Concert: Natascha Nikeprelevic: divine speech > Lunalia Festival

> Mechelen, Belgium > Fullmoon-Concert > April 21 – 8:30 pm

> Church of Our Lady a.t. Dyle > Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen

Program:

Philip Glass – Music in the shape of a square

Anton Bruckner – Aequale 1 – Anton Bruckner – Locus Iste

Natascha Nikeprelevic – Divine Speech

Anton Bruckner – Aequale 2  – Anton Bruckner – Os Justi

Ennio Morricone & eigene Komposition – Carolina Eyck

Anton Bruckner – Aequale 1  – Anton Bruckner – Ave Maria

Arvo Pärt – Sarah was ninety years old

Director: Maja Jantar

https://lunalia.be/ 

 

NEW: Video Natascha Nikeprelevic: Invocation

Natascha Nikeprelevic: Invocation (Anrufung). Ritual for voice acapella. Overtones with sub octave. Live-Performance at Transit International Theatre Festival, ODIN Teatret (Eugenio Barba), Denmark.
 
 
 

I wish you all a very happy new year!

I´d like to share one of my daily (singing) exercise:
* No. 5: Sing as simple as possible and with a lot of calmness and freedom.
Each new breath and each new sound poem should be pure and done without any difficulties. *

 

 
 
 

Performance-Festival Zagreb // Natascha Nikeprelevic

 
Festival: Sounded bodies

> 26. September – 1. October
> Zagreb, Croatia

SOUND
BODY
VOICE ​
MOVEMENT

Sounded Bodies is an international performance festival that presents works focusing on using voice/sound and its relationship with the body/physicality.

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 Musikfestspiele Potsdam // Natascha Nikeprelevic

„The Oracle of Sanssouci“

> 11th of June 2017
Grottensaal, Neues Palais Schloss Sanssouci

„The oracle in the Grotto of the New Palace of Sanssouci reveals what should not be revealed. It reveals what is obvious. It makes known what everyone already knows. It represents what everyone has already seen or has never seen.“
The vocalist Natascha Nikeprelevic elicits utopias from the polychrome shimmer of dragons and fabulous creatures of the many precious stones, crystals, quartz and shells on the ceiling and at the wall of the Grottensaal. .

Sorry, no ticket available anymore. The Concert is already sold out.

Musikfestspiele Potsdam
 
 
 
 
 

> On the 11th of January at 11 am you can see & hear me at Literaturhaus Berlin.

Asaet tiho aripeiti – happy new year!

The picture is from my exhibition-performance: „phonemonal“ in wich I proclaim a language of the future: Transverbal.)

Best to all of you and a peaceful and creative 2017.

Yours Natascha
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Radio-Orgy on WDR 3:
Natascha Nikeprelevic & F.X.Randomiz:
< Phonemonal > A phonizistic Phonorgy

> Saturday, 2th of July 2017 / 10:05 pm
> Produktion: WDR 2016 – Studio Akustische Kunst
> Redaktion: Markus Heuger
> Composition in 14 scenes plus intro and epilogue

Listen full piece now or download here:

F.X.Randomiz (Electronics) and Natascha Nikeprelevic (Voice) are ignoring the borderline between Language and Music.

 
> Main subject of the new production by Natascha Nikeprelevic and F.X.Randomiz is the voice being liberated from semantics, and the space behind what language can be as well: A language that doesn’t have to be understood but reflects the characteristics of the parts it is made of, letters initiating form, speech being a play, words being sound.
Vocalist Nikeprelevic successively abstracts speech to transform into sound.
The electronic sounds take on dynamics and variety of the human voice and enter into dialog with it using elements of inversion, contrast, imitation and expansion, to name but a few. Explicitly the voice recordings are not being digitally processed or treated with effects. Sampling is a no-no, the loop way by processing is skipped, the direct route is taken.
Word alike speech constructs imitate electronic sounds and vice versa.

