International Music Forum
APOSITSIA 2006

September 29 - October 1

The International Musical Forum Apositsia launches its second season with a series of concerts in St. Petersburg from September 29 through October 1, 2006 at the Theater on Mokhovaya. This yearly event unites leading musicians from around the world, working in different styles of contemporary music.

The Forum will acquaint the Russian public with the achievements of contemporary music and its newest movements, including experimental and improvised music, electro-acoustic music, free jazz, world music, and sound poetry.

Through the Forum, Apositsia aims to create an infrastructure to support the development of new and experimental music in St. Petersburg. Its primary goal is to stimulate a creative atmosphere encouraging collaboration and exchange between Russian and foreign participants.

APOSITSIA 2006 schedule:

concerts:

September 29 - Theatre on Mokhovaja, 19.00

opening act: Bill Drummond & The 17 (Great Britain) - interactive performance for only 17 people

• Nikolai Galen (Great Britain/Turkey)

• Kelomat (Austria)

• Pamela Z (USA)

• Elena Antonenko project (Russia)

September 30 - Theatre on Mokhovaja, 19.00

• Heroic project, part I (Russia)

• Zoom (Austria)

• Masahiko Satoh (Japan)

• J.G.Thirlwell & Manorexia (USA)

• Heroic project, part II (Russia)

October 1 - Theatre on Mokhovaja, 19.00

• Heroic project, part III (Russia)

• Real Quiet (USA)

• Markus Stockhausen/Tara Bouman (Germany/Netherlands)

• Peter Broetzmann Trio (Germany/Switzerland/Greece)

• Heroic project, part IV (Russia)

masterclasses:

September 30 - Theatre on Mokhovaja, 14.00

• Pamela Z (USA)

• Teruto Soejima (Japan) - «The history of Japanese free jazz since 1965 till nowadays»

October 1 - Theatre on Mokhovaja, 14.00

• Annette Giesriegl & Mia Zabelka (Austria)

• Real Quiet (USA)

participants:

	J.G.Thirlwell & Manorexia (aka Foetus, Wiseblood, Clint Ruin) (USA) – a composer/producer/performer based in Brooklyn, one of the pioneers of the modern electronic music. Has been working with Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Swans, Nurse With Wound www.foetus.org
	Pamela Z (США) – modern american composer, performer, soundartist. www.pamelaz.com
	Real Quiet (USA) – new music trio by Bang on the Can All-stars member David Cossin. www.realquiet.org
	Kelomat (Austria) – free improvizing trio. www.kelom.at
	Zoom (Austria) – sound pictures by the voice of Annette Giesriegl and soundscapes by electric violin of Mia Zabelka. www.giesriegl.net/zoom
	Markus Stockhausen/Tara Bouman (Germany/Netherlands) - New music, free improvizing duo. www.markusstockhausen.de
	Masahiko Sato (Japan) - famous new jazz pianist, composer, Japan Jazz Award winner. http://www.mmjp.or.jp/m_satoh/English/E_index.html
	Teruto Soejima (Japan) – leading theoretic of the new japanese jazz, producer. http://www.japanimprov.com/soejima/index.html
	Peter Broetzmann/ Marino Pliakas/ Michael Wertmueller (Germany/Switzerland/Greece) – noise jazz project by the legendary german saxophonist. www.marinopliakas.com
	Nikolai Galen (Great Britain/Turkey) – solo voice project by Nick Hobbs.
	Bill Drummond & The 17 (Great Britain) - avantguard project by the legendary KLF former leader.
	Elena Antonenko project (Russia) – different duos by New music composer from Saint-Petersburg.
	Heroic project (Russia) – collaborative multimedia project by 4 modern artists (Nikita Sazonov, Maria Piir, Valerij Podljassky, Mikhail Gorodetsky) and 4 music projects ( DaDaZu, Totalitarian Music Sect, Miro Trio, Alexei Pliousnine).http://www.aposition.org/e_v/heroic_e.htm

organizers and partners:

The Forum is organized by the Creative Union Apositsia and the international cultural organization, CEC ArtsLink with financial support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York) and the Goethe Institute (Russia).

