In the organizer's words:
About:
Sound and Selves: Improvisation and masks as tools for self-discovery and transformation.
A workshop with the twin themes of musical exploration and identity transformation, allowing participants the creative freedom of improvisation and the personal discovery that comes with shedding familiar forms of self-expression. Please bring an instrument if possible, masks will be provided.
Sound and Selves: Improvisation and masks as tools for self-discovery and transformation.
A workshop with dual themes of musical exploration and identity transformation, allowing participants explore the creative freedom of improvisation and the personal discovery that comes with shedding familiar forms of self-representation. Please bring an instrument if possible, masks are provided.
The workshop is aimed at musicians and non-musicians
About the artist:
Liz Kosack is a synthesizer player and mask maker based in Berlin. She has performed with countless collaborators in experimental music scenes in Europe, New York, and worldwide. With mask and visual works, she creates and supersedes issues of identity. As a synthesist, her singular work pursues organic expression, pushing the capabilities of electronic instruments. She received the prestigious SWR Jazzpreis in 2019. her website is
zardkom.com.
Some of her numerous projects include: VAX w/ Devin Gray and Patrick Breiner, MeoW! w/ Jim Black, Cansu Tanrikulu, Dan Peter Sundland, Nick Dunston's Skultura w/ Cansu Tanrikulu, Eldar Tsalikov, Mariá Portugal, The Hero of Warchester w/ Anna Webber and Nathaniel Morgan, trio w/ Farida Amadou and Dag Magnus Narvesen, duo w/ Okkyung Lee, trio with Ute Wassermann and Andrea Parkins, SPOILER w/ Julia Reidy, Samuel Hall and Brad Henkel, The Liz w/ Liz Allbee and Korhan Erel, etc. She also plays with Andrew D'Angelo, Tony Malaby, Kevin Shea, Gebhard Ullmann, Steve Heather, Kyungmi Lee, and many others.
Liz Kosack is a synthesizer player and make-up artist from Berlin. She has performed with countless partners in experimental music scenes in Europe, New York and worldwide. With masks and visual works she creates and overcomes questions of identity. As a synthesizer player, she strives for organic expression in her unique work and expands the possibilities of electronic instruments. She received the prestigious SWR Jazz Prize in 2019. Her website is
zardkom.com.
