MORPHICA, Mikhail Karikis's collaborative album released in 2009, is nominated for a Qwartz Electronic Music Award in the artwork category. MORPHICA's artwork is the result of team-work with visual artists, graphic and fashion designers including: Uriel Orlow, Oreet Ashery, Stephen Wilson, Ahn Sung-Hee, Sonia Boyce, Ben Branagan, Ruth Maclennan, Rozalb de Mura, Eva Weaver and others. Other nominees in the same category include: Greta Hoheisel, Mounir Jatoum, Olaf Bender, Raphael Moser and Staalplaat. The award ceremony is held in Paris on 2nd April 2010.
Following last year's sold out event Vocal Crossings, curated by voice artist Mikhail Karikis and featuring Sub Rosa label, legendary avant-garde vocalist Linda Hirst and Martyn Bates, we return with a genre-bending evening featuring international vocalists and artists who are coming together especially for this performance. Vocal Crossings II presents cutting edge vocal and interdisciplinary works, in which Mikhail joins forces with Maurice Causey, Nederlands Dans Teater ballet master/choreographer and former principal dancer for W. Forsythe, upcoming contemporary vocal group Juice, composer and DJ Gabriel Prokofiev, early-music vocalist and sound artist Amy Cunningham, avant-jazz singer E.laine, countertenor Ben Crawley, performance artist Monica Ross, composer/violist Conall Gleeson and pioneering harpsichordist Jane Chapman.
Vocal Crossings II, 1st February 2010, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG.
Mikhail Karikis's new collaboration with visual artist Uriel Orlow on his video installation Remnants of the Future is now on show at Laure Genillard gallery in central London. Orlow's video, which focuses on an unfinished Soviet housing project in north Armenia and observes the sparse activities that take place there, takes the form of a sci-fi documentary with haunting, epic imagery. In response, Mikhail Karikis created a soundtrack using sounds emitted by dying stars (otherwise known as pulsars), evoking associations of Soviet futurism, utopianism, space exploration and coded radio signals by Russian spies, as well as referring to the symbol of Communism, the red star.
15 January 2010 - 10 April 2010, Laure Genillard Gallery, 2 Hanway Place, W1T 1HB, London, +44 (0)20 7323 6523
Curated by the innovative live art and performance company Home Live Art, Extraordinary Voices presented on 4th December '09 at Tate Britain features artists, performers and choirs, who explore the voice as an instrument of extraordinary physical and cultural resonance. Expect spectacular performances from Mikhail Karikis, members of The Shout, The London Bulgarian Choir and Georgian Maspindzeli Choir. Plus live sets from Afro Urban DJ Afrogroov, busking from Geoff Fazan and the chance to become part of The Funk Chorus and The Feral Choir.
4th December '09, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, 020 7887 8888
(click on the image on the left for images of the performance)
Coinciding with Frieze and Zoo Art Fair in London this October, Mikhail Karikis performs at Laure Genillard Gallery at the opening of the group show Presque Rien III (Next to Nothing III). A series of new photographs by Mikhail entitled Sculpting Voice capturing the transformation of the face in the process of shaping the voice into individual sounds is on show alongside works by Uriel Orlow, Andrea Anastasio, David Batchelor, Matt Calderwood, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Gaylen Gerber, Matthew Harrison, Ane Mette Hol, A Kassen, Tom Molloy, Brian O’Connell, João Onofre, Lisa Oppenheim, Frédéric Pradeau, Troels Sandegård, Padraig Timoney and Peter Wüthrich.
Mikhail Karikis's work is on show at Laure Genillard Gallery, 2 Hanway Pl, London W1T 1HB until 9th January 2010.
September 2009 finds Mikhail Karikis reuniting with Alamire Choir under the direction of David Skinner for a concert in Austria's Trigonale Festival. Organised by Stefan Schweiger, Trigonale features renowned ensembles and soloists including Heinrich Klug, Savadi, Chelycus, I Fagiolini, Nele Gramß, Jan Kobow, Stephan Mc Leod, Melopoetica & Clare Wilkinson and others.
Click here to view photographs of the concert.
From German electrominimal band Telekaster led by Matthias Grübel and British based record label Panic Arrest, comes a new vynil record The Silent Anagram, which features a collaboration with MIkhail. Having heard the orchestral excesses of Mikhail's debut Orphica, Matthias asked Mikhail to conrtibute orchestral and vocal sections to his track "All that is solid melts into noise" - an ambient song full of the poetics of a winter seascape.
You can buy The Silent Alagram here.
