About

FICTA is a group of composers-performers that aims to develop a unique approach to the performance of improvised music and the interpretation of open scores. The group was founded in 2018 with a goal to create a platform for personal and collective artistic research while examining the balance between both the performer and the creator, and between the musical text and its interpretation.

Alongside FICTA’s ongoing research, the group also performs innovative concerts. FICTA’s past performances include Borders – a cooperation with the Genia Schreiber Art Gallery in Tel Aviv University. In Borders the group performed an improvisation inspired by the exhibition “Defense lines”, that examined the communicational borders that separate one performer from the other. In 2019, the group participated in the Tzlil Meudcan festival in “Ha’Teiva” Hall in Jaffa, where they performed open scores and original compositions with conductor and violinist Ilan Volkov. In addition, the group played with other leading artists, including pianist Imri Talgam and guitarist Dennis Sobolev.

Last season, the ensemble began to collaborate with the choreographers-dancers Omer Keinan and Tamar Honig, with whom they developed methodologies and techniques that apply principles from the world of theater and dance to music and other sonoric mediums. In addition, the ensemble collaborated with composer Hadas Pe’ery as part of the series This is what happens when you play with electricity in “Ha’Teiva” Hall in Jaffa.

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