NICA live: Sophie Emilie Beha presents Membran & Kravchenko / Weyand

In the organizer's words:

20:00 I Concert I 💿 JAKI

At her last NICA live concert, curator and NICA artist Sophie Emilie Beha takes a bold step further. Not only is she curating two recently formed Cologne duos, she is also venturing into the spotlight herself. The new compositions created for the evening are dedicated to the theme of the membrane, which Beha works on for both ensembles from an artistic writing perspective.

Sophie Emilie Beha and Vincent Stange build three-dimensional spaces out of sound. They layer what they have experienced, heard and felt on top of each other. They make recordings in public places - squares, old military sites, field chapels -, edit the sound material and supplement it with their own texts and the recordings of a self-playing piano. What began in 2023 as a research project on Heinrich-Böll-Platz above the Cologne Philharmonie is now a fragile, flexible nucleus in constant transformation.

Ukrainian singer and composer Kateryna Kravchenko and Sophie Emilie Beha met last year as part of a joint scholarship. Their first collaboration came about spontaneously just a stone's throw from the beach on the Baltic Sea. Sophie Emilie Beha wrote a poem for Kateryna Kravchenko, which the singer set to music in the same week and performed in a quintet. Now Beha invites the composer and singer to perform as a duo with pianist Philip Weyand. Based on membranous texts, improvisations, flows of language and musical poetry are created.

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// Membran: Sophie Emilie Beha (vocals, text, composition), Vincent Stange (electronics, composition), Kravchenko / Weyand: Kateryna Kravchenko (vocals, text, composition), Philip Weyand (piano, composition)