Recommended by the Guardian newspaper as one of the best shows in London (UK), renowned artist’s Zineb Sedira’s new work Currents of Time finds her again in collaboration with Mikhail Karikis who creates the sound environment of her new ambitious 14-screen installation Floating Coffins. After its great reception at New Arts Exchange in Nottingham in February 2009, the show is now in London’s Iniva until 25th July 2009.
Mikhail Karikis invites artist/curator Cyril Lepetit and Lina Dzuverovic in the role of the convener of a talk on sound and image at Iniva on July 11th at 3pm. The talk is open to the public. More details here.
In May 2009 Mikhail Karikis performs CONTACT at Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne in Switzerland. The work stages a duet for voice and star sounds recorded with space telescopes; the performance is recorded live and the sound sent off into the ether with 200 helium balloons. This performance borrows its title from Carl Sagan’s homonymous novel, it dramatizes someone’s obsession to reach the sky and make contact with aliens and continues Mikhail’s exploration of the theme of the stranger by thinking of the medium of sound as a perpetual immigrant, always traveling away from its place of origin.
This performance is part of Hesperides II curated by Sarah Zurcher and includes artists Oreet Ashery, David Blandy, Robin Deacon, Adrien Sina, Adnré Décosterd & Michel Décosterd, Maja Bajevic, Heinrich Luber with Robert Keller, Fabienne Berger, Franz Erhard Walther, Raeda Saadeh, Christian Pahud, Stéphane Barbier Bouvet, Franics Baudevin and others.
Photo by Helene Tobler.
A special MORPHICA website showcasing Mikhail’s forthcoming collaborative triple album is on line now. It includes audio clips of 18 tracks, essays, artworks, videos, interviews and background information on the creation and design of the project. MORPHICA is officially out on the 2nd March 2009 and will be available at Rough Trade and elsewhere. Click here to visit the MORPHICA website. Enjoy!
Curated by Mikhail, Vocal Crossings brings together for one night only artists from legendary Belgian record-label Sub Rosa with other acclaimed performers. Martyn Bates headlines with band members from Eyeless in Gaza, legendary avant-garde vocalist Linda Hirst pefroms Scelsi alongside performances by Sub Rosa’s co-director Guy-Marc Hinant, Conall Gleeson, E.laine, Bobby Krlic, Gabriel Séverin and Mikhail.
Vocal Crossings, Hall 2, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. Tuesday 20th January 2009, 8pm (tickets here).
Another chance to see Mikhail perform is at The Voice and Nothing More, a week-long festival with Martin Creed, Simon Faithfull, Dryden Goodwin, Bruce Mclean, Cornelia Parker, Claudia Molitor, Athanasios Argianas, Amy Cunningham, Nick Laessing, Phoebe Unwin, Sarah Kate Wilsonon, Lore Lixembourg, Juice Ensemble and others.
The Voice and Nothings More, Friday 16th January 2009, Slade Research Centre, 10 - 11 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0NS.
MORPHICA follows Mikhail's enthusiastically received debut album Orphica (Sub Rosa, 2007) in a genre-bending audiovisual feast. Described by Mikhail as a project about “common cause in uncommon ground”, MORPHICA explores the theme of transformation and politics of difference, having as its starting point the morphing of Mikhail’s debut album. MORPHICA re-imagines the music 'remix' and expands to the realms of visual art and creative writing.
MORPHICA's specially designed and hand-crafted limited edition box set consists of: a triple album (electronics/voices/strings) featuring Mikhail’s studio and live concert recordings of unique collaborations with international musicians ranging from pioneering DJs to acclaimed choirs, upcoming contemporary composers and performers; 15 prints by international visual artists; a poster/book with poems & texts by creative writers, and essays by cultural theorists.
To order a numbered copy prior the official release please email the artist's studio here. There are several methods of payment: paypal, cheque, bank transfer.
Mikhail performs at Colston Hall in Bristol with the Emerald Ensemble on 27 November 2008. This is an Elektrostatic event curated by composer Richard Barnard. The programme includes works by Mikhail, Astor Piazzolla and Gabriel Prokofiev, as well as a new work composed by Richard Barnard for Mikhail and the Emerald.
MIkhail Karikis's new collboration with visual artist Uriel Orlow comprises a new sound work for Orlow's new video installation entitled In These Great Times. The video is part of a homonymous body of work by Uriel Orlow whose first configuration comprises 35 marker pen drawings on watercolour paper, stenciled text, 2 photographic dyptichs, 2 single screen videos, a gold-lettered silk-screen poster and a pile of newspapers.
