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𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝑺𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏 Performance Le samedi 30 mai, 17:00 et 19:00 Place des Martyrs de la résistance, Aix-en-Provence Gratuit 𝑺𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏 est une création vocale du YouYou Group. Chantée a capella et sans amplification, elle cherche, par son intensité, à révéler et transformer un espace donné. 𝑺𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏 s’adresse à un lieu, à son énergie, ici en l’occurrence la place des Martyrs de la Résistance, utilisant la puissance de la voix et ses effets rémanents. Trois éléments principaux composent la matrice formelle de cette œuvre : la zaghrouta, nom arabe désignant les trilles aigus au cœur de la pratique du YouYou Group ; les échos qui persistent dans le sillage de ces expressions sonores intenses ; et les sons ambiants que l’on peut entendre une fois les échos dissipés. L’entrelacement de ces trois éléments sonores ouvre vers d’autres détails, vers ce qui est habituellement caché, des présences qui ne sont pas toujours entendues. Ainsi l’espace de la place est travaillé, labouré presque, la voix agissant comme une baguette de sourcier. Le 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 (BE) tire son nom du youyou, cette vocalise puissante et jubilatoire qui exprime la joie ou parfois le deuil. Appelée zaghareeden arabe, elle illumine les moments festifs. Grâce à cette technique vocale ancestrale, le collectif, basé à Bruxelles, a développé sa propre palette sonore autour de la voix féminine et de sa capacité à occuper un lieu, tout en le transformant. Les compositions du YouYou Group, qu’il s’agisse de performances, de films ou d’installations, sont réputées pour leur formidable force d’expression. Le YouYou Group a été initié par Myriam Van Imschoot, artiste évoluant entre plusieurs médiums tels que la performance, les pièces vocales et l’installation vidéo. Durée : 40 min —— Une coréalisation Parallèle et @labgamerz dans le cadre de Lips #3 — Souffle, dans le cadre de la @biennaledaix Photo © Camille Blake

YouYou Group, 𝑆𝑒𝑔𝑒𝑛 Performance Chantée a capella et sans amplification, cette création vocale collective agit comme une invitation à écouter un lieu. Utilisant la puissance de la voix, la pièce cherche – par sa forme et son intention – à révéler et transformer l’espace. 🪽 Samedi 30 mai, 17h et 19h → Place des Martyrs de la résistance, Aix-en-Provence, 🎟️ Gratuit __ Dans le cadre de la @biennaledaix , en coréalisation avec @plateformeparallele © Camille Blake, Veerle Vercauteren

From 17 to 24 February, KINOTITA found a powerful home at Kunstencentrum BUDA, with the foundational support of newpolyphonies. For years, BUDA has built bridges between artistic creation, pedagogy and research, nurturing art schools, experimental labs, and collaborations. newpolyphonies and KINOTITA felt deeply at home in this environment. The first four days were dedicated to an assembly of KINOTITA’s core artists: Anne-Laure Pigache, Anissa Rouas, Elisa Kühnl, Doreen Kutzke, Myriam Van Imschoot, and Jule Flierl. These days became a vibrant exchange of methods and artistic imaginaries: language work and parrotting techniques, ritual callings and resonances, Concert of the Senses, protest slogans and practices of resistance, song transmission, and Shomyo chanting. For one day, guest artist Myriam Pruvot joined us to share whistling techniques, frog-chorus-inspired polyphony, and her practice of syncretism and hybridity. 20 February became the hinge into the second chapter of the residency. That evening, the YouYou Group presented Segen in BUDA’s beautiful entrance rotunda for an audience gathering after iftar during Ramadan. From there, YouYou Group and Glossa entered an intensive four-day encounter of workshops, shared practices, and mutual listening. This laid the first stone of Titans, the first KINOTITA co-creation, under the artistic direction of Anissa Rouas, Myriam Van Imschoot, Doreen Kutzke and Elisa Kühnl. Throughout the residency, generous meals and iftars, prepared by Leyla Mouradi, with one special iftar by Fatima, became key moments of togetherness. Special thanks as well to Fatima for helping host us in the convent. Research, hospitality, pedagogy, artistic risk, and collective voice: this is how futures begin. #KINOTITA #newpolyphonies #KunstencentrumBUDA #Titans #YouYouGroup Glossa CollectiveVoice FeministPractice ParticipatoryArt VocalArt

