2012
Schloss Werdenberg
Festival ‘Unsichtbar – Stimmen und Spuren’ at Schloss Werdenberg, Switzerland
more info soon,
Festval info here
Valencia with Fennesz
Ensems Off Festival, Valencia – more info soon
'The Outcast'
World Premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s new Opera , ‘The Outcast’ at National Theater, Mannheim – more info soon
'The Outcast'
World Premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s new Opera , ‘The Outcast’ at National Theater, Mannheim – more info soon
Strasbourg Auditorium with Vladislav Delay
Nairobi, Kenya
Lillevan and Unterwegs Theater (Heidelberg) travel to Kenya for a 3-week session of workshops and performances with local children and activists. more info soon
Morton Feldman: Klang und Bild
Celebrating their 10th anniversary, piano trio ‘elole’ invite Lillevan to collaborate and present a concert of Morton Feldman’s music.
The sounds of the piano trio, the lighting design and the moving imagery complement each other, aural music is added to a visual music.
Venue: Messe Dresen
Ambient Festival in Koeln
Lillevan creates imagery for the 4 day “E’de Cologne” – Ambientfestival, featuring music by Hauschka, Sylvain Chauveau, Nils Frahm, John Tilbury, Greg Haines, Simon Scott and many others
More festival and artist info here
2011
Happy Christmas !
Thanks for you all your support during 2011, looking forward to 2012!
Calendar Updates coming soon, check the news here
Happy New Year!!!!
Xenakis[a]Live, Biennale für Neue Music 2011
Lillevan plays XENAKIS[A]LIVE with Zeitkratzer Ensemble.
Rare performance of this great piece at Biennale für Moderne Musik Frankfurt
Festival info here
Madrid [w/ Morton Subotnick]
Red Bull Academy presents Morton Subotnick & Lillevan @ Reina Sofia
Festival info here
L’arsenale 2011 – Nuova Musica a Treviso
Lillevan + Fabrizio Nocci + L’arsenale Ensemble
present a new work “AUSSTRAHLUNG – an electro-acustic video concert”
More info about L’arsenale here
Lillevan at Opera Garnier, Paris
Lillevan with
MusikFabrik Köln (ensemble)
Marino Formenti (piano)
Andrew Watts (counter tenor)
Peter Plessas (sound design & software coding)
‘Kloing!’ & ‘Hommage a Klaus Nomi’ by Olga Neuwirth
More info about Kloing! here
Info about Hommage a Klaus Nomi soon
Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland
Following the highly acclaimed Lillevan and Morton Subotnick performance at New York’s Lincoln Centre, they will come and perform at Krakow’s 2011 Unsound Edition.
Festival info here
Video Clip from Bregenzer Festspiele 2010 here
Morton Subotnick info here
Lillevan Solo in São Paulo, Brazil
‘Fixation Fields’ solo audio-visual performance at Live Cinema Festival, São Paulo
Venue: SESC Pompeia, São Paulo
More info here
This visit to Brazil includes a lecture on 6-OCT-2011
De:Sonanz Festival, Macedonia.
Lillevan COLLABORATES with SchneiderTM at the de:sonanz festival in Skopje, Macedonia.
Radar Festival, Mexico
First show with Morton Subotnick in Mexico!
including lecture.
more info here
Berlin: The ICAS Suite
Lillevan will be pairing up with Canadian dub-techno producer Deadbeat (aka Scott Monteith) for the German premiere of an audio-visual spectacle the pair has been quietly developing over the last year, and which was premiered at this year’s MUTEK festival.
Festival programme here
Live excerpt of MUTEK performance here
POZModern Festival, Poland
Lillevan & Fennesz return to Poland to perform at Pozmodern Festival in Poznan.
Festival info here
Fennesz info here
Almaty
The Goethe Institute in Alamty, Kazakhstan has invited Lillevan to join the jury of a public art competition titled “Raum im Raum”.