 
 
 
 
 

„Natascha Nikeprelevic is known as one of the premier overtone singers in the world. She has perfected an ancient art of singing that is believed to have started among tribes in western Mongolia and southern Siberia“

Article by Tod Perry, Good Magazine, USA, Feb. 2016.

> Watch the Video „Towards the Light“ here
 
 

Let us move closer together: it gets colder outside.

> Video: heat transfer

heat transfer for voice and radiator from: USE AS IS ‚ ISTZUSTAND
KuLe Theater Berlin
The radiator became the main actor in this music theatre piece created by Natascha Nikeprelevic when she entered the theatre stage at KuLe in Berlin for the first time. Her intensive HEAT TRANSFER is an hommage to all people who knew intuitivly somehow that even a radiator must have a sounding soul…

 

MOVIE: Ausgerechnet Sibirien: Song of Sajana
From today (22.12.) on you can stream the film on ZDF Mediathek

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Natascha loaned the film character „Sajana“ her voice: Exclusively for the movie AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN Natascha composed and sang the overtone song and the song for soprano and tambura and choreographed the hand movements of Shor singer in the movie.

Director: Ralf Huettner // Producer: Minu Barati
Actor: Joachim Król, Yulya Men, Armin Rhode, Katja Riemann, Michael Degen.

 

NEU: Video: fu acune – mhmmhm

> New Music meets Pop

Natascha Nikeprelevic alias Natascha Nike: Hybrid sound & rhythm juggling meets abstract vocals & overtone singing

 

NEU: Live-Concert // fu acune // Klangbrücke Aachen

Natascha Nike (Voice) & F.X.Randomiz (Elektronics)

> December 10th // 8 pm
Klangbrücke im Alten Kurhaus

FU ACUNE // The recipe:
Take meaning-emancipated, wordless texture and POPable melodies with broken beats.
But: Caution: Do not stir.

www.acunemusic.com

 

New:SEMINAR: Natascha Nikeprelevic: crystal-clear overtones

> 14th and 15th of November
> at Seminarhaus Europäsche Akademie

The seminar focus on Overtones for Female Voice
(Participants with previous knowledge required)

> the only seminar for non-professionals this year – apply now!

> Info and Application: Ruth Stöcker:
e-mail: Ruth.Stoecker@gmx.de

Video: Workshop at University of the Arts Taipei, Taiwan

 

LIVE: Natascha Nikeprelevic // as a guest of Jan Glisman:
circadian rhythm

> Performance for bursting clay, voice and sound <

Long Night of Museums Cologne

> 24.10. 2015
> 7 pm / 8:30 pm / 10 pm

> Installation: Jan Glisman
> Voice: Natascha Nikeprelevic
> Sound-Installation: Sebastian Wolff

 

 

New: Video: FEATURE: Nikeprelevic & Radio Choir

>Music for und with Choir<

RE S PONSE Reaktion on Action“ // Première at chor.com, Concerthall Dortmund.
Composer, singer & conducter: Natascha Nikeprelevic

Video-FEATURE on Natascha Nikeprelevic and her piece for mixed choir and solo voice.
On behalf of the Radio Choir Natascha composed „RE S PONSE – reaction on action“. In this work improvisational concepts form the basis for an „interactive choral music“, in which the mutual reactive relatedness of conductor and choir are program. The composition was first performed at the opening at chor.com in September 2011 at concert hall Dortmund. Natascha conducted the choir herself while singing the solo voice part.

