Alphawave #7 is focused on collaborations between artists from different backgrounds. The reason why collaboration is put aside of the theme of ectasy is that going to the other side became something subversive when is the search of collective joy. We can really step on the other side, when we can share what we feels with the others. Art is one of the most wonderful way to do it.
AW #7 will see the first collaboration between Kovács/O’Doherty and William ‘Bilwa’ Costa. Their collaboration, titled XB Trio, is an improvisation structure by Kovács/O'Doherty, which is based around live collaboration using small amplifiers, microphones, voices, and percussion (specifically metal chopsticks), to create a layered soundscape from minimal materials.
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty have worked as a collaborative duo, Kovács/O’Doherty, since 2011. Their work combines elements of performative and durational art, minimalist and electroacoustic music composition, movement, and video art. They are interested in processes, sounds, and movements that come close to imperceptibility, and the ways in which this raw material can be transformed through layering, rhythm, pattern, and repetition. Their work is frequently shaped by attempts to apply conceptual processes to simple but often-overlooked phenomena. The work of Kovács/O’Doherty has been presented by, among others, Serralves Museum (Porto), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Grimmuseum (Berlin), Kunstkraftwerk (Leipzig).
William “Bilwa” Costa is an artist who works in the performing, sound, and visual arts contexts. His work includes: performance, installation, experimental / electro-acoustic music, sound art, graphic scores and conceptual structures for sound and movement performance, field recordings, and improvisation. Collaboration with other artists is essential to his work. He works internationally, generating research, labs, workshops, and performance projects, actively cultivating opportunities for artists to work together on new interdisciplinary experiments. Bilwa has performed, led workshops, and has lectured in N. America, UK, Europe, and Australia.
http://www.kovacsodoherty.com/
https://williambilwacosta.com/
With more than a decade working with sound, such as recording studio engineer and producer, Alberto Lucendo is credited on hundreds of discs. He worked as FOH engineer in festivals and clubs with bands from around the world// In his recent role as soundtrack composer he has been pre selected for the Goya awards for best soundtrack, and is currently involved in several projects for film and television// In 2015 he moved to Berlin where he began to develop his musical solo project under the name of Sacromonte. He collaborates with bands in the field of experimental music and is developing several sound art projects in collaboration with some visual artists.
After a decade of photography experience in the fashion world in Texas and New York City, Ashley DuPree changed focus to moving pictures. She has since worked with musicians, poets, dancers, designers, hair stylists, chefs, public speakers and more to tell their stories. Her work has landed on websites such as MTV and OUT.com. She moved to Berlin in 2015 and is working on collaborative projects with musicians as well as a documentary about her German roots.
Together their audiovisual collaborative performance is inspired by Dante's "The Divine Comedy" using fire, water and air elements to interpret the three passages, hell, purgatory and paradise.
The performance will be held in Spektrum, Berlin in Bürknerstrasse 12, on Thu 19.05.16. Doors opens at 19.30, shows start at 20 sharp.