This visit acts as a prelude to an exhibition in 4 Central Asian countries in 2012, exploring media art themes around the Tuyuksu glacier and climate change.
Lillevan will be artistic director of this festival & exhibiton.
More info soon!
Heart Of Noise Festival
Lillevan and Fennesz are invited to “HEART OF NOISE – Festival der allerneuesten Musik” in Innsbruck
Also Performing on this night:
KTL (Steve O`Malley/Sunn O))) & Peter Rehberg)
BJ NILSEN
LOKAI & BILLY ROISZ
MUTEK with Deadbeat
Lillevan and Deadbeat team up for world premiere of a new collaboration at the excellent Mutek Festival, on the event of “Designer Mix” – a soirée dedicated to the first three cities to join UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network in the “design” category: Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Montreal. Coinciding with release of the new Deadbeat album “Drawn And Quartered” (BLKRTZ)
Other artists this night:
Chancha Via Circuito,
Pole
So Del Rio
'Aura' by Sanchez Verdu at Elbphilharmonie
Lillevan teams up with Mirella Weingarten (director of ‘Jacob’s Room’) for a second media opera. ‘Aura’, a work by Sanchez-Verdu, based on the eponymous short novel by Carlos Fuentes. Aura tells of dream and reality, the power of the past and love.
The composer developed a new instrument specially for this piece: the Auraphon – an electroacoustic instrument which lends itself to Sanchez-Verdu’s colourful and strong, yet delicate music.
The set featured an intricate interplay of light, video projection and water reflection.
World Premiere at Hamburg’s Kampnagel.
Produced by the Elbphilharmonie/ Katrin Zagrosek
Heidelberg Fringe with Ueli Wiget
Unsound New York !
Krakow’s Unsound Festival returns to New York, and Lillevan returns to perform at the Lincoln Centre, this time with Morton Subotnick
Lillevan & Martin Fröst @ Philharmonie, Köln
Lillevan and world famous clarinetist Martin Fröst bring the show first performed at Sweden’s Winterfest to the Köln Philhamonie.
‘Until you’ve heard Martin Fröst you really haven’t heard the clarinet’
The Times
‘Fröst just may be the finest clarinetist alive’
Classic Today 2008
Lillevan with Fennesz - Special Gustav Mahler performance
Lillevan and Chrisitan Fennesz present a specially composed work celebrating Gustav Mahler at Vienna’s ‘LiedLab’ Festival.
Concert took place in the beautiful ORF Grosser Sendesaal, built 80 years ago by Clemens Holzmeister
“2011 ist Gustav Mahler erneut einer der Musik-Jahres-Regenten und damit eine logische Wahl für die Fortführung des “lied lab” im ORF RadioKulturhaus.
Das Festival wird erneut von Bariton Wolfgang Holzmair musikalisch kuratiert. Das “lied lab 2011: gustav mahler festival” vom 27. März bis 6. April 2011 versteht sich als Kreativlabor, das Liedgesang auf höchstem Niveau mit der Kunst der Visualisierung zusammenführt, erweitert durch einen Mahler-Remix-Abend (28.4.) mit Christian Fennesz und Lillevan”
More info here
Lillevan, Michael Wertmüller & Titus Engel @ MaerzMusik
Michael Wertmüller / Lillevan
Licht – Zeiten
für Ensemble, Licht und Video (2010/11) UA
Michael Wertmüller, Komposition
Lillevan, Visuals
Titus Engel, Musikalische Leitung
Steamboat Switzerland
Dominik Blum, Hammond-Orgel
Marino Pliakas, E-Bass
als Gäste:
Oliver Steidle / Michael Wertmüller, Schlagzeug
courage Dresdner Ensemble für zeitgenössische Musik
more info here
Festival info here
Jacob's Room @ MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Jacob's Room @ MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Lillevan & Morton Subotnick @ FLUC, Vienna
Lillevan & with Martin Fröst & FriFot Trio @ Vinterfest, Sweden
Lillevan & Morton Subotnick @ RIAM, Marseille
ClubTransmediale / RML CineChamber
ClubTransmedialeOpening Performance
2010
Symphony X at Soundtrack_Cologne
Lillevan performs Symphony X by Ari Benjamin Meyers at Cologne’s Soundtrack Festival. Featuring Max Loderbauer on Synthesizer.
