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Close Encounters 2025 - Festival for Experimental Music

ორგანიზატორი: Mutants Festival

მუტანტ რადიო , დოდო აბაშიძის 10 , თბილისი

21:00 ორშაბათი, 17 თებერვალი, 2025

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Close Encounters 2025 - 17 February

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Monday, 17 February 2025 – Mutant Radio Concert Space

KIOSK (CH/GE/DE) feat. Natalie Beridze (GE) Russudan Meipariani, Keys, Vocals, Composition; Tamriko Kordzaia, Keys; Sophie Krayer, Scenography; Karolina Öhman, Violoncello (Guest) & Natalie Beridze, Composition, Electronics
u /r (CH) Tobias Gerber, Sampler, Saxophone; Tomas Korber, Electronics, Feedback, Room Amplifi cation; Tamriko Kordzaia, Prepared Piano
The third evening on February 17 will also take place at the Mutant Radio Concert Space.
Ensemble KIOSK will perform a mostly contemporary program – with a small detour into the early 20th century – together with cellist Karolina Öhman as a guest.
Between the individual pieces of this program, trio u /r will create a calm, almost installation-like counterpoint with composed 'sound pillars':

Sandeep Bhagwati (*1963): «Märchenbilder» (1989) Revised Version for Ensemble KIOSK (2023) for piano solo
Paul Clift (*1978, CH/US): «Free will Generator» (2024)
for cello solo
Charles Ives (1874–1954, US): «Study No. 9 (The Anti-Abolitionist Riots)»
for piano solo
Russudan Meipariani (*1975, GE/DE): «Hoquett for Kiosk» (2023) for voice, piano, harmonium, toy piano, violoncello and synthesizer
Tomas Korber (*1979, CH): «Zeitnah» (2018)
for cello solo (new version, 2025)
Natalie Beridze (*1979, GE): «Who whispers to hysteria», «Toy with Modes» (2023), «Slumber» (2024, UA), for voices, piano, synthesizer and harmonium
Anna Trauffer (*1980, CH): «Harmonica» (2014) for voice, harmonium, synthesizer and percussion ad libidum (arr. Ensemble Kiosk)

Since its founding in 2005, the festival Close Encounters has brought together emerging and established musicians from Switzerland and Georgia. Initially focused on contemporary and classical music, Close Encounters has expanded over the years to encompass a broader range of styles, capturing the pulse of both the Swiss and Georgian music scenes and fostering cross-cultural dialogues. The festival’s focus has evolved to incorporate new trends: in 2011, Swiss compositions were featured prominently, while subsequent editions from 2013 onwards broadened the festival’s scope to include improvisation and experimental electronic music from Georgia.
Despite given current political and cultural challenges in Georgia, local cultural actors are keeping a diverse and dynamic cultural scene alive in Tbilisi. Their eff orts and our conversations with them were pivotal in deciding to proceed with a compact festival edition in February 2025. Plans for a Swiss edition of the festival are underway for later in the year.