Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING #13

Event information

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

Featuring: Ivor Kallin, Marting Hackett, Dan Goren, Kostas Chondros, Andrea Bolzoni, Francesco Forzani, Lawrence Casserley, Philipp Wachsmann, Bruno Guastalla

Evening Setup
Set #1 Ivor Kallin
Short Break
Set #2 Kostas Chondros/Andrea Bolzoni/Francesco Forzani Trio
Short Break
Set #3 Martin Hackett & Dan Goren
Short Break
Set #4 Lawrence Casserley/Philipp Wachsmann/Bruno Guastalla Trio
Concert End (~22:00)

ARTISTS' Information

IVOR KALLIN plays viola with the London Improvisers Orchestra, electric violin with Electrio, bass and voice with the Glowering Figs, and hosts a weekly radio show on Resonance FM as Ambrosia Rasputin, and the last time he had his hair cut, it cost 30p.

References
https://linearobsessional.bandcamp.com/.../a-wee-dug...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkzeFQAtJ68

MARTIN HACKETT is part of Oxford Improvisers, the London Improvisers Orchestra, Le Grand Orchestre de Muzzix of Lille, and the on-line ensemble Blank Canvas Octet. Current projects include the trio ‘Tern’ with Emil Karlsen and Philipp Wachsmann, and as yet unnamed trios with John Bissett and Julian Faultless, and with Phil Morton and Nick Branton.

References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3TqIhbUBM

DAN GOREN through his practice incorporating composition, improvisation, research & teaching explores capacities of music to interpret, translate and express experience and ideas from the everyday and the metaphysical.

References
http://dangoren.com/

KOSTAS CHONDROS plays alto saxophone, rabab, recorder, trumpet, melodica, and sundry objects. He has been involved with free improvisation for 15 years as a listener, filmmaker and player cutting his Reeth with John Russel’s Mopomoso. A regular attendee at Eddie Prevost’s Workshop and the Siobhan Davies Studio I have performed at the Vortex, Skronk, the Horse Hospital and the Hundred Years Gallery with musicians as diverse as Dave Tucker, Slyvia Hallett, Rick Jensen and Verity Lane and poets Roddy Lumsden, Alex Bell and Tom Bland.
With a background in social and visual anthropology he has made a number of films exploring improvisation, most notably, Notes on Gesture (2008) – with narration by Steve Beresford), Suspended (2015 – a collaboration with Italian sound artist Giovanni Lamie) and Waterpulse (2017 – part of longer film Zero by American composer Coleman Zurkowski). For many years he documented the regular improvisation sessions at the Vortex which may be viewed on the Mopomoso Youtube channel

References
https://discountgnostic.bandcamp.com/track/hairpins-strokes

ANDREA BOLZONI has a background as a jazz guitarist, and has been involved with improvised music for the last 15 years. He has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electroacoustic Composition from the Milan Conservatory, and is currently a PhD student in AI and Music Creativity at The Open University. Andrea was a member and co-founder of Swedish Mobilia and Raw Frame, and performed in clubs and festivals in Italy, France and Eastern Europe. He released a solo album in 2015, ‘amI?’, and more recently ‘Music from the Lounge’, in duo with Francesco Zago, for Creative Sources. Some of his electroacoustic compositions have been performed at the Sound and Music Computing Conference, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, and Festival Artescienza.

References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqCWFh1TvF4

FRANCESCO FORZANI
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LAWRENCE CASSERLEY has devoted his career to the creation and promotion of live performance electronic music in a wide variety of ways. He has worked with many of the leading improvisers, particularly Evan Parker and his Electracoustic Ensemble. While he focuses primarily on the real-time transformation of other musicians’ sounds, he also uses voice, percussion, home-made instruments and found objects as sources for his Signal Processing Instrument.
Casserley’s instrumental approach to live computer sound processing is the hallmark of his work, which is documented on many CDs; he has performed and given workshops throughout Europe and in North and South America, Asia and Japan. Current collaborations include Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Gianni Mimmo, Martin Mayes, Nicola Baroni, Martin Hackett, Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Philipp Wachsmann, Jeffrey Morgan, Harri Sjöström, Yoko Miura, and Viv Corringham. He is a regular member of Oxford Improvisers.

References
https://www.lcasserley.co.uk/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnZndBT7ok

PHILIPP WACHSMANN is working in improvisation since 1970, with many of the international players, an early quartet with Derek Bailey, with Evan Parker and with his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, Iskra 1903, the London Jazz Composer’s Orchestra. Philipp can be heard on well over 100 recordings with dance, film and installation, very recently returned from a revival of the historic King Ubu Orchestru, various large and small groupings with Harri Sjostrom, and is now excitedly with the extraordinary Tern trio. He is a pioneer on the violin and electronics.

References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ib60j8qI4

BRUNO GUASTALLA has been a violin and cello maker/restorer for the past thirty five years, as well as a practising musician. Questions around perception, language and shape-making come up a lot in his work. Bruno plays cello and has collaborated amongst others with Philipp Wachsmann, Dominic Lash and the dancer Macarena Ortuzar. He is a member of the SET ENSEMBLE.

References
https://brunoguastalla.net/