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Ute Wassermann is a composer/performer, improviser and interpreter of
contemporary music. She studied with Henning Christiansen at the Fine Arts
Academy in Hamburg, specializing in sound installation and vocal performance.
She also studied classical singing with Carol Plantamura (San Diego) and
Arnold van Mill (Hamburg). In 1984 she began to develop various new
multi-voice vocal techniques, catalogued by register, timbre and
articulative sequences which may be deconstructed and/or superimposed. These
techniques are used to explore spatial resonance phenomena.
Ute Wassermann has given numerous performances of her own solo works and
performs regularly with many improvising musicians and such ensembles as
‘Asko’, Kammerensemble Berlin, ‘Elision’ and the
Munich Chamber Orchestra.
She has collaborated with composers who have created works specially for her
voice, including Henning Christiansen, Richard Barrett, Chaya Czernowin,
Hans-Joachim Hespos and Sven Ake Johansson.
Recent projects have included performances of code*switching for voice,
computer and video-installation by Ana Maria Rodriguez,
a staged production of Salvatore Sciarrino’s Infinito Nero (with knm
Berlin) and the completion of a cd of her own solo and multi-track vocal
compositions.
medusa
The piece is the latest in a series of collaborative projects by Ute
Wassermann and Richard Barrett.
As the title suggests, it takes as its starting point the frequent
references in mythology to hybrid-beings, half human, half animal (from the
ancient Egyptian animal-headed gods and goddesses to Spiderman and his
mutant colleagues). The music is itself a ‘hybrid’ of voice/electronics,
human/non-human voices, composition/im-provisation.
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