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LIVE: International Jazz Platform 2023

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Chance Encounters #004

https://www.mixcloud.com/thomasmartinnutt/chance-encounters-004/

Tujiko Noriko, Inge Marie, Ai Yamamoto, Akio Suzuki, Louis & Bebe Barron, Asha Sheshadri, Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Baker, Jonathan Skinner, Jan Bang & Erik Honore, Vanessa Rossetto, Kelly Lee Owens, Sarah Hughes, My Cat Is An Alien & Steve Roden, Brian McBride, Suzanne Ciani, Derek Jarman, Aki Onda, Oval, Andrew Cyrille, Elliott Sharp & Richard Teitelbaum, Wouter van Veldhoven, Biliana Voutchkova & Leila Bordreuil, Barn Sour, Kevin Richard Martin, Toshiya Tsunoda, Hatis Noit, Steve Roden

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Erste Einblicke in unsere Projekte

MEET THE ARTIST

3. August 2024, 4 pm - 8 pm. @Villa Aurora 520 Paseo Miramar Pacific Palisades, 90272 CA

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Experimentik #74 / 15. May 2024 / Sabine Vogel / Pip

15. May 2024 / 20:30- (doors 20:00) *no entry during sets

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solo: Sabine Vogel - amplified flutes and objects

duo: Pip

Torstein Lavik Larsen - trumpet, electronics

Fredrik Rasten - guitars

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FB event: https://fb.me/e/8fhcKpba6

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Sabine Vogel bewegt sie sich im Feld der Improvisation und zeitgenössischen Musik. Als Flötistin beschäftigt sich  intensiv mit modernen Spieltechniken, Klang und Improvisation und arbeitet häufig in Kombination  mit Field Recordings und Aufnahmen, die sie in der Natur macht. Dabei bewegt sie sich an einer  Schnittstelle von audiovisuellen Installations- und Konzertformaten und kreiert häufig auch  ortsbezogene Arbeiten, die sich mit Klang, Ort, Zeit, Moment und Erinnerung auseinandersetzen. 

Sie hatte Solo Konzerte und Auftritte innerhalb Europas, Australiens, Amerikas und spielte auf  Festivals, wie ISEA RUHR, Ultima Festival (NOR), Ultraschall Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Mona Foma,  NOWnow (AUS), High Zero (US), Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt etc 

Sie ist Mitglied des Splitter Orchester in Berlin, ihre momentanen Projekte sind: Recorded Landscapes, Land Stages mit Emilio Gordoa, das Duo wassermannvogel mit der Sängerin und Stimmkünstlerin  Ute Wassermann, das audiovisuelle Duo Ornis mit Kathy Hinde einiges mehr. 

Zusammenarbeit außerdem u.a. mit mit Anthony Braxton, Arto Lindsay, George Lewis,Tony Buck, Andrea Neumann, Biliana Voutchkova, Magda Mayas, Marta Zapparoli, Emilio Gordoa.  Stipendien und Förderungen: u.a. Villa Aurora (L.A.), STEIM (Amsterdam), EMS (Stockholm), BCSC  (AUS), INITIAL (AdK), MWFK Brandenburg, Künstlerhaus Lukas, AiR NÖ, Musikfonds.  Veröffentlichungen auf den Lables: creative sources, Another Timbre, Absinth , infrequency,  Mikroton, schraum 

Lehraufträge an der Universität Potsdam und der HMT Rostock.  

Ihr Artikel ‚Tuning-in’ über ihre Arbeit in und in Bezug auf die Natur, erschien 2015 in dem  Magazin ,Contemporary Music Review’. 

