|
|
|
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”
