Electric Umbrella #21: Free Food, Free Sounds, Free Movements!

A brand new Umbrella! This time featuring improvisors both with sound and with movement. But not only that...

**also... IMPROV FOOD... FREE! **
Come around 19:00 hours and enjoy the vegetarian meal, cooked by DE VOLKSKEUKEN, right next to the stage in the concert hall. Please be on time or you'll find empty plates! Concert will start at 20:30 hours.

gemneye: Irina Österberg and Emily Welther
Irina is choreographer and performance artist with Italian/Finnish roots. She gained a 1st class BA(Hons) at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and an MA at ArtEZ University of the Arts, NL. She worked over the years with renown performance artists like Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti and Mike Kelley, Pablo Bronstein. She runs a visual and performance art space - 4bid gallery - in Amsterdam.
Emily Welther (MA Performance Practices) is a performer and maker of American origin. She currently experiments with performances involving the composition of movement and live sound, exploring the electro-acoustic ’emergences' of the human body in its environment.
Since 2022 Emily and Irina work together, colliding their backgrounds and bringing their embodied sounds to the foreground, as a collaborative duo by the name of gemneye.

Dirk Bruinsma plays saxophones, bass guitar, electronics and percussion. He is active as a musician and a composer and has been active in the Dutch and international music circuit for about 40 years. Think of avantgarde rock bands like Sumbur (with Han Buhrs) and Blast (with Frank Crijns)! AND he worked with iconic musicians like Fred Frith, Barry Guy, Axel Dörner, and Elliott Sharp.
Apart from some composition lessons and piano lessons as a child, he is entirely self taught. Having his roots in experimental rock music, an interest in contemporary composition and free improvisation resulted in a rich oeuvre of works with each time a shifting focus per project. Side paths to sound art and electronic sounds have broadened this even further. However, the free spirit of rock music has inspired him all the way.

Fani Konstantinidou
Composer and sound artist who creates various types of works, such as site-specific and multichannel compositions, along with live, often improvised, performances. With her music she explores the potential and the antitheses between analogue and digital. Her main topics of interest are urban and rural sonic environments, spoken language, and culturally associated musical instruments. Fani Konstantinidou studied electronic music composition in Greece and the Netherlands and currently is at the finishing stage of her PhD research in cultural musicology at the University of Amsterdam.

Enio Ramalho
Also known as Eni-less, One of the best turntable wizards we know! Rotterdam-based producer of electronic music, known from his many collaborations with prominent artists like Mike Redman and Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva.