Performance "Cruising Ship" at the opening of the exhibition ‘SORRY, BUT I'AM NOT SORRY’ with artist Béla Váradi.

Stiftung Kai Dikhas

Curated by: Álvaro Garreaud
Co-curated by: Merel Maan Galama

Instrument and Voice

Konzert mit Werken von Alexandra Filonenko, Peter Ablinger, Sergey Newski, Lisa Streich, Joanna Bailie, Mauro Hertig und Alexey Kokhanov UA

Das Duo Loxodroma ist migrantischer Herkunft und hat sich auf das Genre der Improvisationsmusik unter Verwendung von Elektronik und performativen Elementen spezialisiert, im heutigen Programm mit Werken Berliner Komponist:innen.

Alina Anufrienko Violoncello, Elektronik

Alexey Kokhanov Stimme, Elektronik

Info and Tickets

Concert at the opening of In To the Open Fesitval:

as part of vocal quartett rabbit hole:

Hugo van Rechem: kollektive MAL(A)K(h)UT(h) – dream crafting for vocal ensemble, piano & percussion (World premiere, commissioned by ITO)

https://www.intotheopen.eu/events/opening-martynas-levickis

“Vocal improvisation” Workshop

Description:

Would you like to improve your singing? Pick up some new vocal techniques? Or just let loose a bit? In this vocal improvisation workshop with vocalist and sound artist Alexey Kokhanov, you will experiment with new methods of vocal expression (frying vocals, ingressive vocals, plateau sound etc) and explore voice-body coordination in order to gain a deeper understanding of your natural voice and what it can do.

duration 2.5 hours.

Registration per email: alex.kokhanov@gmail.com

Fee: 30 Eur.

Exploratorium Berlin (Studio 2): https://exploratorium-berlin.de

Zossener Straße 24
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

“Vocal improvisation” Workshop

Description:

Would you like to improve your singing? Pick up some new vocal techniques? Or just let loose a bit? In this vocal improvisation workshop with vocalist and sound artist Alexey Kokhanov, you will experiment with new methods of vocal expression (frying vocals, ingressive vocals, plateau sound etc) and explore voice-body coordination in order to gain a deeper understanding of your natural voice and what it can do.

duration 2.5 hours.

Registration per email: alex.kokhanov@gmail.com

Fee: 30 Eur.

Exploratorium Berlin (Studio 2): https://exploratorium-berlin.de

Zossener Straße 24
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)

At Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo

Join us for PERFECTLY REASONABLE DEVIATIONS - a film program with a live performance by Alexey Kokhanov in the lower gallery as part of the opening of James Richards' exhibition Our Friends in the Audience. Full program below.

Organised by the curatorial collective anorak and James Richards. Our Friends in the Audience continues: 12.04.24–04.08.24.

Program:

Films:

Tolia Astakhishvili, Which Bitch is a Witch?, 2000, 2:44 min.

Tolia Astakhishvili & James Richards, I Remember (Depth of Flattened Cruelty), 2023, 10 min.

Marguerite Duras, Les Mains Négatives, 1979, 14 min.

Performance: Alexey Kokhanov, Oslo solo 2024, ca 15 min.

Films continue:

Jordan Strafer, SOS, 2021, 11 min.

Mary Helena Clark, Orpheus (outtakes), 2012, 6 min.

Total running time approximately 70 min.

https://kunstnerneshus.no/en/program/events/perfectly-reasonable-deviations

Workers in Song by Billy Bultheel and James Richards

Immersive audiovisual installation and performance takes visitors on a journey through a whirlwind of original material and citations, spanning the pleasures of online hookups, underground films and subcultures of bygone eras, as well as the darker dimensions of romantic subjectivity. At Mudam, Bultheel and Richards present a choreographed performance with live music and film on 28 March 2024, alongside an installation that probes the tension between liveness, sentimentality and desire in the absence of the living body.

https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/workers-in-song

Carte Blanche In Dark Times

Event in Facebook

Natalia Pschenitschnikova (voice, performance)

Lorena Izquierdo (voice action)
Alina Anufrienko (cello)
Alexey Kokhanov (vocals)

Doors, 18:30, Concert starts 19:00
Tickets donation: 8-10 Euro at the entrance
How to get there: directions

Lautsprecher: maulwerker performing music

U. Wassermann »Camouflage« (UA)
S. Ercklentz »Fremd_körper«
E. Grosskopf »Prozess der Veränderung op. 12« (UA Version 2023)
R. Hoyer »Schreistück«
S. Weismann »platophonics«
S. Roigk »worte wie schall & raum« (UA)

Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song

The result of a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, Workers in Song brings together new music, archival film and text. The performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music, as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook ups, drugs, fanship and Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”.

Directed by James Richards and Billy Bultheel, and performed by Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Adam Sinclaire (flute), with filmed appearances by Sebastian de la Cour (voice) and Sara Neidorf (drums).

Co-commissioned by WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

Billy Bultheel & James Richards: Workers in Song

The result of a collaboration between visual artist James Richards and composer Billy Bultheel, Workers in Song brings together new music, archival film and text. The performance is haunted by histories of occult photography and spectral music, as well as more quotidian pleasures such as internet hook ups, drugs, fanship and Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”.

