The
Times newspaper (13 June 2008) features an article
on what journalist Femke Colborne calls a new ‘revolution’ in
music in the UK by artists at the frontier of experimental classical, dance
music and electronica. Mikhail Karikis features on the cover of the article
with a review on his performance at the Macbeth in Hoxton (London) organised
by the Nonclassical
label.
Other artists included in the article are Juice
Ensemble, Richard
Barnard, the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment, Matt
Fretton, Gabriel
Prokofiev and others.
Mikhail
Karikis performs on 24 May 2008 at Stowe Church with early-music Almire Consort.
This concert continues the tour of ‘For you, only you’, a collaborative
project with Sonia Boyce. Among Mikhail’s compositions performed at
the concert are choral adaptations of Untitled in Cof Minor, Prediction and
new works For R.S. and For you, only you.
This performance is part of Milton
Keynes Gallery's off-site project. Mikhail’s costume was a collaboration
with Romanian experimental fashion house Rozalb
de Mura and accessories by Marjan
Pejoski.
The
spring issue of Greek-American art/fashion magazine Mother includes
a feature on Mikhail Karikis:
‘London is a melting pot of ideas and diverse
cultures – a place where I always feel like a stranger, which is a
necessary condition for me to be in to be an artist’
photography Sinisa Savic, text Asimina Ntreki
Mikhail
Karikis performs on 15th May 2008 at Sallis Benney Theatre with Scratch
the Surface Ensemble, Conall
Gleeson and Harry
Neve. The concert theme for this year’s Brighton Fringe Festival
is “The Aesthetics of Failure” and includes works by Steve Reich,
and new piece by Jean Martin, Karikis & Neve, and Min Angel.
For performance images please click here/photos.
Dazed & Confused magazine
(Japan – May ‘08) features Mikhail Karikis photographed by Marjan
Pejoski.
From legendary dj, turntablist and producer Dj
Spooky that Subliminal Kid, this month comes Sound
Unbound – a double album of genre-bending grooves
and Djing featuring a remix of Mikhail’s Untitled
in CoF Minor with Gerdure
Stein’s "A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson". The line-up
includes Aphex Twin, John
Cage, Marcel
Duchamp, Sonic
Youth, Iannis
Xenakis, Sussan
Deyhim, Martyn
Bates, Raymond
Scott, Terry
Riley, Phillip
Glass, Allen
Ginsberg and others.
You can order Sound Unbound double album here.
Italian
fashion house PRADA approached Mikhail Karikis with a new
project. A track from Mikhail’s album Orphica will
present PRADA’s new look in their next international
advertising campaign involving mobile telephone technology and video animation.
Mikhail
performs at GOBSMACK presented in Bush
Hall (Shepherd’s Bush, London). This is a concert of experimental
voice art featuring Leafcutter
John, Natasha Lohan, Verity
Standen, Laura
Moody, Bunty, Elizabeth
Walling and Harry Neve. This event is organised by Music
Orbit and Kerry
Andrew.
7.30 pm on Thursday 3rd April 2008, Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 7LJ - Tickets £6-£10
The Neo-futurist collective
in the UK present the exuberant Reawakening of the City on
Tuesday 1st April 2008. Mikhail Karikis and Harry Neve perform on voice,
disused scanners, fax machines, laptops, tape recorders, minidisks and an
urban 'sleeping beauty'.
April 1, 2008 from 7.30pm
The Basement Arts
Production
24 Kensington St, Brighton (UK), BN1 4AJ
The
celebrated Choral
Olympic Champions Cantamus
Choir and Mikhail Karikis will premiere Karikis’s new work entitled ‘A
Stranger Here’ on 26 January 2008 at Emmanuel
Church in Loughbourgh.
This work has been commissioned by Loughborough University, is presented by its new arts programme RADAR curated by Nick Slater. Tickets are available here.
Mikhail continues his Orphica tour and November has seen him on four international venues including Tate Modern, London, UK (17 November 2007) and La Maison Folie de Moulins, Lille, France (10 November 2007).
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photographs by Uriel Orlow
The
video animation Maenads from Mikhail's debut solo album Orphica was
first shown at the British Film Institute alongside work by Trevor Jackson
and Peter Greenaway. Now Maenands will feature in the following festivals
in Europe:
Rome - Festa Del Cinema (October 19, 2007), Holland - STRP Festival (November 22-27, 2007), Bucharest - AVion Festival (November 30, 2007).
