Singer/Keyboards/Improviser. A new opera by Luc Houtkamp, text from Gertrud Stein’s Tender Buttons. A mix of songs and live improvisation for singer, keys, saxophone, tuba, tap dancer and live electronics. Compositions: Luc Houtkamp Text: Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons) Musicians: Stephanie Pan – vocals, keyboards Guy Harries – vocals, keyboards, flute, clarinet Peter Kuit – tap dance…
Tag: music
collaborative, curator
Modern Body Festival 2014: Art as research through experience
What exactly is the ‘modern body’? We are inclined to think of our bodies as limited to what is contained within our own skin, but technology, philosophy, spirituality, religion, and science all challenge this idea. Modern Body Festival (MBF), an intermedia initiative organized by artists / makers / performers Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis, strives to examine the nature…
collaborative, composer, performer, release, taiko
Release: Nothing aiming is a splinter – Center no Distractor
Center no Distractor’s first EP, Nothing aiming is a splinter, was recorded live, partially in front of a live audience, in December 2012. The EP was released in 2013 by inklino records. You can listen and order it through bandcamp. You can also still order the special handmade edition! Nothing aiming is a splinter by Center no…
collaborative, composer, performer, taiko
Center no Distractor
Center no Distractor, the latest project of the collaborative duo Stephanie Pan and Stelios Manousakis, is an explosion of movement, physicality and gritty, thumping beats, for taiko and live electronics.
collaborative, release, voice
Release: Shortbreads & Outcakes – Rosa Ensemble
Special 15-year anniversary CD release from Rosa Ensemble on Rumble Dish Records [RD0713] http://rosaensemble.bandcamp.com/album/shortbread-outcakes-2013
collaborative
Select the Right Location – Anna Moreno
Movie by Anna Moreno (33′) Select the Right Location is a theatre piece. In the plot, a city is flooding and five artists seek shelter on the contemporary art museum’s rooftop. Each one of them has saved one valuable object from the flood, which is symbolic to the kind of artist that saved it and…
collaborative, release, voice
Release: Distrails – Selva de Mar
Selva de Mar is a Barcelona based duo, consisting of Israeli cellist Sasha Agranov and Argentine hang/percussionist Pablo Wayne. They describe their music as ‘aquatic’: a tapestry of timeless, almost utopian atmospheres that bewitch the imagination, constructed over an acoustic base (cello and hang), superimposed with a variety of different objects and ethereal use of…
performer, solo, taiko, voice
Mixtape – for voice, autoharp, taiko, Nebulophone, Bleep Drum, Korg Monotron and looper
A Mixtape is a performance for voice, autoharp, taiko, Nebulophone and Bleep Drum (Arduino-based synths), Korg Monotron, and looper. Taking the form of a mixtape as its inspiration, this performance is a live mashup of intimate songs with dirty, gritty electronics, physicality and athleticism. Moving fluidly or jarringly, it is an unrelenting performance for the…
collaborative, performer, voice
BlueBeard – 33 and 1/3 collective (2012)
Singer/Improviser. Experimental mixed-media opera based on the classic Bluebeard. Soundtrack with and by: Michael de Roo, Mete Ensemble, Stephanie Pan, Daniel Cross, Wilbert Bulsink, Jelte van Andel, Koen Kaptijn and Diederik Rijpstra Performances include: [2013] Music Theatre NOW, Jönköping, SE [2012] Sonica Festival, Glasgow, UK; Prototype Festival, New York, US
performer, solo, voice
Rochester – A cabaret/lounge Baroque music performance (2011)
Rochester is a cabaret/lounge Baroque music performance which sets to music the epic, obscene poetry of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, in a contemporary, experimental and absurdist mishmash of traditional Baroque music and contemporary pop music, on a backdrop of burlesque bal masque.