Spotlight on Sound Out – Part 1

Pre-pandemic, eight artists working in adventurous music were selected to participate in an international professional development project called SOUND OUT.  Devised and produced by Arts & Parts with the support of European and Australian partners, SOUND OUT is a project in three parts: a multi-disciplinary residency where the artists are introduced to cultural operators from across Europe and beyond, to improve networks, skills and understanding of the sector; ongoing mentoring with a range of specialists relevant to each artist; and promotion of those artists and the projects and activities that were inspired by their participation. 

Although the inaugural edition of SOUND OUT was severely disrupted by the pandemic, the artists did not stop their forward momentum, and we are delighted to share this update about the careers of four of the SOUND OUT artists: Lucia Cadotsch (CH), Aviva Endean (AUS), Joanna Duda (POL) and Ramon Landolt (CH), with information about the other participants at a later date.

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LUCIA CADOTSCH

Berlin-based Swiss singer-songwriter Lucia Cadotsch is best known for her projects Speak Low – a chamber trio with Petter Eldh and Otis Sandsjö, and LIUN + The Science Fiction Band – a collaboration with Wanja Slavin which is an exploration of the interplay between musical genres and merges analogue and digital compositional methods. During the pandemic, Lucia and Wanja expanded this music, creating arrangements that became LIUN + The Science Fiction Band Live Orchestra, and recorded an album, Lily of the Nile, that will be released on Kurt Rosenwinkel’s label Heartcore Records this November.

Collaborating with British musicians, Kit Downes (organ and piano), Phil Donkin (bass), and James Maddren (drums), Lucia has created AKI, a quartet with songs that blend her idiosyncratic wordplay and imagery, with Downes‘ rich, layered soundscapes. Those of you in the UK will be able to check out AKI on 29 April at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.

For information about booking Lucia, contact Tambour Management

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AVIVA ENDEAN

In 2021 Aviva Endean was composer-in-residence at the Peggy Glanville Hicks house in Sydney, where she composed and recorded an electro-acoustic solo album Moths & Stars (Room40), and will play dates in Europe in November 2022.  Aviva (clarinets and objects) will also feature in the European tour of the Australian Art Orchestra’s Hand to Earth project - a collaboration between Yolngu traditional songmen Daniel and David Wilfred, Korean-Australian singer Sunny Kim and trumpeter Peter Knight - which will be presented by the Pierre Boulez Saal (June).

The project that Aviva has been developing around her involvement in SOUND OUT is Stranger - a participatory sound art piece delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of instrument-makers, video, sound, and light artists. Across an hour, the audience - a group of strangers, led by Aviva and her team - will create an electro-acoustic sonic gift for the next audience. Stranger is designed for arts and music festivals and will be available for inter/national touring after its premiere presentation by Liquid Architecture in Melbourne this December. 

Despite Australia's extended lockdowns across 2020-2021, Aviva worked on several cross-disciplinary projects including Token Armies for Australia's leading contemporary dance company Chunky Move (winning a Green Room Award for 'best composition for dance') and is following this with a new work called Rewards for the Tribe at RISING Festival (31 May – 5 June 2022), as well as a duo show with solo dancer Bec Jensen for the Keir Choreographic Award.

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JOANNA DUDA

Innovative composer, pianist, and interdisciplinary artist Joanna Duda creates music that is characterised by the organic layering of electronic and acoustic sounds that constantly cross the boundaries of improvisation, jazz, classical and IDM.

Joanna made the most of the pandemic – creating soundtracks for cinema release (Cudak), and for TV (Erotica 2022 - the first Polish film to be commissioned as a Netflix original). She was also part of Keychange – the talent development programme for women and gender minority participants, spent time in Italy and Kenya expanding her network of collaborators, and developed a new work called Wake The Dead with Morris Kliphuis, whom she met at SOUND OUT (and who will be featured in our next newsletter).

She also spent time creating and recording FUMITSUKE with her Trio which premiered in November 2021 at the EFG London Jazz Festival, and is now on tour in Europe. See here for a film of the piece Grasshopper from this album, which premiered at Mutek Montreal in August 2021.

For information about booking Joanna, contact Echo Production

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RAMON LANDOLT

In 2022, in-demand Swiss composer, sound artist and keyboardist, Ramon Landolt will be an artist-in-residence at Moods in Zurich as part of the Carte Blanche Moods programme, where he will premiere two new projects: Iced Sound and Sonic Radiation Orchestra.

Three years in the making, Iced Sound: Music by and for Glaciers is a work about changes in the state of matter, and comprises field recordings from 12 glaciers, as well as composed music. Live, Ramon performs with other artists in Alpine ice caves as well as in more traditional music venues. SOUND OUT has provided a mentor (Jez riley French) to help in the development of the work, which will premiere at Moods in the autumn of 2022.

Sonic Radiation Orchestra combines electronic instruments, just tuning and baroque string instruments to poetically display infrasounds and other frequencies above and below the audible sound spectrum. This project is a fictional bridge-building between a time in which every day sounds are dominated by humans and human-made tools, and a pre-industrial time in which a completely different sound image dominated everyday life. Dates TBA.

In 2022, Ramon will release Territory (Wide Ear Records), a duo album with drummer David Meier (SchnellerTollerMeier), and in 2023, Trio Heinz Herbert – the inaugural winners of the Europe Jazz Network-Improvised Music Company’s Zenith Award – will release their sixth album ahead of a European and US tour.

For more information about booking THH, contact: booking@trioheinzherbert.com

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SOUND OUT is an initiative of the Europe Jazz Network under the Artistic Exchange Platform and is supported by: Pro Helvetia (Switzerland), Buma Cultuur (The Netherlands), Australian Art Orchestra, Australian Music Centre, Jazz from Scotland, Creative Scotland, the National Forum of Music/Jazztopad (Poland) and organised with the In Situ Foundation (Sokołowsko), and in co-operation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of POLSKA 100, the international cultural programme accompanying the centenary of Poland regaining independence. Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-annual programme NIEPODLEGŁA 2017–2022.