PRESS REVIEW:„Natascha Nikeprelevic is a wonderful artist. She encouraged the choir to unheard sounds and vocal reactions. Her „head arrangement“ worked perfectly. Everything was improvised and made a temporarily forget to breathe. There are numerous performance artists in the world who not have at all the necessary vocal technique for the professional concert and opera buisiness. No thought of it with Natascha!“

(Wolfgang Layer, Chairman of the Choral Association South Germany)

Read Interview (in german only)
Natascha Nikeprelevic on Improvisation with Choir:

The musician spoke with Boris Kehrmann on her methodology and „The linguistic dimension in music“:
„I have high expectations of the sound and even still want to make the most bizarre, not very pleasant tone to the ears sound nice. When I shout, I would like to do it so musically that you realize the connection to the singer at any second.“ (Natascha Nikeprelevic, Interview: chor.com 2011) </ h3>.

 

State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart
Masterclass for Voice and New Music Theatre
16. – 21. February 2015

> Masterclass for new Music Theatre:

> Guestlecturer: Natascha Nikeprelevic
Total Immersion: Radical-Improvisation between Noise and Voice

> Lecturer-Concert: Monday, 16.2.15 // 19:00 pm, Orchestersaal

Angelika Luz & Stefan Schreiber:
Works from Georges Aperghis, Huihui Cheng (UA) a.o.

Natascha Nikeprelevic:
soliloqui (UA)

 

New: Video: Towards the Light – Hinwendung zum Licht

A Musical New Year´s prayer:
> Wish all of you a wonderful 2015 !

Overtone Singing for voice a cappella: Towards the Light (Hinwendung zum Licht).
Nataschas „Overtone Aria“ is the ENCORE scene of a full lengh evening performance she gave at Silent Art Festival in 2008.

FU ACUNE: NEW Audio-Track: auwowao

 

FU ACUNE

F.X.Randomiz – electronics
Natascha Nike – voice

 

Welcome to listen:
Vocal Duet: Natascha Nikeprelevic & Michael Vetter

Listen here:

In December 2013, overtone singer and composer Michael Vetter passed away.
In honor of his work Deutschland Radio Berlin is broadcasting his piece: „DuO or love scenes“, a transverbal-dialogical radio play.
The piece will be online here a year long.

Press quote of the Premiere at Ars Acustica Meeting Berlin:

„The stunning master Vetter and his provocative genius duo partner Natascha Nikeprelevic, this cast alone is already worth the trip. But then the program! Who has ever heard communicate someone in overtones as accurately and simultaneously so flawless and intimately? And again and again starting out into the adventure of strange transverbal art. What a vocal Encounter! Nowhere proves itself more understandable what Michael Vetter means when he speaks of the „afterlife“ of languages. “ (Ars Acustica, Berlin, TAZ)

‚DuO‘ – a dialogical Passion in 25 Scenes for voices acappella (50’33)

Voices: Duo Transverbal (Michael Vetter & Natascha Nikeprelevic)
Composition: Michael Vetter (1997)

Michael Vetter, born 1943 in southern Germany, painter, musician and writer, devoted himself in the 60’s especially in experimental music for recorder. Since 1969 he performed apart from numerous concerts with Karlheinz Stockhausen exclusively his own works. He has published approximately 6o records and CD’s with his music and about 30 books. Since 1996, Michael Vetter led the Accademia Capraia for „Intermedia Improvisation“ (Music – Paintings – Theatre) which he founded in southern Tuscany. Vetter died in December 2013, shortly after the premiere and CD production of a long-forgotten work of Karlheinz Stockhausen: ‚Expo for 3‘ of the 70’s. In May 2014, the CD EXPO was released in Stockhausen Verlag, making it the last sound document of his voice.

Natascha Nikeprelevic was Vetter´s first full student at his Accademia Capraia in Italy, and performed with him as a vocalist since 1996 until his death in 2013 at the ‚Duo Transverbal‘ in more than 500 of his concerts and radio productions.
‚DuO‘ is dedicated to her.

