Time and Repetition: Sanja Perovic & The Set Ensemble on January 12th
A critical talk and musical performance
Sanja Perovic – On the Control of Time and the French Revolution
The Set Ensemble: Dominic Lash, David Stent & Sarah Hughes – Music composed by Antoine Beuger and David Shepard
Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, London, N1 7RW
7.00pm, Thurs January 12th, £5/£3 concessions
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SCOTT LOONEY (US)/ KLAUS JANEK (IT) / TONY BEVAN (UK)
The Port Mahon, St Clements, Oxford
FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER, 8PM
Internationally renowned improvisers Klaus Janek on double bass and electronics; Scott R. Looney on electronics and prepared piano will be joined by UK saxophonist Tony Bevan and Oxford Improvisers locals whilst on the UK leg of their European Tour.
Scott Looney has forged a signature style using the inside and outside of the piano, plucking strings, using metal implements and other quick preparations, in combination to playing the piano normally. He has also developed a flexible, expressive voice with electronics using Max/MSP which is as effective as his many piano textures are…
www.scottrlooney.com/
Klaus Janek studied classical doublebass with M. Muraro, Venice and in workshops with D.Holland, P.Kowald. L.Butch Morris, Jaribu Shahid. He explores avantgarde music and works on sound research on the doublebass. Gets involved in the improvised music scene and lots of traditional and electronic music, published CD (FMP, edel classics, Minor Music, Solponticello, Ubiquity and others), in between three solo doublebass CDs. Composes music for tv, dancetheatre and a houseopera, sound for Meta Design, Berlin. Art direction of various concertseries in Italy and Germany. Concert and festival appearances in EU, USA, Russia, Israel, Canada and Japan.
www.klaus-janek.de /
Tony Bevan is an Oxford based player of bass, tenor & soprano saxophones. He has been involved with the LMC and Oxford Improvisers and performed with many of his contemporaries on the UK free improv scene: Phil Minton, Steve Beresford, John Russell, Pat Thomas, Steve Noble and many others.
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mbevan.html
“These musicians and their different experiences together and separately create a wealth of sonic textural landscapes in their interactions”
Cut & Splice: Grúndelweiser: free launch event
Wednesday 2 November, 7.30pm (pre-concert discussion 6.30-7pm)
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street
London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
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Jürg Frey – Landschaft mit Wörtern (selection) (2003)
Manfred Werder – 2009/4
Michael Pisaro – A single charm is doubtful [harmony series no.14] (2004-6)
Antoine Beuger – Confidential Letter #7 (2011)
Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.
http://polyply.wordpress.com/
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/cut-splice-grundelweiser
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Antoine Beuger studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78. In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer. Since 1994 he’s been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of “Werkraum”, Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne. Since 1996 he’s been artistic director of edition wandelweiser records and since 2004 managing director of Edition Wandelweiser gmbh.
Jürg Frey developed his own language as a composer and sound artist with the creation of wide, quiet sound spaces. He has worked with compositional series, as well as with language and text. Some of these activities appear in small editions or as artist’s books as individual items and small editions. (Edition Howeg, Zurich; weiss kunstbewegung, Berlin; complice, Berlin). His music and recordings are published by Edition Wandelweiser. Jürg Frey is a member of the Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble which has presented concerts for more than 15 years in Europe, North America and Japan.
Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble and founder and director of the Experimental Music Workshop. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Dortmund University), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha’ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival, Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Merano (Italy), Brussels, New York, Curitiba (Brazil), Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Austin, Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau (Switzerland), and Several CDs of his work have been released by such labels as Edition Wandelweiser Records, Compost and Height, confront, Another Timbre, Cathnor, Nine Winds and others, including most recently “transparent city, volumes 1–4″, “an unrhymed chord”, “hearing metal 1”, “A Wave and Waves” and “harmony series (11–16)”. His translation of poetry by Oswald Egger (“Room of Rumor”) was published in 2004 by Green Integer. He is Co-Chair of Music Composition at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles.
Manfred Werder is a composer, performer, pianist, curator. His work actualizes time and space by letting the world’s natural abundance appear. Performs throughout the world. Lives in situ. CD releases include 20092 (Heresy, A Coruña upcoming 2011); 20051 (8 CD-set, winds measure recordings, US, upcoming 2011); stück 1998 seiten 624-626 (skiti 06, Japan 2010); 20095 (Cathnor Vignettes series, UK 2010);20071 (futow, Kôbe 2010); 20083 (Im Sefinental, Edition Wandelweiser Records, Germany 2009); ein(e) ausführende(r) seiten 218-226 (Edition Wandelweiser Records, Germany 2006); and 20061 (skiti 01, Japan 2006).
The Set Ensemble (as a trio of Bruno Guastalla (cello), Sarah Hughes (chorded zither / piano) and David Stent (guitar), then as a quartet with the addition of Jill Elliott (viola)) will be performing compositions by Patrick Farmer and Dominic Lash.
Thursday February 17th
20:00 / £3
Concept as Score • Wandelweiser and Fluxus
Angharad Davies & Tim Parkinson
The Set Ensemble
Dominic Lash, Patrick Farmer, Sarah Hughes, David Stent, Bruno Guastalla, Eric Clarke, Jill Eliott, Paul Whitty
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford. OX1 3BN
