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Grisell Macdonel (MEX/FIN). Prepared double bass.
21.02.2020
at Museum of Impossible Forms. Helsinki (Kontula)

This series intends to highlight and support experimentalism in music, sound and performance art in Helsinki, as well as it offers to the artists the possibility to share their work and to interact with other artists in situ.

Grisell Macdonel is a double bass player and musicologist. Her research combines her perspective as musician and her approach as musicologist. Along with art music, musical improvisation is one of her main fields of interest in which she focuses on free improvisation and musical experimentation with the double bass. Her improvisations are inspired by diverse aspects such as, the idiomatic nature of the double bass, intimate feelings, Mexican and Finnish ancient myths, nature as she experiences it, and political statements.

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From February to July 2020 the artistic organisations Interkult, Museum of Impossible Forms, Catalysti Association of Transcultural Artists and Korvat Auki Ensemble, together with the Sibelius Academy and the Laponia Improvisations school, merge forces to produce the Helsinki Experimental Series: A performative/listening experience. Within the main aspects outlining the curatorial process of the series are: Improvisation, music genre and art aesthetics diversity, and re-thinking paradigms of expertise. Each performance of the serie is produced in pairs, namely by Intelkult and other organisation/institution that operates or suggests a specific location in Helsinki. This enables and encourages the audience to also experience different urban landscapes and to decentralise art spaces in the city.

Helsinki Experimental Series is curated by Sergio Castrillón