DuO is available on CD.
> CD – order via mail

 

New: Video: Daniel Spoerri: Acqua Golem

Natascha Nikeprelevic: Vernissage-Performance

Inauguration of the „Acqua Golem“ at Sculpture-Garden of DANIEL SPOERRI. In a ceremony – attended by the artist himself and institutions – the wonderful voice of Natascha Nikeprelevic „baptized“ the Golem. In an experimental performance the vocalist did the Vernissage-Performance for and with this sculpture named: „Breathing life into Golem“. She turned her voice to any type of sound: noise, hiss, rattle, gurgling and splendid overtones. Natascha danced, „talked“ and courted the Golem. „The singing of special Natascha – said Spoerri – makes Golem a living being.“
Since 1998 Natascha Nikeprelevic sings in the context of work-inaugurations of the artist Daniel Spoerri. So she did a performance with his sculpture: „Sede di Giano“ in 2005 on the occasion of his honorary citizenship in Seggiano (Italy). Together with Michael Vetter she sung in 1999 their radioplay: „soto voce“ in the sculpture: „penetrable sonore“ of J.R. Soto, which is also located in the Giardino di Daniel Spoerri. The radio play was recorded live there and broadcasted in DeutschlandRadio Berlin. Natascha is friendly and neighborly connected to Daniel Spoerri, also because her „Academy of Intermedial Improvisation: Music – Painting – Theater“ is in close proximity to the „Giardino di Daniel Spoerri“.
The Inaugurationt took place on 09/09/14 at „Giardino di Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Italy.

Music & Video: Natascha Nikeprelevic
Golem: Daniel Spoerri (Angelo Maineri)
Daniel Spoerri: http://www.spoerri.at/leben-und-werk-daniel-spoerri.htm

> More clips of my Concerts & Music Theatre Performances on my youtube-channel

 

New: Video – Ikonographia ranunculi – Overtone-part from ‚use as is‘

Overtone singing in contemporary theatre: Here you see an excerpt of the full lenght evening performance: ‚use as is‘. The overtone-part, named ‚Ikonographia ranunculi‘ is dedicated to frogs…because…Caution: the singer grows frog legs while singing overtones…so this technique has all sorts of surprising possibilities.. ahem…effects…!
More scenes of the program here

These days we launched our new FU ACUNE website…please have a look!

 
 

 

 

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FU ACUNE at MOUSE ON MARS – 21 AGAIN FESTIVAL

31. October. & 1. November. 2014
HAU 21 – Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin

 

 

 

FU ACUNE: NEW Audio-Track: mhmmhm

 
 

…finding myself in good company…

 
 

 

 

Spacial-Music // St. Gertrud, Cologne // 2014 October 11 th

The Whispering Room

Sat, October 11, 2014 // Open doors 7.30 p.m. // Begin concert 8 p.m. (doors will close on time) // St. Gertrud Church // Krefelder Str. 57, 50670 Cologne // Admission free

The Whispering Room is a sound-art event featuring Natascha Nikeprelevic, Holger Mertin, Joseph Suchy and The Knob, The Finger & The It. The goal of this concert is the exploration of the natural reverb and the unusual acoustic of the St. Gertrud Church and its environment. The St. Gertrud Church was build by german architect Gottfried Böhm in the 1960s and provides a tricky acoustic with long natural reverbs and an urban surrounding, the building is located close to the railways and a main traffic road in the north of Cologne. A project by Andrés Krause and Maria Wildeis.

The Whispering Room (Der flüsternde Raum) is supported by SK-Stiftung Kultur.

 
 

 

 

 

 

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Vernissage-Performance at Giardino di Daniel Spoerri

9. September 2014 // Giardino di Daniel Spoerri (Seggiano/Italien)

Inauguration of the sculpture „GOLEM“ by Daniel Spoerri with an experimental vocal performance by Natascha Nikeprelevic.

Artikle: Il Tirreno (italian)
 
 

 

 

 

 

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Tonight // 21.5.14 // WDR 3 is broadcasting our Feature:
„Deutschland in Kleinanzeigen“
and is showing one of the film: „Erdkunde-Atlas zu verkaufen“,
I did (voice/composition) together with Martina Schulte (author), F.X.Randomiz (sound/music) und Julia Gordon (film/animation).

