Silvia Ocougne
Born in São Paulo, Brazil .
Guitar studies by Manoel São Marcos, Edgard Poças and Paulo Bellinatti, among others.
1975 -1981 - Studies of Composition by Willy Correa de Oliveira at the São Paulo University
1984- Scholarship from the Brazilian Culture Ministerium, to Boston, USA, New England Conservatory. Studies by Ran Blake and Mick Goodrick a.o.
1986 - Master with Honors and Distinction in Performance "Third Stream - Guitar ".
She has colaborated with many composers /musicians like: Chico Mello, Arnold Dreyblatt, Daniel Ott, Carlo Domeniconi, Livio Tragtemberg, a.o.
Silvia Ocougne has been living in Berlin since 1987 where she has worked as composer, guitarist and performer of Experimental, New and Brazilian Music.
In the 90´she was a member of the group "Thirteenth Tribe" and the "Orchestra of Excited Strings". Since 1999 - member of the experimental ensemble " Armchair Traveller" with Werner Durand, Sebastian Hilken and Hella von Ploetz .
Silvia Ocougne has performed many german, brazilian and world first auditions with pieces of La Monte Young, David First, Graciela Paraiskaidas, Vitold Zalonek , Leo Masliah, Stephanie Schweiger, among others.
As a soloist and with berliner groups she has performed in Germany and abroad.
Concerts (selection)
Neue Musik Rümlingen , Swisserland; Experimenta , Buenos Aires, Experimental Intermidia , New York (sponsored by Goethe Institut); Musikinstrumenten - Museum , Berlin; Hamburger Bahnhof , Freunde Guter Musik, Berlin; Centro Cultural Itau , São Paulo, Brazil; Herkules Saal , “Projekt Musica Viva", Bayrischen Rundfunk Orchester", München, Germany ; Schloß Moyland , Kleve, Germany; Espaço Cultural Banco do Brasil , Rio de Janeiro; Bang on a Can Festival, New York; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Guitar Festival Istanbul, Turkey; Festival of Visions , Hong Kong; Quasi Amazonia , Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Freunde Guter Musik, Berlin; Festival Paralelo , Madrid, Ayello, Spanien; Pessoares , Staatsbank Französische Strasse, Freunde Guter Musik - Gelbe Musik, Berlin; Dokumenta , Kassel; Otto Braun Saal , IAI, Berlin; Kunstraum Hellerau , Dresden; Bauhaus , Dessau; Berlinische Galerie , Lange Nacht der Museum, Berlin; Multimediale , ZKM, Karlsruhe; 7me Festival des Musiques Innovatrices , St-Etiènne; GMEM Festival du Musique d'Aujourd'hui , Marseille, sponsored by Goethe Institut; Zabalmusik , San Sebastian; Alte Schmiede , Wien; Palácio das Artes , Belo Horizonte, Die Lange Nacht der Gitarre , Podewil, Berlin; Pessoares, Staatsbank Fransösicher Strasse, Berlin; Festival Maerz Musik , Berlin.
Conception of projects :(selection)
Montags Musik Brasilien , Podewil , Berlin ; Lange Nacht der Gitarre , Podewil, Berlin
Quasi Amazonia - Haus der Kulturen der Welt /Freunde Guter Musik, Berlin; Música Brasileira De(s)composta , Festival Maerz Musik, Berlin.Compositions for (selection):
Film, Days of Miendi by Yingli Ma (China /Berlin); Bananeri , by João Claudio Sena, Brazil; The Pursuit of Happiness , by Jimmie Durham (Paris, Italy, Berlin); Dance , Pedra, together with Elise Ralston; CD Rom: Paulicéia Desvairada , by Joao Cláudio Sena and Paula Janovich, Brazil ; Sound Instalation Wanderausstellung Ostsee in die Freiheit ; God is design, DVD Instalation by Adel Abdessemed, Paris, Berlin.
CD Recordings (selected):
Dvahni, with Carlo Domeniconi, 1990
Geduldig und Thiman , with "The Orchestra of Excited Strings", 1992
Ping Pong Antropology , with the Group XIIIth Tribe, 1993 (Recomended)
Water Music , with Carlo Domeniconi, 1995 (Classic Berlin Records)
Animal Magnetism, " The Orchestra of Excited Strings", 1996 (Tzadek)
Música Brasileira De(s)composta , with Chico Mello, Berlin, 1997 (Wandelweiser)
Violão de Dois , with Chico Mello, Berlin, 2001 (Oakmus)
The Perfect Record , with Armchair Traveller, Berlin, 2001 (Recomended, No Man´s Land)
A Classic Guide To No Man´s Land , sample CD , XIIIth Tribe e Armchair Traveller, Berlin, 2003; (Recomended, No Man´s Land)
