Curated by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros The first instalment of the monographic dedicated to Pelayo Fernández Arrizabalaga features interviews with Cristina Casanova and Sergi Jordà. Download Pelayo Fernández Arrizabalaga (Laredo, 1949) grew up loving and soaking up the jazz standards popularised by Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington. Up to a point, we could [...]
Emerging from the Chicago’s improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world’s pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. His early recordings contain mostly sparse, quiet sounds; recent works have been more [...]
In February 2009 I performed a semi-improvised version of the composition Stranger. Now there’s an HD video of the whole set online. download video here. Play Audio download audio here. From the program notes: This is a live interpretation of the composition Stranger. The performance is semi-improvised, based upon a pre-conceived structure, exploring the no [...]
Frakture present Splash Gig Night, where creative forces meet Splash night number 29 @ The Pilgrim 34 Pilgrim St Liverpool UK L1 9HB Thursday 10th September 8.00pm free event A casserole of free improvisation in a new venue for Frakture which once featured the likes of Derek Baileys Company, Fred Frith and Phil Minton….reclaim the [...]
“The first three selections were recorded at the art gallery and performance space ABC No Rio in New York’s lower Lower East Side on November 24, 1988. The occasion for the concert was the opening night of an exhibition of paintings by Carl George and Valerie Caris. The fourth selection was recorded at DC Space, [...]
click on the image to see (video) In celebration of his new CD on John Zorn’s Tzadik label, the renowned ensembles ICE and Talea came together to perform the chamber music of Mario Diaz de Leon on September 25th at Roulette. Hypnotic and ritualistic, the music mixes acoustic and electronic elements, and draws from influences [...]
The Hassay-DeChellis–Nakatani Trio “An Evening of Spontaneous Beauty” Wed Sept 30 – 8:30 PM The Hassay-DeChellis–Nakatani Trio perform purely improvised music that draws from everything and nothing all at the same time. With Gary Hassay (saxophone), Dan DeChellis (piano), Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion), they each have very distinct voices and styles, yet allow each other to [...]
When Victor Nubla and Juan Crek founded Macromassa in 1976, they began more than just a simple duo. To many people, this Barcelona group is the touchstone of independence in Spanish music: the first fanzines, the first self-produced record in the country and a musical attitude that lies somewhere between the destructive and the surreal [...]
Gordon Beeferman’s MUSIC FOR AN IMAGINARY BAND Tue Sept 22 – 8:30 PM Music for an IMAGINARY BAND, led by composer-pianist Gordon Beeferman, is a (real) 7-piece group comprised of some of New York’s most uniquely creative musicians – Nate Wooley, Evan Rapport, Matt Bauder, Josh Sinton, James Ilgenfritz, and Michael Evans. The band explores [...]
Performances exploring relationships between sound, music and gesture by: Ben Marks and Andrew Johnston; Jon Drummond; Bert Bongers and Jos Mulder; Sam Ferguson. WHEN 6pm, Wednesday September 23 WHERE UTS Bon Marche Theatre UTS Building 3 755 Harris St, Ultimo (near cnr. Harris St. and Broadway, enter from Harris St) Map: http://www.uts.edu.au/about/mapsdirections/bway.html Free entry PERFORMERS [...]
August 5th (wednesday) GRAVEYARDS (John Olson, Ben Hall, and Chris Riggs) PIMA GROUP BEE MASK @ Plays and Players 1714 Delancey Place 8pm; $5-$10 SUMMER SUBLIME A triple bill of haunting beauty and sublime intensity closes out the Bowerbird summer season. Detroit’s Graveyards (members of Wolf Eyes, Melee), will be joined by Melisa Putz and [...]
Annual free sound art, New Music and free improvisation event held at a museum set up by Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell with live performances by Pedro Carneiro, Bernhard Günter, eRikm, Dúo Rejoice! and Koichi Makigami. Malpartida de Cáceres Museo Vostell Malpartida, 11–25 September, free September 2009 – 11 : Pedro Carneiro, – 17 : Bernhard [...]
On Sunday 6 September from 2.45pm, Twisted Lounge presents three events curated by David Toop, Leon Michener and Tilt as part of the Kings Place Festival. TWISTED LOUNGE PRESENTS… THE PAINE OF PLEASURE Curated by Leon Michener A schizoid babble fantasy, performed by a consort of voices Glossalia, with improvisation maestro’s Leon Michener on pianoforte and Mark Sanders on drums, extemporising [...]
