Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING SEVENTEEN

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Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING SEVENTEEN

Evening setup:
SET #1 Veryan Weston
SET #2 Teresa Hackel + Eiko Yamada
SET #3 Hyelim Kim
SET #4 Jason Khan

VERYAN WESTON
Veryan Weston (born 1950) was awarded ‘Young Jazz Musician of 1979’ by GLAA. In the '80s, Veryan worked internationally with Lol Coxhill (with whom he made his first recordings – Ogun 525 and Random Radar), the Eddie Prévost Quartet. At this time, he also first met Trevor working in his band Moiré Music which used a unique combination of African rhythmic structures with the European musical tradition (Arc 02).

In the '90s, collaborations with Phil Minton whom he met through Trevor's Moiré Music included the Ways duos, Songs from a Prison Diary awarded the Cornelius Cardew composition prize, a quartet performing extracts from Joyce’s Finnegans wake (with Phil, John Butcher and Roger Turner), and 4Walls with Luc Ex and Michael Vatcher. And most recently - Ways for an Orchestra commissioned by the Angelica Festival (Bologna, Italy - 2017)

Collaborations with Jon Rose on the ‘Temperament Project’ use improvisation with different acoustic keyboards and violins with selected tunings derived from science, history and the imagination. Most recent project has included Hannah Marshall with the Tuning Out Tour (EMANEM double 4141). A trio project with John Edwards and Mark Sanders (EMANEM 4028, 4214, and 4205), the Trio of Uncertainty with cellist Hannah Marshall and violinist Satoko Fukuda (EMANEM 4141), Luc Ex in Sol6 (Red Note 15) which included saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and Hannah Marshall in a trio called Haste. (EMANEM 5025).

‘Tessellations’ is an ongoing composition project based around research on pentatonic scales and has produced: 1. Tessellations for piano (EMANEM 4095), 2 a commissioned piece for Austrian singers - the Vociferous Choir (EMANEM 5015), 3 a string quartet, and 4 'The Make Project' – a Toronto-based project commissioned by Canadian Arts (Released – January 2018). An extension of these ideas has been with Hannah Marshall and Mark Sanders. Supported by ACE to produce a CD project now released on Hi4Head called 'Crossings'.

http://veryanweston.weebly.com/

TERESA HACKEL
The recorder player Teresa Hackel was born in Berlin and has lived and worked in Switzerland since 2005. Her focus is free improvisation, a non-idiomatic music which is invented in the moment. She is keen to search for strange and unconventional sounds on the different types of the recorder and she is inspired by contemporary compositions for this wonderful and often underestimated instrument. In her playing she values listening – there is no unnecessary sound, just the music that comes by itself. Teresa was awarded the 3rd Prize at the Concours Nicati for interpreters of contemporary music in Bern and she took part in different Swiss premieres. In 2018 the CD Solare was released with pieces of Fausto Romitelli, in 2022 she released the CD Zustandsformen with the guitar player Karin Rüdt. She has played in several projects and ensembles, currently she is a member of the Insubordination Meta Orchestra. Regularly she plays the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach with the “J.S.Bach-Stiftung”, conducted by Rudolf Lutz.

https://www.teresa-hackel.com/

EIKO YAMADA
Born and raised in Tokyo/Japan, Eiko Yamada has lived and worked continuously in Germany since 1984.
Since studying Music in Berlin between 1979-1981 (1979-1980 as a scholarship beneficiary of the Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture), she has been looking for different and new musical forms and their aesthetic foundations. Considering improvisation as an important opportunity for this, Yamada gains experience in this area in various international formations (solo to large ensembles such as Ensemble X), also in collaboration with visual artists, dancers and poets, as well as in connection with various materials and architecturally specific environments of space, and this particularly in the work of the Berliner group Ex Tempore, which has developed a special type of music performance called “sound action”.
Her ongoing desire to discover and develop more authentic, personal sounds with her instruments is based on the sensitivity she has acquired through experimental and cross-disciplinary works for years.
Her new album “This Summer…” (released by Ftarri in December 2023, Hitori-995), for example, brings her musical thoughts and attitude to life.

HYELIM KIM
Hyelim Kim is a composer and daegeum (Korean flute) soloist, renowned for her innovative intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches rooted in Korean traditional music. As a daegeum virtuoso, she has been recognized as an ‘emerging artist’ by the Korean Arts Council and a Kumho Young Artist. Kim has performed with Nils Frahm on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and premiered a daegeum concertino with the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Her accolades include the Gold Medal at the Korean National Daegeum Competition and 1st prize at the Korean National Chongro Music Competition. She has graced prestigious festivals worldwide, such as the London Jazz Festival, Melbourne Women’s Festival, and China International Bamboo Flute Festival. In 2023, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Award for composers in London, UK, cementing her position as a leading figure in contemporary and traditional music circles.

https://www.hyelimkimmusic.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAk24ZyCb2s

JASON KHAN
Jason Kahn's concerts for voice and an electronics use a set-up of modular synthesizer, mixing board, electromagnetic transducers, contact microphone, reverb tank, radio and field recordings made in each city on his tours. During his concerts Kahn grabs open synth cables with his hands, placing his body in the circuit flow of a chaotic feedback system that can cause the synthesizer to overload or verge on momentary collapse.
Kahn then sets his voice against the electronics, using extended vocal techniques that at times mirror the sounds coming from his mixing board, blurring the lines between the acoustic and the electronic. Influences for Kahn's vocal work span the spectrum from Henri Chopin to Son House, but primarily he finds inspiration for using his voice in the electronic noise and chaos of his system.
In the end, each of Kahn's performances are different, not only because the music is improvised but also because the source material draws on local field recordings, radio and the electromagnetic environment of each place he performs. Kahn reacts directly to both the acoustic and social space of every space being played in. And for this reason he finds touring vital to the further development of his work, drawing on the energy and stimulation of each new situation.
Jason Kahn was born 1960 in New York and grew up in Los Angeles. He lived in Berlin from 1990-1998 and moved thereafter to Switzerland. He has been based in Zurich since 2000 where he works as a writer, musician and artist. Since 2011 he’s been running his own Editions label and has had over 200 releases published on other labels around the world.
https://jasonkahn.net
https://jasonkahn.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/jasonkahn