More films of this series soon!

http://vimeo.com/99606973

CD Release // EXPO for 3 (K. Stockhausen)

CD Release by Stockhausen Verlag. // Released: May 2014
Stockhausen Edition no. 104

Natascha Nikeprelevic: voice, shortwave receiver, harmonica, megaphone, cow-bell
Michael Vetter: voice, shortwave receiver, recorder, harmonica
F.X.Randomiz: electronics, shortwave receiver, voice

In our interpretation, EXPO became multi-instrumental chamber music, which is given an even unpretentious, Sunday-cosy self-evidence in connection with the daily news from the radio. (This was apparently the opinion of a sounder of female wild boars that paid us a visit with their shoats: During ourlast rehearsal in Michael Vetter’s house in Italy, they gathered, only a metre away from the open terrace door, deliciously sniffling and carefully listening. Stockhausen’s music is therefore certainly no longer exclusively suited to a small, educated class of city slickers!)

Our EXPO interpretation is the first, but also unfortunately also the last pro- ject by the young trio Vetter/Nikeprelevic/Randomiz. Michael Vetter died eight weeks after this recording was finished. It is also the last audio document of his voice. This CD is dedicated to Michael Vetter post hum.

Audio-Teaser and more…

 

New: 2 Videos – EXPO for 3 – Final Rehearsal and Premiere

EXPO for 3 – Karlheinz Stockhausen
Musicians: Michael Vetter / Voice, Recorder – Natascha Nikeprelevic / Voice, Megaphone
F.X.Randomiz / Electronics.
Excerpts of the final rehearsal, Section 7-8, Eventnumbers 46-56
Stockhausen Courses Kürten, Aug. 2013

EXPO for 3 Premiere – Karlheinz Stockhausen
Excerpts of the world-premiere, Stockhausen Courses Kürten, Aug. 2013

Feature // Deutschland in Kleinanzeigen
listen online // 22.1. – 29.1.14

Vocalistic: Natascha Nikeprelevic
Music: F.X.Randomiz

Director: Thomas Wolfertz
Author: Martina Schulte

Further broadcastings at WDR / Deutschlandfunk/ SWR and RBB.

 

 

Michael Vetter: 18.9.1943 – 7.12.2013

Dear colleagues, friends and lovers of music,

my beloved master, duo-partner and adoptive father Michael Vetter is dead.
The musician, painter, writer and composer passed away on December 7th 2013 in Munich.

more on: Vetter Transverbal

In memory of Michael Vetters work, the Deutschlandradio Berlin will broadcast on the night 2./3. of January 2014 his radio play „De Profundis“ for overtone voices a capella.

On the death of vocalist and composer Michael Vetter
De Profundis – Voices: Michael Vetter and Natascha Nikeprelevic – Duration: 9’28

Tonight (2.1.14) – 00:05 am – Klangkunst – DeutschlandRadio Kultur: listen live

 

Documentaryfilm-Festival Stuttgart // 4. – 8. Dezember 2013

 

Natascha Nikeprelevic is reading in:

> Spacechoreography – Gerlinde Beck <

Film-Presentation:
5. Dezember 2013 // 19:00 Uhr // Metropol Cinema Stuttgart

Director: Kerstin Ergenzinger
Music: Joseph Suchy, Albrecht Volz, Karlheinz Stockhausen
Speach: Natascha Nikeprelevic

Info: 19. Filmschau Baden-Württemberg

 

Cologne-Concerts: Strom Festival // Kölner Musiknacht

September: 5.9. – 7.9. – 14.9. // FU ACUNE (Concert) and Performance

FU ACUNE live at Strom Festival Cologne, September 2013

• Opening Concert: STROM Festival

  FU ACUNE * catch
  F.X.Randomiz, Elektronics & Natascha Nike, Voice
  Thursday, September 5th – 9pm – Halle – Kunsthaus Rhenania – Bayenstraße 28

www.facebook.com/kunstfestivalstrom

• Concert: Kölner Musiknacht

 

