TUESDAY 14th April 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6 / £4 concs (Tickets on the door only)
A night of experimentation created by young London based improvisers.
Grundik Kasyansky (electronics): works in collaboration
(improvisation, live installation) and solo (composition, improvisation, installation). He also designs sound for dance, theatre and film. He formed Grundik+Slava together with Slava Smelovsky in Israel in 1995. The duo quickly emerged as the key project in the Israeli experimental and electronic scene. For the last ten years he collaborated with lots of musicians, dancers, filmmakers and artists. He was born in Moscow in 1974, moved to Israel in 1991, moved to New York in 2001, moved to London in 2007
Seymour Wright (b.1976) is a saxophone player who plays saxophone music about the saxophone - music, history and technique actual and potential.
" enquiry into saxophonic actuality, through the potential inherent in, for instance, imagination, re-proportion,
inversion, transformation, juxtaposition, construction, deconstruction, reconstruction, permutation, truncation
and extension " (from ‘Acts of potential: learning future music' 2008)
Jamie Coleman is a trumpet player, an improviser, a teacher, a handy man, a cyclist, a runner, a firm friend
and just occasionally a man in a queue at the London Underground lost property office (brass instrument window).
Guillaume Viltard(Double base) : Born in 1975 in the North of Ivory Coast, Guillaume Viltard has grown up in a wild countryside with almost no music. He was dreaming about bass playing but started studying philosophy
… and stopped. After classical studies, he started playing with musicians of the french improv’ scene, as well as with poets and dancers. He moved in London in 2007, and since, has been playing with many improvisers. http://utofmu.free.fr/
Ute Kanngeisser (Cello) is a London based cellist with main focus on improvised and experimental
music. Classically trained as a child and not playing at all for a few years she came back to music and improvisation while training in physical theatre and dance in Berlin. Since then she has been involved with a number of
collaborations with dancers, film makers and improvising musicians. She is currently playing with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Guillaume Viltard, Grundik Kasyansky, Jamie Coleman, Dale Berning, and Laura Hyland. And she is a regular player at Eddie Prévost's improvisation workshop.
Daichi Yoshikawa is a young Japanese improviser. Daichi plays electronics and a regular player at Eddie Prévost's improvisation workshop.
Paul Abbott is an artist and improviser who plays diverted and invented devices and metals. Paul also plays at Eddie 's workshop regulary.
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