KONSZTRUKTING SOUNDZ, Evening #11

Event information

KONSZTRUKTING SOUNDZ
an evening of experimental and improvised electroacoustic music

Tickets: £10 online & £15 cash OTD

Door open: 19:00
Concert start: 19:30
Concert end: 22:00

Featuring:
Moreskinsound
Ghost Mind
Jordan Muscatello
John Macedo

Evening Setup
Set #1 Moreskinsound
Short Break
Set #2 Ghost Mind
Short Break
Set #3 Jordan Muscatello
Short Break
Set #4 John Macedo
Concert End (~22:00)

MORESKINSOUND (David Toop + Ania Psenitsnikova)
Moreskinsound is a sound and movement collaboration between Ania Psenitsnikova and David Toop. Their work together encompasses public performance (National Gallery London, Prague, Basel, Tartu, Volume Festival Sydney, Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Edinburgh, Glasgow, etc), photography, video, texts and documented non-public events described as inactions (in Cornwall, Queensland, Norway, Thailand, Estonia). All of these activities culminate in workshops which explore improvisation, listening, movement, objects, materials and the nature of space.

Ania Psenitsnikova is a visual and performance artist and curator. Born in Estonia, she has travelled and learned butoh dance with Flavia Ghisalberti, Moeno Wakamatsu, Masaki Iwana and Daisuke Yoshimoto. Studying music independently since 1996, she has worked as an aerial dance artist since 2011 and bodywork therapist since 2015.

David Toop is a musician, writer and curator. Artists he has performed with include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thurston Moore, Sidsel Endresen, Akio Suzuki and Rie Nakajima, along with butoh dancers Mitsutaka Ishii and Min Tanaka. His books include Ocean of Sound, Into the Maelstrom, Sinister Resonance and Two-Headed Doctor.

References
https://www.moreskinsound.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmqQS452z_O8MqMS1aREZZg
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3jFTMxWP6at3FioQqFGmjC...

GHOST MIND (STUART WILDING, CHARLIE FOLORUNSHO, PETE ROBSON, BARBIE MUKODA, ZHUYANG LIU)
Pete Robson (trumpet/piano), Stuart Wilding (percussion), Charlie Folorunsho (voice) this is combined with a background of found sounds gathered from around the planet. Essentially, Ghost Mind is a three-person quartet, the fourth member being the titular “Ghost”. When available Carina Tint (xiao Chinese bamboo flutes), Zhuyang Liu (guzheng) and Barbie Mukoda (flutes) also join us.
The concept of Ghost Mind was devised while the original members were playing together with the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra. The idea was to carry on that experimental, improvised sound with an added backtrack – the Ghost – in a more compact trio replacing the Orchestra and creating a soundscape with space difficult to create in a larger group. Current plans are to invite a local guest musician to join the trio at each performance.
Having formed in 2014, the band, based in Cheltenham and London, have played across the UK and a tour of Germany where they also collaborated with Gottingen trio, Brainville Desperados. Further collaborations with the likes of Rothko, Emi Watanabe, BeiBei Wang, Saltings, Lee Boyd Allotson, Chris Cundy and a long list of poets and performers has seen Ghost Mind establish themselves as a unique and completely indescribable force on tour.
In 2017 they collaborated with Johny Brown (Band of Holy Joy) and actor Tam Dean Burn, adding an improvised soundscape to Brown’s adaptation of the Bill Drummond play, “Bill Drummond is Dead” live on the radio for Resonance FM.
“Magical!” Ernst Reijseger
“You made the air sing” Phil Hollins
‘The thing about Ghost Mind is they don’t just improvise with instruments toys and objects but through the sounds they process through the Ghost Mind machine it seems as if they are improvising with our very pasts, with our memories and dreams to conjure a beautiful and vital sometime orchestral sometime post hauntological but always inventive sound’ Johny Brown, Band of Holy Joy
“Wonderful, diffused Percussion sounds from another world… From the urban world to nature, into a bed of birdsong and back again… The band is obviously not afraid to sound experimental.” Göttingen Tageblatt
“Fantastic, inventive, dazzling, humorous and yet serious at turns.” Tony Broad, Impress Festival
References
https://vimeo.com/162428635
https://pinealreverie.bandcamp.com/.../live-at...
https://pinealreverie.bandcamp.com/.../ghost-mind-live-at...

JORDAN MUSCATELLO
Jordan Muscatello is a London-based bassist predominantly active in improvised music. A frequent attendee of Eddie Prévost’s weekly workshop, he has performed with many members of London’s community of improvising musicians and is a regular member of Rick Jensen’s Apocalypse Jazz Unit.

References
https://www.instagram.com/jordanmuscatello/

JOHN MACEDO is an artist and performer from London. He has incorporated everything from acoustic instruments and environmental sound to analogue and computer synthesis into recorded works, live performances, film, sound installations and workshops. He has a pluralistic approach which explores connections and relationships and revealing the hidden potential in all sounds, environments and technologies, often in intimate, immersive and intuitive ways.
He performs live solo and has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians and artists including Phil Julian, Graham Dunning, Tom White, Yoni Silver, John Butcher, Cath Roberts, John Edwards, Michael Speers, Steve Noble, Sue Lynch, Lee Fraser and Adam Bohman, to name a few. He has had work released by The Tapeworm, Hideous Replica, Sound Holes, and Beartown Records as well as releasing small run and object editions on his own label, The Black Plume Editions. He has performed and presented work in the UK, Europe and US and has led workshops and produced collaborative, educational and community-based projects for Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Artsadmin and New Contemporaries. He also programmes SOLO:DUO:TRIO, a concert series of experimental and improvised music at Cafe OTO in Dalston, London.

References
https://www.johnmacedo.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/@johnmacedo_