.
Each piece is based on a new art work/installation/sculpture that is presented during AWAY DAY and will be performed next to the work in Wandle Park by amateur singers from the communauty who participated to experimental music for voices workshops.
All details about the free workshop here /awaydayvoices (24th May, 30 May, 31st May)
If you want to participate, let me know!
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