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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Saturday 18th February, 2012 |
| N | 8:00pm |
Saturday 18th February 2012
Juan Matos Capote
ASTERO + Jason Kahn
Alfredo Costa Monteiro + Matt Davis
Tickets:
£6 advance / £7 on the door
ASTERO (Barcelona)
Juan Matos Capote: circuit bending
Alfredo Costa Monteiro: speakers, devices
This duo, formed in Barcelona in 2010, employs modified domestic appliances as sound sources.
Two faces, two approaches which reveal the same enigma: that of sounds shaped in the moment of their own creation, by way of the simple contact of fingers, or of electricity passing through the internal circuits of the modified devices - or perhaps the amplification of materials (rather than objects) placed on the turntable of a record player.
Inviting the most basic kinds of accident, resulting from unstable and minimal constructs, or from a more than simply intuitive handling, sometimes becoming accidents of accidents - either way you might say that the hand is the real instrument which, by way of clever tricks, vibrations, vague movements or tremors, stamps the sound with an indeterminacy which connects it directly to the organic.
JASON KAHN (Zurich)
electronics (anlaog synthesizer, mixing board, piezo microphone, magnetic coils, short wave radio, sound recorder)
In these solo performances I'm working with an unstable system of different signal inputs being fed into an analog synthesizer, which I in turn feed back into itself, creating at times volatile and unpredictable layers of sound. Always at some point in these concerts I cede control to the system as it determines its own momentun: implosion, explosion, stasis, density, silence.
PHIL JULIAN (London)
electronics, objects and surfaces
Philip Julian has been an active part of the experimental music underground since the late 1990’s recording numerous works under the name Cheapmachines.
Studio recordings and live performances within Europe and North America have focused on the use of analogue electronics (particularly analogue synthesizer, feedback, contact microphones, objects and surfaces) and computer based works.
Julian has collaborated on remixes, recordings and performances with Maurizio Bianchi, The A Band, Birchville Cat Motel, Tomas Korber, Michael Renkel, Nihilist Assault Group, The New Blockaders and GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters as well as being a member of the improvised drone ensemble Signals with Mark Beazley and Chris Gowers and playing as part of Mark Wastell’s improvising group The Seen.
He also runs the Authorised Version label.
MATT DAVIS (Truro)
trumpet and preparations
Davis has worked in improvised and experimental music, using mainly the trumpet and field recordings, since 1994 after studying visual art and being heavily influenced by The Situationists. Has also directed ‘Field’ - a live art/performance project, operating since 2003, which started out as a platform for discussion on improvisation between different disciplines and ended up being a non-specific performance project referencing the work of geographer Doreen Massey who collaborated on the project.
He has worked throughout Europe and also Japan and collaborates regularly with dance as well as musicians such as Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, and Mark Wastell. He currently lives in Cornwall and is a member of the ‘School of Noises’ collective which includes Rob Gawthrop, Robert Curgenven, Oliver Scott and Dominick Allen.
His work investigates the question of sound (noise) as music, and music as a tool for improvisation, not improvisation as a compositional tool, and in that a negotiation of a relational space.
Jason Kahn will run a 2-day workshop on graphic score at Soundfjord (14-17 february, dates to be confirmed) and ASTERO will run a workshop on improvising with circuit bending at Apiary Studios on February 18th and 19th...