KINGS PLACE AUTUMN SEASON: SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2009 “A fantastic addition to the city’s cultural life” (Musical Criticism) OUT HEAR (formerly ‘This is Tuesday’) starts on Monday 14 September and features an eclectic mix of musicians drawn from the worlds of Electronica, Free-improvisation, Contemporary Classical, Gallic Punk, Fluxus, mashed-up Gospel and South African Township Jazz. [...]
STEIM@40! Summer Concert Featuring: Jorrit Dijkstra (NL/US), Terri Hron (CA/NL), Alfredo Genovesi (UK/NL) , Robbert van Hulzen (NL), Jason Roebke (US) and dj sniff (JP/NL) During July, Amsterdam becomes pretty quiet with most institutions and groups closed or away for summer. This concert is for those who stick around. Jorrit Dijkstra, an Amsterdam local now living [...]
Frakture present i:Splash Fri 03 July St Brides Church, Catherine Street Liverpool, L8 7LT 8pm £2 A casserole of free improvisation on a brisk summers evening in Church. featuring Adam Webster, Cello Chris Mcgugan, Acoustic Guitar Garfield Southall, Soundscapes Harry Gallimore, Home made synths Helen Southall, Bass Clarinet Ian Simpson, Lapsteel Guitar, radio Marion Leibl, [...]
proudly presents the following concerts: when? Thu, 18.06.09 20:00 where?Kulturhaus Mitte Auguststrasse 21, 10117 Berlin who? Jazzkeller 69 stellt vor: Berlin Jazz Composers Orchestra Jay Jay Be Ce Leitung Christof Griese Eintritt frei http://www.saxart.de/pages/jjbcpresse.html when? Thu, 18.06.09 20:30 where?Gelegenheiten Weserstraße 50/ Ecke Elbe 12045 Berlin Neukölln who? Halb sechs Jazz Berit Jung – kontrabass Hampus [...]
THE REACTABLE, THE ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT CREATED BY SERGI JORDÀ, IS THE SPECIAL GUEST FOR THIS WEEK’S IMPRONIT BY GRÀCIA TERRITORI SONOR The creator of the device -of which there are only 10 copies in all the world- will take part in this session of free improvisation side by side with Aixònoéspànic The Reactable is an instrument [...]
STEIM@40! presents in the Local Stop concert series: Flickr (Uli Böttcher & Michael Vorfeld) strøm (Gaudenz Badrutt & Christian Müller) Flickr and strøm use STEIM’s live sampling software LiSa extensively. Both duos will work in the STEIM studios for a week prior to the concert to prepare two unique views on live sampling. Date: Saturday, [...]
[audio:http://www.rtve.es/resources/mp3/1/6/1242219435761.mp3] La poesía experimental, en sus vertientes fonéticas y sonoras, ocupa el centro de atención de este programa monográfico. En él participa el poeta y artista multidisciplinar Fernando Millán (Villarrodrigo, Jaén, 1944), comisario de la exposición titulada ‘Escrito está. La poesía experimental en el Estado español (1963-1984)’, que se presenta en el museo Artium de [...]
here is a Frakture May 2009 Update 1.. Splash Gig opus 26 tonight 7th May 2.. Parallax (Norway) & Pecha Kucha, The Bluecoat Sat 9th may 3.. Snap out of it, workshop Thursday 14th May 4.. Soundwalk: Take me to the river, Monday 25th May 5.. i:Object Friday 29th May 6.. Travel by frakCAR 1) [...]
Frakture present iSplash gig #26 May 2009: Liverpool UK an evening of free improvisation in music this is an open invitation to musicians to play at i:Splash #26 by inviting the interested musicians to select the date…. which will be during May 2009 Location: Liverpool UK by going to the doodle here http://www.doodle.com/kwkmmb8pf5wgidim PLEASE VOTE [...]
Close On the Edge Part I (video) Download Close On the Edge Part II (video) Download A series of four 55 minute films shown on Channel 4 TV in the UK in early 1992. To say this was the best and most intelligent analysis of improvisation to be screened on UK television is probably unnecessary: [...]
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