The work is on show at Blancpain Art Contemporain gallery in Geneva, Switzerland 15th November 2008 - 24 January 2009.
Mikhail performs at Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank Centre as part of the Stockhausen ‘Klang’ Festival. The event on 6th November 2008 is organised by the Nonclassical label.
Mikhail performs with Alamire Consort at Sligo Abbey, Drumcliffe Church and Markree Castle Chapel in Ireland on 1st and 2nd November 2008. The concerts conclude the tour of the collaborative project For you, only you with artist Sonia Boyce who created a three-screen video installation featuring the performance of Mikhail’s homonymous composition with the Alamire singers.
The exhibition continues until 15th November 2008 at Model Arts & Niland off-site gallery at Castle House, Castle Street, Sligo, Ireland.
Mikhail remixes German folk-tronica group Phon°noir on the their EP Counting Raindrops, available for electronic download on Monday 27 October from Phon°noir's website. Mikhail creates a stark and terrifying expressionist version of ‘We Still Miss the Future’ alongside artists Calika, TG Mauss, Uzi & Ari, Alok, Karl Stirner and Eraze the Borders.
Mikhail creates a new work commissioned by Peter Millican for the inauguration of London’s new concert hall Kings Place. Juice Ensemble and mezzo soprano Clare Wilkinson share the stage with Mikhail to perform his new composition exploring the acoustics of the new building designed by Dixon & Jones architects. Alithia Spuri-Zampetti designed Mikhail's mask.
7pm Kings Place, 90 York Way, 25th September 2008.
Middle Sea is the title of the new film by visual artist Zineb Sedira presented at the Wapping Project in London. Mikhail Karikis composed the ambient music for Middle Sea and created a sculptural sound installation which includes a vibrating sonic-staircase.
The exhibition is open every day 10 September-19 October at The Wapping Project, Hydraulic Power Station, Wapping Wall, London, E1W 3ST.
This is what critic Cherry Smyth writes about the work on Luxonline: 'The highly stylised camerawork renders twilight at the deck-rails incredibly seductive with its Minimalist tones and hard edges. The romance however is off-set by the uncanny soundtrack, composed by Mikhail Karikis, which uses intermittent sound effects to amplify the sense of being lost at sea. There is the itchy static of a radio trying to tune into a frequency in which language can't be understood, mingled with the rumbling of the engine, the trailing voices of a distant party who are never seen. The provenance of the sound is not identified, fading in and out with an eerie, unplaceable music that echoes the timelessness of sea travel and the loss of bearings. The figure stands beyond territory and identity and the soundtrack implies both the freedom and the terror of that.'
Commissioned by photographer Nick Knight, London-based designer Ioannis Dimitrousis and Mikhail Karikis collaborate on a film for N.Knight’s acclaimed SHOWstudio. Mikhail provides the music for Dimitrousis’s collection presented in his video-clip She Said.
For this year’s theme Future Tense Nick Knight says: 'If the best way to predict the future is to invent it, the next best is to give it a helping hand. With this idea in mind, SHOWstudio launches the Future Tense, film season, offering a global platform for an exciting new generation of fashion design to use the medium of moving image to express their creativity.'
On 5th July 2008 Mikhail performs at Whitstable Biennale. Invited by performance artist Oreet Ashery to be part of her Saint/s of Whitstable project, Mikhail appears as an office-bureaucrat who, in search of meaning, is taken by the idea that the holy dove descended upon him and hears the voice of god through his headphones.
For his ‘pentecostal’ vocal performance, Mikhail features work by designer Alithia Spuri-Zampetti, winner of the L'Oréal Professionnel Award 2008.
On 21st June 2008 Mikhail performs at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Nîmes, France as part of Fête de la Musique. In a site-specific performance entitled Between Two Mouths: A Guided Tour, Mikhail asks ‘What form does a guided tour of an exhibition take when the subject matter of the works depict violence and death, war and cruel beheadings?’ Mikhail takes the role of a resurrected soldier suffering from shell-shock who haunts the museum and becomes an exhibition guide who gives an explosive vocal ‘tour’.
This work continues of Barry Barker’s and Peter Seddon’s exhibition TÊTE À TÊTE avec Cromwell and was part of Scratch the Surface Ensemble’s summer '08 tour. Other artists involved include Conall Gleeson, Jean Martin, Amy Cunningham, Nicola Sweeney, Andrew Mason and others.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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To
celebrate 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...
To read about other music activities please visit Projects.
