PAN-ACT FESTIVAL (DAY TWO) // CC Hennix, Werner Durand, Valerio Tricoli

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A festival celebrating PAN's incredible roster of artists. Five performances across two days. Keszler's semi-sculptural performance installations and rapid-fire percussive attack, John Wiese at the mixing desk and the extreme computer music of R/S on day one followed by Tricoli's command of 'classical' tape music techniques opening day two ahead of the first ever London concert of CC Hennix's spiritual minimalism - performed as a trio together with Tricoli and Werner Durand.

"We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: PAN is one of the most consistently rewarding and praiseworthy experimental music labels in Europe. Operated out of Berlin by Bill Kouligas, who also co-designs all the sleeves, PAN’s previous output includes forward thinking electronic, noise, concréte and outsider music. You really never know what you’re going to get next, which is more than can be said for many of its contemporaries." FACT Magazine

DAY TWO - SATURDAY 28 JANUARY 2012

CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX

CC Hennix is one of minimalism and electronic music's true enigmas. A student of Pandit Pran Nath and associate of Henry Flint, the much-delayed release of her 'Electric Harpsichord' was a true revelation. She will perform an extended duration piece in a trio formation with Werner Durand and Valerio Tricoli. This will be her first ever performance in London.

WERNER DURAND

Werner will be performing with CC Hennix tonight, but he has also performed his own music for saxophones, iranian ney, and self-made wind instruments since the late seventies. He studied with Ariel Kalma in Paris, Indian classical music in India and Berlin (with Kamalesh Maitra) and Iranian ney with Ali Reza Asgharia. He started to build wind instruments out of plexi-glass and PVC in the early 80s, which led to the foundation of The Thirteenth Tribe in 1990.

In addition to a number of his ongoing projects, Werner Durand has also collaborated with numerous composers/performers including David Behrman, John Driscoll, Samm Bennett, Fast Forward, David Moss, Muslimgauze, Henning Christiansen, Dominique Regef, David Maranha , Christian Marclay, David Toop & Tom Recchion as well as with visual/ sound artists Michaela Kölmel, Andreas Oldörp and Rolf Julius. He was a member of Arnold Dreyblatt's Orchestra of Excited Strings from 1990- 1997.

VALERIO TRICOLI

Valerio Tricoli continues to make an impression as producer and provocateur in Berlin since first arriving in 2006 from his native Sicily. His innate understanding of classical electro-acoustic music techniques and his unwavering command of dynamics have made him a sought after collaborator and an inscrutable presence at concert venues across Europe.

'Forma II', Valerio's duo CD with Thomas Ankersmit released by PAN, came in at #20 in the WIRE magazine's Best of 2011 list.