Ideen til denne sekstetten kom i Singapore under et av mange samarbeid mellom bandene MoE og the Observatory. Det kom fra et sterkt og plutselig ønske om å markere kvinnekraft. Det framstod som naturlig å gjøre det gjennom å forene tre duoer med lang fartstid, for å utforske individualitet gjennom tre lyttefokus. Gjennom seg selv som enkeltindivid, gjennom hver duoenhet og helheten som sekstett.

Gjennom konkrete spørsmål rundt lytting forberedes musikken som skal fremføres: Hva er å lytte til en helhet? Hva er å lytte til seg selv? Både i musikalsk sammenheng, og i refleksjon til samfunnet, med deres bakgrunn fra forskjellige steder i verden. Denne formen er initiert av Guro Skumsnes Moe, som en mental øvelse for å, i et slags motsetningsforhold, presse musikken og musikerne til individualitet og samtidig invitere til tillit. Det står også som et komposisjons- og samspills-eksperiment.

Som en avslutning på det første møtet mellom musikere fra Venezuela, Puerto Rico, USA, Singapore og Norge møtes de til en samtale på Deichmanske Grünerløkka, som avsluttes med 6 solokonserter.

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Vivian Wang is one of the founders and multi-instrumentalists of Singapore-based art rock ensemble The Observatory. After initially honing her skills as a classically trained pianist, Wang approaches music as a fearless experimentalist and individualist since 2008. The one rule she does apply is to always break free from established genres and localized music tropes. Next to music, Wang is what you call a jack of all trades, moonlighting as a TV presenter, film producer and music supervisor.

https://www.buro247.sg/culture/buro-loves/vivian-wang-the-observatory-singapore-2017.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUVn6gg_gWk

Cheryl Ong is a Singaporean percussionist who is active in music performance and education, Cheryl Ong regularly performs with avant rock group, The Observatory. She has also played with SA, a trio that fuses traditional Chinese instruments and electronics. A recipient of the National Arts Council Arts Bursary, Cheryl graduated with a degree in Chinese Percussion from the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. Though classically trained, Cheryl consistently struggles with the fact that classical music can be divisive and limited to its roles. Tired of being a mere technician, Cheryl has gone on to explore improvisational and experimental practices in recent years, hunting down new ideas and sounds. She’s always up for playing, bucking trends, and going for broke. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1564740903655287

Danishta Rivero is a musician and sound artist based in Oakland. She is a vocalist who performs on electronics and the Hydrophonium, a water-based electro-acoustic percussion instrument she created. Rivero performs solo as well as with her electro-acoustic duo Voicehandler with percussionist Jacob Felix Heule. She is also half of Las Sucias, a feminist noise reggeatón duo with Alexandra Buschman. Previous projects include Blood Wedding, a just intonation noise duo with Chuck Johnson. http://www.danishtarivero.com/

Alexandra Buschman started making experimental music in 1999 Puerto Rico with electro-acoustic group Synesthesia, with Angélica Negrón. In 1999, she formed the electro-acoustic group, Synethesia, together with Angélica Negrón. After scaring the daylights out of everyone at the Conservatory of Music in Puerto Rico, she matriculated to Mills College before committing to advanced studies in sub-tableau tangles of copper crawling with electrons.

https://demonsleeper.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR3PG5lXUzjpAPMLwaWMYagFj-Us_caeV-iURbQbbJQBSCrhNZrlYbxKFfI

Ane Marthe Sørlien Holen is a Norwegian percussionist, one-woman-band, writer and composer. Ane Marthe writes both text and music, and her compositions usually combines these elements.

Her texts has been published by Minerva and Ballade, but most of them are still lying in her desk drawer. Main projects right now: Performing Chambre Noire various places in Europe, and concerts with Pinquins and Ensemble neoN throughout the fall season. Composing music for Moby Dick - Plexus Polaire’s next show. New music also for a duo with Heloisa Amaral, that will be premiered in Buenos Aires in September. And ongoing collaborations with Guro Skumsnes Moe, Henrik Hellstenius, Stine Sørlie, Ingebjørg Loe Bjørnstad and Gunhild Mathea Olaussen.

http://anemartheholen.squarespace.com/

Guro Skumsnes Moe: Composer, bass player and vocalist Guro Skumsnes Moe is among the most active musicians and composers in Norway within the borderless music. Toured on four continents with the band MoE and Sult and composes new music for the chamber orchestra The Touchables, the figure theatre company Plexus Polaire and has made the score for an award wining Mexican movie. Has over 30 releases and 3 self released poetry collections. https://gurosmoe.wordpress.com/