From the Middle East to Turtle Island, from the Basque country to Central and South Asia, the zaghareet (Arabic) or youyou (French), is a high-pitched, trilling sound typically used by women to convey strong emotions like joy or sadness. In Le Cadeau (2018), Myriam Van Imschoot intertwines the stories and experiences of four women whose portraits reflect tradition, transmission, as well as personal memories and shared cultural practices. Now streaming on our website until 7 May! #argosTV

KINOTITA in Montpellier for EXERCICE COMMUN, in collaboration with the Master EXERCE program at Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse. Over two weeks, voice, body, sound and listening became shared tools to explore what it means to compose together. Not as a fixed outcome, but as an evolving process shaped through encounter, adaptation and exchange. Working across choreography and vocal practice, compositions emerged between individual and collective bodies, in relation to space and those present. Scores functioned as proposals — invitations to act, respond and transform. Authorship became multiple and situated, carried by the group. Presented across the spaces of the Agora in a durational evening, the work invited the audience into this shifting field of relations. This project marks an important step in KINOTITA’s ongoing exploration of composing ensemble. With thanks to Anne Kerzerho, Lisa Combettes, La Bulle Bleue, Alix Demorant and the students of Master exerce Agora cité internationale de la danse & Université Montpellier Paul Valéry. In paricular merci à [names of students with which we cocreated] #kinotita #exercicecommun #montpellier #collectivecomposition #voiceandmovement

KINOTITA in Montpellier for EXERCICE COMMUN, in collaboration with the Master EXERCE program at Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse. Over two weeks, voice, body, sound and listening became shared tools to explore what it means to compose together. Not as a fixed outcome, but as an evolving process shaped through encounter, adaptation and exchange. Working across choreography and vocal practice, compositions emerged between individual and collective bodies, in relation to space and those present. Scores functioned as proposals — invitations to act, respond and transform. Authorship became multiple and situated, carried by the group. Presented across the spaces of the Agora in a durational evening, the work invited the audience into this shifting field of relations. This project marks an important step in KINOTITA’s ongoing exploration of composing ensemble. With thanks to Anne Kerzerho, Lisa Combettes, La Bulle Bleue, Alix Demorant and the students of Master exerce Agora cité internationale de la danse & Université Montpellier Paul Valéry. In paricular merci à [names of students with which we cocreated] #kinotita #exercicecommun #montpellier #collectivecomposition voiceandmovement agora

WELCOME KINOTITA. A new platform for voice artists working in groups as sonic communities. KINOTITA emerges from a clear necessity. Work around collective and radical vocality is essential, yet often remains invisible, especially when carried by women and communities. At the same time, it holds a wealth of knowledge and practices to be shared and further developed. With KINOTITA, we engage with “the art of composing ensemble”: ways of making, listening and organizing together where authorship is collaborative and emerges from the group itself. The voice becomes not only sound, but also a social space. The core group brings together six artists from Belgium, Germany and France: Elisa Kühnl, Myriam Van Imschoot, Jule Flierl, Anissa Rouas, Anne-Laure Pigache and Doreen Kutzke, in close connection with two affiliated ensembles, YouYou Group (Brussels) and Glossa (Köln). KINOTITA grows through exchange, building a network of voices and practices across contexts.

Deze keer nodigen we je uit voor een bijzondere ontmoeting met de Brusselse YouYou Group. In deze Open Studio ontdek je een work-in-progress die de grenzen van de menselijke stem opzoekt. 🎶 Voor de YouYou Group is de stem veel meer dan een instrument. Het is een manier om zich te bewegen door ruimtes, lichamen en landschappen. Na tien jaar van indrukwekkende performances met grote groepen, brengen vier kernzangers nu hun meest muzikale creatie tot leven: Threshold Songs. 🎤🌀 De voorstelling balanceert op de drempel tussen klank en lied. Wanneer wordt een geluid eigenlijk muziek? In een fascinerende verbeeldingswereld nemen de zangers je mee naar een tijd ‘vóór de muziek’. Het resultaat is een unieke ervaring die ergens zweeft tussen ruis en toon, tussen kreet en cantate, tussen steen en melodie. 🪨🎵 De groep is genoemd naar de 'youyou': een typische vocale triller die zowel diepe vreugde als verdriet uitdrukt. Kom zelf ervaren hoe deze kunstgemeenschap avant-garde, lichaamswerk en erfgoed samenbrengt in een collectief klinkend lichaam. 🕒 Wanneer: Vrijdag 3 april om 12:00 📍 Waar: Theaterzaal Rif (Deurneleitje 6, 2640 Mortsel) 💰 Toegang: Helemaal gratis & zonder reservatie.

