Loré Lixenberg
Mezzo soprano, Composer
theVoicePartyOperaBotFarm[myFuryIsMyMuse] (Friday, 8.30pm, Rymer)
Find Your Voice! Vocal Improvisation Workshop (Saturday, 12.30pm, StreetLife)
Denis Dufour, Frédéric Acquaviva and Loré Lixenberg in Conversation (Saturday, 7.30pm, Rymer)
ANTIPODES (Saturday 8.30pm, Rymer)
Accordéon & Missa pro pueris (Sunday, 2.30pm, Rymer)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Sunday, 7.15pm, Rymer)
Mezzo-soprano and sound artist, Loré Lixenberg is the leader of The VoiceParty, an original mix of of a political party and an opera in opera, which ran in the 2019 elections in the United Kingdom. The Voice Party is the only party you can't join, it's the one that joins you.
Lixenberg began her protean career in the spheres of physical and mprovised theatre of, with Simon McBurney (Theatre de Complicite) and also in the noble art of comedy with Richard Thomas, Stewart Lee and Simon Munnery (Kluuub Zarathustra). She has performed on the worldwide in opera houses, sound installations, galleries, festivals and museums, interpreting the works of composers and artists such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Pauline Oliveros, Denis Dufour, Trevor Wishart, Frédéric Acquaviva, David Toop, Earle Brown, Georges Aperghis, Mark- Anthony Turnage, Harrison Birtwistle, Phill Niblock or Isidore Isou, Bernard Heidsieck, Georgina Starr, Bruce Mclean, Stelarc, Imogen Sidworthy, Janice Kerbal...
As a composer and sound artist, she explores the intersection between the digital and analog worlds and their possibilities to create new operatic forms. Among her works include : Bird, Panic Room (The Singterviews), the real-time opera Prêt à Chanter, the 'opera' dating app SINGLR for "extended vocals" and theVoicePartyOperaBotFarm[myFuryIsMyMuse] which won the Phonurgia Nova prize in 2021 for Radio Art. also in 2021 she was nominated for the Prix Heidsieck / Centre Pompidou for her compositions. She has published the artist's book Memory Maps, the CD The Afternoon of a phone as well as numerous DVDs, CDs and vinyls ,including the very first recording of Cage's Song Books for the Sub Rosa label. Her recent project NancarrowKaraoke where she transcribed Nancarrows polyrhythmic and microtonal works for player piano for her own voice was publsihed by the Dutch label De Player. She directs La Plaque Tournante and the CRU magazine with Frédéric Acquaviva (Berlin / Paris / London).