MUD (Anne Penders & Katie Porter) / S.t.m.C & Stellka
Two performances combining spoken word, sound, improvisation, and field recordings by MUD (Belgium / U.S.) and S.t.m.C & Stellka (Greece).
🔷 The duo MUD presents the performance [some] roots.
MUD is a collaboration between artist/writer Anne Penders, and clarinetist Katie Porter, a journey where poetry sometimes meets politics, through sound, image, text, and archival material. Working from land art, memory, super 8 movies and field recordings, they create shifting territories where personal histories and ecological realities intersect. The project unfolds as an ongoing trilogy first rooted in Nancy Holt’s desert works, contemporary environmental urgency, and layered archives… echoing much further as rootstalks grow. Through distance-based exchanges and chance operations, they transform materials into scores, performances, drawings, and films.
The writer and interdisciplinary artist Anne Penders constantly seeks to question our position in a troubled world. She undertook a special research project focused on China (2001–2014), then shifted her focus to Greece (2012–2021…), until her encounter with a biologist in Athens led to a long-term, ongoing project titled “peripou.” Her book “kalà” has been translated into Greek by Anastasia Chavatza (Vakchikon Publications, 2020).
Katie Porter is a clarinetist, composer, and experimental musician known for her deeply thoughtful and minimalist work that explores music perception through time and space. Katie is actively involved in numerous collaborative projects and ensembles, and premiering new works by experimental composers. Her recent solo bass clarinet album Conversation No. 1 / Collecting Rocks from the Places We’ve Been (2025) beautifully showcases her careful, spacious compositions that invite patient listeninng.
🔷 Sonic Subjects is an experimental live audio performance based on field recordings. Through a back-to-back flow, two parallel bodies of sound converse and collide.
S.t.m.C is an Athens-based musician, sound artist, and field recordist. With a background in architecture and urban culture her work explores the sonic identity of urban and natural environments, the timbres and rhythms of everyday life, inviting audiences to experience sound as a transformative, spatial, illuminating and emotional encounter.
Stellka is an artist with a background in Informatics and Media Art. Her work focuses on electroacoustic compositions based on experimentations using electronics, field and voice recordings, percussion, string instruments, synths, toys, voice messages and digital life sounds. In her practice she is interested in improvisation, variations and experimental methods of composition.
Photo: Anne Penders