Webseite: www.sabvog.de 

Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user5523081 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sabine-vogel 

Bandcamp: https://sabinevogel.bandcamp.com/

photo © Cristina Marx/Photomusix

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Pip weaves long lasting sonic landscapes. Justly intonated harmonies, airy noises and slow melodies construct an organic music where the listener can both surrender to the music and actively explore the multilayered sonic facets.  The duo has existed since 2006 and since then they have developed a characteristic sound in a music encompassing improvisation and collective composition.  Their 2019 release ‘Possible Worlds’ is a one hour long piece utilizing an extended instrumentarium of justly tuned guitars, trumpet and synthesizers, and it documents their pinnacle work as a duo so far.

pipband.com

pipband.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT84eax6AxY

photo © Torstein Lavik Larsen

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Experimentik 2024  is supported by inm - initiative neue musik berlin / field notes

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SPLITTER ORCHESTER Burkhard Beins (perc) Roy Carroll (elec.) Anat Cohavi (cl) Axel Dörner (tp) Sabine Ercklentz (tp/elec) Kai Fagaschinski (cl) Emilio Gordoa (vib) Robin Hayward (tb) Steve Heather (dr) Chris Heenan (b.cl) Patrick Klingenschmitt (manager) Mike Majkowski (db) Matthias Müller (tb) Andrea Neumann (ip) Andrea Parkins (ac/elec) Michael Thieke (cl) Sabine Vogel (fl) Biliana Voutchkova (vl) Marta Zapparoli (elec)

more info: www.splitter.berlin

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Listed: Horse Lords

Baltimore-based Horse Lords have been forging their own take on experimental rock music since 2012. The quartet, Andrew Bernstein (saxophone/percussion), Max Eilbacher (bass/electronics), Owen Gardner (guitar) and Sam Haberman (drums) weave together pieces drawing on divergent sources that include everything from 20th and 21st century classical music to just intonation tuning to African and Appalachian musical traditions to intricate polyrhythms and studio experiments. In a recent interview, Gardner talked about their approach to putting pieces together. “We generally write right up to the edge of our abilities. And sometimes slightly beyond. We’d had to scrap quite a few songs because they proved to be basically impossible to play... It keeps it interesting.” Ian Forsythe covered their newest release, The Common Task, noting that “Their nearly ten-year core pivots rhythmic and tonal ideas athletically, and their ability to pull elements from anywhere and everywhere is seemingly more fluid with each record.”

For this Listed, the four members runs down a list of live shows, recordings, blogs, movies, and books that have been on their minds.

Gleb Kanasevich plays Horațiu Rădulescu’s “Inner Time II for seven clarinets (Op.42b),” Baltimore. 2018 (Owen Gardner)

A near-hourlong ear workout, combining impressive sonic and structural brutality. The interaction of what these close dissonances do inside your ears with what the clarinets do in space (Gleb played live with 6 recordings of himself, meticulously arranged around the audience) is a haunting experience, celestial but with no concession to human music.

Maryanne Amacher — Perceptual Geographies, Philadelphia 2019 (Owen Gardner)

https://issuu.com/bowerbirdphilly/docs/amacherprogramonline

So much revelatory material has come out of the Maryanne Amacher archive so far, and particularly these loving reconstructions of her instrumental music. A lot more attention seems to have been given to “Petra,” which is certainly gorgeous and shows fascinating symmetries with the spatial/timbral concerns of her electronic music, but “Adjacencies” struck me as the Major Work of 20th Century Music. She wrote the damn thing in 1965 and it sounds fresh half a century later, which we can say of no previous piece of percussion music and not much written subsequently. I am slowly losing my mind waiting for Amy Cimini’s book on Amacher to come out, craving a deeper dive into her theory and methods.

Sarah Hennies, Bonnie Jones, Lê Quan Ninh, and Biliana Voutchkova at the High Zerofestival, Baltimore 2019 (Owen Gardner)

One of at least three great things Sarah Hennies did last year (Reservoir 1 on Black Truffle and the 90 minute cello/percussion duo “The Reinvention of Romance” being the others) was to take part in Baltimore’s High Zero festival, four mind-frying days devoted to free improvisation. This set was one of the highlights of 2019’s festival; each of the four performers having at least one foot in composed music (Ninh is a long-time Cage interpreter and Biliana has collaborated with Peter Ablinger) seemed to lend it a certain sureness and serenity, but ultimately their combined strength as improvisors (fastidiously captured by High Zero’s crack recording team) is what makes it such an engaging listen.

