Minor Renaissance 3 : Marina Mello & Nicola Genovese (duo), Thomas Stone (solo), Cath Roberts & Magda Drozd (duo)

— concert series for experimental contemporary sound practices Minor Renaissance #3 with & duo), (solo), & (duo) Marina Mello Nicola Genovese ( Thomas Stone Cath Roberts Magda Drozd Doors 7:00pm Tickets £7-12 TICKETS, a concert series for experimental music, traces quiet renewal through shifting relations between instruments and electronics, composed and improvised material, and inherited techniques and wayward contemporary practices. Minor Renaissance, a concert series for experimental contemporary sound practices, traces quiet renewal through shifting relations between instruments and electronics, composed and improvised material, and inherited techniques and wayward contemporary practices. invites the audience to notice the small shifts already underway: instruments losing their familiar edges, materials changing form, technologies acting less like tools and more like collaborators. Rather than a rebirth announced by a movement, it points to smaller transformations — fragile, unfinished, temporary communities of sound. Minor Renaissance Minor Renaissance For the third edition of the series, these transformations take the form of two new duets and a solo performance. Harpist and multi-instrumentalist will present their research into improvisation with instruments and electronics live on stage for the first time, while saxophonist and violinist will expand their prior encounters with acoustic improvisation into spheres of electronics and synthesis. Composer will present a solo version of his latest album,. Written as a duet for contrabassoon and timpani, both with electronics, the work is an exploration into coercion, performed by himself. Marina Mello Nicola Genovese Cath Roberts Magda Drozd Thomas Stone The Shunned Path Stone Curated by Magda Drozd Supported by Swiss Cultural Fund UK is a Brazilian harpist based in Zurich with a wide range of experience as a musician. She has developed a unique and very expressive style through the harp and its infinite possibilities. In this sense, she presents her artistic journey, mainly researching new sound textures through paradoxes between emptiness and noisy textures, and harmonic and random-spontaneous vertical sounds. Focusing on non-traditional ways of playing - with extended technique, prepared instrument and with effect pedals (hybrid, acoustic and electric harps), Marina believes that as a harpist there are many stereotypes and expectations that can and should be disrupted. Marina Mello In spring 2024 Marina collaborated with in Zurich - she composed and performed the music for the production directed by and. In the summer of 2024 Marina toured in Brazil, Colombia and Peru with (ag), (br), (ch), (ch) and (ch). The was produced by (institue of incoherent cinematography) and supported by. Theater Neumarkt Dunkler Frühling Yana Eva-Thönes Tine Milz Constanza Pellicci Thelmo Cristovão Linda Vogel Marcel Gschwend Mara Micciche IOIC Fitzcarrado Tour IOIC Pro-Helvia South America Marina has playing in various constellations in Switzerland, Germany and South America. At the end of 2019, together with (ag), (es) and (es), she founded the (two saxophones, viola and harp), dedicated to new and improvised music. In 2022, they performed co-created pieces on a tour in Switzerland. This project was supported by,,,, etc. In the fall of 2022, the won the first prize at the 11th (AT). Diego Kohn Gemma Galeano Ferran Gorrea Slide Ensemble Fondation Suisa City of Zurich Pro Helvetia Swiss Performers Foundation SIS Slide Ensemble Music Competition of the 22nd Annual Congress of the Society for Music Theory in Salzburg Photo by Francesca Camilla Born in Venice Italy, is a visual artist and musician based in Zurich and London. He earned a Master’s in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts in 2017 and completed a PhD in Artistic Practice at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June 2023. Nicola Genovese Genovese’s practice explores the intersections of sculpture, performance,…