Directed by James Richards and Billy Bultheel, and performed by Alexey Kokhanov (voice) and Adam Sinclaire (flute), with filmed appearances by Sebastian de la Cour (voice) and Sara Neidorf (drums).

Co-commissioned by WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

PROGRAM

Alexey Kokhanov, Adam Asnan

Voice recording: Natalia Pschenitschnikova

Finissage of the Exhibition "Seven deadly sins"

Zilberman Gallery Berlin

Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin

"Voice Actions”

PROGRAM

In vocal performance Voice Actions vocalists integrate voice to objects (gloves, glasses) regarding the matter of sound as a result of these actions. 

Berlin Impro Group:

Lorena Izquierdo,

Gabriel Pedrosa

Alexey Kokhanov

"Voice Actions”

FESTIVAL ¡ESCUCHA! OTOÑO ’22: LORENA IZQUIERDO

Cruce Contemporaneo Madrid

In vocal performance Voice Actions vocalists integrate voice to objects (gloves, glasses) regarding the matter of sound as a result of these actions. 

Berlin Impro Group:

Lorena Izquierdo,

Gabriel Pedrosa

Alexey Kokhanov

Improvised & Experimental No. 131 (sound installation)

BIG (Berlin Impro Group)

-Set 1- Lorena Izquierdo Aparicio (voice), Alexey Kokhanov (voice), Gabriel Pedrosa (voice)

-Set 2- Gosia Zagajewska (voice), Wojtek Kurek (percussion), Antonina Nowacka (voice)

Der Friedhof der St. Jacobi Gemeinde dient Neukölln als Parkanlage. Seit langem finden hier keine Beerdigungen mehr statt. Pschenitschnikova und Kokhanov, unterwegs beide in der experimentellen Musikszene Moskaus und Berlins, nehmen St. Jacobi zum Aufhänger dieses ersten Teils einer Performance-Reihe, die sich mit Gedächtnis und Erinnern befasst.

Eine Rolle spielt dieser Friedhof bei Theodor Fontane. Begraben liegt hier auch Bruno Bauer, erst Mentor, später erbitterter Gegner von Karl Marx. Und heute noch folgt hier ein letzter Steinmetz dem alten und mühseligen Versuch, Personen und Ereignisse vor Vergessen zu bewahren mithilfe in Stein gehauener Schriftzeichen. Seine Geschichte, die Bauers, dazu die aus Fontanes Roman verirren, verwirren sich in dieser Performance, die als dritten im Bund den Klangkünstler Torsten Ottersberg zum Partner hat.

Mit: Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Komposition, Performance | Alexey Kokhanov, Regie, Performance | Torsten Ottersberg, Installation, Klangregie

Ort: Volksbühne – Sternfoyer

tickets: https://kaho-berlin.de/programm/marxophony/

Theatergasse, 10318 Berlin

Kann man „Das Kapital“ von Karl Marx singen und wenn ja, wie hört sich das an? In seinem waghalsigen Projekt „Marxophony“ nähert sich Alexey Kokhanov musikalisch dem Buch, das alle kennen, aber die wenigsten gelesen haben. Mithilfe seiner Stimme, elektronischen Effekten und einem Augenzwinkern befreit er „Das Kapital“ von dem Mythos, der sich vor allem in seiner Heimat Russland rund um das Werk entwickelt hat. Enttäuschung und Misstrauen gegenüber dem Marxismus verarbeitet Alexey Kokhanov in seiner Performance genauso wie persönliche Ernüchterung in der Erinnerung an die Ideologie der Sowjetunion. Dabei entsteht eine überraschende neue Kunstgattung irgendwo zwischen zeitgenössischem Liederabend, Musiktheater und experimenteller Lesung, für die er von Adam Asnan begleitet wird.

September 24 + 25, 2021, 19h
Kiezkapelle at Neuer St. Jacobi Friedhof Hermannstraße 102, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln

Can fiction immortalize real places? A music performance with embedded sound installation questions the aesthetics of confusion on a graveyard steeped in history. Textual references to Bruno Bauer, Karl Marx and Theodor Fontane intertwine with the voice of the last stonemason from a Neukölln landmark. An audio-performative experiment in a unique urban resting place. Prelude to a musical series about memory and remembrance.

with Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Alexey Kokhanov, Torsten Ottersberg

Tickets: irrungen.wirrungen2021@gmail.com

September 24 + 25, 2021, 19h
Kiezkapelle at Neuer St. Jacobi Friedhof Hermannstraße 102, 12051 Berlin-Neukölln

Can fiction immortalize real places? A music performance with embedded sound installation questions the aesthetics of confusion on a graveyard steeped in history. Textual references to Bruno Bauer, Karl Marx and Theodor Fontane intertwine with the voice of the last stonemason from a Neukölln landmark. An audio-performative experiment in a unique urban resting place. Prelude to a musical series about memory and remembrance.

with Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Alexey Kokhanov, Torsten Ottersberg

Tickets: irrungen.wirrungen2021@gmail.com

Concert at P.A.N.D.A. Plattform

https://panda-platforma.berlin/events/alexey-kokhanov-moscow-berlin-electropanda-2/

“Iron Flamingos. Empathy of banal” is a music performance with covers of popular songs from USSR. Alla Pugacheva, Maya Kristallinskaya, Tatyana Doronina and other Queer-Ikons that could be described as figures of soviet camp culture. (As a reference - “Notes on camp” by Susan Sontag)