Logos on the road
The Logos Women are a pool of female performers. Singer Françoise Vanhecke and performer Moniek Darge, the founder of the group (together FraMon) are participating at the Colour Out of Space Festival 2009 in Brighton (UK). Françoise Vanhecke and Moniek Darge collaborate in many different ways. First as soundscapers. They will present you their collective composition East Crete, Mother Goddess (2008-2009) which is entirely realised with sounds from Crete. "After soundscaping for some years in the south western part of Crete with mainly nature sounds as result, we decided to try our chance in the more known part of the island. We settled down on the east coast and started our sound hunt... you'll hear the result. The project is part of a larger artist event called Levka Ori, which takes yearly place in Crete. Artists from different media come together and what started off as a landart intitiative became an intermedia event. Central location is a site high in the mountains which we called Magnesia, after Plato's famous Magnesia, attracting people to build a kind of utopian society. When standing on Magnesia all you hear is wind and you have a 360 degree wide view of the mountains around. Quite an impressive experience. With sounds we tried to evocate the atmosphere of the island and recall the ancient hope for a utopian society." Moniek Darge and Françoise Vanhecke also collaborate as vocal improvisors. At the core of the LOGOS WOMEN's playing lies the interaction between the different musicians, the way they musically react to one another. Thus they achieve on stage a non-verbal dialogue. During the performance, a spontaneous macrostructure 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. This produces a tight web of fascinating sound colours. Melody nor rhythm stad central in this sort of interactional improvisation. They also will bring soundpoetry: Kasik is the title of a poem based on Turkish words and sounds. Moniek Darge wrote it, inspired by the sounds of the language of her many Turkish neighbours.  And last, but not least, the Festival will show Moniek Darge's Music Boxes: these alternative music boxes are telling a poetical audiovisual story, with tiny sounds, subtile light reflections and a little liberating kitsch or humour as ingredients. "From childhood on, music boxes were fascinating me. Once I visited a small family museum at the back of Beaubourg in Paris, to discover the most fabulous collection I've ever seen or heard. From that day on music making' became even more exciting: I visit flea markets, looking for the most appealing, still silent, box and listening to the sounds in my head. What kind of sound will I decide to escape from what kind of box? Once a box is choosen I start working on the visuals. Little by little my ears become pregnant of the most appropriated sounds. Soundscaping as well as building alternative music boxes are adventureous travels into the audiovisual world. The vast universe of audio art is there to be explored." (M.D.) More about the Music Boxes on: http://www.logosfoundation.org/muziekdozen-mon.html.
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