“SYMPHONY X is a work of symphonic scale that combines elements of hardcore, experimental, and minimal music into an entirely original musical texture.
Ari Benjamin Meyers has written this 70 minute through-composed piece specifically for his unique 17 member Redux Orchestra which includes saxophones, brass, strings, electric guitar, electric bass, drums, and electronics.”
19.30h Kölnischer Kunstverein, Theatersaal
More festival info here
Chelyabinsk Festival, Russia
Solo performance of ‘Fixation Fields’ at the Chelyabinsk Festival, Russia
Including 3-day workshop & masterclasses with local media artists.
Supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung, Goethe Institut & German Embassy Moscow
Festival info here
NSK Congress, Berlin
The Organising Committee of the First NSK Citizens’ Congress is pleased to announce the line-up for the public closing party which will take place at the House of World Cultures.
Lillevan & Codex Europa
Anat Ben-David
Patenbrigade Wolff
Lillevan & Codex Europa perform an audiovisual celebration of Dystopia and Utopia
Jacob's Room @ Radialsystem, Berlin
‘Jacob’s Room’ – a new opera by pioneer of electronic music Morton Subotnick
Performances on 16th & 17th Oct.
Jacob's Room @ Hellerau Festival
‘Jacob’s Room’ – a new opera by pioneer of electronic music Morton Subotnick
25fps Festival Zagreb
2 videos have been selected in the Jury’s Choice section of the “25fps International Festival for Experimental Film” in Zagreb, Croatia.
The Videos are:
‘Otan Osaa / Sands & Crystals’ [music by Vladislav Delay]
‘Saffron Revolution / Rain’ [music by Fennesz]
Festival info here
Decibel Festival, Seattle
Presentation at Seattle’s Decibel Festival [with Fennesz]
Performance @ Flussi 2010, Italy
New performance at Avellino’s Flussi Festival [Music by Fabrizio Nocci]
Festival info here
Duet with Morton Subotnick @ Bregenzer Festspiele
Special live duet with Morton Subotnick between performances of Jacob’s Room
@ Kunst aus der Zeit/ Bregenzer Festspiele
Featuring a live version of ‘Silver Apples of the Moon’
Morton Subotnick info here
Jacob's Room Bregenzer Festspiele
World Premiere of Jacob’s Room – a new opera by pioneer of electronic music Morton Subotnick
Musikalische Leitung: Ari Benjamin Meyers
Inszenierung, Raum und Kostüme: Mirella Weingarten
Live-Video: Lillevan
Singers: Katharina von Bülow, Ruth Rosenfeld, Florian Just und Tom Sol
More info here
Festival info here
second performance: 7-AUG-2010 – same venue
Live in Liechtenstein
Special live show @ Vaduz Museum of Modern Art. [Music by Morton Subotnick]
Featuring a live version of ‘Silver Apples of the Moon’
Live in Ravenna
@ Weird Tales / Musica & Visioni [with music by Fennesz]
venue: Rocca Brancaleone
more info about the Ravenna Festival here
Live in Turin
@ MTV Brand New Art – [with music by Fennesz]
venue: Parco Arte Vivente
Live in Athens
@ SYNCH FESTIVAL- [with music by Fennesz]
Screendancing
A Retrospective of Berlin Club Visuals featuring Lillevan, monitor.automatique, u-matic, visomat inc, Pfadfinderei, Jörg X. Franzmann, Daniel Pflumm, JUTOJO
More info here
Piano & Video Concert with Ueli Wiget
Concert with Ueli Wiget [ensemble modern] at Mozart Saal, Alte Oper Frankfurt
Playing “Roundabouts” by Anthony Cheung
More info about Ueli Wiget & Ensemble Modern here
Piano & Video Concert with Ueli Wiget
Concert with Ueli Wiget [ensemble modern] at Eclats Concert –
Concerts et musiques contemporains à Fribourg, Switzerland
Playing Messiaen, Benjamin, Debussy, Cheung and Kyburz
More info about Ueli Wiget & Ensemble Modern here
More info about Eclat Concerts here
'Screen Tests' at Bunker, New York
