LUCIJA GREGOV

KINETIC SOUNDS AT ITGWO

Rotterdam/Vlieland, 2024

Kinetic Sounds is a sound installation, consisting of a collection of rotating speakers in space, each with its own shape and identity. Kinetic Sounds can be seen as a mechanical version of an orchestra or as an automated ensemble of separately controlled musicians, each with its own sound, character and movement.

Especially for Into The Great Wide Open Festival, composer Wouter Snoei has composed a new work for Kinetic Sounds ; a so-called generative composition, so not a fixed piece of music that is played, but a living sound work that slowly grows over two days and is never the same. The work is three-dimensional, the listener gets to hear a different perspective at every place in the room, some sounds can only be heard if you are very close to the speakers and others resound throughout the entire room. In the church of Vlieland this produces very special sound images. Lucija Gregov did a live performance, a duet between the installation and a musician, with unexpected impulses given by the cello that play together with the work of Wouter Snoei. 

KNURL QUARTET

Roterdam/The Hague, NL, 2023/2024

Knurl is an electroacoustic cello that offers to its musician the practice of diverse voice control, where each sound can be independently maintained and led by different sound techniques on-the-fly. It is a result of a personal impression towards the standard music practice, where artistic quality can become a synonym of integration, inclusion and diversity thinking by allowing different perceptions and hierarchies into music composition design.

Knurl was invented, developed and designed by Rafaele Andrade.

Knurl Quartet is a one year residency in collaboration between Gaudeamus, instrument inventors initiative, Knurl lab and Rewire. As well as an ensemble and individuals, we are researching, discussing and making music while reflecting on our background of playing cello and our wider artistic practices. 

HYDRA ENSEMBLE

Rotterdam, NL, 2019-present

Hydra Ensemble is an electroacoustic quartet based in Rotterdam. It features Nina Hitz (cello), Lucija Gregov (cello), Gonçalo Almeida (double bass) and Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek (electronics). The ensemble is a juncture of four distinctive expressions finding common ground. Together they form a four-headed entity that emerges from highly pensive collective improvisations, creating an intricate patchwork of concurrent melodic lines, textural explorations and expansive drones. The quartet’s sonic language exists on the cracks of free improvisation, minimalism and experimental foreboding ambience. Hydra Ensemble's sonic language is as ominous and majestic as the multi-headed Greek mythical animal they're named after.

Releases:

Voltas, March 2021 on Inexhaustible Editions label

Vistas, June 2022 on A New Wave of Jazz label

ÁGUAS, August, 2023 on Cylinder Recordings

THE SMALLEST GESTURE

Rotterdam, NL, 2023

Music created for the film The Smallest Gesture by Yoeri Guépin, 2023.


These five sonic gestures were created as a response to research and two short films by the artist Yoeri Guépin who in his practice connects social processes with ecosystems.
The music was inspired by the images and conversations about memory, listening, loss, care, embodied knowledge and amplitude of gesture. 


For The Smallest Gesture, Guépin was working with his father and grandmother on a film and installation in which they link the loss of biodiversity and industrial forms of agriculture to his father’s illness. How can we tell stories from marginalized and more than human perspectives that give us new insight into the current epistemological socio-environmental crisis?

ENVIRONMENTAL DIALOGUE

Rotterdam, NL, 2021

'Environmental Dialogue' is a sonic performance featuring 9 musicians playing improvised music in a large outdoor space.
The music performed is inspired by the score 'Sonic Mediations' written by Pauline Oliveros. She was an American composer, accordionist and creator of 'Deep Listening' practice.
'Sonic Meditations' were published in 1974. It is one of the most seminal works of the late 20th century avant-garde music. The score contains twelve text pieces for various groups and instruments. In an attempt to tackle the questions of where does the music come from and how can it be realized, Sonic Meditations departs from traditional musical notation. The focus is brought to the cognition of sound by means of making, imagining, listening and remembering. Part VIII of the score titled Environmental Dialogue sets conceptual framework for the performance. It emphasizes social power of sound and extended recognition of its sources as well as new ways of interacting with our surroundings and each other.

Musicians:
Pau Sola Masafrets, cello
Nina Hitz, cello
Lucija Gregov, cello
Maya Felixbrodt, viola
Christine Cornwell, violin
Miriam de Boer, violin
Geerte de Koe, violin
Jonathan Nagel, double bass
Gonçalo Almeida, double bass

The performance was realized with The Orange Tree art project space.

SMALL ACTS OF VIOLENCE

Rotterdam/Brussels, NL/BE, 2023

Cinematic Virtual Reality Installation, 2023, 25 mins, Colour,

We are all in need of love and care. But what happens when those who love and care for us are also physically or verbally violent? What happens when we are the violent ones? Out of this, how can you evolve a sense of safety?

