Testing Testing Testing: An improvisational performance with Jaki Irvine, Izumi Kimura and collaborators

03 November 2024, 6–7:30pm

A performance led by Jaki Irvine, Izumi Kimura, Lina Andonovska, Matthew Jacobson, Cora Venus Lunny, and Tuula Voutilainen exploring improvisational techniques and ways of thinking around making sound.

This is a free adult-only event. Booking Required.

Join Jaki Irvine and collaborators Izumi Kimura (piano), Lina Andonovska (flute + voice), Matthew Jacobson (drums), Cora Venus Lunny (violin/viola), and Tuula Voutilainen, along with workshop participants in a performance exploring improvisational techniques and ways of thinking around making sound in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios' Atrium.

The performance focuses on active listening, play, testing and experimenting with sounds and silence between invited participants, across studios and media, and the floors of TBG+S.

In this improvisation, Jaki Irvine brings together artists and creative practitioners to open up conversation around music, sound, visual art and space, and the relationship between them. The performers will try out and encounter different ways of imagining, of testing possibilities, with the aim of learning and changing relationships though opening out sonic spaces and visual practices. Join them as they explore movements from noise to music... sounds, samples, silences of different textures and shapes, and generative connections.

Jaki Irvine writes, composes and creates video installations in which image and musical score overlap, coalesce and diverge. Contested histories, sonic bricolage, the built environment, and the peripheral or undervalued have all found their way into Jaki Irvine’s deep-reaching, polyphonic works. Her works frequently involve different iterations, conceived and presented as single or more complex multi channel sound/video installations and as live events, often with video and with live musicians.

Pianist Izumi Kimura has performed internationally since moving to Ireland from Japan. She has collaborated with top performers and ensembles in classical, jazz, and improvised music. In recent years, her main focus has been on interpreting contemporary music, spontaneous composition, interactive improvisation, and the intersections of these areas. She has worked in various formats with large institutions, ensembles and small groups, including RTE Symphony Orchestra, RTE Concert Orchestra, and Crash Ensemble.