Border Movement Residency 2018 in Kolkata, is a unique tailor made residency programme for artists working in the field of Electronic Music in partnership with Littlei, Wild City, Ableton and Musicboard Berlin. A selected German artist is invited to spend up to two months in cities in India to participate in the residency programme that will see the participant interact and collaborate with the local scene.
This year, the Residency programme is taking place in Kolkata and New Delhi and the selected artist for the residency programme in 2018 is
Theresa Sophie Anna Stroetges (golden/|\diskó ship), she will be conducting a workshop with other selected relevant musicians, meeting other artists in the city for interaction and collaboration with some of these artists.
Theresa Stroetges is a musician, composer and sound artist based in Berlin.
She is currently playing in three bands. Her solo project Golden Diskó Shipcombines songs with sound collages, electronics, acoustic instruments and video projections. The experimental psychedelic trio Soft Grid drifts between catchy hooks and heavy synth breakdowns, sometimes fragile, sometimes forceful. Epiphany Now is an ongoing electroacoustic audiovisual improvisation project. Theresa also enjoys investigating possibilities of breaking up conventional performance praxes and borders of genres in collaboration with performance artists, dancers, poets, filmmakers and in sound installations. Theresa has MAs in Sound Studies and Musicology.
*Programmes during the Border Movement Residency Kolkata 2018:
10 November 2018 - Launch of the Border Movement Residency Kolkata 2018
24 November 2018 - Border Movement Lounge
8 December 2018 | 7 pm onwards
Die Präsentation
An evening of Electronic Music
Venue: Remount Road, 144 Remount Road, Unit 5, Kolkata 700027
The final presentation by the German resident artist Theresa Sophie Anna Stroetges (golden/|\diskó ship) together with ‘The Residency Band’ including Suyasha Sengupta, Debjit Mohalanobis and Varun Desai.
The evening will also feature RIVU (Kolkata) and Nilein (Chandannagar)
The selected German resident artist, Theresa Sophie Anna Stroetges, was invited to spend a month in the city to participate in the residency programme that saw her interact and collaborate with the local scene.
The final presentation will put forward the music, which is created with Theresa exploring the city and interacting with local musicians and artists working in the field of electronic music.
Open to all
*Programme subject to change.
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