Lillevan presents his homage to Warhol’s screen tests at Bunker, New York
(70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
DJs: Barbara Preisinger, Eric Cloutier, DJ Qu, Mike Huckaby, Petre Inspirescu,
Shake
More info about Unsound Festival here
Unsound Festival, Lincoln Centre, New York
Read New York Times report here
Lillevan performs on the opening night of Unsound Festival [with Vladislav Delay]
More info about Unsound Festival here
'Kloing!' @ Philharmonic, Köln
Collaboration with Olga Neuwirth: a computer-controlled grand piano is the central element of ‘Kloing!’, for self-playing piano, live-video and pianist
with Olga Neuwirth, Marino Formenti, Peter Plessas
More info about ‘Kloing’ here
Lecture for Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute invites Lillevan to give a lecture on developments in the field of visual music
Invited are the heads of Institutes from around the world, visiting Berlin for the Film Festival and Transmediale10
Berlin Goethe Inst Convention, 27-Jan-2010
2009
Russian Christmas @ Volksbühne
Olga & Wladimir Kaminer read stories by Gogol, Nabokov and some of their own writings, while Lillevan creates a surreal live video-collage, a mélange of revolutionary, christmas and pop imagery! Special Berlin Christmas night!
More info about this event here
More info about Russendisko here
DEFA Film Remix
Lillevan is invited by Ensemble Courage to visit Hellerau near Dresden and present a remix of former-communist, East-German films, especially focusing on Christmas & family traditions as presented in the communist era. The ensemble will perform their original remixed versions of the film scores.
GAM - Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Gallarate
Lillevan performs at the GAM – Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Gallarate, near Milano.
Final Lillevan+Fennesz performance of 2009!
Performance @ Brussels Planetarium (Cimatics'09)
Special show with Vladislav Delay at the Brussels Planetarium. This performance is part of the prestigious Cimatics Festival in Brussels.
More info about the Cimatics Festival here
KinoVida @ LUX Festival 2009
Lillevan and Sasu Ripatti present the live cinema work “KinoVida’ @ LUX Festival 2009 in Sevilla, Spain.
More Kinovida info here
Collaboration with Bernhard Guenther in Italy
Lillevan and Bernhard Guenther have been invited to collaborate at this year’s Timezones Festival in Bari, Italy.
Also performing on this night: Arnold Dreyblatt.
more info about Timezones Festival here
Performance in Poland
Performance with Fennesz in Torun, Poland
Xenakis performance in Slovakia
Lillevan teams up with the Zeitkratzer Ensemble again for a live performance of the award-winning DVD ‘Xenakis[a]live’
venue tba
More info about the Xenakis[a]live video work here
More info about Zeitkratzer Ensemble here
KinoVida @ Dis-patch Festival
The filmic collaboration between Lillevan and Sasu Ripatti will be performed at this years Dis-Patch Festival in Belgrade, Serbia. Fragments from a selection of European films, are processed, collaged & condensed in real-time into a new possible film.
More info here
Festival info here
Performance with Vladislav Delay @ Dis-Patch
As part of the residency @ Dis-Patch Festival, Lillevan and Vladislav Delay team up once again for one their rare live collaborations
“CINEMA FOR THE EAR”
Also appearing on this night: AM/PM & Laurent Benner (CH)
Begin: 8pm at REX Cultural Centre
Victor Vasarely Revisited
As part of reisdency at Dis-Patch Festival 2009
The main project of Lillevan’s at the festival will be a special commission and a collaboration with the local hero of twisted video Incredible Bob (aka Bob Milosevic).
