BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:205172@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260826T142429Z DTSTART:20261016T200000Z DTEND:20261016T223000Z SUMMARY:Incense of Music 76: Under the Voice DESCRIPTION:Incense of Music 76: Under the Voice\\n \\;\\nAJ Nilles: viola\\nGrégoire Simon: viola\\nYodfat Miron: viola\\nIncense: Frankince nse from Yemen\\, White Sage\\n \\;\\nIncense of Music\\nThe “\\ ;Incense of Music”\\; series combines acoustic experience with olfac tory perception. For this concert\\, two essences will be burned\\, each opening its own geographical and spiritual space. This event is not recom mended to people sensitive to smoke.\\n🌐 incenseofmusic.com\\n \\; \\nUnder the Voice\\nA composed improvisation for three violas\\, in whic h the instruments are partially muted with a metal damper. This subtle in tervention alters each viola’\\;s resonance\\, enhancing its interna l vibrations and selectively filtering the sound spectrum. The result is a palette of timbres that evoke electronic textures\\, yet remain entirel y acoustic. Through this transformation\\, Under the Voice unveils poetic soundscapes and the fragile presence of unheard voices. Originally conce ived as a solo work by Grégoire Simon\\, the trio version\\, developed t ogether with Yodfat Miron and Allan Niles through a shared creative proce ss\\, opens new possibilities in which the strict formal shape allows for spontaneous interactions and unexpected sonic encounters.\\nAJ Nilles\\n AJ Nilles is a violist and producer born in Chicago and based in Berlin. He started playing viola at a very young age and attended the Juilliard S chool in New York\\, receiving a Bachelor of Music in 2011. Shortly after he moved to California to join the San Diego Symphony. In 2015 AJ moved to Berlin to join the Berlin Philharmonic as a tutti violist. Since his m ove to Germany\\, he started releasing music of his own which he describe s as “\\;electro-acoustic Artpop”\\; under the moniker “\\ ;Ayjay Nils”\\;.\\n📷 @ajnilles_\\nYodfat Miron\\nThe violist and performance artist Yodfat Miron was born into an Israeli-Yemeni family of musicians. She was a multiple scholarship holder of the America Israel F oundation and played as solo viola in the West Eastern Divan Orchestra un der Daniel Barenboim. After completing her instrumental studies in Tel Av iv and Berlin\\, she founded the Miron-Quartett in 2003. Since 2013 she h as been a permanent member of the Berlin settled Solistenensemble Kaleido skop\\, in the framework of which she was able to develop as a crossover artist between acting and instrumental performance. In 2016 she embodied Joseph Beuys in Tom Patchett’\\;s and Georg Nussbaumer’\\;s pla y “\\;Jeder Hase ein Künstler. Eine Beuys Fabel”\\;. In 2017 a nd 2018 she appeared as Theodor W. Adorno in Clara Gervais’\\;s melo drama „Über den Fetischcharakter in der Musik und die Regression des H örens”\\;. She recently acted and performed in the premiere of Ulri ke Ruf’\\;s innovative concert production “\\;Viola Solo”\ \;.\\nGrégoire Simon\\nGrégoire Simon works between Berlin and Paris as a performer (viola and violin)\\, producer\\, and composer. After studyi ng violin and viola\\, he was chosen in 2012 by Pierre Boulez to take the solo viola position in the prestigious Ensemble Intercontemporain (Paris )\\, where he played for four seasons\\, notably performing as a soloist in Gérard Grisey’\\;s Prologue and Hugues Dufourt’\\;s viola c oncerto at the Paris Philharmonie / Cité de la Musique. At the same time \\, he developed an activity as a composer and electronic music producer. As one half of the duos Yes Sœur! and Valmon\\, respectively with Alexa ndre Bouvier and Paul Valikoski\\, Grégoire Simon has produced original music for contemporary dance performances\\, collaborating with choreogra phers such as Milla Koistinen\\, Eric Minh-Cuong Castain (Cie Shonen)\\, and Alessandro Sciarroni. Their works have been performed at venues and f estivals including the Biennale de Lyon\\, Tanz im August Festival\\, Fes tival d’\\;Automne\\, and Radialsystem Berlin. With his hybrid Berli n-based project SUGAR\\, Grégoire Simon builds bridges between chamber m usic and pop music\\, with original creations presented at the Wien Moder n Festival and at the Rotersalon of the Volksbühne in Berlin (part of th e Incense of Music series). Since 2020\\, Grégoire Simon has received va rious composition commissions\\, with works performed by Ensemble Flashba ck (Perpignan)\\, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop\\, Zafraan Ensemble\\, and the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra (Berlin). Grégoire Simon is a memb er of the Trickster Orchestra and a regular guest of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop Berlin.\\n🌐 gregoiresimon.com · 📘 facebook.com/gregoi re.simon.71\\nOn Frankincense &\\; White Sage\\nWhite sage is an everg reen perennial shrub in the mint family\\, native to the dry coastal moun tains and desert regions of Southern California and Baja California. Its silvery-white\\, hairy leaves store water and reflect sunlight — a perf ect adaptation to aridity. The plant can grow up to 1.5 meters tall and p roduces long\\, white to pale lavender flower spikes that attract bees an d hummingbirds. For Indigenous tribes such as the Chumash\\, Cahuilla\\, and Tongva\\, white sage is a sacred plant. When burned\\, it ritually cl eanses spaces\\, objects\\, and people. Its scent is herbaceous\\, campho r-like\\, and slightly sweet — clarifying\\, focusing\\, and grounding. \\n \\;\\n \\;\\nThe frankincense tree\\, Boswellia sacra\\, grow s under extreme conditions in the dry\\, rocky regions of the Arabian Pen insula and the Horn of Africa. Its resin is obtained by making a delibera te incision in the bark. The milky sap that seeps out hardens in the air into glassy\\, yellowish tears. Yemeni frankincense is considered one of the purest and most aromatic in the world. Its scent is resinous\\, citru sy-warm\\, and slightly balsamic. Since antiquity\\, frankincense has bee n used as an offering\\, a medicine\\, and an incense — it opens the br eath\\, calms the mind\\, and is seen as a bridge between the earthly and the divine.\\n \\;\\nCredits: Fabio Dondero\\, Stefano di Puma\\, Ul la C. Binder\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/europe/germany/berlin/events/incens e-of-music-76-under-the-voice-2026-10-16 LOCATION:panda-platforma.berlin URL:https://www.gayout.com/europe/germany/berlin/events/incense-of-music-76-under-the-voice-2026-10-16 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR