Charo Calvo – “Bloodline of Flower”
TX: Friday, 11th April – 6:00 – 6:20pm / Sunday, 13th April – 12:00 – 12:30pm BST
Bloodline of Flower is drawn from poems by Forough Farrokhzad, Iranian poet and filmmaker (1934-1967). She was published and was widely read by many Iranians during her lifetime, and has now become somewhat of a cult figure. Her poetry is one of protest and rebellion, yet it captures everyday experience without any intention of guiding, educating or directing. Her poetry is the portrait of a generation undergoing radical change. In this piece, her verse lines draw songs from wavetables or modulate the breathy tones of a Ney. Only sound remains…
Voice: Carly Wijs
Ney: Arif Erkovan
Text: Forough Farrokhzad
I may say that I devote most of my time to matters related to sound and music. Every now and then I leave the studio and walk the streets and, if luck is on my side I wander along beaches or up mountains. I produce works that help me to understand the world and that voice my questions, discoveries or feelings which are meant to be shared with a potential audience. My way of both learning and becoming a better human being is to make music and sound narratives that describe people and their environments, where sound communicates what words fail to do.
Charo Calvo is a Spanish electroacoustic composer, sound designer and teacher, living in Brussels. After having performed as a dancer with the influential Belgian dance company Ultima Vez, she started her studies on Electroacoustic Composition in 1992 with Annette Vande Gorne at Brussels Conservatory (now ARTS2 Mons). Graduated in 1999.
From 1992 her work as composer is being developed through different media, widely diffused on international venues and festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. She has received several important awards such as Palma Ars Acustica 2014 EBU, Phonurgia Nova Awards Paris 2017/2023, Prix Marulic 2018 Croatia, Grand Prix Nova Bucharest 2019/2022 and was shortlisted for Prix Europa Berlin, Hearsay Prize Ireland.
Charo Calvo has been a guest the residential program for international artists in Berlin DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm during the year 2017/2018.
Last concerts at GRM-INA Paris, KONTAKTE FESTIVAL 17 Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; MIKROMUSIK, Daad Galery, AUSLAND Berlin, VILLA ELIZABETH Berlin in duo with Natasha Barrett, ELECTROBELGE, Brussels, HEROINES OF SOUND 2019, EPICENTROOM, St Petersburg, CITYSONIC CINEMA, Belgium, BELGIAN MUSIC DAYS, PLEAYADES, Madrid, CCCB Barcelona.