Sound performance for Soprano, Obertone Voice, Chapman Stick , Tapping Guitar, Acoustic Guitar & Percussion
Do sound performance with compositions for soprano, overtone song, Chapman Stick acoustic guitar & percussion, Tapping Guitar - with Sorof`s compositions and arrangements for Tapping Guitar and Chapman Stick - among others with elements from jazz, new music, classical music and world music.
Executive
artists: Libena Karsch - soprano, overtone voice, speech, percussion &
acoustic guitar
Mathias Sorof - Chapman Stick and Tapping Guitar
Two intentions stand for the idea of the duo performance in the foreground:
1. After musical cooperation of the artists in other projects lasting for years the idea was formulated newly activating the Duokonzept again.
2. Showing that new ways still fascinating even in the at present increasingly inflationary music world are open to be investigated by artist and listener, call these to this.
In the center of the concert program compositions of Mathias Sorof stand . for soprano, language, overtone song & Tapping Guitar/Chapman Stick, percussion and guitar standards are in addition interpreted from jazz, classical music and Irish Tunes.
The artists present their program and kidnap the audience with compositions, the impressions contain scenes from nature, landscape description, from the "master of the rings" and songs. Stylistically hardly to put in order, Sorofs compositions form a crossover from jazz, new music and world music. Both by composed works and compositions which offer room for the improvisation and rhythmical variation add to the lecture.
In the duo Sorof has worked with the soprano and overtone singer Libena Karsch together for many years. The sympathetic harmony of Sorofs instruments and Libena Karschs voice giving the duo live performance unmistakable originality and fascination.
Libena Karsch uses her voice as an instrument. It therefore is part of the principle, that the voice varies with and without text. Used texts date predominantly from the lyric poetry of Libena Karsch which among other things writes them also into Esperanto. The sound of the language Esperanto matches the sound constellation soprano & Stick well. Libena Karsch proceeds so with The duo performance ace percussionist and guitarist.
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Quotations: "Funkily accented
jazzpassages found as well place as meditatively distinctive sounds ....
she sang approximately "Ci Flanko" was said ... with an alto
part tinted more warmly artistically of the hope in the life, this here." |
| The multifaceted sounds
of the Stick then were completed by its clear and warm soprano voice of
the Jazzsängerin, Percussionistin and writer Libena Karsch...the enthusiastic
audience was rewarded with boni." Wolfenbütteler Schaufenster, 1991 |
The soprano voice of Libena Karsch which style variably uses she forms the vocalistic main emphasis of the duo performance. She remains not arrested only in the typical soprano area but finds out various new possibilities of the sound design with her voice. By the practice of the overtone song it is possible for her to sing two or even three coherently at the same time. Subsequently she forms in addition another sound area of a the duo with percussion and guitar.
Chapman Stick and Tapping Guitar form the instrumental main emphasis of the duo performance.
The origins of the Tappings on the guitar can be traced back until the year 1952, the idea immediately arose after the invention of the electrical guitar.
The tuning and the way of playing are relatively new and require something change. It takes the polyphonic independence of the piano playing to the strings of a guitar instrument. The piano similar versatility arises of the special way of playing, the strings will be no more picked , they will be hammered with the fingers on the frets of the stick to produce a tone. A pickup provides the tone-creation and ampilification of the string vibrations. So it will possibly to play melodies, chord-progressions and rhythms independently with a left and right hand. Mathias Sorof creates with the Stick a new Sound, which demonstrates the liberty of a left and right hand in rhythmical, contrapuntal, simultaneous sequences.
Libena Karsch works as a professional musician in different musical projects since 1987. She is regarded as an exception singer into regard your way of the interpretation, variousness in the range of her voice, vocalistic speed and improvisations. By her great vocal range of over three octaves she can work in different genres of the music. She deals with the vowel sounds of the languages and wrote a number of texts to Sorofs compositions into Esperanto. She uses Vokalisen also fixed for Sorofs compositions.
For years she has conducted her jazz trio and is sometimes engaged for interpretations for compositions from the new music. So she work also for the composer Professor Dr. Dieter Salbert. Her great interest belongs the work with the complete instrument voice, how it is used and realized in different cultures. For the European overtone song she just completed her overtonesong-annualgroup with examination, given by Wolfgang Saus, Aix-la-chapelle. In April she sang with the only prize-winner for Mongolian overtone song "Hosoo" from Mongolia in the duo on the music castle in the context of the "Gaukler-Spektakel", a big event.
Since January it has released seminars to the topic " freely and consciously sing, but how "?.
Mathias Sorof is part of the forerunners of the Tapping guitarists and Stick-players in Europe and simultaneous to the pioneers. Its LP publication "Mathias Sorof - Stick Solo " from the year 1988 is the first stick solo production world-wide on long-playing record.
Sorof works as a professional musician with the Stick as a main instrument in different ensembles since 1988. The project " Stick solo " 1987 arose and was updated after longer break again. International, friendly contacts with other Stick players arose from it with Greg Howard (USA), Ron Baggermann (NL), Jim Lampi (GB), Andre Pelat (F), Virna Splendor (I), Daniel Schell (B) Bob Culbertson (USA) Kuno Wagner (D), Markus Reuter (D) Adam Fulara (P)
An adequate PA-Amplification of modern standard is usually wise making available by the organizer of the concert. According to agreement, however, a small PA which is suitable for small till medium-sized rooms also can be brought.
More informations about Libena Karsch and "Mathias Sorof Projects" you find in the internet:
www.tapguitar-stickmusic.de
www.sorof.de
www.libena.de
www.jazzbrothers.de
An interactive execution of concert and seminar/workshop is possible and intended. This can be planned also for an increase active time period.
Possible seminar/workshop & lecture topics:
Topic choice Libena Karsch
Seminar topic: "Sing
freely and consciously, but how?"
Seminar topic: "Introduction to the overtone singing"
Seminar topic: "Jazzimprovisation"
Topic choice Mathias Sorof
Seminar topic: "Introduction
to the Tapping-technique on the guitar"
Seminar topic: "Bases of the Stick game"
Lecture: "The Sorof tuning on the Chapman Stick"
Lecture: " Stick & Tapping Guitar, the guitar of the 21st century,
a new way of the guitar "