During the lockdown due to the unprecedented pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, Ngallery made an open call for participation in an art project with the sole prerequisite being long-distance collaboration. Composers, musicians, artists, performers, directors, writers, scientists and intellectuals from all over the world were invited and challenged to create collaborative works, overcoming the impossibility of physical presence in the same space.
In an era of pandemics and natural constraints with uncertain outcome, The New Together project aims to bridge the physical distance between artists, intellectuals, scholars and scientists, in order to explore and define the new conditions of artistic creation, the new needs for communication between creative people and new possibilities for the presentation and diffusion of art.
George Kokkinaris x Anna Mouzaki - Lock OUT_BLACK down
Nani Ballestrini's Blackout is a poem about light and darkness. It unfolds the political and historical events of post-war Italy, the 1977 blackout in New York and elements of Ballestrini's personal life. The writing methodology used by the Italian formalist to reconstruct fragments of public speech urges readers-musicians Giorgos Kokkinaris (double bass, composition, narration) and Anna Mouzaki (voice, composition, sound processing) to decipher and re-interpret them in a form of an opera aperta for female voice, narrator, double bass and electronics.
Zan Berry x Iason Maroulis - Διά Δύο (/2)
In this composition by Iason Maroulis, cellist Zan Berry is asked to divide himself in two instruments, voice and cello. Both lines work together, trying to create an amalgam through the combination of similar sounds, enriching and giving new character to the sound of each other.
Chryssanthi Kouri x Mislav Režić - This Is How I Remember It
This music and video collaboration explores the texture of memory and reminiscence. Responding to a musical piece on a loop that slowly builds to a crescendo, the visual component develops through layers of natural elements that represent thoughts and images to mirror the texture of reminiscence, as our memories follow one after another in a free association sequence.
Tim Tsang x Noisebringers - Don't touch my strings
A puppet show, with umbrella wallpaper, where Zwickmühle subjects and objects come across a combination of performative logics archaeozoology as a co-existing desmopressin quandary, not necesslong_haired_cheesearily in synonymous agreement. (This has yet to be synonymous)
Patrick Behnke x Lina Andonovska - Interweaving
This score is conceived of as an activity that we can participate in together, regardless of time and distance. Viola player Patrick Behnke and multi-flute player Lina Andonovska recorded many experimental takes of the score via webcam and emailed recordings from their respective locations of Los Angeles and Frankfurt from June through August 2020. The activity (score + players + intended and unintended relationships) is an attempt to examine structures of orientation in time, in space, and between people, and to examine the relationships of different possibilities of motion and listening to one another. The collaborative aspect is essential to this process, and the worlds and timings of Behnke and Andonovska come together in this unique project. In the audio recordings created by Behnke and Andonovska, outside and inside sounds from their recording locations can be heard, such as ambulance sirens, creaking floors, wind, and other neighborhood sounds.
