Estou super feliz e honrada com o convite para compartilhar sobre as minhas aventuras artísticas-pianísticas com o pessoal do OLPA – Observatório e Laboratório de Pesquisa Artística da UFMT.
Link para o canal deles no YouTube aqui.
From December 2022 to February 2023 I worked with the Final Year Music students in developing new compositions for piano, with an experimental and collaborative approach.
On the final session we recorded their 9 compositions, which presented a wild range of styles and languages.
there was graphic score + field recording
there was a range of extended techniques
there was Debussy-like fully notated music framing a spicy piano + electric bass duo
there was good feeling folk music
there was rap + piano
and IDM.
there was an experimental re-reading of a famous pop song
and there was even a re-scoring for a terror movie trailer.
It was such a blast to workshop ideas then recording those 9 very creative pieces of music.
To work with such a variety of ideas, I went digging from so many things that I have been through in my music journey so far (from my heart for contemporary music, my years with Pianorquestra, improvisation adventures with Oxford Improvisers, lots of contemporary christian music band playing in my teens/twenties, and of course the solid classical training).
Thank you Paul Whitty for having me once again.
Thank you music students, for keeping the dream alive by choosing this career and for pouring your energy into bringing new music to the world.
And for keeping me on my toes.
I am really thrilled to be part of The Sabotaging Piano concert this Friday 26 August, 6:30pm at Queen Mary University of London.
This is part of Teodoro Dannemann PhD research on developing an algorithm which alters the tuning of a keyboard randomly, which challenges the performers by bringing surprises and leading to new ways to improvise.
Entry is free, but ticket reservations are essential, here
I am delighted to be a guest collaborator in the Advanced Composition Module at the School of Arts of Oxford Brookes University.
I will be demonstrating some possibilities for writing for piano, including extended techniques, toy piano, electronics, and collaborative processes, and developing new pieces with the students.
Date/Time
Date(s) – October 19, 2021
7:45 pm – 9:45 pm
Location
Old Fire Station Cafe
Back at the Old Fire Station (this time in the Cafe) our first Oxford live (room not zoom!) gig since February 2020!
This evening will feature Zurich-based New Yorker Jason Kahn on his UK tour performing solo plus sets from OI musicians and together with Kahn.
Come and join us for refreshments musical and liquid!
On Saturday 25 September I was reunited in-person with my friends Oxford Improvisers at Hundred Years Gallery, London, playing physically together with them for the first time since 2019!
The concert, Geometry: First Plane, Then Solid, had 11 musicians in the Gallery with others joining remotely from around the world, and special guest Renee Baker joining from Chicago.
My next performance with Oxford Improvisers will be on Tuesday 19 October at the Old Fire Station café, in Oxford.
My next performance at Hundred Years Gallery will be on Sunday 23 January 2022 in duo with Martin Hackett.
Digital première on 21 July 2021, part of his Composition Course Final Recital at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
(Martelatto starts at 32:13)
This Saturday I will be the special guest at The Listening Room, a free improvisation Youtube live stream event organised by Phil Morton and his house ensemble.
Starting at 2:30pm (UTC) with a duo:
NICK BRANTON, reeds
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments
Following with my solo – piano & toy pianos
Then a duo of myself and MARTIN HACKETT, korg ms
And finishing with a nice quartet
KÉSIA DECOTÉ, piano. toy piano
MARTIN HACKETT, korg ms
NICK BRANTON, reeds
PHIL MORTON, accidents and treatments
(English below)
É com imenso prazer que vou participar das celebrações do centenário de Clarice Lispector com o Group .BR, a única companhia brasileira de teatro sediada em New York.
Será um dia inteiro de eventos transmitidos através das plataformas online do grupo. A minha participação será às 16h30 (horário de Brasília) na programação Clarice na Música tocando a peça perto do coração selvagem para piano de brinquedo da compositora portuguesa Sara Carvalho, inspirada pela obra homônima de Clarice Lispector.
Para maiores detalhes do evento e link para as transmissões, por favor visite a página
Dia de Clarice no website do Group .BR:
It’s a great pleasure to take part in the celebrations of Clarice Lispector’s centenary with Group .BR, NY’s only Brazilian Theatre Company.
It will be a day of online events, and my participation will be at 4:30pm (BRT) playing the work perto do coração selvagem for toy piano by Portuguese composer Sara Carvalho.
For details of the event and link to the transmissions, please visit the page Clarice’s Day at Group .BR website.
In an evening spotlighting the spoken word, Oxford Improvisers worked with poems by Maggie Goren and Rosalind Bleach and explore the sonic properties of a single word in a piece by Jill Elliott. Live streamed through Oxford Improvisers Youtube channel.
I did a 2 minutes solo interlude on piano + toy pianos pianos.
Késia Decoté 