Intimate Addictions

Intimate Addictions is a visual and poetic score by Amanda Schoofs. Acting as both a catalyst and a restraint, the score's poetic directives and raw painted marks were created to be equally explicit and obscure, in an effort to inspire distinct musical and performance qualities. The dynamic work explores brutal inharmonic aggression stabilized by exquisite, forbidden beauty; pure sustained pitch embedded with grating, metallic noise; and alluring, intimate phrases interwoven with raucous, glitch-fucked symmetry. Intimate Addictions was composed for David Collins, Trevor Saint, and Steve Schlei, who have realized it with Schoofs in many diverse and often interdisciplinary performance settings and structures. Throughout 2014 Amanda exhibited and performed her work in Wisconsin and Germany. She collaborated with artist Paul Mitchell to create an animation of her scores which screened at Cine Greth in Überlingen, Germany and projected during an evening length performance at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Amanda gave the the NYC premiere on April 17, at The Kitchen with Bearthoven, as part of MATA Festival 2015. *Contact [email protected] for more information or to book a showing of Intimate Addictions.

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Listen to my Intimate Addictions performed at MATA Festival (The Kitchen, NYC) w/ Bearthoven, April, 2015.  

http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/listen-bearthoven-plays-2015-mata-festival/

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Intimate Addictions

David Collins, saxophone/electronics Trevor Saint, glockenspiel Steve Schlei, ipad/TC-11 Amanda Schoofs, voice/electronics

Paul Mitchell, animation

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Schoofs’ work, entitled Intimate Addictions, was essentially an extended improvisation, featuring the composer vocalizing wild, breathy grunts and primal noises and communicating with the ensemble through occasional intimate glances and bodily cues. The opportunity to witness such a creative process in real time, coupled with Schoofs’ courageous performance, elevated the evening to an entirely different level of sophistication.

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MATA 2015 at The Kitchen, NYC

http://www.icareifyoulisten.com/2015/05/three-nights-at-mata/2/

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Intimate Addictions, by Amanda Schoofs

for any performance, no matter how radical, by any performer/s, for any duration.  Portfolio of 14 Archival Inkjet Prints (7.5"x 5").

Performers:

Trevor Saint, glockenspiel

Steve Schlei, ipad/TC-11

Amanda Schoofs, voice/electronics

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Intimate Addictions (2014) a visual and poetic score For any performance, no matter how radical, by any performer/s, for any duration Portfolio of Archival Inkjet Prints (7.5"x 5") Intimate Addictions is an exploitation of equilibrium through a balancing of extremes. The score explores brutal inharmonic aggression stabilized by exquisite, forbidden beauty; pure sustained pitch embedded with grating, metallic noise; and alluring, intimate phrases interwoven with raucous, glitch-fucked symmetry. Both a catalyst, and a restraint Intimate Addictions deliberately provokes distinct musical and performance qualities. Poetic directives and raw painted marks were created to be equally explicit and obscure. The score has a unique mobile structure that actuates diverse performance possibilities. It invites you to embrace spontaneity in performance, while demanding an intensely personal and intimate exploration of performance. To Play: Choose your cards, by any means, in combinations of 1, 2, 4, 6, or 9. Explore the possibilities of different card combinations. If playing with others, you can choose to play from the same cards, or from different cards, or a combination of both. Cards should be placed on a flat surface in a matrix. Play with different layouts, discovering longer continuities of line, gesture, and idea between multiple cards. When playing, let your eyes move throughout the matrix, performing the scores in any order; playing them linearly or simultaneously; with or without repetition.

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Intimate Addictions exhibited and performed as part of “The Art of Music in Milwaukee” exhibition at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, June/July 2014.

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Exhibition of Amanda Schoofs’ Intimate Addictions graphic score and Intimate Addictions video (w/ artist Paul Mitchell) as part of “Vernissage der Ausstellung salem2salem 2014″ in Castle Salem, Bodensee, Germany. The exhibition ran from August 22 - October 5, 2014.

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Intimate Addictions (2014) a visual and poetic score

This is a sketch of Forbidden Beauty, from Intimate Addictions, by Amanda Schoofs. Rehearsal recording, summer 2014.

David Collins, Sax Trevor Saint, Glockenspiel Steve Schlei, ipad/TC-11 Amanda Schoofs, Voice