For
you, only you: 29 September 2007 - 6 January 2008
De La Warr Pavilion presents an audiovisual project by Sonia Boyce with Mikhail Karikis and Alamire Consort directed by David Skinner. Boyce creates a three-screen video installation which documents Mikhail Karikis's composition For you, only you performed by Mikhail and the voices of Alamire at Magdalen Chapel, Oxford.
In For you, only you, Mikhail Karikis imagines an unlikely conversation across centuries between the world of harmony in the work of early master Josquin Desprez and Mikhail's own contemporary 'troubled' voice. Strikingly intense and at times frightening, this work at once reflects upon (mis)communication and celebrates difference.
For you, only you is
part of Triple Echo exhibition with Terry Smith,
Sophy Rickett and Ed Hughes at De La Warr Pavilion. For you,
only you is directed by David
Bickerstaff.
De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill on Sea,
East Sussex TN40 1DP - Visitor
Information
E:vent gallery celebrates
the recent launch of Mikhail's debut solo album Orphica with
a party and a special live performance on Saturday 15th September '07,
from 8pm at 96 Teesdale Street, London E2 6PU, UK.
To find out more about Orphica visit the Orphica special site where you can download visuals, listen to clips, view videos, buy a copy and more.
Catch
a preview of Mikhail's new composition For you, only you with Alamire
Consort on BBC
Radio 4 this Monday 29th July 2007 from 10 o'clock in the morning
GMT. This work appears on Woman's Hour show in a special interview
with visual artist Sonia
Boyce who collaborated with Mikhail on this project. Sonia, who is preparing
a video installation featuring Mikhail's performance, to be exhibited at De
La Warr Pavillion in the UK this Autumn, talks about her work and her
recent project with Mikhail.
Listen to Sonia Boyce's interview and snippets from Mikhail's new choral composition For you, only you here.
A
new essay on
Mikhail Karikis's debut album Orphica,
his recent music performances and other work writtern by author/musician Michal
Sapir appears on AXIS
- July '07.
Orphica is now available at HMV stores and on-line. Click on the image below for more information.
Mikhail's debut solo album Orphica is receiving excellent reviews internationally on printed press and on-line. To read what French newspaper 'Le Monde', National Radio and others have said click here.
As
part of Brighton
Fringe Festival, Mikhail will perform Untitled
in CoF Minor from his debut album Orphica and
will be joined by contemporary music ensemble Scratch
the Surface for Naryana's Cows, a witty composition by minimalist
composer Tom
Johnson.
The ensemble will also perform works by Philip Glass, Mark Ishii, Conall Gleeson and Jean Martin with visual projections by Uriel Orlow, Amy Cunningham and Claudia Kappenberg.
9th May '07, 7:30pm at Sallis Benny Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton.
Mikhail
is performing his collaborative work with performance artist Oreet Ashery
entitled "Welcome Home: Memorial Service" at Lite
Festival, De Balie theatre in Amsterdam. To read more about the work
first performed in London in June '06 click here.
You can buy tickets at the entrance; to prebook follow the links below:
22nd April '07, 8:30pm Memorial Service at De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1017 RR Amsterdam
Mikhail's
solo debut album Orphica has
arrived and will hit the shops in April and May. It will be availbale internationally
but release dates will vary in different countries.
You can order your Orphica copy on-line now, before the official release date in your country!
To find out more about Orphica visit the Orphica special site where you can download visuals, listen to clips, view videos and more.
Don't forget to visit Mikhail's myspace profile to subscribe to his newsletter and most importantly leave your own comments!
Mikhail's
video for the song Maeands from
his forthcoming Orphica album
has been selected for screening at cutting-edge audiovisual festival Optronica at
BFI's National Film Theatre near
Waterloo in London. To book tickets click here.
15th March '07, 8:20pm Video in Demand at The Studio, NFT
16th March '07, 6:30 pm Video in Demand at NFT3
Optronica will kick off at the biggest screen in Britain, the IMAX cinema with Deakin&Franglen (Lemon Jelly) and Trevor Jackson. Other performances, talks and screenings include Peter Greenaway, Christian Fennesz, Charles Atlas, Semiconductor, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Vj Anyone, Cindy Keefer and others.
Maenads video was directed by Paul Gittins.
Mikhail
Karikis's drawings, video and soundwork feature in an exhibition of contemporary
art entitled "Draw Me a Video" at Alexia Goethe
Gallery, in London (UK). Other artists in the show include Farina Alam, Lela
Budde, Sara
Haq, Lia
Anna Hennig and Phoebe
Hui Fong-Wah.
Exhibition open from 14th February to 31st March 2007 at Alexia Goethe Gallery, 7 Dover Street, London, W1S 4LD.