TOMORROW 📣 IKLECTIK LIVE presents PanOrama (Dali de Saint Paul, Lia Mazzari and Kathy Hinde) + Tomoko Hojo, Wan-Chien Cheng, Myriam Van Imschoot, Cara Tolmie, Anna Holveck An evening of expanded listening. ARTIST FOCUS: Tomoko Hojoo - A sound artist whose works take various forms, composition, score-based or improvised performance, installation and academic research. Although the methodologies are changed each time, the main concept underneath Hojoo’s works and researches are consistent. That is ‘to focus on (women’s) voices that have been silenced and to propose alternative possibilities. Wan-Chien Cheng - A Taiwanese musician and sound artist. Trained as a classical musician and completed the MA in Sound Arts at the University of the Arts London. Her works span the audible, inaudible and visual perceptions between sound, music and language that involve in cultural events, social phenomena, environmental subjects and the human. Myriam Van Imschoot - A Brussels-based artist, using the voice as her main medium in video, performance and sound installations. Van Imschoot’s work is characterised by a movement between the institutional field and the medias, through which she experiments with already existing contexts, if not creating her own. Cara Tolmie - An artist who spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as a musician, performer, DJ, educator and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely and internationally at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space – both as solo presentations and collaborative projects. Anna Holveck - A visual artist, sound creator, and researcher, Anna Holveck explores — through performance, video, and installation—the place of the voice within the body, space, and image. She has conducted theoretical research grounded in artistic practice, focusing on how the voice can be entrusted with a specific power when the body that carries it is no longer visibly present. Thursday 19 March Doors 6pm Tickets link in bio. Events and contents note: - the venue is fully wheelchair accessible - everyone welcome - there will be loud sounds, earplugs provided

I am VERY excited to have this concert next Thursday at @iklectikartlab in London with wonderful collaborators, Cara, Myriam Anna, Winnie and LCC Sound Arts MA Students. I wish you to come and share this intimate time with us. There will be another performance by PanOrama in the same evening. @newpolyphonies @cara.tolmie @annaholveck @wanchiencheng @crisapsoundarts - A quiet tuning - practices of listening This is not a concert of loud sounds, but of tuning in. Through fragile, slow, and unstable works by women composers—text scores, graphic notation, voice, and quiet, tender listening practices—it creates a space to notice what usually passes unheard, between sound, voice, and silence. Featuring: Tomoko Hojo, Wan-Chien Cheng, Myriam Van Imschoot, Cara Tolmie & Anna Holveck. This collaboration is supported by Harmonic Ito Foundation and CRiSAP University of the Arts London. Thursday 19 March, Doors 6pm Iklectik at Peckham Level Tickets link in bio.

YouYou Group warmed up with Salty River in front of De Brakke Grond during the Beyond the Black Box Festival. 16.02.2016 / Amsterdam YouYou Grubu, performans öncesi Tuzlu Nehir ile ısınırken, Beyond the Black Box Festivali / De Brakke Grond 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 @newpolyphonies @platform0090 @brakkegrond @soap_maastricht @c.takt 🎥 @sanemsuavci 🙏🏽 @mesut.arslan.927

Segen at the opening of Artefact Festival ✨ YouYou Group will perform Segen, in a new extended version, during the opening night of Artefact Festival. 📅 February 12 🕗 20:00 📍 STUK, Leuven @stukleuven Practical info: https://www.artefact-festival.be/en/practical-info Photo by @navid.fayyaz #ArtefactFestival #YouYouGroup #Segen #Performance #STUK