Sunday December 22 * 8pm * $10 * TICKETS
Annabelle Playe
Annabelle Playe is a multidisciplinary artist, she enjoys exploring voice, sound, video and writing.
She plays electronic and experimental music in France and abroad. Her live music is based on a device made of analogic synthesizers. Sound is waving between electronic and electroacoustic music, some of them made from different sources (voices, concrete sounds) are processed, put into spaces and mixed to analogic.
Her album first « Matrice » (DAC records) and « Vaisseaux » (DAC records) received a very good response from international medias and « Matrice » became an audiovisual performance with video artist Philippe Fontes. “Geyser” has been released in February 2019.
She creates audiovisual performances : « ANA», and « Vessels » with the musician Marc Siffert and the filmaker Gregoy Robin. In 2017, she created OVERVIEW, an audiovisual performance with Hugo Arcier (generative video) that has been played at Cube, a digital creation center near Paris (FR).
Annabelle Playe devises video as music composition : pattern repetition, developments, breakups and shades. Dynamic images editing interact with music in a counterpoint way. Sometimes, images vanish to give way to music.
She also wrote two monologues of theater published in Alna (FR) : « Ligne » and « Mater ».
Video Links
https://vimeo.com/201441665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NKZaaF0tKc
Website
www.annabelleplaye.com
The touring project of Annabelle Playe has been made possible through the Jazz & New Music, a program of FACE Foundation, in partnership with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and also with the help of SPEDIDAM and SACEM.
OUR SIGNATURES BLEW UP IN SPACE (STYLUS)
Launched on 15 October 1997, the CASSINI Saturn orbiter was active in space for nearly 20 years, with 13 years spent orbiting Saturn and studying the planet and its system after entering orbit on 01 July 2004. A DVD disk placed onboard the spacecraft contained the signatures of more than a half million well-wishers from 81 nations. These signatures of 616,420 people were recorded onto disk, then strategically tucked into the side of the Cassini spacecraft.
The mission ended on 15 September 2017, when Cassini's trajectory took it into Saturn's upper atmosphere and it burned up in order to prevent any risk of contaminating Saturn's moons, which might have offered habitable environments to stowaway terrestrial microbes on the spacecraft.
BLK TAG and guests first presented OUR SIGNATURES BLEW UP IN SPACE at its performance at the 2019 High Zero Worlds in Collusion series at Artscape, Baltimore. That performance has now been re-imagined as a new, on-going, stand-alone project that is open to future reinvention / interpretation / instrumentation within a limiting structure (i.e., the original backing track and source materials).
For 22 December, the piece has been transcribed for STYLUS, local A/V turntable ensemble.
THE CASSINI MISSION - https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/overview/
THE CASSINI SIGNATURE DISK - http://www.planetary.org/press-room/releases/2004/0630_Over_600000_Signatures_-and_Paw.html
Jeff Surak "We always enjoy his restrained yet unwavering approach, fearlessly exploring dark zones of implied violence and subdued terror." - The Sound Projector https://zeromoon.com