MUSICOMEXP performance will take place in Härnösand, Sweden on Nov 7 at Norrdans Fyren curated by the organisation Nymus.
The concert is scheduled twice for advanced distanciation, but needless to say very limited seats. Advanced booking strongly recommended – more info HERE!
On September 25 I performed MUSICOMEXP at the Great Amber Hall in Liepāja, Latvia. More logistics than usual in these strange times, but what a city and what an amazing hall to perform in! Check out the pictures below.
Just back from my residency at VICC in Visby, where I worked on another project – more info coming soon.
Next MUSICOMEXP performance is scheduled on November 7 in Härnösand, Sweden. Book in advance! Extremely limited sitting with distanciation, the concert is planned twice.
More info and booking links HERE!
Pictures from MUSICOMEXP performance at Great Amber Hall, Liepāja, Latvia.
Above and below: photos by Valters Pelns
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MUSICOMEXP by Aurélie Ferrière LIVE on September 25 at Great Amber Hall in Liepāja, Latvia. First post lockdown gig!
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Last year I was trainee by Mariame Clément, opera director for Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet during the 2019 edition of the Bregenz Opera Festival. This production was awarded the Austrian Music Theater Prize in the categories of Best Overall Opera Production and Best Male Leading Role for Gabor Bretz as Don Quichotte. More info here!
The premiere recorded by the Austrian Radio/TV is broadcast by the BBC here, and released on DVD by Naxos.
Next!
In June 2020, as the world was waking up from a lockdown, a very special opera production took place in Stockholm. Don Giovanni was staged to close the season of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berwaldhallen, directed by (and with) Andrew Staples, with Peter Mattei, Malin Byström, etc.
In this production I was assistant director and score supervisor for stage and video. Your last chance to see this special production, it’s only available until Wednesday 9/9!
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So finally! In the wake of the world’s situation this spring, after all live performances were canceled or postponed, and although MUSICOMEXP is a multi-facetted piece to be experienced live, I decided to let it out in the cyber world for all to enjoy in immersive audio format.
MUSICOMEXP is now available on Spotify, Deezer, Apple, Amazon, or any provider you may prefer. So feel free to CLICK, SHARE and LOOP at any time!
Again, MUSICOMEXP is delivered in binaural format, is to be heard preferably through high quality headphones ?
Remember MUSICOMEXP is available as an exclusive CD box set with the music, my day log on board the expedition with photos and drawings, and all sailing maps from my time at sea. Get it here!
LIVE?! It looks like the fall may allow small performances for less than 50 listeners in some parts of Europe. As MUSICOMEXP requires specific settings, some canceled performances from the spring, and new ones, might be set in the next few months. Updates will appear when available on Musicomexp or Sax Records.
First stops: the Great Amber Hall of Latvia in September, and a black box in Härnösand in November (do you know where that is?)
BROADCAST! The performance of MUSICOMEXP at Baltic Sea Festival 2019 will be broadcast on the Swedish Radio on September 12, along with a discussion with its author 🙂 Were you there?
Catch the broadcast live or in the following 30 days.
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Yes that’s what I’ve been up to!
My composition residencies in the spring did not look quite as planned, my time at VICC Visby International Centre for Composers is rescheduled in October 2020. Looking forward to weeks of concentrated work on pieces I started earlier this year. Stay tuned!!
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I don’t do video too often as I find it so terribly chronophage, although I have done it in the past (check out CIKATRI$ videos here!)
But now that anything happens, I’ve been working with streamed video, as score supervisor at Berwaldhallen for the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (though I’m still there sometimes as a mixing engineer). You’ll find some of these streamed concerts here.
If you’re up for something completely unexpected… watch THIS! This is a very special production I did over the summer with our Concertmaster Malin Broman 8 times on screen (and her strad 6 times!!)
MUSICOMEXP: A Musician on Board the Ocean Mapping Expedition
So finally! In the wake of the world’s situation this spring, after all live performances were canceled or postponed, and although MUSICOMEXP is a multi-facetted piece to be experienced live, I decided to let it out in the cyber world for all to enjoy in immersive audio format.
