CLOUD LUDUM (“ludum” [Latin] – game or play) performs in a style that could be defined as "third stream" – a blend of contemporary classical music with jazz and free improvisation.
The repertoire of the ensemble includes compositions by Bela Bartok, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Leo Brouwer and other XX century classical composers as well as contemporary jazz and third-stream pieces. CLOUD LUDUM experiments a lot with various kinds of improvisation ranging from classical variations to blowing over jazz changes to modal jazz solos to free collective improvisation. Beside perfect blend of the acoustic instruments, ensemble includes electronics, which brings a “film-score” atmospheric component to the music, creating unusual ambient landscapes and musical creatures to accompany acoustic improvisers. The group was formed in 2010 and consists of the finest Berklee, NEC and Boston Conservatory alumni.
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Vote for Cloud Ludum on Usadba Jazz
Please vote for Cloud Ludum to participate in one of the largest jazz festivals in Russia - Usadba Jazz
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http://usadba-jazz.ru/ru/moskva/konkurs/musicians/cloud-ludum.html
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Cloud Ludum at The BIRN
April 27 at 7:00 pm
Eastern Standard Time
CLOUD LUDUM is very excited to be featured on BIRNalive on Berklee Internet Radio Network. Tune in to the BIRN1 to hear interview followed by live performance. CLOUD LUDUM will play original compositions and arrangements that will present to the listener their favorite mix: avant-garde classical and jazz, free improvisation and electronics.
Listen to Cloud Ludum on the BIRN
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Cloud Ludum and Bleep Blop
April 20 at 7:30 pm
Free admission
CLOUD LUDUM is honored to take part in the concert organized by Bleep Blop electro-acoustic ensemble.
Bleep Blop brings to UMass Lowell innovative composers and their ensembles, who merge the art of acoustic music with the mystique of audio technology and free improvisation. The concert will feature:
electronically manipulated piano, Kronos Quartet drum machine, robotic glockenspiel, analog synthesis, live video and other creative discoveries.
Among other original pieces and arrangements CLOUD LUDUM will premier a new piece by Olga Karaseva “Forest” written especially for the ensemble.
Bleep Blop Electro-acoustic ensemble
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Free. Structures. Evolving.
January 29 at 9 pm
Free admission
COUD LUDUM ensemble presents a concert program of original compositions and arrangements in a third-stream idiom. You will hear
a blend of twenty-century classical music with contemporary jazz,
free improvisation and electronics.
The program includes originals by Jazz Composition graduate
Olga Karaseva as well as compositions by Brower, Bartok, Stockhausen, Arvo Part and Webern arranged for chamber jazz/avant-garde ensemble.
Your presence will help the music to reach its full multi-dimensional climax!
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LongyLaboratory
CLOUD LUDUM is going to perform as apart of LongyLaboratory concert series. Longy Laboratory is the official experimental music outlet of the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
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Alisa and CLOUDs II
December 8 at 8 pm
Donations are welcome
Stockhausen "Zodiac"
CLOUD LUDUM septet presents Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work “Zodiac” arranged for chamber jazz ensemble. A blend of contemporary classical, free improvisation, jazz and electronics.
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Alisa Apreleva
Ancient, yet experimental. Electronic, yet natural. Groovy, yet meditative.
Alisa Apreleva presents EthnoLoops: a solo set for voice, cello and a loop station, where Eastern European and Native American traditional songs coexist with original compositions to create a universe full of joy and color.
apreleva.com, facebook.com/AlisaApreleva
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Alisa and CLOUDs
October 27 at 8:15 pm
Donations are welcome
CLOUD LUDUM
A blend of contemporary jazz and classical music. Intellectual and emotional. Acoustic and electronic. CLOUD LUDUM septet presents Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work “Zodiac” arranged
for chamber jazz ensemble.
Alisa Apreleva
Ancient, yet experimental. Electronic, yet natural. Groovy, yet meditative.
Alisa Apreleva presents EthnoLoops: a solo set for voice, cello and a loop station, where Eastern European and Native American traditional songs coexist with original compositions to create a universe full of joy and color.
apreleva.com, facebook.com/AlisaApreleva
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Cloud Ludum presents Stockhausen's Zodiac
October 2, 2012 at 9 PM
Admission is FREE
Cloud Ludum will perform Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work “Zodiac”. “Zodiac” is a cycle of 12 tone-row pieces each representing a zodiac sign. Probably it is one of the most popular Stockhausen’s compositions. Originally these pieces were written for music boxes but composer arranged them later for various vocal and instrumental ensembles. Due to this initial “openness” for multiple interpretations the composition presents a very inspiring material for a chamber jazz ensemble.
Performance of “Zodiac” arranged for Cloud Ludum by Olga Karaseva will include different types of improvisation ranging from classical variation and blowing over jazz chanes to riff based solo and free collective improvisation. It will be a non-stop performance, where one theme is leading to another. This format will allow the audience to experience intense emotional and intellectual journey through this XX century avant-garde composition.
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