Learn more about our upcoming event at IKLECTIK on Saturday 9 April, curated by Associate Composer Elischa Kaminer. Celebrating experimental and radical Queer Jewish new music, Elischa’s curated programme features a new work for solo violin and electronics by Sarah Nemtsov alongside his theatrical work To paint over and to make sense.
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Violinist Mayah Kadish will be performing Nemtsov’s new work Kadosh.
Kadosh – Sarah Nemtsov
The night will kick off with the world premiere of Sarah Nemtsov’s Kadosh. The title refers to the Hebrew word for holy, a bible verse (Isaiah 6:3) and the Kedusha, a central part of the daily Jewish Amida prayer. Writing for solo violin and electronics, Nemtsov recalls a melody from the synagogue of her hometown in Germany, layering and distorting fragments of the tune with an array of effects pedals. Kadosh was specially written for violinist Mayah Kadish early in 2021 and is dedicated to her and the Jewish Community of the City of Oldenburg.
Sarah Nemtsov
To paint over and to make sense
To paint over and to make sense is the second in a series of works by Elischa titled Resurrection Games. Resurrection Games are a series of meetings which take place over the course of 30 years, first initiated in 2020. In this second instalment, To paint over and to make sense invites three performers to investigate the performance space as a place for playing, mourning, celebration and care-work. Over the course of 75 minutes, pianist Joseph Havlat, violinist Mayah Kadish and improvising trombonist Alex Paxton play games, sing, improvise and move together against a backdrop of peculiar props and houseplants.
To paint over and to make sense explores responding to trauma through collective remembering, playing and story-telling. Devised with and for the specific performers, the work is hugely personalised as each artist has contributed their own narratives to the work throughout the creative process.
The piece consists of both improvised as well as precisely timed choreographic and musical material, pre-recorded and live electronics, video and light instructions. As this work was devised with and for the performing musicians, there are many greatly personal elements.
Elischa Kaminer
CHOOC LY
Artist, producer and DJ CHOOC LY will be closing the night with a DJ set. CHOOC LY’s sets defy genre – she’ll be presenting a varied selection forging connections between Techno, Afrotrap, Gqom, Acid, futuristic Chaabi الشعبي, high-voltage Electro and more.
CHOOC LY
photo: Phoenix Tanner
Join us at Iklectik on Saturday 9 April for Elischa Kaminer curates: To paint over and to make sense.
The fifth edition of our eclectic compilation, showcasing five emerging composers demonstrating their diverse creative practices with extended instrumental techniques, Artificial Intelligence and electronic manipulation.