Snejana Prodanova
I am a double bassist, based in Basel, Switzerland. With my classical music background, my Bulgarian heritage and contemporary music and jazz being my current field of interest, I often play with various artists from all over the world. At the moment, I am working on my debut album and exploring the idea of metalinguistic in music.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 4.
For this piece we used the Monopoly rules as a score. Each of us had a copy of this same text (see appendix) with the task of using it as a kind of score or lyrics for improvisation. Inspired by sound poetry and John Cage's piece "Story"19, we improvised using these rules as lyrics but also fragmenting them, using sound as material. As a result, we managed to generate a kind of collage of words and sounds in real time that highlighted the critique of a world in which the only goal is to buy property and be the richest.
We tried to explore the possibilities of balloons as instruments, objects that offer different pitches, durations of the notes, dynamics, and sounds. The piece is based, not only on making sounds with unexpected materials, but on the fragility of the balloons, playing with them knowing that they can break. Through this action we wanted to represent our concern about the actual global ecologic crisis. Will we continue to play at capitalism until we have nothing more to play with, until the world is completely destroyed?
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 2.
No submissions for Beyond Music Project Volume 1.