Omniversal Hum: Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker, Anthony Pateras, Jasmine Guffond

Music for voice, violin, cello, 8 channel acousmonium and synthesizer.

In the lush sounding hall of St Mary's Church, Omniversal Hum presents Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker (Italy), Anthony Pateras (Australia) and Jasmine Guffond (Germany). 

Canti di Guerra, di Lavoro e d’Amore (Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker) 

Silvia Tarozzi (voice and violin) & Deborah Walker (voice and cello) present their recent collaboration "Canti di Guerra, di Lavoro e d’Amore" (songs of war, work and love). The work is a contemporary re-interpretation of female folksongs of northern Italy. The duo have worked for several years on transcriptions and reinterpretations of traditional folksongs from their birthplace, the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. The songs come from the first decades of the twentieth century (some even older) and from the period of the Second World War. The melodies and especially the lyrics have been transformed over time through oral transmission and adapted to different social, working and historical contexts.

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker share a friendship that evolves into a long-lasting artistic partnership around improvisation and contemporary experimental creation. For almost 20 years they have explored different musical forms working with composers and improvisers, featuring other musicians as Philip Corner, Rhodri Davies, Eyvind Kang, Nathalie Forget, Frantz Loriot and Alex Bruck. Their music is characterized by a profound interplay, a focus on the acoustic qualities of the sound of their instruments and the search for new possibilities in tunings, gestures and sound. Their long collaboration with composers Éliane Radigue, Pascale Criton and Philip Corner has led to the creation of numerous and highly reputable works.

Pyrocumulus (Anthony Pateras)

Pyrocumulus (2023) for violin, cello & acousmonium, by composer Anthony Pateras will be presented in 8 channels, performed by Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker and diffused by Anthony Pateras. The piece was premiered on the GRM acousmonium at the 2023 Akousma Festival, Maison de la Radio, Paris.

Approaching Chaos 

Jasmine Guffond is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential of sound to engage with contemporary political questions and engages listening as a situated knowledge practice. She has performed live internationally at electronic music and art festivals including opening for CTM festival in 2020 and a commissioned work for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM) Acousmonium, premiered in Paris at Présences Électronique in 2022. Intuitively exploring abstract sounds as well as referencing traditional musical structures, she has released solo records to critical acclaim with the Sonic Pieces (2015, 2017), Karl Records (2018) and Editions Mego (2020) labels.

Doors will open at 745pm 

745pm - 830pm: Program One (Pyrocumulus, Approaching Chaos)

840pm - 930pm: Program Two (Canti di Guerra, di Lavoro e d’Amore)

Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker appear with the support of Ater Fondazione.