Ligia Liberatori: Singer Improviser Performer Composer

"I am a singer, improviser, performer and composer. My speciality are the extended technics, and the relationship between music and movement.

Besides the currently experimental and extended vocal techniques, like multiphonics, circular singing, frys, ululation, inhales an glottal clicks, I have developed special techniques like flaggiolets, high multiphonics and chord singing.I am still searching permanently the possibilities of the human voice and the relationship between music and movement. This work allowes me a lot of scenic skills like singing from a a trapeze or doing acrobatics. On the one side I am interested in sound and timbres and very especially in the music deepness of a piece.On the other side I'm fascinated of absurd an humorously situations, which I use in a lot of my compositions. As a improviser, I love to work in chamber music constellations and as a soloist.

Studies

Singing with Horacio Amauri in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Lia Montoya Palmen in Cologne, Germany.

Choir Conducting and Music pedagogy at the Conservatorio Municipal de Música Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires.

Improvisation, Aleatoric and New Music Theatre with Paulo Alvares at the Musikhochschule Köln. Also degree in Music Pedagogy.

Extended vocals: very big personal experimentation and research. Also workshops, masterclasess and courses with Earle Brown, Joan La Barbara, Michiko Hirayama, Vinko Globokar, Johannes Fritsch, Madalena Bernardes, David Moss, Martin Herchenröder, etc.

Private pantomime lessons with Isidoro Fernandez.

Circus (acrobatic) training in the Escuela de Circo Criollo (circus school), Buenos Aires and in ZAK, Zirkus- und Artistikzentrum Köln. Several courses in Germany and aboard.

Specialization as a -children- hospital clown.

Works

Improvisation:

Co-founder of the following improvisation ensembles: Die Kugel ( Dorothee Haddenbruch, Josef Rebbe, Ligia Liberatori, Manfred Rückert (Ketonge), Simon Rummel and Juan Maria Solare), Kleine schwarze Katze (Liberatori, Philip Zoubek, Matthias Muche, Daniel Speer und Damian Zanger) and Cauldron (Liberatori, Zoubek, Muche und Speer) and Klein aber Kawoom (Annette Maye, Liberatori, Speer).

Founder of the Ensemble Ligias Handtaschenorchester (Ligias Handbag Orchestra), later "The Handbag Orchstra" as a quote to the Pocket Orchestras, for Improvisation, aleatoric and performance: Daniel Speer, Contrabass, Annette Maye, clarinets, Holger Müller-Hartmann, fagots, y Simon Rummel, organ, violin and objetcs, Ligia Liberatori, vocals, objects and leading. In the first formation and before her emigration to Israel, Yael Barolsky was also a member of the group. Member, Concertino and soloist of the EIAM (Ensamble de Aleatorik e Improvisación Köln) conducted by Paulo Alvares and member of the Adam Noidlt Missiles, conducted by Frank Köllgis.

Collaborations with other improvisers: Sebastian Gramms, Gino Robair, Annette Maye, Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas Lehn, Juan María Solare, Simon Rummel, Dorothee Haddenbruch, Doris Bauerecker, Eva Maria Schiffer, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Hennan, Alexander Fraggenhein, Lucio Capece, Daniel Speer, Franziska Welti, Philipp Caspari, Juan Solare, Sergio Merce, Gabriel Paiuk, Luis Conde, Fabiana Galante, Federico Barabino, Roberto Pucciarelli, etc."

"Was born 1988 in Lisboa, Portugal and started playing cello and trumpet at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the age of 7. In 1999 joined Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory and in the current year recorded his first album - Multiples - with Ernesto Rodrigues and José Oliveira out on Creative Sources Recordings.

Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, also works with live music poetry, theatre and film-music. After lengthy residency in Lisboa, (1988-2016) moved to Berlin and has been active as composer and improviser in the scene.

Worked with some international and renewed artists like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Sei Miguel, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Oren Marshall, Gerhard Uebele, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Nicolas Field, Jaime Fennelly, Blaise Siwula, Will Guthrie, Pawel Grabowski, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Diego Chamy, Gabriel Paiuk, Barry Weisblat, Joe Giardullo, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Taku Unami, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Romaric Sobac, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Dennis Gonzaléz, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, João Madeira, Álvaro Rosso, Gil Gonçalves, Marian Yanchyk, Filipe Passos, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Bechir Saade, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim ...

Has performed and toured in all Europe. Released more than 30 albums of his own projects."

"Davide Piersanti: Trombonist, composer, improviser, he now lives in Berlin. He plays in different styles and media: free improvisation, avant jazz, funk, electroacoustics, orchestras, dance, theatre. A graduate in jazz at the L.Refice Conservatory in Frosinone, he played and collaborated with Butch Morris, Alvin Curran, Steve Swell. Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson, Gino Robair, Eugenio Colombo, Tristan Honsinger, Funkallisto, Iato Orchestra, Manuela Giovagnetti and many others."

"He has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and improvised music, live and in the studio.

His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music.

The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements.

Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.

Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups.

Music for Dance, Cinema, Video and Performance.

Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music."