THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE – DUO WITH STEVE COLEMAN AND KOKAYI

The Beautiful Formula Collective
Veronika Wenger, Daniel Geiger, Thomas Rieger, Oleksiy Koval
Photo: rhythmsection.de
Steve Coleman
Photo: © Michael Weintrob
Kokayi
Photo: Jati Lindsay

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

DUO
WITH
STEVE
COLEMAN
AND
KOKAYI

NEW YORKER JAZZ TRIFFT AUF EINE LIVE-PAINTING-PERFORMANCE!
IM RAHMEN DER 1. BIENNALE LINDAU
Sonntag, 3. Juli 2022, 19:30 Uhr
Stadttheater Lindau
88131 Lindau (Bodensee)
Eintritt frei
Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)
Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Kokayi (wordsmith)
Kuratiert von
Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck

Steve Coleman und Five Elements erkunden mit ihrem in Kürze erscheinenden Live-Auftritt im renommierten Village Vanguard in New York City, “Mdw Ntr”, ein neues Terrain in der Anwendung nicht-linearer Aufführungspraktiken in der Musik des MacArthur-Stipendiaten Steve Coleman. Mit seinem langjährigen Vorzeige-Ensemble Five Elements verwendet er spontane und vorkomponierte Module oder motivische Zellen, die in beliebiger Reihenfolge gespielt werden können und es jedem Musiker ermöglichen, spontan zu verschiedenen Abschnitten vor- oder zurückzuspringen – sogar zwischen Kompositionen – und so verschiedene Schichten der Musik hervorzuheben und die Form bei jeder Aufführung auf völlig interaktive Weise neu zu erfinden.

Die spontane und reflexartige Reaktion auf visuelle Bedingungen einer Komposition auf der Fläche ist
die wesentliche Struktur von The Beautiful Formula Collective. The Beautiful Formula Collective setzt sich mit der Malerei und der Schaffung kollektiver Werke auf der Grundlage der Kombination aus Spontaneität, Improvisation und der Logik des Rhythmus, die beim Anbringen von Farben Strukturen und Regeln gibt, auseinander. The Beautiful Formula Collective produziert und inszeniert Gruppenarbeiten nicht nur im Atelier, sondern auch als Live-Painting-Performance vor Publikum. The Beautiful Formula Collective hat Live-Painting-Performances an Kunsthochschulen, Galerien und Museen in München, Zürich, Istanbul, Teheran und London durchgeführt, um nur einige zu nennen.

Kompositionen mit konstanten rhythmischen Motiven werden von den Künstler*innen beider Disziplinen vor dem Publikum in variabler Form ausgeführt.

Gefördert durch:
1st Lindau Biennale
Jazzclub Lindau
Theater Lindau
Richard Stury Stiftung, München

Besonderen Dank an:
Sophie-Charlotte Bombeck, Lindau
Sooya Arts and Sophia Wong, New York
Saudades Tourneen GmbH, Jenbach

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE | NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2021

Arcobaleno, The Beautiful Formula Collective 2021
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Digital painting, 102 x 290 cm, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

 

Arcobaleno Bianco Nero, The Beautiful Formula Collective 2021
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Digital painting, 102 x 290 cm, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

 

Arcobaleno Bianco Nero, The Beautiful Formula Collective 2021
Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Thomas Rieger, Veronika Wenger
Digital painting, 102 x 290 cm, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

 

THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE – STEVE COLEMAN AND FIVE ELEMENTS 2021

“Inside Game”

Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse:

Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet)
Maria Grand (tenor saxophone)
Rane Moore (clarinet)
Kristin Lee (violin)
Jen Shyu (vocal)
Matt Mitchell (piano)
Greg Chudzik (bass)

Oleksiy Koval (painting)

“Unit Fractions”

Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet)
Kokayi (wordsmith)
Anthony Tidd (bass)
Sean Rickman (drums)

Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)

“Mdw Ntr – Live”

Steve Coleman (alto saxophone)
Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet)
Kokayi (wordsmith)
Anthony Tidd (bass)
Sean Rickman (drums)

