Showing posts with label lieke van der voort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lieke van der voort. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2020

Recording: McCarroll-Butler/Shortt/Falls

Artist: Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Olivia Shortt/Lauren Falls

Song: Is this a tomb or am I in love? [excerpt] [composer: Lieke Van Der Voort]

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall (Women From Space Festival – Night 2), March 6, 2020.

Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Olivia Shortt/Lauren Falls - Is this a tomb or am I in love? [excerpt]

It's generally acknowledged that the key to a successful sequel is in making things bigger and more explosive while staying true whatever it was that made the original feel special and unique. The second annual Women From Space Festival applied that maxim to great effect, cosmically expanding in all directions while nourishing its core ideal of creating Space for a diverse range of women-centred creative expressions. This set was one manifestation of the increased ambition of primary organizers Bea Labikova and Kayla Milmine, assembling this trio and commissioning a pair of compositions for them to perform. One piece was from ensemble member Naomi McCarroll-Butler, but there was also this new work from Lieke Van Der Voort, which included her electronics adding drones and disembodied voices.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Recording: Liu/Swankey/Van der Voort

Artist: Germaine Liu, Laura Swankey & Lieke Van der Voort

Songs: [two excerpts from second piece]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Music By & For Ken Aldcroft XVI), April 11, 2018.

Germaine Liu, Laura Swankey & Lieke Van der Voort - [second piece, excerpt 1]

Germaine Liu, Laura Swankey & Lieke Van der Voort - [second piece, excerpt 2]

This evening started with music "for" Ken Aldcroft, with some eyes-closed improvisations from percussionist Germaine Liu and vocalists Laura Swankey and Lieke Van der Voort. Ranging from hymnlike calm to bottle-crushing creaks, the trio seemed to follow an open-ended prescription intoned by Swankey at the end of one piece: "always / leave a / window open".

[Laura Swankey will be performing with improvising trio Jazz Bras Dot Com at a TONE festival show at the Jam Factory on Tuesday, June 19th alongside Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie and Retired. Germaine Liu will also be bringing an improvising trio to TONE, as c_RL opens for Anthony Coleman at Array Space on Friday, June 8th.]