Elisabeth Kaiser - contralto | vocal artist

ongoing projects:

artwork:

Summer 2013 I was chosen as artist for a grant of the Antonie-Leins Foundation Germany.

The 6th of July 2013 at Fournos Center Athens I performed THE BELLS and pieces of my own together with electronics of other composers. There I also became a bird within my own consciousness expressed with body an vocal actions. This piece was confronted the first time with an electronic artwork of a friend of mine composer Johannes Winkler. In this piece he expressed his ideas about me as bird.

Also 2013 I took part in a masterclass with vocal artist Angelika Luz at the Hochschule fuer Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. During the closing concert I performed ARIA, the creations pteroplatytrygon and dasyatis say. Angelika Luz interviewed me about my own artwork.

Performance with golden fiber
Sensual body experiences with a golden fiber of 18ct lead to vocal actions, transform the fiber into an artificial object. At the same time the material fiber becomes canto and art. (2012-

2012 I was chosen as singer and vocal artist for the project KLANGINSEL TRIBSCHEN 2013 of Swiss sound artist Andres Bosshard at Richard Wagner Museum Luzern. The opening concert was in April 2013.

2012 Greek composer Nickos Harizanos dedicated with THE BELLS a mostly improvisational piece for voice solo to me.

2012 together with Greek composer and violinist Tania Sikelianou I performed own creations and pieces from other contemporary composers at place of cultural interest Hellenikon Idyllion/ Patras. The concert included a vocal piece called pteroplatytrygon out of the reminder of intensive conscious moments in Greece 2011 and at performance time 2012. This concert was also the premiere of the piece DASYATIS SAY where I transform heat interaction with a flame into actions of voice.

In interaction with the installation of the artists Alessandro Fonte and Shawnette Poe as well as the video of Fabio Rao I was performing 2012 in the Roman Chiostro del Bramante. Our concept was chosen for the concert series Vari(e)azioni. Within the performance called Split/ Me/ Resonance I transformed sensory stimuli, the influence of the surroundings, the situation and my emotions into action moments of voice. Unshod I had to transport water within my mouth over roman travertin stone to reach my alter ego rising up and down inside a well.

dasyatis say For voice and flames Elisabeth Kaiser (2012)
dasyatis ukpam For voice and single flame Elisabeth Kaiser (2012)

As member of Festival America!Now at Philharmonie Essen 2011 I performed ARIA, John Cage, for voice solo.

2010 and 2011 I was singing Erda's part from Richard Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen in Selianitika/ Patras Greece.

Trilocha Musical theater for voice and live electronics Elisabeth Kaiser (2009/ 2010)

random graph for canto, live elektronics and video Johannes Winkler, Elisabeth Kaiser (2008/ 2009)
Premiered 2009 at Folkwang Universitaet der Kuenste Essen
Voices: bright: Irina Simmers, less bright: Meike Albers, medium dark: Hasti Molavian, dark: Enguerrad Cuisset
Live electronics, video: Johannes Winkler, Elisabeth Kaiser

The M, R-Systems For percussion Elisabeth Kaiser (2007/ 2008)
Premiered 2008 at Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen
Percussion: Henning Bergmann, Igor Krasovsky

Logarithmus Sinusspiral for eight loud speakers Elisabeth Kaiser (2002/ 2003)
Premiered in Bremen for the application European Capital of Culture within the project MEER DER MOEGLICHKEITEN with Nick Hafermaas, Younghi Pagh Paan.