FU ACUNE * emm
F.X.Randomiz, Elektronics & Natascha Nike, Voice
Saturday, September 14th – 10 pm – Altes Pfandhaus – Kartäuserwall 20

Audio-Teaser: FU ACUNE

http://www.fuacune.com/
https://www.facebook.com/fuacune

 

Concert and Seminar: EXPO für 3 (K.Stockhausen)

(Partitur: EXPO für 3 – K.Stockhausen, 1970)

 

> CONCERT // EXPO für 3 (Integral Version)

for 3 Solists with shortwave-receivers und signal-instruments.

Sunday, 4 th of August, 8 pm Sülztalhalle, Kürten
Musicians:
Michael Vetter (voice)
Natascha Nikeprelevic (voice)
F.X.Randomiz (electronic)

Location: Sülztalhalle Kürten, Olpenerstraße 4, 51515 Kürten.

 

> Seminar: SPIRAL / POLE / EXPO

Tuesday, 6 th to Sunday, 11 th of August
Teacher: Michael Vetter and Natascha Nikeprelevic. Assistance: F.X.Randomiz

Admission to the concert is free.
One hour before theconcert there will be an introduction (in German) to the program which is performed that evening.

 

CD Release // POLE für 2 (K. Stockhausen)

CD Release by Stockhausen Verlag. // Release: February 2013
Stockhausen Edition no. 103

Natascha Nikeprelevic: voice, shortwave receiver, harmonica
Michael Vetter: voice, shortwave receiver, recorder, harmonica

„Dear Natasha, dear Michael – on Sunday I listened to your recording of POLES: I’m speechless
with enthusiasm! Unbelievable! You are unique in the history of music: what kind of music!
What a technique! What a creative intelligence. Thanks for the musical gift that enriches and inspires me unutterably as a musician.“ (Suzanne Stephens, Stockhausen Foundation for Music).

more…

 

SEMINAR: Dao of Voice – Seminar on silence and sound

07th – 10th of March 2013 // Trainer: Natascha Nikeprelevic

Sign in now:

 

Listen and download music.

away – two songs for overtone voice and japanese koto harp.

Video THREADLINE

THREADLINE (Nach Strich und Faden) – Music Theatre for Double Bass and Voice

Excerpts of the Live-Performance – Premiere, November 2011,City Theatre Moers
Double Bass: Achim Tang // Voice, Composition & Choreography: Natascha Nikeprelevic

Natascha Nike on Bandcamp.

Listen and download music:

Overtone Aria for Overtone-Voice a cappella.

Natascha Nikeprelevic speaks and sings in a radio play:

Leckermänner oder Dichten in Fahrtrichtung

Text by Ginka Steinwachs

 

Audio Teaser (german)

Radio Broadcast:
10 th of June 2012 · 6:30 pm

Director: Götz Naleppa
Speaker: Natascha Nikeprelevic, Martin Engler
Vocalcomposition: Natascha Nikeprelevic
Voice: Natascha Nikeprelevic
Electronic Music: Ignaz Schick
Sound: Alexander Brennecke
Production: DRadio Kultur/Radio Bremen, 2012
Duration: 75 Minutes

 

Ausgerechnet Sibirien // MOVIE
Exclusively for the movie AUSGERECHNET SIBIRIEN Natascha composed
and sang the song of Shorian Singer Sajana („Enchantment“ for voice and tambura).

Radio listening time!

Music for Choir and Conducter

Natascha Nikeprelevic

RE S PONSE
Reaction on Action

27. Mai 2012, 22:00 – 23:00

Conducted by: Natascha Nikeprelevic (composition, solo voice)
Choir: WDR Radio Choir. Premiere Sept. 2011,
Concerthall Dortmund.