Happy
new year! It’s 2007 and Mikhail’s album Orphica is
soon to be released! Orphica will be available
in record shops in Europe and the US, and on line to download. The release
date will be confirmed
soon and
posted here and Mikhail’s
myspace profile.
Orphica concert dates will be announced here.
In the meantime, Mikhail is preparing a series of performances with voice consort Alamire. These will kick off at the ancient Magdalen chapel in Oxford (U.K.) on 11th, 12th and 13th of April 2007 and will travel to other venues in England, including De La Warr Pavilion, Plus One and Milton Keynes Gallery, as well as Ireland in the summer and autumn.
Artist Sonia Boyce is creating a video installation of the performance and film-maker David Birkenstaff is generating a documentary.
Mikhail experiments
with visuals and sounds from his forthcoming album Orphica on
Wednesday 20th December at the special Christmas Songbird music event at Passing
Clouds in London. Other performances include
harpist
Serafina
Streer, The
Cesarians,
Helen
McCookerybook, Anita, Princes in the Tower and Dj Ben Polhill - M.C. Diana
Mavroleon.
Passing Clouds, 440 Richmond Rd, London E8, 10:00pm
Mikhail performs
the epic sounds of his forthcoming album Orphica on
Wednesday 13th December at the Blag
Club from 7:30pm. All proceeds from this event
go to Shelter charity for the homeless. Other artists appearing include
Bird, Sjaaak,
and DJs Captain Swing and Shanghai
Noon Soundsystems. The
event showcases visual art from Marcelle Ben-Haque, Ulrike Bygge, Helen
Gimber, Phil, Janie Price and Jess Somerville.
Blag Club, 1st Floor, 68 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3HT, tickets £5.
Music
videos
from Mikhail's forthcoming album - Orphica - will
be screened at the BAFTA (British
Academy of Film and Television Arts) cinema as part of
Light as Art. This event explores light, display and digital technology
for the new generation of buildings, and is organised by Projected-Image
Digital and
architectural
practice Cadmium Design.
The
songs Dance and Love Song from Mikhail Karikis’s
forthcoming album - Orphica -
feature in experimental music festival UNSAFE 2. This is the second Safehouse
Festival
showcasing the freshest and most innovative music in the UK and abroad. The
festival takes place at the Lighthouse in
Poole, Dorset, UK on 10-11 November 2006. For
tickets and travel information please visit the Lighthouse website.
Among the artists featured in the event are Adrian Newton, Panayiotis Kokoras, Joshua Goldman, Chris DeLaurenti, Al Babaloo, Anthony Kelly & David Stalling, Ailis Ni Riain, Eldad Tsabary, James Wyness and others.
On Thursday 9th November 2006 Mikhail will test songs and visuals from his forthcoming album - Orphica - at Whitechapel Gallery in London. Mikhail's gig is part of 'Pulse' - a series of cutting-edge music nights at Whitechapel's bar curated by Dj John Baker. Doors open 7:30pm.
Mikhail’s
compositions ‘Untitled in CoF Minor’ and ‘Love
Song’ feature on ‘memoryscapes’, a project powered
by on-line sound art gallery SoundLAB. For ‘memoryscapes’ curators
Rainer Krause and Melody Parker-Carter have selected 140 artists from around
the globe
with the aim to represent landscapes carrying collective memory through sound
composition.
Enter and listen to SoundLAB.
Read the artists’s interviews.
Read Mikhail
Karikis's interview. Read notes
on Mikhail's composistions.
SoundLAB is powered by [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne, a joint venture
between ConcertHall and [R][R][F]200X global project with the aim to
feature digital art located between art and electronic music.
Mikhail’s
sound work appears on a new audio cd - 'Bend it Like Beckett' -
produced by the annual festival ‘Art
Trail – Sound Works’ to commemorate the Samuel Beckett
Centenary.
The cd has been curated by Danny Mc Carthy and has100 tracks, one minute
long each! Artists featuring in the compilation include Scanner, Stephen
Vitiello,
David Toop, Phil
Durrant, Stefano
Tedesco, Richard
Crow, Una
Walker
and others.
To buy the cd click on 'Aphasia Recordings'.
From
the 3rd to the 5th of August 2006 London will be buzzing with the sounds
and activities of Foldback
Festival at Reception
Space in Cremer Street E2
and the affiliated sound show at Meals
and SUVs Gallery at 295-297 Haggerston
Road, E8. Mikhail’s composition ‘Dance’ will be
performed on the last evening of the event (Sat 5th) as part of ‘Odd
Meter’. Other artists performing on the same night include: Janek
Schaefer, Joshua Goldman, Annelie Nederberg, Sebastian Lexer & Seymour
Wright, KHMFN, Ben Drew, Alex Thomas.
