Saturday, July 5th
Night of Improvised Music:
Ragnar Árni Ólafsson, che buford, & Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío
doors 19:30 / show 20:00
2500kr / 2000kr for students with ID / pay what u can
Ragnar Árni Ólafsson - electric guitar
che buford - violin
Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío - violin
Ragnar Árni Ólafsson is an experimental musician variously working as a guitarist, composer or improviser. He performs his own music and the music of others, most often operating along a gradient between the two, preferring a raw and real-time exchange of musical ideas. His artistic work extends into other mediums, particularly film and text. Upcoming projects this year include a concert-length performance for solo electric guitar and the release of video work Quantongue Lessons with long term collaborator Luke Deane.
che buford (he, they) is an NYC-based artist whose work explores creating new narratives within the world of music while engaging in themes of memory and place.
che performs as a violinist in various musical settings, specializing in improvisational performance, contemporary compositions, electroacoustic work, and interdisciplinary collaborations. They have performed and presented work in spaces such as Roulette, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Joe's Pub, Antenna Cloud Farm, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, ISSUE project room, and National Sawdust. He has collaborated with artists including Palaver Strings, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Deborah Jack, Steph Davis, Pamela Z, and others. As a composer, their work explores the possibilities of timbre and acoustical phenomena and connects them to elements of place, memory, poetry, and the quotidian. Che has received commissions from artists and organizations including Longleash, The Rhythm Method, Midori, The Museum of Modern Art, Castle of our Skins, and others.
che is a founding member of Diaphanous Ensemble, a genre-bending composition, improvisation, and performance collective started with Abby Swidler & Aimée Niemann. Diaphanous premiered four new string quartets by its members in August 2023. They also performed with Ioanna Gika as part of Jacolby Satterwhite's A Metta Prayer, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in September 2023.
che holds a degree from Boston Conservatory at Berklee as a presidential scholar in violin performance. They are currently a DMA candidate at Columbia University in Music Composition. When Che isn't interacting with music, he enjoys taking long walks, cooking vegan food, and thrifting.
Ana Luisa Díaz de Cossío is a performer-composer whose work traverses the space between social structures, individuality, spontaneity, and explores resonance in physical as well as cultural space. Through extreme extended techniques, I challenge conventional instrument playing, exploring the possibilities and limits of sounds within an instrument. My music is informed by political, social, and cultural awareness of the systems constituting our societies.
I have participated in Manifesté-IRCAM (FR), Darmstadt Summer Course (DE), OneBeat Taiwan (TW), Experimental Institute at Antenna Cloud Farm (USA), Ensemble Evolution (USA), Karp Kamina Residency (Togo), ANMA+NordPlus Music Forum (EE), Dark Music Days (IS), Time for Music (FI), ActinArt (DK) among others. I hold degrees from Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Listaháskoli Íslands and I am enrolled at the University of California-San Diego.