FIMARA presents:
(by Marija Kovačević)
About: Serbian born, New York City based violinist Marija Kovačević works in classical, experimental and improvised music. Her project “Music for Broken Violins” is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments. Marija has developed an idiosyncratic vocabulary of dragging strings, playing cracks, bowing broken bodies, wrapping loose hair, and creaking pegs. In performance, there is a minimalist, ritualistic structure to her unembellished studies, as each instrument is approached in procession, with silence in between each visceral deviance from the accepted technical norms. In addition to four albums of solo work, broken violins also appear on “Rainy Afternoon near Paris” album with Thierry Müller, “Push Broken Duet” album with Romain Perrot (available on Chocolate Monk), “Bez Vremena” album with Paul Collins and Quentin Rollet (available on Astres d’Or) and most recently “Playable Litter” album with Theo Gowans (available on Scatter Archive). Marija’s fifth solo album is set for release this year on Relative Pitch Records. The project has traveled internationally to the UK, Europe and USA.
photo by Agata Urbaniak
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Henrik Olsson: Electric Guitar Ola Rubin: Trombone
About: Henrik Olsson and Ola Rubin are two well acknowledged Swedish improvisers active on the experimental/improv scene in Europe. Currently with a base in Copenhagen/Malmö where they are involved in several projects that frequently appears on the international scene. In this duo, they both immerse themselves in a hearty improvised musical dialogue that is full of energy and expressivity. They work their way towards the unheard by meticulously exploring mind-boggling sounds, rhythms and abstract sonic shapes, often rapidly shifting between these. Curiosity are at the core of this duos identity and their interplay is highly reactive and dynamic. They both utilizes a way of playing that takes advantage of extended techniques which they both developed on their respective instrument.
photo by Ola Rubin percussion.