El Chombo — Cuentos de la Cripta (Owen Gardner)

A relentless tetralogy that nicely balances the rawness of ‘90s proto-reggaetón productions (the first volume self-identifies as “Spanish Reggae”) and the slicker, synth-oriented sound and settled genre conventions we’ve come to enjoy (or not) in the 21st century. This was helpful when working on “People’s Park,” not least for its insistent connection to Jamaican music. I can understand very little Spanish but I'm guessing the lyrics are not unproblematic; signifying language always disappoints.

Wallahi Le Zein! (Owen Gardner)

http://thewealthofthewise.blogspot.com/

An invaluable resource for anyone interested in African music, much more consistent and informative than the often yucky reissue market, which seems to prioritize awkward (and marginal) attempts at Western musical fads—as if what was available was not an impossibly rich and heterogeneous network of self-sufficient musical cultures but merely a broken mirror facing America. The archive of Mauritanian music alone makes this the most worthwhile stop on the information superhighway. There’s plenty of goofy drum programming and appalling sound quality if that’s your bag, but the rich variety of traditional musics is what keeps me coming back.

Miles Davis — On the Corner (Max Eilbacher)

Some might say Stockhausen serves imperialism but he did his little part to help cook up some of the most twisted American Jazz/funk jams ever. Davis only kept one cassette in his convertible sports car during the On the Corner sessions, a tape of “Hymnen.” He would take each member of the band on highspeed joy rides with the car’s stereo system on full blast. That same energy was channeled in the arrangement and editing. The convergence of a lot of different elements keeps this record on my top 10 list ‘til the end of time. The little detail of Americans taking concepts from European Neu Musik and making something incredibly funky and pleasurable is the cherry on top.

Olivia Block & Marcus Schmickler at Diffusion Festival, Baltimore 2018 (Andrew Bernstein)

This was an amazing pairing, with both artists playing in 8-channel “surround sound.” Marcus’ set was incredibly intense. Pure synthesis with a lot of psychoacoustic inner ear tones and unending overlapping melodies. It felt like the sonic equivalent of watching a strobe light at close distance. Olivia’s set was a slow creep, laying samples to create lush textures that were truly immersive. This was the kind of concert that reminds you of the awesome power of music.

Blacks’ Myths at the Red Room, Baltimore 2019 (Andrew Bernstein)

Blacks' Myths II by Blacks' Myths

I’m there for anything bassist Luke Stewart touches (see Irreversible Entanglements, his solo upright + feedback work, frequent collaborations with too many people to name). Blacks' Myths, his bass and drumset duo with Warren Crudup, is loud, noisy, and intense, and this set at the Red Room last year was particularly transcendent.

“Blue” Gene Tyranny — Out of the Blue (Andrew Bernstein)

Out of the Blue by "Blue" Gene Tyranny

I have probably listened to this record more than any other the last few years. Perfectly crafted pop songs segue into proggy funk jams and then into stream of consciousness drone pieces based around the doppler effect. I’ll put it on over and over again, an experience with an album I haven’t really had since I was in high school.

Bill Orcutt — An Account of the Crimes of Peter Thiel and His Subsequent Arrest, Trial, and Execution 2017 (Max Eilbacher)

AN ACCOUNT OF THE CRIMES OF PETER THIEL AND HIS SUBSEQUENT ARREST, TRIAL AND EXECUTION. by BILL ORCUTT

Legendary underground American guitarists from the most important American rock band also makes top notch conceptual digital audio art. Years ago I thought computer music lacked a certain sub cultural attitude. While this was/is not true, this 2017 release feels like it exists in its own world. High and low brow are in perfect harmony for this patterned enjoyable hellride of a listen. What if Hanne Darboven had to make art while working a full time job and dealing with mild substance abuse?

