The music of the Voutchkova/Thieke duo focuses on micro tonality, imagery and intensely dynamic, often slowly developing and moving soundscapes. Biliana and Michael have worked together within (and in between) both compositional and improvisational methods since 2011. They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary with the event MATERIALITY & SOUND. For the past years they played more than 70 concerts together - in Italy, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Japan and the USA (Meakusma Festival/Eupen, Experimental Intermedia/New York, Blurred Edges/Hamburg, Biegungen im ausland/Berlin and Ftarri Festival/Tokyo, among others). Support has been granted to them by the Goethe Institut, Musikfonds / Germany and the Trust for Mutual Understanding / New York / USA. The duo is also engaged in multi disciplinary projects and collaborations with various guest artists. Among those are musicians Roy Carroll, Luca Venitucci, Svetlana Maraš, Hans Tammen, visual and sound artists Gretchen Blegen, Hans Peter Kuhn, and choreographers / dancers / performers such as Julyen Hamilton, Maya Carroll, Litó Walkey, Akemi Nagao, Ingo Reulecke, Ahmed Soura and Louise Wagner....
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The music of the Voutchkova/Thieke duo focuses on micro tonality, imagery and intensely dynamic, often slowly developing and moving soundscapes. Biliana and Michael have worked together within (and in between) both compositional and improvisational methods since 2011. They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary with the event MATERIALITY & SOUND. For the past years they played more than 70 concerts together - in Italy, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Japan and the USA (Meakusma Festival/Eupen, Experimental Intermedia/New York, Blurred Edges/Hamburg, Biegungen im ausland/Berlin and Ftarri Festival/Tokyo, among others). Support has been granted to them by the Goethe Institut, Musikfonds / Germany and the Trust for Mutual Understanding / New York / USA. The duo is also engaged in multi disciplinary projects and collaborations with various guest artists. Among those are musicians Roy Carroll, Luca Venitucci, Svetlana Maraš, Hans Tammen, visual and sound artists Gretchen Blegen, Hans Peter Kuhn, and choreographers / dancers / performers such as Julyen Hamilton, Maya Carroll, Litó Walkey, Akemi Nagao, Ingo Reulecke, Ahmed Soura and Louise Wagner.
In 2016 the duo started developing their concept Blurred Music which is dedicated to the translation of the visual concept of blurriness into sonic forms and strategies. The project brought the duo on an elongated concert tour in the USA which culminated with the release of a triple album with recordings from the live concerts, selected as Record of the year 2018 in the reader's poll of Free Jazz Blog. In 2018 Voutchkova/Thieke received a grant from Musikfonds in Germany to develop this concept into two new directions - a quartet extension with bass recorder player Miako Klein and double bass player Andrew Lafkas, and a new long length installation format with durations of up to 5 hours.
photo credit © Boryana Pandova
The music of the Voutchkova/Thieke duo focuses on micro tonality, imagery and intensely dynamic, often slowly developing and moving soundscapes. Biliana and Michael have worked together within (and in between) both compositional and improvisational methods since 2011. They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary with the event MATERIALITY & SOUND. For the past years they played more than 70 concerts together - in Italy, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Japan and the USA (Meakusma Festival/Eupen, Experimental Intermedia/New York, Blurred Edges/Hamburg, Biegungen im ausland/Berlin and Ftarri Festival/Tokyo, among others). Support has been granted to them by the Goethe Institut, Musikfonds / Germany and the Trust for Mutual Understanding / New York / USA. The duo is also engaged in multi disciplinary projects and collaborations with various guest artists. Among those are musicians Roy Carroll, Luca Venitucci, Svetlana Maraš, Hans Tammen, visual and sound artists Gretchen Blegen, Hans Peter Kuhn, and choreographers / dancers / performers such as Julyen Hamilton, Maya Carroll, Litó Walkey, Akemi Nagao, Ingo Reulecke, Ahmed Soura and Louise Wagner.
In 2016 the duo started developing their concept Blurred Music which is dedicated to the translation of the visual concept of blurriness into sonic forms and strategies. The project brought the duo on an elongated concert tour in the USA which culminated with the release of a triple album with recordings from the live concerts, selected as Record of the year 2018 in the reader's poll of Free Jazz Blog. In 2018 Voutchkova/Thieke received a grant from Musikfonds in Germany to develop this concept into two new directions - a quartet extension with bass recorder player Miako Klein and double bass player Andrew Lafkas, and a new long length installation format with durations of up to 5 hours.
photo credit © Boryana Pandova
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