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Ivanka Mogilska

writer, director, voice Ivanka Mogilska is a writer who has published three books; the poetry collections In Other Words (Ed. “Janet 45″, 2010) and DNA (Ed. “Janet 45″, 2004), and the novel Hideaways (published “Janet 45″, 2007). She has collaborated with Albena Baeva on the site-specific intervention piece Universal Meeting. Mogilska contributed stories to the [...]

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the DNA of words @ theater Sfumato

“The DNA of Words” was presented on July 3 2011, at the Sfumato theatre during the “Small Season” festival. This second performance of “DNA of Words” was accompanied by visuals that were created using a Gridflow patch based on work by Mathieu Bouchard. The visuals presented the transformation of the spoken words. For this performance [...]

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the DNA of words @ The Fridge

The latest performance by Runabout project is called “The DNA of Words”. The performance had its premiere at The Fridge on June 17 2011. For this performance Albena Baeva collaborated with writer Ivanka Mogilska and created an instrument that would allow them to play poetry books. This is the latest instrument in the Runabout series [...]

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the instruments of Runabout @ BAZA Art Award 2011

Two of the Runabout project instruments are now on show at the Baza Art Award 2011 exhibition in the Sofia City Gallery. You can see the Trash Banjo and the Bergeron accordion on the second floor of the gallery until July 10 2011. Even though they did not win the Baza Award, they look so [...]

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pictures of the instruments

Electric glass contrabass Electro-acoustic trash banjo Bergeron accordion pictures by Zdravko Dimov

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Ignite Sofia Call for presentations

Ignite Sofia invites presentation proposals for Global Ignite Week 2011. On the 8th of February Ignite Sofia will join Global Ignite week(7-11 February 2011). In over 50 cities around the world, more than 10.000 entrepreneurs, technologists, DIYers, creative professionals, and enthusiastic knowledge-seekers will gather for an evening that is a unique blend of networking, information, [...]

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runabout project @ After Art

19th of december 2010 at 20:00h is the last show for this year. Albena Baeva and Segey Glinkov will improvise “Playing the Bergeron” at the bar After Art, str. Iskar 11, Sofia. Music, video and movement are united together in a single interaction through the custom bergeron-accordion made by Runabout. The improvisation between these medias [...]

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the begeron experiment @ DA fest

Playing the Bergeron from Albena Baeva on Vimeo.

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sensor based accordion

The sensor-based accordion, created by Albena Baeva, Petya Boyukova and Simeon Ianchev, is ready. The technology is based on two open source platforms: Arduino and Puredata. On September 30 2010 Nasekomix will perform live with our sensor-based accordion during their consert at Sofia Live Club. The concert starts at 10pm. On Oktober 3 2010 the [...]

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the bergeron experiment

The latest performance of Runabout project will be shown at Da-fest in 15th of september from 20:30h in gallery “Academy”, Sofia. The Bergeron Experiment is  inspired by the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. Albena Baeva and Petya Boyukova team up with Andronia Popova, front-woman of Nasekomix. Bergeron Experiment features a custom-built electronic accordion [...]

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