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An evening of radical approaches to improvisation and collective sound making with Tons and Chora.
TONS
TONS comprises musicians of the highest creative calibre with national and international reputations in the fields of improvisation, jazz and sound generation.
The band comprises string instruments, percussion and drums, amplified objects and computer generated sound. For this reason it has an unusual sound quality, one that lends itself to evolving rhythm and texture. This band endeavour to play as one instrument, taking advantage of huge possibilities for dynamic and colour. Responsive to the spaces between the instruments as much as the strengths of the individual musicians. TONS find a meeting place where the group can create, bit by bit, a sound world that is unique, exciting and unpredictable. They rely on an ability to make deft collective changes, a desire to celebrate all forms of sound from full throttled rhythm to threadbare textures, and a skill, tuned by experience, to take the audience with them.
TONS are:
CYRIL BONDI
Cyril Bondi (Geneva/CH) plays the drums and percussions since 1994. He is a founding member of the band Plaistow (post-jazz) and diatribes. He organises and leads the Insub Meta Orchestra and he's one of the coordinators of the Insubordinations Microfestival. He plays or/and are played with Barry Guy, Keith Rowe, Otomo Yoshihide, Hans Koch, Jason Kahn, Damo Suzuki, Christian Weber, Jacques Demierre, Peter Jacquemal, Jonas Kocher, Tatsuya Nakatani, Michel Wintsch, Mick Beck, Hannah Marshall, Bertrand Gauguet, Dominic Lash, Patrick Farmer, Phil Durrant, Rafal Mazur, Dragos Tara, Tomas Korber, Ernesto Rodrigues...
D’INCISE
An electronic musician fascinated by jazz, d'incise found, in free improvisation, the perfect meeting point of both musics. Born in Geneva in 1983, d’incise performs behind his laptop in every corner of Europe, from Portugal to Poland, with personalities of great calibre in the improvised music community. Uncontrollable noise-maker, battles without compromise with objects of every kind, mistreating them through digital elements. Loves to share and spread his albums and creations on the web, he’s a member of the Audioactivity Collective and founder of improvised music Insubordinations Netlabel. He coordinates Insub Meta Orchestra a group of over 50 musicians.
DOMINIC LASH
Over the last few years he has come to be recognized as a leading force in british bass playing, working in a broad spectrum of ensembles and ad hoc groups, as comfortable in jazz and improvisation as with the scores of helmut Lachenmann. Playing with a huge array of musicians including: Tony Conrad, Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, John Butcher, Nate Wooley, Alex Ward's Predicate, Mark Sanders, Evan Parker Quartet, Tony Bevan, Joe Morris, Mark Wastell and Chris Corsano.
“free-bass don”, “stunning” - Time Out
“explosive” - The Guardian
“His range is just about unrivalled” - The Watchful Ear
HANNAH MARSHALL
Hannah plays in projects both in the UK and Europe, and is active on the London free improvisation scene, playing with Fred Frith’s residencies at café oto in 2010/11. Others Hannah plays with include Roger Turner, Chino Shuichi, John Butcher, Tim Hodgkinson, Paul May, Alex Hawkins ensemble, Sol 6 (with Luc Ex, Veryan Weston, Ingrid Laubrock, Mandy Drummond & Tony Buck), Tony Marsh quartet (with Neil Metcalf, and Alison Blunt), Paul G Smyth, Mark Sanders, Ernesto Rodriguez, Steve Beresford, Leila Adu, Gianni Mimmo, Nicola Guazzaloca, John Edwards, Shabaka Hutchins, Terry Day.
humming bird speed-“bagtallen”
amazingly resourceful-signal to noise
PATRICK FARMER
Part of the younger generation of musicians blurring the boundaries between "pure" environmental documentation and direct involvement with natural materials and situations. As a musician he plays regular or prepared drums, natural objects, phonography, amplified drum heads, wood and whisks. He curates with Sarah Hughes- ‘Compost & Height’ music blog and label.
He has played with Rhodri Davies, Jez riley French, Lee Patterson, Helena Gough, Gianni Gebbia, Angharad Davies, Sean Meehan, Martin Küchen, Okkyung Lee, John Edwards, Jason Lescaleet, Will Guthrie, Pamelia Kurstin, Toshimaru Nakamura, Christian Munthe, touring extensively in the UK and Europe, with festivals, concerts, universities.
dominiclash.co.uk
patrickwfarmer.blogspot.com
insubordinations.net/cyrilbondi
dincise.net
hannahmarshall.net
CHORA
London based group working collaboratively but with a mainstay presence of Ben Morris, Rob Lye, and more recently Ben Nash. Over the last few years Chora have engineered an elemental, exhilarating strain of improvised psychedelia that pulsates with the fearsome spirit of the finest free music and the basest, most primitive heavy rock. Sketching a ‘violent pointillist’ aesthetic, their junkyard gamelan jams inhabit a future primitive ritual zone, which can lift to tonal elation in one movement or fall into a stark, submerged scrape in the next.
"Shifting sonic territories and a sense of perpetual struggle create a volatility that really does feel like life lived on the edge" THE WIRE
