The Logos Women

De Logos Vrouwen

Samenwerking SMAK - LOGOS

Suchan Kinoshita is een Japanse beeldende kunstenares die een geluidentafel maakte. Deze tafel werd aangekocht door het SMAK. Stichting Logos werd aangesproken om de tafel tot klinken te brengen. BasiaMo neemt op vrijdag 27 januari om 20u tijdens de vernissage van de tentoonstelling het bespelen van Kinoshita's tafel voor hun rekeing evenals op volgende zondagen: 12 & 26 februari en 12 & 26 maart. Ook Kristof Lauwers en Hans Roels zullen af en toe de tafel bespelen. Volgende en laatste sessie: 26 maart, 16u-1800.

The Logos Women are a pool of female performers.

Nowadays the most active formation is the viola violin duo, Barbara Buchowiec and Moniek Darge.

The can be heard live on sunday august 29th at 15h00 at Gallery Vercammen, Kapellestraat 70, 9220 HAMME at the occasion of an exhibit by Anja Segers.

At the core of the LOGOS WOMEN's playing lies the interaction between the different members of the group, the way they musically react to one another. The interaction can range from imitation, through contrast to negation. Thus a broad set of possible responses to one another unfolds itself, which is a necessary condition to achieve an exciting 'musical conversation'. During numerous rehearsals the LOGOS WOMEN have grown accustomed to a common musical vocabulary and to each others musical personalities.

With this knowledge as a common ground they achieve on stage a non-verbal dialogue. During performance a spontaneous macro structure is developed, without any prior agreements. The motto being: listening to one another with open ears and acute sense of observation and to react to one another alertly. Using as many nonconventional instrumental techniques, they strive towards an intrigating play, whereby all sorts of new sounds are produced with traditional instruments. This produces a tight web of fascinating sound colours. Not melody, nor rhythm are central in this sort of interactional improvisation, although short rhythmical passages or tiny melodic fragments are not excluded.

Other participants of the Logos Women's pool are:

the
MoKa women:

Moniek Darge (violin, voice)

Karin De Fleyt (flute).

A CD came out: <CyClic> by MoKa women.
This is the first CD in our series 'Public Domain', devoted to royalty free musics.
Donations to the emancipation of mankind.

Also participated in the past: Geertrui Van Hoorde (violin), the Texas violinist Jane Henry,
Nicole Ledegen (voice) and Tine Hofman (voice/acting)
Francesca Verbauwhede (violin) and Ann Vancoillie (violin)

The Logos Women is recently mentioned in the book of Simonne Claeys "Het Tweede Thema", of de verwaarloosde geschiedenis van de componerende vrouw", Alamire, 2002, ISBN 90-6853-150-6. This book brings us a fascinating and well written history of women composers in the western world, starting from the middleages and up to today. The book can be ordered directly at the editor's, Alamire (160 p., 18,95 Euro, ordernr. LUG12) or purchased at the Logos Foundation.
Read the chapter about Moniek (Flemish)

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