MUSICOMEXP is now available on Spotify, Deezer, Apple, Amazon, or any provider you may prefer. So feel free to CLICK, SHARE and LOOP at any time!
Again, MUSICOMEXP is delivered in binaural format, is to be heard preferably through high quality headphones 🎧
Remember MUSICOMEXP is available as an exclusive CD box set with the music, my day log on board the expedition with photos and drawings, and all sailing maps from my time at sea. Get it here!
MUSICOMEXP Deluxe box set [LTD]
MUSICOMEXP available as Deluxe CD box set!
If you’ve been following this project over the past two years, or if you discovered it with the first performances in 2018, or would like to know more about it now, here’s a unique object.
“A Musician on board the Ocean Mapping Expedition” Deluxe box set with:
. MUSICOMEXP on Audio CD in binaural format (listen with headphones only) and a download card,
. original on-board day log printed as a notebook with illustrations,
. actual sailing maps,
. an informative booklet with exclusive artwork.
Hand-numbered limited edition.
Order it HERE
Pick-up possibilities and mailing details under “Shipping and returns”
MUSICOMEXP IN BERWALDHALLEN!
The Baltic Sea Festival ended with an exclusive performance of MUSICOMEXP:
– Before closing the festival week completely, Berwaldhallen was transformed into an underwater vessel of sounds and shapes through MUSICOMEXP created by composer and sound artist Aurélie Ferrière. Photos by Arne Hyckenberg
Underwater photo session for the upcoming record!
Check our these killer underwater portraits by Photograph Jesper Anhede.
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Catch a performance of MUSICOMEXP at…
…a legendary experimental music festival in an an abandoned mine in the middle of Sweden? Norbergfestival 2019 —> July 27
…an orchestra festival dedicated to music and environment, MUSICOMEXP in a unique set-up in a dressed-up symphonic hall? Baltic Sea Festival
Musicomexp —> Aug. 31
…a VIP festival of hand-picked experimental artists in the intimate, pristine surroundings of Camp in the French Pyrenees? CAMP Mountain Music Festival —> Sept. 13
SXSW Music Review: MUSICOMEXP by Aurélie Ferrière
REVIEWS! Read the Austin Chronicle’s review of MUSICOMEXP performance at SXSW 2019 in Austin Texas on March 15th.
“During the fantastic voyage, sine waves dove into the spiral of helical linearity as they swayed along a route once navigated by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago, the order now rearranged. Whales from unmapped oceans harmonized with modular synths as Ferrière netted the audience into a transformative travelogue that worked seamlessly as both a repository of natural sounds and a narrative passage through mental geography.”
MUSICOMEXP also included in the 10 weirdest things Vice’s Noisey saw at SXSW 2019!!
SXSW invites MUSICOMEXP to be performed within its official program – announcement came this week!
Very proud to be a part of the official SXSW, the second time for me as an artist, and happy that there is again room in this type of event for experimentation and questioning… SEE YOU THERE!!
På djupt vatten – Elektroniskt i P2
Hear an interview I did with the National Swedish Radio where I discuss my work on board making music and the reasons why The Ocean Mapping Expedition is taking place right now.
The discussion starts just after 31 minutes… in Swedish, but just afterwards you can hear a little bit of MUSICOMEXP in a binaural down mix – listen loud, but try to catch it live!
Next stop Vienna in November – stay tuned🌏
Heading to Malta tomorrow and playing MUSICOMEXP on Monday, Sep 10 at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta during DRHA.
On Thursday I will be playing in Dublin – more info soon!
BALTIC SEA FESTIVAL – Berwaldhallen
These days I’m producing the live broadcast of all concerts at Östersjöfestivalen! Check out the amazing program, book a night or listen live on sr.se/p2
And a year ago today, MUSICOMEXP was funded and I was on my way to South Pacific. More performances booked in September, Malta and Dublin – MUSICOMEXP is experienced *live* only!
