07/21 @ 8:00pm - Ricardo Arias, Tim Feeney, Vic Rawlings + Sebastien Roux

Sebastien Roux

Since 2005, Sébastien Roux has been working on acousmatic concerts where, different from a typical live performance setting, the audience is invited to sit or lay down comfortably in the dark to listen to a series of spatialised pieces. Each listening session is about 40 minutes long and includes 3 to 8 separate pieces. The collection of pieces is unique and depends on the venue and the listening conditions. At IPR Sébastien Roux invites you to listen to the result of a 3 day residency that has consisted in designing a special set for IPR’s 15 channel speaker system. Within the last year Sébastien Roux has presented listening sessions at Maison des Métallos (Paris), Pannonica (Nantes), Störung Festival (Barcelona), Electronic Church (Belin), AKOUSMA 5 (Montreal), and Cafe Oto (London).

Ricardo Arias is an experimental improvising musician and sound artist

Most of Arias’ music is improvised and made in collaboration with other musicians. Apart from occasionally playing the flute, he uses unconventional instruments and found objects as sound sources in his works. Since 1992 he has focused almost exclusively on the balloon kit, a number of rubber balloons attached to a suitable structure and played with the hands and a set of accessories, including various kinds of sponges, pieces of Styrofoam, rubber bands, etc.

He has performed in Europe, Canada, the United States, Lebanon, Colombia, and Argentina, both solo, and in collaborations with other musicians such as Michel Doneda, Mazen Kerbaj, Dror Feiler, Hans Tammen, Bruce Gremo, Phil Durrant, Jack Wright, Sean Meehan, Barry Weisblat, Vic Rawlings, Gunter Müller, Gabriel Paiuk, Diego Chamy, Axel Dörner, Nicolas Collins, Miguel Frasconi, Tatsuya Nakatani, Pascal Boudreault, Jane Rigler, Luis Conde, Nate Wooley, Matthew Ostrowski, Joel Ryan, Anne Wellmer, Pauline Oliveros, Andrew Drury, Chris Mann, David Watson, and James Fei, among many others.

He has participated in many festivals of new and improvised music such as: Festival Phonos and Zeppelin (Barcelona); Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea, Festival de los Tiempos del Ruido, and Colón Electrónico (Bogotá), Festival Synthese (Bourges, France); Urban Aboriginals Festival (Berlin); Experimenta (Buenos Aires); High Zero and SoundShift festivals (Baltimore, U. S. A.); Roulettte concert series, Vision Festival, and Improvised and Otherwise (New York City); STEIM; No Echo Festival (Middletown, CT, U. S. A.); and NoNet (Philadelphia, PA, U. S. A.).; Festival Internationalle de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada); and Festival Musique Action Internationalle (Vandeouvre Les Nancy, France), and ExperimentaClub (Madrid) among others.

Arias has been artist in residence at Harvestworks (New York City, 1999) and at Engine 27 (New York City, 2003), at Music OMI International Musicians Residency (Gehnt, New York, 2008) and was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Center (Umbria, Italy, 2004).