“PATHERNS: Victor Vasarely revisited” is an exhibition developed on the invitation of the Hungarian Embassy in Belgrade, and will offer a new reading of approaches and aesthetics of Vasarely’s enormous artistic output. Lillevan and Bob will be assembling an ambience on the ground floor of Progres Gallery, utilizing different mediums – video projections, light design, light sculptures, lenticulars and objects – both in the gallery and on the pavement of Knez Mihailova Street.
Dis-Patch Festival - Artist in Residence
Lillevan has been invited as Artist in Residence for this year’s edition of the Dis-Patch Festival. The residence will include collaborations with local artists, presentations and performances with guests. Special event with local hero Incredible Bob, exploring the art of Victor Vasarely, shows with Sasu Ripatti, lectures and new project Kinovida.
Festival info here
Residency dates: 23 Oct – 9 Nov
Fixation Fields
World Premiere of Lillevan’s new Solo Audio-video performance.
Parma, Italy 19 Oct 2009
Details and a dedicated site coming soon!
Special Show @ ARS ELECTRONICA
Special show for Ars Electronica 2009 in Linz
Ars Electronica info
more info here
Performance with Fennesz @ NODE Fest, Modena, IT
Here’s a short quote from Resident Advisor’s description of the show at Mutek2008 in Montreal: ‘…performance was amazing, and featured the best visuals of the festival, provided by Lillevan…”
Venue: NODE Festival
more info here
Rova Ensemble / Buckminster Fuller
Rova Ensemble invite Lillevan to San Francisco to collaborate for a special performance.
The piece is inspired by the thoughts and works of futurist and visionary Buckminster Fuller. A DVD and further performances are planned
KinoVida @ Skanu Mezs, Riga
Lillevan and Vladislav Delay present a new work, a new, full-length, live-film called ‘KinoVida’ at the prestigious Media-Festival Skanu Mezs in Riga Latvia
Project info here
Festival info here
More info on Goethe Inst Homepage here
Performance with Fennesz
Lillevan and Fennesz invited to Florence for their first show together in Italy
Venue: Teatro della Pergola
Screening in New York
Screen Compositions 5
Curator: Katherine Liberovskaya
Lillevan has been invited to screen 2 new works at this years ‘Screen Compositions’ in New York. The two works feature music by Vladislav Delay and Fennesz.
This year marks the 5th anniversary of Screen Compositions, the yearly evening dedicated to intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/ film artists and sound/ music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component.
Featuring collaborations by:
Lillevan & Vladislav Delay – Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo – Tali Hinkis & Kyle Lapidus – Katherine Liberovskaya & Al Margolis – Lillevan & Fennesz – Van McElwee & Tom Hamilton – Marie-Helene Parant & Jim Bell – Fred Barney Taylor & Bradley Eros – Els Van Riel & Julia Eckhardt
more info here
Lecture for Goethe Institute
The Goethe Institute invites Lillevan to give a lecture on developments in the field of visual music.
Invited are the heads of Institutes from around the world, visiting Berlin for the Film Festival and Transmediale09.
Berlin Goethe Inst Convention, 30th jan 2009
Embedded Art
Opening of the exhibition:
‘EMBEDDED ART – ART IN THE NAME OF SECURITY’
Venue: Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Time: 8pm
Commissioned by the Akademie der Künste & BBM,
Lillevan creates an original piece for the exhibition in collaboration with media-artist Zaji Chalem.
EMBEDDED ART looks at the threats to unrestricted public life following the 9/11 attacks and the attacks in Madrid, Moscow and London
Exhibition runs: 24-Jan to 22-Mar 2009
2008
The Go! Team
Special Show with ‘The Go! Team’ at Stadtgarten, Köln
Plateaux Festival
The Plateaux Festival in Torun, Poland invited Lillevan to participate in a public discussion with video artists Jeffers Egan (US) & Ran Slavin (IL)
Our topic: ‘Facing The Image – Painting in Light and Visual Realism’.