Lina Wertmüller — Seven Beauties 1975 (Max Eilbacher)

By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42000553

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Beauties

During this pandemic I have been talking film shop over emails nonstop. I went through a big Wertmüller phase in 2018-2019 and as people are trading recommendations I usually try to recommend something by her. This film is the one that I keep reaching for. The email recommending this film usually starts as a draft with “this is really intense” and then I try to hearken back to my film school days and write about the male gaze, patriarchy, communism or something of that nature. I end up writing a bit, feeling like it’s way over the top for a casual email and then I end up deleting everything except “this is a really intense and beautiful film.”

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill (Sam Haberman)

https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/tom-oneill/chaos/9780316477574/

The last book I managed to check out of the library before it closed. Though it in some ways resembles works of conspiracy theory, Tom O’Neill is always straightforward in telling the reader that, though the official story of the Manson case is almost certainly not true, the actual details don’t cohere into any kind of Meaning. Every new discovery is its own digression that points to a new unknowable truth or unverifiable claim. This really inverts the normal thrill of conspiracy theory, which invites you to either buy into the story being presented or reject it all together, either path offering its own sort of comfort. Chaos offers no such comfort.

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Inside The Rose by These New Puritans from the album Inside The Rose - Director: Harley Weir

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Biliana Voutchkova, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, & Magda Mayas - The Afterlife of Trees

Creative Sources

2017

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Kaija Saariaho, Nocturne for solo violin (1994). Biliana Voutchkova, violín

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Biliana Voutchkova, Bulgaria (based in Germany)

http://www.bilianavoutchkova.net

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Elias Stemeseder & Max Andrzejewski “light/tied”

Elias Stemeseder & Max Andrzejewski “light/tied”

WhyPlayJazz, 2020 

Obu muzyków, o których najnowszej płycie piszemy poniżej, świetnie znamy z … polskiej sceny jazzowej. O wcześniejszych albumach z udziałem Eliasa Stemesedera i Max Andrzejewskiego pisaliśmy już kilkakrotnie. Obaj spotykali się już wcześniej chociażby przy nagrywaniu płyty i na koncertach zespołu Marka Pospieszalskiego.

Tym razem połączyli siły w dziele kompozycji i…

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Chance Encounters #005

https://www.mixcloud.com/thomasmartinnutt/chance-encounters-005/

Magdaléna Manderlová, Akio Suzuki, Alessandro Bosetti, Stephen Vitiello, Aho Ssan (feat. Nyokabi Kariūki), Biliana Voutchkova & Charmaine Lee, Coppice, Douglas Quin, William Parker & Hamid Drake, Rajesh Mehta, Gabi Losoncy, Thomas DeAngelo, Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Laraaji, Voice Actor, Jen Powers, Cole Pulice & Matthew J. Rolin, Lilien Rosarian, Dick Raaijmakers, John Grzinich, Eric La Casa & Seijiro Murayama, Heiner Goebbels, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Erik Griswold, Natalie Beridze, Joep Beving, Timothy Leary, Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams

