Son[i]a #310
Tatiana Heuman
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To the Argentinian trumpeter, percussionist, songwriter, and producer Tatiana Heuman, the world is a dance floor and and sound comes into being through close bodily combat involving intuition, movement, and hurdles. Thus, a paradox arises in the recording process, when spontaneity and corporality are reduced to mere beats on a timeline.
In spite of that, Tatiana’s Ricarda Cometa free improvisation experiments and Astrosuka collaborations took on a new dimension when she began working with digital recording technologies and a home studio. During this journey (and another, literal and emotional journey from one continent to another), Tatiana completed her debut, “Qeei”. An LP, after two tentative solo EPs, made up of microsamples, repetitions, and stuttering, in which pop and dance music are happily taken apart, turned back to front, and put together again.
In this podcast, Tatiana Heuman talks about the intersections between dance and percussion, about music that runs through the body, sounds that move, deconstructed folklore and babbling, formal and informal teaching, addition and subtraction, names that don’t mean anything, and the experiences of women who play and lug around drum kits.
Music by Tatiana Heuman
Céline Gillain
Belgian artist and musician Céline Gillain split her time between working as a high school art teacher and the solitary practice of painting in her Brussels studio, until one day she had enough and organised a residency for six female artists at her grandmother’s house. Five years of collective experimentation with other women paved the way for the creation of hybrid, solo performances combining artistic research, the staging of her speculative writing, and catchy pop songs, carefully woven through complex and seemingly sooth and seamless narratives. We talk with Céline about her incursion into the music industry, stage fright, the power of fragility and depression as a form of resistance today. Paradoxically, her current media of choice are a mix of pop songs, motivational speeches, and updated fictions from the entertainment world, which run through everyday life in a darkly humorous, inimitable way.
The possibility of drumming
Morten J. Olsen’s mix for the INTERRUPTIONS series presents an extreme, complex and long journey into drumming, to discuss out loud Olsen’s most personal theories coming from his very own personal experience and background. As Morten puts it, possibly, ‘a long and painful listening experience of percussion oriented music’.