The Forum is also grateful for the support of Apositsia’s regular partners, the Center for the Development and Support of New Music, Devotsia Moderna, and the Cultural Center DOM (Moscow)

history:

The creation of a forum of new music in St. Petersburg was a reaction to the untimely death of Nikolai Dmitriev, the leading proponent of alternative music in Russia and founder of the DOM Cultural Center. The Long Arms Festival, created in his memory, took place for the first time in May 2004 at the DOM Cultural Center in Moscow.

In October 2005, the Creative Union Apositsia and CEC ArtsLink in collaboration with the Long Arms Festival in Moscow, invited leading musicians from the United States, France, and Russia to perform in a series of concerts at the Cappella Theater in St. Petersburg and the DOM Cultural Center in Moscow. Among the participants were: the minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, the international acclaimed avant-garde accordionist Pauline Oliveros, the free jazz saxophonist Charles Gayle, and the virtuoso accordionist Evelina Petrova.

This event received wide press coverage. Television journalists from “Channel 5,“ “NTV, “Rossiya” and “Kultura” filmed the concerts and interview the musicians. Reviews of the concerts appeared in “The St. Petersburg Times,” “Kommersant,” “Petersburg Chas-Pik,” “Sankt Peterburgskie Vedemosti,” and other publications.

contacts

Creative Union Apositsia:

Artistic Director – Аleksei Pluisnin
E-mail: artdirector@aposition.org
Tel: 7-911-933-94-88
PR, press relations – Аnastasia Bakhchevan
E-mail: qq_shka@mail.ru

www.aposition.org
CEC ArtsLink:
Program Director: Susan Katz
E-mail: cecstp@mail.wplus.net

Project Coordinator, PR – Аnna Bitkina
E-mail: abitkina@cecartslink.org

Тel/Fax: 315 45 58

www.cecartslink.org

APosition Creative Union has more than 10 years experience in organizing events, promoting non commercial experimental art.

Organized concerts of :
minimalism godfather Terry Riley, legendary Polish prog rock band SBB, Peter Broetzmann, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Hans Reichel & Rudiger Carl, Charles Gale, German krautrock pioneers Faust, ex Samla Mammas Manna leader Lars Holmer, Kimmo Pohjonen, Keith & Julia Tippett, Frank London, Tenores di Bitti, Iranian classical collective by Reza Moafi, Han Bennink, Kampec Dolores, Italian avant rock – free jazz combo Zu, Willem Broeker Kollektieff, Misha Mengelberg, Otomo Yoshihide, Gjallarhorn, Shelley Hirsh, Eugene Chadbourne, ex Can singer Damo Suzuki, mugam master from Azerbajan Alim Kasymov, Michel Berkmans of Univers Zero, Keshavan Maslak, modern Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, Je Chun Park, John Cale of Velvet Underground, Holger Czukay from Can, Fred Frith of Henry Cow, Slave Pianos, Magma, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart Magic Band, David Moss, David Murray, genuine avant garde acordeonist Pauline Oliveros, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Tim Hodgkinson of Henry Cow, Jacques Di Donato, Хavier Charles, Didier Lasserre, Finnish vocal quartet Me Naiset, Christian Brazier, Metamorphosis, Tara Fuki, De Kift, Владимир Тарасов from Ganelin Trio, Анатолий Вапиров, Валентина Пономарева, Moscow Art Trio, Milan Svoboda, Canadian violinist Nash the Slash, Сайнхо Намчылак, Lukas Ligeti, Soren Runolf and Dror Feiler from Locomotiv Konkret, Mark Stewart from Bang on a Can, Эвелина Петрова, royal Koren ensemble Ge Um Hwe …

Information: info@aposition.org