Can you create a short promotional text for a concert of max 300 characters using the following information: Our duo consists of cellist Leah Plave and flutist, electroacoustic composer and sound

operator Tiziano Teodori. We met in 2020 in The Netherlands as members of a
multidisciplinary music collective, Linen of Words; an ensemble featuring American folk
repertoire for voice, cello, flute, bass, and electronics. After successfully touring and
recording with the ensemble, we developed a strong background as collaborators and
realized many shared artistic ambitions in fusing genres and exploring electronic sound.
Leah edges past the traditional role of a cellist, performing not only classical repertoire
but electronic, non-western, experimental, contemporary, and early music. She
frequently works with living composers and enjoys interdisciplinary, cross-cultural
projects. Leah has toured extensively across North America, China, and Europe, as a
soloist and chamber musician. Based in the Netherlands since 2020, she is an Artist in
Residence at Studio LOOS (Den Haag), where her research focuses on music for
acoustic cello and live electronics. She has performed with many award winning
ensembles such as Z4 Piano Quartet, Lincoln Center Stage piano quintet, Vratsa
Symphony Orchestra (BG), Theresia Orchestra (IT), Jeune Orchestre Rameau (FR),
and Vermont Symphony Orchestra (USA).

Tiziano makes sounds and mixes for the project “Pollution”- an electroacoustic,
avant-garde and post-rock ensemble with guitarist Andrea Cauduro. Together they
released four independent albums on Bandcamp: “Blu Pollution”, “Black/White
Pollution”, “A Silly Symphony” and “Crash Test”, which they have performed throughout
Italy, The Netherlands, and Germany. Tiziano’s music has been sponsored and
published by Musica Elettronica newspaper and performed in a fix-media installation by
"Tempo Reale Festival” in Florence. He works as flutist for “The Bach Choir and
Orchestra of the Netherlands”, “La Favorita Ensemble” and “D.N.M.O. orchestra.”
From 2019, Tiziano has served as the official beta-tester for Novation, electronic
instruments inventors, based in London.

Concept-
Our concert program is a 40 minute collage of works for solo cello and electronics

written by a collection of young, diversified composers. Included, we will also contribute
personally to the program with our own improvisation. Our set list includes the following
pieces:

Augun (2013) by Fjola Evans
“Fjóla Evans is a Canadian/Icelandic composer and cellist. Her work explores the
visceral physicality of sound while drawing inspiration from patterns of natural
phenomena. Commissions and performances have come from musicians such as Bang
on a Can All-Stars pianist Vicky Chow, Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird, and
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.”
On Being Wrong (2015) and Exhalation (2021) by Christopher Cerrone
“Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) is internationally acclaimed for compositions
characterized by a subtle handling of timbre and resonance, a deep literary fluency, and
a flair for multimedia collaborations. Balancing lushness and austerity, immersive
textures and telling details, dramatic impact, and interiority, Cerrone’s
multi-GRAMMY-nominated music is utterly compelling and uniquely his own.”

'Bloom' for violoncello and reflexive electronics (2021) by August Franklin
“Austin Franklin is an internationally recognized composer, sound artist, developer, and
researcher. He received a PhD in Experimental Music & Digital Media from Louisiana
State University in 2023. His interests include music involving process, slow methodical
thematic development, and an attention to texture and form.”
It has not taken long (2021) by Molly Joyce
“Molly Joyce is a composer and performer whose work focuses on disability as a
creative source. She has been deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing
composers working under the vast new-music dome” by "The Washington Post.”
Improvisation by Leah Plave and Tiziano Teodori
Our improvisations explore the depths and colors of the cello through the analogue
modular synthesis process, experimentation with live sampling, timbre development,
layering, minimalistic pulsation and abstract contest creation, prepared cello, and
de-tuned strings.

The repertoire we have chosen explores the vast realm of sound possibilities shared
between acoustic cello and electronics, drawing inspiration from environmental
sciences, ancient music traditions, and human nature. In each of these pieces, the
electronic sound component has a different relationship to the cello- sometimes
weaving in and out, sometimes a backdrop, and other times reacting through artificial
intelligence to form a unique conversation.

While music for strings and electronic sound has existed since the 1950’s, it remains
today a niche, lesser heard genre. By performing this music for cello and electronics, we
aim to attract new audiences to this incredible sound world and support the careers of
living composers. Our program attracts audiences of all ages who enjoy classical,
contemporary, electronic, experimental, folk, and indie music.