Daniel Geiger (painting)
Oleksiy Koval (painting)
Thomas Rieger (painting)
Veronika Wenger (drawing)

Funded by
Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse München, Munich
Creaventis, Munich

Special thanks to
Sooya Arts and Sophia Wong, New York

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE | PLATFORMS PROJECT NET ATHENS II

 

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

OLEKSIY KOVAL
SERENA SEMERARO
MIRCO TARSI
VERONIKA WENGER
MICHAEL WRIGHT

Live Painting Video

As a part of

RHYTHM SECTION
AMBIGUOUS UNAMBIGUOUS

Curated by
SOPHIE-CHARLOTTE BOMBECK

Platforms Project NET
Independent Art Fair
Athens 2021

The Beautiful Formula Collective is about painting and creating collective works based on The Beautiful Formula Language. We use the combination of spontaneity, improvisation and logic of rhythm, which gives us structures and rules while painting. The Beautiful Formula Collective produces and stages group works not only in the studio, but also as a live painting performance in front of the public.

www.thebeautifulformulacollective.com

www.platformsproject.com

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE | ALBUM 1

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

ALBUM 1

Daniel Geiger
Oleksiy Koval
Serena Semeraro
Mirco Tarsi
Veronika Wenger
Michael Wright

Live Painting Album

As a part of
The Video Art Exhibition
SENKRON
Istanbul
April 15 – 30
2021

Represented by
Karşı Sanat Çalışmaları

I just watched the video twice. It makes me think of the birth and death of language, the geological eras, the processes of formation and destruction, the Apocalypse, the rebirth. Very beautiful. Thanks everyone, guys!
Serena Semeraro

Album 1 by The Beautiful Formula Collective is the first Live Painting Album realized exclusively with digital tools, such as an iPad, Apple Pencil, MacBook, drawing tablet on a digital surface, an online whiteboard. Seven compositions written with The Beautiful Formula Language were painted live online in succession by Daniel Geiger, Oleksiy Koval, Serena Semeraro, Mirco Tarsi, Veronika Wenger and Michael Wright together. Serena and Mirco in Jesi, Michael in London, Veronika, Daniel and Oleksiy in Munich saw the movement of each other in applying colors to a digital surface and reacted to it without leaving their places and studios. The application of colors to a surface by six artists was recorded and edited into an album.

1. Composition h by Oleksiy Koval 0:11
2. Composition Schar by Oleksiy Koval 12:44
3. Composition 1,1,1,2,3 by Oleksiy Koval 14:30
4. Composition Checkmate by Michael Wright 18:23
5. Composition Französischer Wein by Veronika Wenger 21:58
6. Composition Backjump by Daniel Geiger 30:28
7. Composition Stalker by Oleksiy Koval 36:28

The Beautiful Formula Collective is about painting and creating collective works based on The Beautiful Formula Language. We use the combination of spontaneity, improvisation and logic of rhythm, which gives us structures and rules while painting. The Beautiful Formula Collective produces and stages group works not only in the studio, but also as a live painting performance in front of the public.

www.thebeautifulformulacollective.com
www.senkronvideo.art
www.karsi.com

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THE BEAUTIFUL FORMULA COLLECTIVE | PLATFORMS PROJECT NET ATHENS I

THE
BEAUTIFUL
FORMULA
COLLECTIVE

DANIEL GEIGER
OLEKSIY KOVAL
SERENA SEMERARO
MIRCO TARSI
VERONIKA WENGER
MICHAEL WRIGHT

Live Painting Video

As a part of

RHYTHM SECTION
AMBIGUOUS UNAMBIGUOUS

Curated by
SOPHIE-CHARLOTTE BOMBECK

Platforms Project NET
Independent Art Fair
Athens 2021

The Beautiful Formula Collective is about painting and creating collective works based on The Beautiful Formula Language. We use the combination of spontaneity, improvisation and logic of rhythm, which gives us structures and rules while painting. The Beautiful Formula Collective produces and stages group works not only in the studio, but also as a live painting performance in front of the public.

www.thebeautifulformulacollective.com

www.platformsproject.com

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