photo by Laurent Orseau
Monday, May 3
1pm CT
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Option Talks Music: Audrey Lauro
Meet the Brussels based alto saxophonist Audrey Lauro who’s performance history in jazz and experimental music has brought her in contact with many of the leading lights of the international improvised music scene including: Veryan Weston, Marc Ribot and Sabu Toyozumi. Tune in on Monday, May 3rd at 1pm Chicago time to hear the discussion, ask questions in the chat, and listen to Audrey’s inquisitive and multidisciplinarian approach to her work.
The Option series is presented as part of Experimental Sound Studio’s virtual concerts every Monday. Link to this program, with the interview led by Andrew Clinkman, below.
About Audrey Lauro
Brussels-based saxophonist A.L trained in composition, jazz and contemporary music. She then devoted her energies to experimental music and particularly to improvisation, constantly questioning the language of instrument, phrase and sonic event, «from phrase to sonic event through all kinds of atoms and particles.
She started in 2002 a jazz course at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels and contemporary composition course at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège. Since then she has spent the last decade developing her music on experimental music scenes in Belgium and abroad. As an alto sax player focusing mostly on free improvised music she’s also involved in multidisciplinary music projects.
Since 2013 she regularly worked with the innovative production platform/ensemble for multidisciplinary music projects ChampdAction (www.champdaction.be/Antwerpen/)
performing in several productions of the collective :
- 2013 " Hold Your Horses" grand Opéra de trash in 27 acts and entr’actes
http://www.champdaction.be/en/hold-your-horses/
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYlEOnKXfh4
- 2014 P-Trains /Astrin Phosphora / (20 Nov 2014 at DeSingel, "Ann Eysermans et ChampdAction")
- 2015 "HRZSCHMRZ"
" In the opera HRZSCHMRZ Serge Verstockt and ChampdAction put the spotlight on ‘love’. They ponder the ever advancing digital world that engulfs us in our daily reality."
http://www.champdaction.be/en/hrzschmrz/
trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjXWxL-md-
in 2016 A.L worked currently with Q02 ( workspace for experimental music and sound art based in Brussels), B R O N K S (Theater for a young audience /Brussels) and The National Theater " La Monnaie" for the creation " It's Frankestein Stupid", presented in may 2016 during the European Opera Days .
http://www.q-o2.be/en/project/nederlands-frankenstein-jeugd-opera/
Since 2007 she conducts musical workshops with teenagers and children and regularly works in secondary education.