BEAM SPLITTER "Dedicated play" #7 - with Elaine Mitchener and Mariam Rezaei

Season 3 of BEAM SPLITTER's concert series/artistic project DEDICATED PLAY, where the duo this time teams up with a total of eight extraordinary guest artists from around the world, hosted by Berlin's most welcoming recording studio and venue : Morphine raum
Guests:
Elaine Mitchener MBE is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. She is a Wigmore Hall Associate Artist (2021-26); a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow (2022); and was an exhibiting artist in the British Art Show 9 (2021-22). Elaine is founder of the collective electroacoustic trio The Rolling Calf (with Jason Yarde and Neil Charles).
Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award winning composer, turntablist, writer and performer. She previously led experimental arts project TOPH, TUSK FRINGE and TUSK NORTH, and is Artistic Director of TUSK Festival, based in Newcastle and Gateshead (tuskmusic.org). On November 10th 2022, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation #AwardsForArtists, in recognition of her contribution to music composition. Her music has recently been described as ‘ genuinely ground-breaking’ (London Jazz News 2022) and ‘high-velocity sonic surrealism’ (4* The Guardian 2022). Recent releases include 'SADTITZZ', 'SKEEN' , ‘Veil’, a collaboration with Stephen Bishop on TUSK Editions/Opal Tapes, ’SISTER’ with soprano Alya Al-Sultani, and TECHNOPOWER on Tusk Editions.
DEDICATED PLAY is kindly funded by Musikfonds e.V. by means of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), and Initiative Neue Musik Berlin

BEAM SPLITTER with Elaine Mitchener and Mariam Rezaei

Audrey Chen, voice/electronics
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, trombone/electronics
Elaine Mitchener, voice/misc objects
Mariam Rezaei, turntables/electronics