On 7th Nov Lillevan performed with Vladislav Delay, 8th Nov saw the final show by Rechenzentrum.
Toronto Digital Media Artist in Residence Program
Lillevan Returns to Toronto and will give a series of lectures and workshop at the OACD.
Press release:
‘Established in collaboration between Goethe-Institute, Toronto and the new Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media & Design program at OCAD, Digital Media Artist in Residence Program brings leading international digital media artists to Toronto and OCAD’s graduate students and faculty.’
ocad.ca here
Presentation of 'Warhol: Screen Tests Revisted'
Krakow’s Unsound festival has invited Lillevan to create and present some new works inspired by Andy Warhol’s filming and screening techniques.
Music by Jacek Sienkiewicz, Melchior Productions, Ben Frost, Pan•American
Lillevan performs with Fennesz at Shift Festival
After the very well received collaboration between Christian Fennesz & Lillevan at the Mutek 2008 Festival in Montreal, the SHIFT Festival in Basel have invited us to team up again
Performance with Jose Gonzalez
Special show with Jose Gonzalez at Muffathalle, Munich
Performance at the Long Arms Festival, Moscow
Lillevan is invited to collaborate with Sirens at the wonderful Long Arms Festival in Moscow
Original reworking of JS Bach in Russia
Goethe Inst Moscow & the International Bach Festival Nizhnij Novgorod invite Lillevan to collaborate with Russian electro-acoustic group ‘Sirens’
Olga Shaidullina, Anton Cherkassov, & the Nizhny Novgorod Soloists String Quartet.
In addition Lillevan performs his video reworking of J. S. Bach’s ‘Art of the Fugue’
Kloing! with Olga Neuwirth
World premiere of Kloing! – a composition by Olga Neuwirth, in collaboration with Lillevan, Marino Formenti & Peter Plessas
More info here
Artist talk at Ryerson University
Vladimir Spicanovic invites Lillevan to speak about his work
and present some new projects
Ryerson University here
Concert with Interzone
Interzone invite Lillevan for an improvised concert
at Berlin’s Romanian Cultural Institute
Maurice de Martin (percussion, DE)
Mircea Tiberian (piano, RO)
more info soon
interzone/myspace here
Oberhausen Film Festival
The renowned Oberhausen Festival
nominates a video from the DVD ‘Silence’
Oberhausen Film Festival here
MARQ Archeological Museum
Live audio-visual performance at the opening of the exhibition ‘Escitas: Tesoros de Tuva’ at Alicante’s MARQ Archeological Museum by Lillevan & Zaji Chalem.
The exhibition explores the history of the Scythians (700BC), nomads of Iranian decent who are known for their famous gold adornments that feature amongst the most glamorous artifacts of world museums.
The performance will feature quite a few of these golden objects, and will incorporate reworkings of original sound recordings
MARQ Alicante here
Emperor Remixed @ Danish Film Festival
Art Freq & The Danish National Film Festival invites Rechenzentrum and Ueli Wiget of Ensemble Modern to perform at the historical Copenhagen Radio Concert Hall
Emperor-Remixed info here
Art Freq here
Danish National Film Festival here
Hommage a Klaus Nomi
März Musik 2008 (Berlin) & WDR Funkhaus (Köln)
Music: Olga Neuwirth
Ensemble: Musik Fabrik Köln
Aesthetics of Technical Imagery
Audio-Visual solo-performance: ‘Extended Symptoms of the World’
Specially commissioned by the ‘Aesthetics of Technical Imagery’ Dept of Berlin’s Humboldt University, celebrating 5 years of “Bildwelten des Wissens”
Lectures by Prof Dr Jürgen Renn, Dr Peter Geimer, Prof Dr Horst Bredekamp
