site.btaArtists from Berlin, Seoul, Sofia Take Part in Festival Inspired by Experimental Musical Forms

Nine artists from Berlin, Seoul and Sofia are taking part in a festival inspired by experimental musical forms, the organizers from the Goethe Institut said Monday. From September 5 to 7, Shared Space presents audiovisual installations, evening concerts, open talks, and improvised afternoon sessions in the Topocentrala Gallery.

The event is a joint initiative with the Bulgarian-German artist Biliana Voutchkova and is dedicated to free sound.

Shared Space will provide a space for experiencing the so-called "real-time music" (Echtzeitmusik) that emerged two decades ago in Berlin. Its roots go back to the subcultural contexts of the 1990s, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when the first squats and underground clubs appeared, the organizers say. 

Biliana Voutckova is an interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer, performer, improviser and curator with an unconventional artistic language based in Berlin. Her work spans various musical, audiovisual and installation formats. Their starting point is most often the interrelationship between the inner world and the sonic space.

The programme includes audiovisual installations, evening concerts, open talks and improvised afternoon sessions. The gallery will feature installations and objects found by the participants in nature, and the space will be augmented daily with what is born in it. 

Real-time music concerts will also be presented outside Sofia. The guest appearances will be in Veliko Tarnovo on September 8, in Varna on September 10 and in Plovdiv on September 12.

The artists participating in the three-day festival will perform in different configurations on each of the different days. "And the most exciting thing is that they are all coming together on stage for the first time," the Goethe Institut said.

In addition to Biliana Voutchkova (violin, voice, electroacoustic instruments, installations), Sabine Vogel performs on flutes and electroacoustic instruments. Lena Czerniawska is involved in live painting, spoken words, installations. Emilio Gordoa plays vibraphone, percussion, natural objects, installations. Miako Klein specializes in block flutes and petzold, and sOo Jung Kae in keyboards. 

Noah Kei Choi also paints live. Georgi Donchev plays double bass, percussion, harmonium, natural objects, Rosen Zahariev - trumpet and percussion.