CantoCorpo

Creative improvisation vocal group in Nièvre, Bourgogne

Five voices in dialogue with each other, moving in space, creating compositions in connection with the acoustics of the place.
Traditional music, classical polyphony and different cultures, voice search, movement and presence of the body, experimentation and improvisation are all ingredients that nourish their work.

Elisa Ulian
Karen Chevallier
Nicola Simeha
James Bishop
Boe Przemyslak / Lola Ajima

Flowing Forms is a quadraphonic + hexaphonic work consisting of several pieces, composed by Lola Ajima and Ingrid Blasco for live looping of cello, vielle à roue and the software Logelloop, developed at Logelloù by Philippe Ollivier.
The pieces are inspired by movements in nature, like water, air, stones and earth and was sparked by the book “Sensitive Chaos” by Theodor Schwenk.
The beautiful coastline close to Logelloù in Bretagne, with long tides up to several hundreds meters, revealing the stony landscapes under the water was a starting point of the piece as well as the floating, chaotic and yet very graceful movements in water and air that makes up the misty air around the coast.

Titles of pieces:
Apres Têmpete
Brume
Absence
Intervalles Lunaires
Glittering surfaces
Currents

Vielle à roue: Ingrid Blasco
Cello: Lola Ajima
Live graphics: Yukao Nagemi

Initally ordered and supported by Logelloù, Penvenan, during four residency periods in 2023-24.

Concerts about memories of nature, together with Tine Louise Kortermand

Malkepige/Sammenstød

“Malkepige/Sammenstød – working title” is a site-specific concert in the public space that takes place in
dialogue with history in Landbohøjskole’s garden in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
In his book “The Soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the World” from 1993 Murray Schafer investigates how music historically reflects the soundscapes that people have surrounded themselves with, and how changes in this have pushed the composers to seek new
sounds and resonances. Among other things, he writes: “Music forms the best permanent record of the past sounds musicians also live in the real world and in various discernible ways the sounds and rhythms of different epochs and cultures have affected their work, both consciously and
unconsciously.”
The work is an investigation of the sound-historical cross-section through time of the clash between country and city.
The work takes inspiration from the bronze statue in the garden, called Malkepige (The Milkmaid).

With a straight back she stands with the milk pails and looks out into the garden, as if for her cows. But there are no cows. The city has grown around her and she is left alone. You can almost hear the echo her cow calls that go unanswered. Or do they?
With four mobile speakers that act as the response of the cows (field recordings), live sung loops of cow calls from scandinavia, the ever-present sounds of cars and bikes whizzing by on the road just outside, rhythmic elements such as the metallic beats of industrialization played on cowbells and the bronze statues in the garden equipped with contact microphones, the works is an answer to the Milkmaid’s spectacle by creating one co-existence of sonic layers between the pre-existing soundscape and the vanished sounds.
The work lasts about 20 minutes.

Stopmotion film

Dance

”RAW” is a portrait of a woman in a vulnerable emotional place, with everything stripped back. Everything around her is changing. All that she knows is gone. All she has is herself, and she is turning inwards and meeting all of her inner power, courage, strength and wisdom.

The dance film is a celebration of human life and a hopeful snapshot of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming challenges.


Idea and Direction: Lise Lønsmann
Dancer: Marika Gangemi
Director of Photography: Giacomo Corvaia
Editing and Photos: Giacomo Corvaia
Composition: Lola Ajima
Choreography: Lise Lønsmann in close collaboration with Marika Gangemi

Funded by:
Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond
Statens Kunstfond

Year of creation: 2022

Rush (or Hastværk in Danish) is a short dance movie by coerographer and artistic director in RØRSTRØMSK, Lise Lønsmann.

My main interest here, was to take the initial sounds which was produced from the dancers movements, either in relation to herself or to the surrounding objects, and use them as my raw material of sounds to create the soundscape or soundtrack. It was very interesting to see how by changing the sounds, the perception of the dance changed, when the coreography was taken away from its natural sounds. I only added a few other pre-recorded sounds to blend in with the initial sounds, for example the sound of my bass, which I often use because of my love of the very low and intens sound.

The idea was to use the raw material, but instead of letting the sounds illustrate the movements, I tried to let them create another sense of reality a somehow more inner narrative of perception that could go with the dancers own inner state of mind at the given time as the charecter in the movie. For me there was at least two different dimensions: how the real sounds would sound like if we were listening from inside the dancers physical head, and how the sounds could sound like if they were to narrate the landscape of the dancers emotionally state of mind from inside the dancers existential head. So that the physical body and the mental body got seperated into two but still played together as one. To let these two dimensions merge together, gave me the possibility to try to give the listener a sense of double reality feeling, in an abstract sense. It was my hope that the listener would sense how it was to feel distant to his or hers own body, and to play on the feeling on being captured physically inside a small room and being captures mentally inside oneself.

Note to Self was first shown at the Danish Ambassy in Berlin 2010 and later shown at the contemporary art museum Aros in Aalborg, Denmark. For this I composed and recorded a new soundscape, based on the ealier one, but now with the aim to be played in head phones in the Kvium room of the museum, where the dancers would make a joint choreography.

Dancers: Chizu Kimura, Claudia Greco, Marika Gangemi.
Choreography: Lise Lønsmann in collaboration with the dancers.
Concept: Lise Lønsmann.