On October 17th, 2026, at MAR, on the occasion of the Notte d’Oro, MAGMA presents COLIN SELF, an American artist, composer, and puppeteer living and working between Brooklyn and Berlin.
Their practice weaves liturgical chorality with performative theatricality, composing a vocal fabric that shifts between the harmonic and the dissonant, the controlled and the aleatoric. The evening will move through a catalog spanning their last three records — Elation, Siblings, and r&L4nGc; — with stage costumes created in collaboration with Vincent Tiley. A concert that becomes a ritual device: a temporary system for putting the assembled community in relation with what exceeds the living, in a continuous passage between the living and the deceased.
Opening and extending the evening will be a dj set, stretching out the atmosphere of the performance.
Biography
Colin Self (b. 1987, Oregon, USA) is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based between Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased. As many of their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities, their work envelops collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. Self has been running XOIR since 2013, an alternative modality of group singing, and co-founded TIAPS, a performance school in 2022, with their collaborator Monica Mirabile.
Their most recent commissions include Where The Souls Go (2024), a play commissioned by the New Theater Hollywood, Kompass (2023), a trilogy composed for the Hannover State Opera, and Tip the Ivy (2022), an opera that premiered at Performance Space NY in 2022. They were a 2023 resident artist at Callie’s Berlin and an artistic fellow at La Becque in Autumn 2024.
Their expanded third record, respite and levity for the nameless ghost in crisis, was released February 13th on RVNG Intl.