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Des concerts à Paris et alentour en gras : les derniers ajouts :-: in bold: the last news Décembre 10. White Bouse + Drone à clochettes + Thomas Zielinski + Thharm + Ex_Pi – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 11. Vierge noir e : cinéconcert sur “Film” d’Alan Schneider et “The Haunted House “ de Segundo de Chomon + David Fenech : cinéconcert sur “Entr’acte” de René Clair – La Clef 11. Boris – Le Gibus 11. Pointe du Lac + Richard Francés, Julien Lheuillier & Quentin Rollet – Quai de Bourbon 11. Kaffe Matthews + Phil Minton, Audrey Chen & Onceim – La Dynamo (Pantin) 12. Heldon + Duncan – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 12. Maya Dunietz + Jacques Perconte & Onceim – La Dynamo (Pantin) 12. ToutEstBeau – Carbone 17 (Aubervilliers) 12. Bas Mooy + VTSS + EKLPX – Glazart 12. Kompromat (Vitalic & Rebeka Warrior) – La Cigale ||COMPLET|| 12. Mono + Jo Quail – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 13. Contrefaçon – La Gaîté lyrique 13. Regards extrêmes + Lisieux + Ascending divers – Les Voûtes 13. Paskine + Between Sleeps + CAM – DOC 13. Charlène Darling + Nina Harker + Regis Turner – La Boule noire 13. Officine + Fusiller + Theoreme + Bâton XXL – Cirque électrique 13. PAL + Zaraz Wam Zagram + Blason + Carbon Sink – Collective (Aubervilliers) 13. Ellen Allien + Hemka – Dehors brut 13. Pearl + Toscan Haas + Mind/Matter – Glazart 14. Ludwig Von 88 – Le Trianon 14. Wosto + Air LQD + Gakona + Marrakech + Pharmacie – Espace B 14. Boolvar + Dalès + Otis – Le Cirque électrique 14. Paula Temple + Tommy Four Seven + Sentimental Rave + Giant Swan – T7 14. Headless Horseman + Blind Delon – Dehors Brut 15. The Ex + 75 Dollar Bill – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) ||COMPLET|| 16. Sydney Valette + Sweat + Deep Tan – Supersonic (gratuit) 17. Thomas Ankersmit + Gaël Segalen – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 18. Amenra – Bataclan 20. Uriel Barthélémi & Martin Bakero + Laurent Stoutzer – Folies numériques|Parc de la Villette 20. Varg + Christoph de Babalon + Les morts vont bien + Powerplant + Fever 103° + Pessimist + Shayu + Vanadis + Aeon Shaker b2b Stagiairism (fest. Magnétique nord) – La Station 20. Vile Assembly – Espace B 20. Hector Oaks + Nene H + Nur Jaber + Parfait + Pawlowski – tba 21. Release party autour d’Achwgha Ney Wodei – Cirque electrique (gratuit) 21. Youth Avoiders + Chain Cult + Short Days + Bleakness – Espace B 21. A.N.I + Maraudeur + Raymonde + Ece Özel + Accou + Fantastic Twins + Les Fils de Jacob + Dame Area + Silvia Kastel + DJ F16 Falcon + Ed Isar + Mechanical Heaven (fest. Magnétique nord) – La Station 21. Anetha + Introversion + Jacidorex + Parfait + Schake – tba 28. Kaiser + Makornik + Cassie Raptor + Quelza + Léo Occhi – La Station 28. Panzer + Hyperaktivist + Sept b2b Opål – tba 31. Illnurse + Air-One + Amina + Maxime Iko + Pho.nx – tba (Paris nord) 2020 Janvier 03. Under Black Helmet + Tommy Holohan + Fuerr + 1ndica – Rex Club 03. SNTS + Keith Carnal + Eastel + EKLPX – Dehors brut 04. Rokia Traoré + Ballaké Cissoko & Vincent Segal – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 11. Last Night + Euromilliard + Kumusta – Gibus 14. Lispector + Ventre de biche + La Punta Bianca – Point FMR 16. Black Midi – Le Carreau du Temple ||COMPLET|| 17. Scratch Massive + Lokier + Cassie Raptor + Faast + Kiddo – Badaboum 17. Dafne Vicente-Sandoval + Ji Youn Kang + Thomas Lehn : « Occam VI » d’Eliane Radigue + Tiziana Bertoncini, Antonin Gerbal, David Grubbs, Ji Youn Kang, Thomas Lehn, eRikm & Dafne Vicente-Sandoval : « Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue » de Luc Ferrari – Le 104 17. Club Sieste + Louvet & Schultz + Chicaloyoh – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 17. Edith Nylon – Petit Bain ||COMPLET|| 18. Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree – Le 104 18. Franck Vigroux : "Flesh" (Biennale Nemo) – Maison des arts et de la culture (Créteil) 22. Dick Voodoo + Bile – L’International 23. The Pharcyde – Petit Bain 24. Penguin Cafe + Lubomyr Melnyk + Peter Broderick + Anne Müller + Hatis Noit + Janus Rasmussen – La Gaîté lyrique 24. Kode9 + Teki Latex + Cem + Barker + Crystallmess + Carin Kelly b2b Bob Sleigh + Christian Coiffure (La Machine a 10 ans) – La Machine 25. DJ Marcelle + Stellar OM Source + Ploy + Clara! Y Maoupa + Black Zone Myth Chant + Theo Muller + Promesses + Gista (La Machine a 10 ans) – La Machine 25. Airod + Ki/Ki + Kobosil + Parfait + Shlømo – tba 26. The Fat (cinéconcert pour enfants) – La Gaîté lyrique 26. Beak> + Vox Low + Abschaum + Maria Violenza (La Machine a 10 ans) – La Machine 29. Rendez-Vous – La Cigale 30. Editors – Salle Pleyel 31. Tindersticks – Salle Pleyel 31. It It Anita + Mss Frnce + Flowers + Angle mort et clignotant + Casse Gueule + La Jungle – Petit Bain Février 02. Sunn o))) – La Gaîté lyrique 06. Rouge Gorge + Arne Vinzon – Petit Bain 08. Infecticide – La Lingerie|Les Grands Voisins (gratuit) 08. Hots Pants : The Songs of Rowland S. Howard – La Maroquinerie 09. Explosions in the Sky – La Cigale 10. The Murder Capital – Café de la danse 13. Ride – Le Trianon 15. The Raincoat – Centre Pompidou 16. Orchestral Manoeuvre in the Dark – La Cigale 18. Biliana Voutchkova + Judith Hamann – Instants chavirés (Montreuil) 21. Ensemble Links joue "Drumming" de Steve Reich + Cabaret contemporain : "Détroit" + Molécule – Le 104 21. Pop 1280 – tba 22. Cent Ans de Solitude & Flint Glass : cinéconcert sur “Sprengbagger 1010” de Carl Ludwig Achaz-Duisberg – Club de l’Étoile 24. Sleater Kinney – Le Trianon 24. The Legendary Pink Dots – tba 27. Zombie Zombie + Kreidler – Petit Bain Mars 02. DIIV – La Gaîté lyrique 03. Napalm Death + EYEHATEGOD + Misery Index + Rotten Sound – La Machine 03/04. The Mission – Petit Bain 05. Orange Blossom : “Sharing” avec les machines de François Delarozière – Élysée Montmartre 06. Frustration – Le Trianon 07. Ensemble intercontemporain joue Steve Reich : cinéconcert sur un film de Gerhard Richter – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 07. Alcest + Birds In Row + Kælan Mikla – La Machine 10. Arnaud Rebotini : live pour “Fix Me” d’Alban Richard – Centre des Arts (Enghien-les-Bains) 11. Nada Surf – La Cigale 13. Russian Circle + Torche – Bataclan 17. Chelsea Wolf – La Gaîté lyrique 20. Ensemble Dedalus : "Occam Ocean" d'Éliane Radigue – Le Studio|Philharmonie 21. Front 242 + She Past Away – Élysée Montmartre 21/22. Laurie Anderson : "The Art of Falling" – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 27. Lebanon Hanover – La Gaîté lyrique 27. Maggy Payne : « Crystal » (diff.) + 9T Antiope + John Wiese + Matthias Puech + Nihvak (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 28. Ensemble Links : "Drumming" de Steve Reich + Cabaret contemporain joue Kraftwerk – théâtre de la Cité internationale 28. Iannis Xenakis : « Mycenae Alpha » (diff.) + Marja Ahti + Rashad Becker + Nina Garcia + Kode9 (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 29. Ivo Malec : « Recitativio » + Eve Aboulkheir + Richard Chartier + Lee Gamble + Will Guthrie & Mark Fell (fest. Présences électronique) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio Avril 03. CocoRosie – Le Trianon 14>17. Metronomy – La Cigale 18. Siglo XX – La Boule noire 26. Pharmakon + Deeat Palace + Unas – Petit Bain 27. Caribou – L’Olympia Mai 08. Max Richter : "Infra" + Jlin + Ian William Craig – Cité de la musique|Philharmonie 09. Max Richter : "Voices" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 09. Jonas Gruska + Leila Bordreuil + Jean-Philippe Gross + Kali Malone (fest. Focus) – Le 104 10. Iannis Xenakis : « La Légende d’Eer » + Folke Rabe : « Cyclone » et « What ??? » (fest. Focus) – Le 104 10. Max Richter : "Recomposed" & "Three Worlds" – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 19. Swans + Norman Westberg – Le Trabendo 22. François Bayle : « Le Projet Ouïr » + Marco Parini : « De Parmegiani Sonorum » + Yan Maresz (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23. Julien Négrier + Hans Tutschku : « Provenance-émergence » + Félicia Atkinson : « For Georgia O’Keefe » + Warren Burt + Michèle Bokanowski (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 24. Philippe Mion + Pierre-Yves Macé : « Contre-flux II » + Daniel Teruggi : « Nova Puppis » + Adam Stanovitch + Gilles Racot : « Noir lumière » (fest. Akousma) – Studio 104|Maison de la Radio 23. Damon Albarn – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie 24. Damon Albarn – Salle Pierre Boulez|Philharmonie ||COMPLET|| 26. Minimal Compact – La Machine  Juin 14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Bercy Arena

