Performer/Composer. Music theater show in collaboration with comedian Jan Jaap van der Wal, based on the novel De Kellner en De Levenden by Simon Vestdijk. In Vestdijks famous novel a group of travellers is assembled in a waiting lobby. The last judgement is near, their lives are being scrutinized. Jan Jaap van der Wal and…
This page contains all projects made together with the Rosa Ensemble.
A 3-week trip in the middle of winter to the Canadian north, in Iqaluit, Baffin island. A team of artists, Stephanie Pan, Stelios Manousakis and Barbara Ellison traveled to Iqaluit, Nunavut, during December 2009 – January 2010 to study Inuit throat singing (katajjaq) with local singers and to explore the context and ties of the artform to the Inuit…
A 30′ minute open work for voice, zither, wine glasses, loopstation and live electronics. Stelios Manousakis: Composition, Programming, Live electronics Stephanie Pan: Voice, Zither, Wineglasses, Loopstation Facts To Suit Theories is a 5-part open composition exploring the continuum between composition and improvisation. The overall structure of the piece and of each part is pre-defined, but its actualization…
Pills To Purge Melancholy – a twisted-folk experiment in accessibility. Pure songs, sad songs, mad songs, weird songs; treatises in subtlety designed to thwart and relieve bouts of melancholy and loneliness, expressed through a unique instrumentation: toy zither, mini Casio, the gifted voice of Stephanie Pan, joined by old friends and colleagues, musical masterminds, Sasha…
Navigation is a 40-minute, 6-part open composition for four pipe organs, celesta, harmonium, voice, wine-glass, loopstation and live electronics, written for the Computer Aided Breathing trio. It is a site-specific piece, created in and for the Orgelpark through an exploration of the potential of the space and its instruments during many workshop sessions. The piece…
Experimental music theater piece on the utopian ideas of French philosopher Charles Fourier (1772 – 1837). Language: Dutch Visit De VeenFabriek
Silent film created for live synching with the piece “Solitary Hotel” by Samuel Barber, for voice and piano. Concept and Direction: Stephanie Pan Duration: 3’16”
Debut CD release from experimental improvisation trio Computer Aided Breathing (Stephanie Pan/Kirstin Gramlich/Stelios Manousakis) on SevenInchRecordings [SIRcd002] Kirstin Gramlich: Emu B3 Hammond Stelios Manousakis: Live electronics, Programming, Compilation Stephanie Pan: Voice, Sampler Contact us for ordering a hand-made, limited edition (15eur + shipping).
Kirstin Gramlich: pipe organ and keyboards: Stelios Manousakis: programming and live electronics Stephanie Pan: voice, electronics, instruments Computer Aided Breathing is a trio formed in 2006 and devoted to the many different shades of live improvisation, from totally free to compositionally guided. The three members met while studying at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague, the Netherlands, where…