About the Artists

Jad Saliba

The dynamics, fidelity, signal-to-noise ratio, and timbre of a radio work are highly variable, thus an unalterable, fixed entity disappears. A performer on the radio is not able to control the environmental conditions of the performance, dissociating the performer and auditor from a common place of experience. The same work can take on different profiles driven by indeterminate electromagnetic influences and terrestrial broadcasts.

Biography:

Jad Saliba (Lebanon) is an artist working with sound who began his musical practise as an Oud player in 2007. In his current work, he re-appropriates analogue radio in the context of performance to create malleable sound artefacts from a topography of live radio broadcasts that explore the interrelations between sound, place and listener. His live performance highlights urgent listening conditions characterised by non-linearity, interruption and partiality.

August 38th

August 38th is a vocal ensemble consisting of 10 professional singers, performers from The Netherlands, Italy, Mexico, United States of America, Ukraine, Australia, Turkey and Latvia based in Amsterdam. The focus of this group is improvisation, exploring different possibilities in creating musical textures, atmospheres and stories by using the human voice. Their performance might make you laugh, cry, imagine colors, shapes, landscapes or remember your childhood dreams.

Members are Marta Arpini (Italy), Fuensanta Mendez (Mexico), Jodi Gilbert (USA), Julia Werner (Netherlands), Annelie Koning (Netherlands), Saskia Oving (Netherlands), Maryana Golovchenko (Ukraine), Felicity Provan (Australia), Sanem Kalfa (Turkey), Laura Polence (Latvia).