Projects

Argentinian - Romanian chamber music

Argentinian pianist Melina Marcos and Romanian violinist Cornelia Zambila bring together a program of uniquely beautiful music of inter-bellum composers from their cultures, after researching common elements: echoes of the stylistical colors of the Zeitgeist and one composer who made it all the way from a village of the Danubian Delta to Buenos Aires, Georges Boulanger.

Join this discovery by enjoying a special program including underperformed treasures of Romanian and Argentina creation: George Enescu, Mihail Jora, Celia Torra, Jose de Nito, Juan Bautista Massa and music by Georges Boulanger.

Read more and updates about tour in Argentina here!

InnerEye

InnerEye is a research and experimentation lab on non-visual scores for composers and performers, with the possibility of extending the participatory experience to musicians unfamiliar with western notation and non-professional composers.

It consists of intensive working sessions on game piece mechanisms, sensory poetics and modern simulation of aural tradition.

The end result is a sensory theater/concert experience with freshly written works for performers who will learn and perform them without visuals.

Read more about the theoretical grounds in this blog post.

Cocutsa Duo - music for babies and the whole family

Duo Cocutsa is a family collaboration: Cornelia Zambila - violin, Juan Albarracin - harp and Emil the baby - the inspiration.

Their repertoire combines sounds from various worlds: Improvisation on Renaissance standards, Balkan and Irish folklore, tango, bolero, children songs in their own arrangements and also free improvisation and original compositions.

Juan and Cornelia bring with joy the experience in interactive concerts and in playing for Emil to an audience with babies and young children.

Cocutsa is also enthusiastic for custom and sight-specific performances such as exhibitions, house concerts and family events.

Imaginary Geometries - Interdisciplinary ImproLab

This series of workshops is recommended for those who don’t yet dare to improvise, those who are already improvising but want to have methods of getting out of blocks and those who want to explore other styles and disciplines.

Combining techniques and concepts from Forum Theater, Laban Movement Analysis, Kokas method, instrumental theater and with the help of interdisciplinary game pieces thinking, it stimulates the participants to meet under-explored sides of their creativity and discover new possibilities. The advantage of this workshop’s style is that it offers at the same time possibilities for self-reflection but little time for negative thoughts and too much self-critique. A fast rhythm of doing, applying and acting are a good way to get ahead and discover things we did not even know were already there.

Table of Silence - interactive performance for children

A few instruments, materials and no need for words. A space for freedom: free improvisation which gradually leads to the discovery of music instruments which can turn the children from spectators into participants. The performers then lead everybody to a common pulse as they fade together in silence.

Every performance has the same score, but every time the journey is different.

A practical way (inspired by Kokas pedagogy) to let children experience artistic communication beyond words.

Tachyon workshop: alternatives for music notation

Tachyon is a flexible workshop concept working with the technique of music catalogues. It can be used for empowering composers with more means of getting their ideas together or better expressing their music in notation. It can also be used for introducing people who have no idea about how to remember their musical ideas to methods of doing so. But also, it can be an intensive immersion into possibilities and alternatives for improvising musicians and those working with classical scores who want to better capture their ideas.

Read more in this blog post.