Foldback Festival is curated by Matt Lewis, Tom Richards and Sebastian Lexer.
Mikhail
Karikis has been commissioned to produce a sound-work for an audio-guide
project at the Sir
John Soane’s Museum in London. The museum,
located near Holborn, was designed by Soane in the late 1700s
and is considered one of Britain's architectural masterpieces. The
project
is curated by Claudia Rodríguez-Ponga and Carmen Cebreros. More details
on the sound project and opening dates will be posted here soon.
On
Thursday 15th June 2006 you can hear an interview on the radio and catch
a quick preview of Mikhail's new work 369
Villages - Memorial Service for the forthcoming
festival on Perfromance and Human Rights (PSi
12). He will also discuss his forthcoming album and previous music release
with
Björk.
The interview will be on Carole
Finer's slot 'Sounding Out' on
Resonance 104.4FM. To listen on-line click here.
Mikhail
is presenting new work on 16th June 2006,
at the Great Hall in Mile End (London)
in a performance devised with artist Oreet Ashery as part of
a three-day festival on Performance and Human Rights (PSi
12). The performance,
entitled 369 Villages - Memorial Service, is dedicated to eradicated
Palestinian villages and explores the Right to Return. For more information
on the event visit
the project's website click here.
Mikhail
was invited by artist-led organisation Monitor to
take part in an evening of short films and live performance in Leeds. The
event took place on 31st March 2006 at Leeds College of Art and Design. It
featured works by international artists and films by Short
Circuits.
Mikhail presented audiovisual work from his forthcoming album. For more information and images click here.
Mikhail
is currently developing a project with contemporary artist Sonia
Boyce, who invited him to collaborate on a music performance and film
project with Magdala,
the well-known chapel choir at Magdalen College, Oxford. Recordings by
Magdala under the direction of David Skinner have been used to accompany
exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world; the choir has
recently featured on BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4’s Time
Team.
This collaboration will be completed in 2007, and is developing in association with Paul Bonaventura at The Ruskin, University of Oxford.
Renowned
Belgium-based label Sub
Rosa will publish Mikhail's first solo album. Sub
Rosa and their sister label Quatermass have
been described by critics as ‘ambitious
and forward-looking’. Their explorative releases span from early
experimental works by the Futurists, to avant-gardists Pierre
Schaeffer and John Cage, artists Marcel
Duchamp and Stephen Vitiello, and
Intelligent Dance Music explorers Scanner and dj
Spooky.
Mikhail
is invited by Korean curator JungEun Kim to create a composition for 'The
Color of the City, SungNam', an exhibition which is going to take place
in SungNam, a city near Seoul, in November 2005. Mikhail’s
composition will be broadcast at KyungWon University in SungNam. Among the
artists participating are Emil
Goh & Gwak Hyun Gon, Park Yong Seok, Ahn
Sung Hee and Hong Eui Taek. Read
more...
On
18th September 2005, Mikhail performed
at the 3rd popular 'Betsey's Salon' event which took place at
Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon. The songs he presented were Sparks (Chords
Version), Archon and Love
Song. Other artists invited were: performance artist Marcia
Farquhar, sound poet Caroline
Bergvall, and visual artists Sonia
Boyce and Richard Dedomenichi.
The evening’s theme was ‘Rupture’. Read more...
In
July 2005, Sightings of Domestic Wildlife: ∏APA∑ITA,
Mikhail Karikis's audiovisual composition for 8mm film and radio interference
was screened at the international Synch
Festival of Electronic Music and Digital Arts held in Lavrio, near Athens
in Greece. Read more...
In
an international song competition initiated by Björk,
the composition "Once More" in CoF Minor by Mikhail Karikis
was selected and released in the famous singer's CD with remixes and pieces
inspired by her song Army of Me. Mikhail's song, "Once
More" in CoF Minor and
the work of nineteen other artists that feature on the same album
were selected from over 600 entries. The critically acclaimed album, which
is entitled Army of Me, has been released worldwide and the profits
go to UNICEF. To purchase the cd please visit the record label One
Little Indian. See reviews.
Read more...
To
celebrate his his forthcoming release with singer Björk and
the first of the 'Betsey's Salon' events on 27th April 2005, Mikhail performed
two songs: Drumming for Flute and Harpsichord and "Once
More" in CoF Minor. Read more...
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