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HDO 219. Madness Tenors, Carrier - Lambert - Lapin, George Lewis & Splitter Orchester [Podcast]

HDO 219. Madness Tenors, Carrier – Lambert – Lapin, George Lewis & Splitter Orchester [Podcast]

En el programa 219 del podcast HDO del 13 de enero de 2017, tres grabaciones en torno a los gigantes del saxo, el free y la improvisación libre.

Be Jazz For Jazz (Cristal Records, 2016) del grupo Madness Tenors (1) es una grabación en la que participan Georges Garzone, Lionel Martin, Mario Stantchev, Benoit Keller y Ramón López. El músico participa en una propuesta que si bien se aleja de los…

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Biliana Voutchkova / Michael Thieke — Blurred Music (Elsewhere)

Biliana Voutchkova is a Bulgarian violinist and vocalist who is active in both new music and improvisational circles who currently lives in Berlin. Michael Thieke is a German clarinetist who lately splits his time between Berlin and Rome and his involvement between jazz and improvisational ensembles. He’s also played semi-popular pop with the Magic I.D. They’ve performed together for over five years and released a couple other discs, one on their own and the other with electro-acoustic media artist Roy Carroll. Blurred Music steps up their profile in imposing fashion.

The title of this triple CD signals both intent and result. It comprises three complete performances from their US tour of December 2016. On each, the two musicians interacted with pre-recorded material, which bounds their interactions in ways that blur the boundary between composition and improvisation. They can choose to double the recording, play a response to it, or find a blank place to improvise without it.  In concert, it would have been possible to observe the duo’s interactions and have some idea of what they were choosing to do. But the inevitable abstraction of recording means that one can listen with blithe ignorance or curious attention, but never really know exactly what is happening. There are moments each musician closely harmonizes with her or his recorded counterpoint, and others where they play an adjacent pitch, which interacts with the first to generate beating tones. They also engage in duets with their recorded selves; at one point during the Philadelphia set some woody long tones, a pizzicato thicket and some brisk knocking on the violin’s body nicely generate a sonic image of a complete bush.  

In content, you could say that this is semi-improvised chamber music. But since at any moment you have music that was recorded in one room being played back in another while two musicians interact with each other, the recording, and the environmental circumstances of three rooms in different cities, you could say that it’s music of many chambers. And since you are listening to a recording, you could take it a step further and say that it’s music for your personal chamber, and simply bask in the complex play between unabashedly radiant and dryly prickly timbres. Whatever you call it, it provides a sonic satisfaction that delivers on the founding intent of Elsewhere Records. Label head Yuko Zama is married to Jon Abbey of Erstwhile Records, and her aesthetic input has shaped that imprint for years. But where Erstwhile prioritizes ongoing formal advancement, Zama has set out to develop an outlet for music that is beautiful as well as radical. That boundary is just one more that gets artfully smudged on Blurred Music.  

Bill Meyer