Laura Giavon
"SIT DOWN; LET ME TELL YOU: CALMLY...EASY…"Laura Giavon performs her new solo set which consists of her new piece called “Sit down; let me tell you: calmly...easy…”, for extended techniques for voice and live electronics, which appears from the necessity of a solitary reflection on the voice.
The principal question concerns the dichotomy that the voice embodies, in being both announcement and paraphrases, and as a consequence the presence or absence of text and its use as a language or as a sound.
The lyric and music of the performance take inspiration from ideas and images that the composer lived during a trip in Bosnia Herzegovina in the summer 2016.
LAURA GIAVON: voice, live electronics
Laura Giavon is a vocalist active in the scene of contemporary, jazz and free jazz dutch scene. She studied jazz singing with a minor in baroque singing at the conservatory of Amsterdam and right now she is finishing the master in Live Electronics in the same institute. She currently is writing her research master thesis on how vocal expressions of ancient cross-cultural rituals have influenced the production of art starting from the first avant-garde movements of the 20th century. The interest in ‘interdisciplinary projects’ for Laura started few years ago, when she discovered the importance of the theatrical element in her performing in combination with her studies of extended vocal techniques.
She currently is a student of Claron McFadden, and have studied in the past with Lydia Van dam, Wiebe Pier Cnossen, Caroline De Rooij and Ali Gaggl.
She attended workshops with several people a.o. Ambrose Akinmusire, Emma Kirkby, Becca Stevens, Gretchen Parlato, Joshua Redman, Miguel Zenon, David Lynx.
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