ARTIST BIOS:
✨ VIDA VOJIĆ is a music and performance artist, ‘alchemical drummer’ and writer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Her current performance work focuses on music, song and drumming as a means of amplifying input, triggering physical vibration and awakening alternate states. She combines this with poetry, playwriting and set design, which draw upon her vast research into theology, somatic practices, alternative conceptions of time and the nature of change. Since 2022, she has performed her “alchemical” drum and vocal solo Timing is Divine 33 times in 11 countries, and as “vida voyage”, she has been touring her “ambient cowboy rock” internationally since 2016, releasing on labels such as First Terrace Records, Dial Records and Cultivated Sound.
For this occasion – Vida will present a combined set of singing, spoken poetry and glass harp
https://vidavojic.hotglue.me/
✨ GEORGIA WARTEL COLLINS is a New York City-based bass player and composer who can be seen in various bands/projects around the globe performing at The Luggage Store in San Francisco, Jazz Flash in Niigata Japan, Vulkan Arena in Oslo, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest, Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, The Cooler in Ireland, Nublu in NYC and Bimhuis in Amsterdam. She is most active with her own trio Aila trio, Rapid Light, Brahja, Moby Dick with Plexus Polaire, Liv Andrea Hauge trio and with the music/performance group The Rosehips, but she also freelances within many different projects and constellations.
https://georgia-wartel-collins.com/
✨ DEVIN BRAHJA WALDMAN is a saxophonist, composer and music producer. He leads the group Brahja and co-founded the groups Kadef, Radical Reversal, and Notable Deaths. He has been a member of the bands Malcolm Mooney & The Eleventh Planet, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, MoE, and Land Of Kush. Waldman has performed with artists such as Abiodun Oyewole, Patti Smith, William Parker, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thurston Moore, Nadah El Shazly, Charles Hayward, Hamid Drake, Yoshiko Chuma and others. Waldman began performing with his aunt, poet Anne Waldman, at the age of ten. As a youngster, he was taken under the wing of pianist Paul Bley. Along with his aunt Anne and cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman is a co-producer for the poetry and music label Fast Speaking Music.
http://www.brahjawaldman.com/
✨ PATRICK HOLMING is a pianist and church musician born in Harwich, England, Patrick is the eldest child in a family with British and Finnish roots. He grew up in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he studied piano under Ingemar Hedvall and received lessons in organ and music theory from Lars Nordh and John Lassbo. He continued his piano studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, specializing further in early music and harpsichord at the Johann-Josef-Fux Conservatory. Patrick holds a master’s degree in piano performance and a teaching qualification, both awarded with the highest honors. His career has included serving as Music Director at the Liberal Catholic Church in Graz and teaching piano in Bangkok at Chulalongkorn University and Mahidol University. Currently, Patrick is the Music Director at St. Andrew’s Church in Gothenburg, where he also teaches piano and music. For this occasion, he will be playing Jeux d’eau by Maurice Ravel. https://patrickholming.info/
