La femme dans la création électronique

Two outstanding women composers/performers
Xperiment L : second edition

This time Xperiment L features two outstanding women composers/performers  who have been involved in electronic music for a long time and have  produced an equally large body of work. Both have been starting off with  acoustic instruments (violin and voice) before getting involved with  electronica and hold degrees in music technology / electro-acoustic music.
Another similarity is their fascination for the theremin, as well as  creating electronic environments for improvisation. And, both share a  critical mind towards being a female in a male dominated field.

The programme's core performance is a radiophonic piece, 'Die Futuristin'  by Elisabeth Schimana. This will sit within a showcase of Austrian sound  artists and a film programme. The films selected for this edition are of an  equally high level, but not in a conceptual or intellectual way: they  appeal directly to the subconscious.

#2 Performance
Music program:
Elisabeth Schimana (Austria) - 'Die Futuristin': an acoustic & visual  portrait / a live fiction
Kaffe Matthews (UK) - live quadraphonic sculpting of a theremin, the room  and its feedback
Film program:
Valie Export - ....Remote.....Remote..... / Austria 1970-1973
Suzie Silver - A Spy (Hester Reeve does the Doors) / USA 1992
Kenneth Anger - Puce Moment / USA 1949/53
Eveline Ketterings - ´t Brandende bruidje / HK/NL 2003

Wednesday 16th June / 20:30 hours / Arminius Upstairs (church opposite Boijmans van Beuningen Museum) / Museumpark 3,  Rotterdam

Website of Arminius: http://www.arminius.nu

#2 Lecture_Presentation

Set-ups / Creating an electronic environment for improvisation

By Elisabeth Schimana (Austria)
Thursday 17th June / 20:00 hours / Arminius Upstairs
Concept/Idea:Daniela Swarowsky
Curatorial team:
Mariette Groot & Daniela Swarowsky > music programming
Annemiek Engbers & Sylvia Szely film/ video programming
A DAMeS production in cooperation with Arminius, podium voor kunst, cultuur  en debat.
Productional support by Stichting WORM.

Xperiment L is financially supported by the Rotterdamse Kunststichting, VSB
Fund, Prins Bernhard Cultural Fund, Erasmusstichting and the Austrian  Cultural Institute.