​Small Acts of Violence is a surreal cinematic 360° experience concerning the entanglement of love and non-consensual physical violence and self-harm in intimate/ family relationships. The work is built from testimonies of women, non-binary, non- cis male perpetrators of domestic violence from Belgium and the United Kingdom, alongside repetitive, intimate performances of a fictional family. The experience seeks to expand our conception of domestic violence as the fragmented narratives traverse intergenerational trauma, sexuality, fear and shame beyond simplistic assumptions of the victim and perpetrator binary. 

Writer & director : AAY LIPAROTO
Produced by: ARGOS CENTRE OF AUDIOVISUAL ARTS
Music by: LUCIJA GREGOV
FULL CREDITS

SOUNDING SPOMENIK

Rotterdam, Ljubljana, NL/SI, 2021-2022

In 2021, Inexhaustible Editions sublabel Edition FriForma is starting a long-term research, recording and publishing project to explore and reveal the sonic attributes of spomeniks of the former Yugoslavia (those now can be found in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and in North Macedonia) by asking local instrumentalists – mainly young but remarkably talented professional musicians working locally or internationally on the fields of free improvised or contemporary composed music – to play sounds on-site, and to find the most responsive or fascinating sounding parts of the monuments. Besides the intentional sounds produced by musical instruments, we intent to document the immediate surroundig's unintentional sounds as well via environmental recordings. Each year we plan to visit, examine and reflect on at least three or four monuments through field trips, recording sessions and eventually, audio publications. By now, we have gathered more than twenty locations with emblematic spomeniks that are relevant to our Sounding Spomenik project.


The first part of collection of recordings will be released at Inexhaustible Editions label in 2021.

RE#SISTER

Rotterdam, NL, 2018-present

www.re-sister.nl

Re#Sister is a community of female/femme/non-binary people exploring the world of electronic music and sound. WORM Rotterdam’s electronic studio is our home base. This growing collective of sound artists has been actively present in Rotterdam’s underground art scene for approximately two years. We are constantly encouraging each other to explore our own artistic practice and to nourish the creative energy that reaches beyond the fear of being subversive, very subversive. Re#Sister had several live collective performances, hosted artists from abroad, organized workshops, produced radio plays and self-published numerous articles, essays and zines. Our focus and aim it so learn from each other and to create a place of connection with other artists working on the fringe of music industries.

Performances:

• Strings & Attachment feat. Mabe Fratti, WORM, NL, October 2021
• Fem Fest, WORM, Rotterdam, NL, March, 2021
• RE#SISTER presents Tumblewash, WORM, Rotterdam, NL, July 2020
• Corporal Whispers, Varia, Rotterdam, NL, June 2020
• RE#SISTERs make radio play, WORM stdio, Rotterdam, NL, October - December 2019
• RE#SISTER showcase at Le Guess Who, Utrecht, NL, November 2019
• RE#SISTER presents Pink (Japa)noise - Boterklontje + Kurumi Kadoya, WORM Rotterdam, NL, October 2019
• Testing the Waters, Podium OCW, Rotterdam, NL, June 2019
• Invites The WORM Pirate Bay The S/ash Department, Rotterdam, NL, October 2018
• RE#SISTER Showcase, Dutch Modular Fest, The Hague, NL, September 2018
• RE#SISTER Plugin, WORM Studio, Rotterdam, NL, June 2018

MA

Rotterdam, NL, 2021

Project by: Nina Hitz, Emma Houston, Cora Schmeiser & Lucija Gregov

Ma (間) is a Japanese term which can be translated as ‘gap’, ‘space’ or ‘pause’. In artistic practice, it is interpreted as a concept of negative or empty space, often holding as much importance as the rest of an artwork.
In our sonic project, we are exploring the experience of ‘space in between’. This refers to both physical space in which sounds are manifested and to an interplay between silence and sounds produced by musical instruments and various other objects. We aim to offer to the audience the space to embark on a personal inner journey through enhanced listening experience. By means of our instruments - cello, voice and small objects we form a sound environment that offers recognition and association with our own feelings - in nature, society, everyday life and fantasy.
We will perform compositions by Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, James Tenney, Morton Feldman, Jürg Frey as well as improvised music. These concert series creates time for reflection, exploration, awareness and experimentation for audience and musicians.

The project was sponsored by 'Fond Podiumkunsten'.

Performances:

• Pictura, Dordrecht, NL, December 2021
• Oude Kerk, Rotterdam, NL, November 2021
• Laurenskerk Tower, Rotterdam, NL, November 2021
• Hilton Art Lab, Rotterdam, NL, September 2021
• Phoebus Gallerie, Rotterdam, NL, July 2021

CATACLISMA IMPROVISATION FESTIVAL

Rotterdam, NL, 2020

Cataclisma Improvisation Festival is a space dedicated to improvisation and musical research. The dissemination of musical experimentation and the connection of the outskirts of Rovigo (IT) with European and world cultural centres are its main and core aims.

I was featured as one of the performing artists at the festival's 2020 edition. The recordings of the performances have been released as podcast episodes including interviews with musicians.

CTRL

Rotterdam, NL, 2019