Konsztrukting Soundz EVENING TWENTY-TWO

Event information

ARTIST INFORMATION

SYLVIA HALLETT
Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer moving between violin, bowed bicycle wheel, saw, hurdy-gurdy, electronics and found objects. She currently plays solo, with the walk-in interactive installation, Colourscape. Recent collaborators have included Chris Dowding, Tansy Spinks, Ansuman Biswas, Michael Ormiston, Mike Adcock, Anthony Haddon, Mike Cooper, David Toop, Anna Homler, The Heliocentrics, Clive Bell, LaXula, Opera North, h2dance, Miranda Tufnell, Eva Karczag, Wonderful Beast, BBC Radio Drama, The Royal Shakespeare Company. She performs internationally as a solo improviser, having released six solo albums. IShe enjoys performing in unusual spaces, such as an Italian vineyard.

References
http://sylviahallett.co.uk/index.htm

JULIA BRUSSEL
Julia Brüssel is dedicated to a wide variety of genres and has a passion for dealing with musical diversity, characteristics, flexibilities and roles. Accordingly, her work includes solo performances both unplugged and with live electronics, but also work as a composer and home producer. In the avant garde/experimental (kraut) rock genres she has played with bands like TheDorf, faUSt, RKet, Horse Lords,..and has led several projects like the experimental string ensemble Liasemble, the Jazzband Julia Brüssel Quartet and is also a co-leader of the band song-improv band hilde. In addition to this she founded various projects of other genres and is currently working on a new project with Ghanaian percussionist Abass Dodoo. Julia has played on numerous jazz and avantgarde festivals (e.g. Berlin Solo Impro, Berlin Jazz Festival, Bezau Beatz (…),and has performed at the Moers Festival many times since 2018. She regularly plays and collaborates with international artists and formations in and outside of Europe.

References
https://www.rubenstaub.com/one-earth-orchestra/julia-brussel

FALK GRIEFFENHAGEN
Falk Grieffenhagen is a German musician who is a member of the electronic/experimental pop band Kraftwerk. Falk Grieffenhagen studied sound and video engineering in Düsseldorf, and later studied saxophone, flute, clarinet and jazz piano in Cologne, finishing in 2004. He joined Kraftwerk as the live video-operator in 2012, replacing Stefan Pfaffe. He has worked freelance as a musician, composer, and sound engineer since 1996. Since 2023 tour, he replaced the role of Fritz Hilpert.

References
http://www.grieffenhagen.de/
https://soundcloud.com/falkg
https://kraftwerk.com/

PANOS GHIKAS
Panos Ghikas (b. 1972, Athens, GR) is a London-based composer, improviser and producer. His output encompasses concert music, live improvisation, interdisciplinary collaborations in digital media, film music and pop production. He is a member of surrealist post-pop band The Chap (7 albums, over 400 performances internationally since 2000) and runs Migro Records (est. 2011), a label that releases work that falls into the intersection between composition and free improvisation. Panos performs and releases with Jennifer Walshe in improv duo Ghikas and Walshe and performs violin and viola in groups Friendo and Unreal-time Group. His work features in over 60 releases (Universal, EMI, Lo Recordings (UK), Ghostly International (US) and Staatsakt (DE) and has been performed and broadcast internationally. His music for screen features in TV programmes and commercials around the world and is available through the Universal Production Music library. Remix credits include artists such as Gotye, Beck, Block Party, Tom Vek amongst others. His acoustic compositions have received performances in the UK, Germany, Belgium, Greece and Mexico, by performers such as the Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Exposé, the Kreutzer Quartet and Christopher Redgate.

Panos completed his PhD in Composition at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has a Masters in Composition for Film from the London College of Music and Media and a degree in Physics from the University of Patras, Greece.

References
https://panosghikas.com/
https://panosghikas.com/unrealtime/#UNREALTIME
https://migrorecords.com/
https://diatriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/unrealtime

JELLYWOLF
Jellywolf transforms joy, wonder and vision into a fusion of electronica, improv, spoken word, jazz and psychadelic-operatic performance that turns emotion into alchemy. JellyWolf line-up: Vivenne Soan, Kevin Burrows, Nick Smith and George Cleghorn.

KEVIN BURROWS
Dr. Kevin Burrows comes from an arts and psychotherapy background. From art rock/ punk in the seventies to deep funk Jazz in the 90's right through to improv fusion and spoken word of Jellywolf. Burrows has performed at the Roxy, the Jazz Cafe and the BBC. Improv material from Jellywolf's new album 'Through the lens of Odin's Eye' will form part of the Konstructing Sounds performance.

VIVENNE SOAN
[TBA]

NICK SMITH
Nick began playing Guitar before switching to Drums and Percussion. His primary focus for over 40 years has been free-improvisation, playing many times in London, also Chelmsford and Colchester. Initially a member of the London Musicians Collective, from there he was a founder member of the quartet Make Shift. After a few years away from the music, Nick met up with Mark Wastell, and commenced a fruitful period of collaboration with him.
Nick has also had brief encounters in Jazz, Rock, Blues/Funk and Acoustic/Folk and occasionally sits in with a number of local Jazz- based ensembles. In April 2024 Nick played a solo percussion set for Konsztrukting Soundz as part of their initial programme, his first mostly improvised set in almost 15 years.

In recent years he has turned his attention to using electronics and effects to extend/enhance the sounds of metal percussion such as Gongs, Cymbals etc. together with pure electronic sounds. He has also developed an interest in using editing and mixing software to produce experimental soundscapes utilising samples, found sound and field recordings.

As part of the Resonance collective, Nick has contributed a track to the Recreating The Record album, and also a mix as part of the Oscillate Live series. More recently he has played live at several of the Resonance Underground Resistors events, together with EMOM evenings at both Chelmsford and Colchester. Nick has also performed a number of times with local musician and fellow improvisor Jo Morrison, in what promises to be a rewarding and developing partnership.

A specific aspect of their duo pairing has been formalised as the band STARNOSEDMOLE, and they are collaborating with Kevin Burrows and Judah McLean as part of their ongoing Jellywolf project.
Nick is keen on collaborations, from one-off events, short-term projects, or something on a longer timescale.

References
https://soundcloud.com/nick-smith-196720219

GEORGE CLEGHORN
Judah McLean aka George Cleghorn is a professional sax player mentored by Aubrey Frank at Trinity Music Academy London. George has been playing sax & EWI for most of his musical life in genres from Jazz, Soul, R&B, Classical, Indie, Dub. Industrial Avante Garde. He currently lives in Southend-on-Sea and play with a number of bands such as Tea Vision, 8 Rounds Rapid, Melodiegroup, Dirty Water, Samuel Jones and Jellywolf ot mention few. He has his own project called Echoes of the Future with Dj Keety and The Apathy Band Bob Roberta Smith based in London.