The Other Side of China
Through the ages, music has been a means for people to express themselves during work, spiritual worship, celebrations and ceremonies.Today, the traditional music and singing styles have survived mostly only in small communities in remote regions. CD release by Andrej KocanPast Songs Present Voices teaser
Excerpt of the live performance at the Slovenian National Cinematheque on 20th of June 2019 with Darrell Jónnson on the video manipulation and me on the sound manipulation.
Audiovisual liveact, Prague, Meet Factory, 21st Sept. 2018
Prague liveact from Andrej Kocan on Vimeo.
Here is the audiovisual live-act performed in Prague on 21st of September 2018 at the Meet factory.
Liveact at RadArt #10, Ljubljana
In April and May 2019 I went for a short field work to Morocco and recorded a few Gnawa jam sessions with local musicians hanging out at Dar Gnawa in Tangier. This is the finishing part of my live audiovideo performance, with the footage and music mostly from the Morocco trip.
It was presented at:
RADART #10: X/L Experiment: Radio Factory – 10th performative art-radio happening of Open research platform RADAR of Radio Student. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Radio Student that started broadcasting on 9th of May, 1969, and where I spent almost a decade. Radio Student – my first music academy..
Liveact at RadArt #10, Ljubljana
Liveact at RADART #10: X/L Experiment: Radio Factory, Ljubljana, 7th May, 2019
10th performative art-radio happening of Open research platform RADAR of Radio Student. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Radio Student that started broadcasting on 9th of May, 1969 and where I spent almost a decade. Radio Student – my first music academy.
Liveact at SIEF 2019, Santiago de Compostela
Liveact presentation
Past Songs Present Voices
at the 14th Congress of SIEF at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 14th-17th April 2019
Paper presentation at ICTM simposium, Lisbon
Paper presentation
Worldly Music: The Imagination of Sound and the Imagination of Instrumental Music Markets
at the 22nd symposium of ICTM study group Musical Instruments at the Institute of Ethnomusicologia at the Faculdade de Ciencias Sociais e Humanas, Lisbon Portugal 10-13 Apr 2019
