TUESDAY 24th November 2009
Times : 8pm
Tickets : £5 Tickets on the door only
A night of contemporary classical, electronic and improvised music is headlined by Jazz ensemble, Outhouse, with performances of music by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, Atau Tanaka, Bruno Maderna, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Aperghis, Elliott Carter and Louis Andriessen.
Outhouse
Robin Fincker - tenor saxophone/
clarinet
Tom Challenger - tenor sax
Johnny Brierley - bass
Dave Smith - drums
"One of the most impressive young bands on the current London Jazz scene." Jazzwise
Outhouse has been turning heads in
London since 2004. The band grew out of a series of improvised-music sessions in a North-London outhouse. It has performed extensively in Britain, appeared in London Jazz Festival 2007 & 2008 and has also toured in France, Canada (Quebec) and The Gambia. The quartet is a core-member of the Loop Collective. Kammer Klang 12 invites laptopist/bass-guitarist Pierre Alexandre Tremblay to join them for the headline set.
www.loopcollective.org
www.myspace.com/outhouseloop
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay collaborates on a variety of projects, manipulating sound and playing bass guitar. He teaches composition and improvisation at the University of Huddersfield in England. He is a member of ars circa musicæ, and de type inconnu. He launched his first acousmatic album, alter ego, in 2006, the first album of ars circa musicæ in 2007, and in 2008 the seventh album of [iks], the contemporary jazz ensemble he directed for eleven years. He also works on pop music projects in studio as producer and bass guitar, composes video music and develops sound-design programs.www.pierrealexandretremblay.com
Kammer Klang 12 will feature two piece written by Pierre Alexandre:
Sandbox#3 an improvisation environment for bass and laptop, performed by PA Tremblay.
Un clou, son marteau, et le béton (2009) for mixes aesthetics will be performed by pianist and dedicatee, Sarah Nicolls (just premiered a week before in Huddersfield) PA says: 'it is an extreme piece involving the pianist screaming into the piano, bringing the sonic focus right to the instrument by using a tight-knit array of speakers, creating drama in both improvised and vocal passages. This piece was developed in collaboration with Nicolls and was an evolutionary process between composer and performer, using improvisation as not only a feature of the piece but also as a key part of how the piece was created. It employs a PianoBar, a MIDI device placed on the keyboard, allowing intuitive and integrated control of the computer processing.
NEW WORK for pianist and sensors (2009) byAtau Tanaka
Performed by Sarah Nicolls, whose new collaborative work goes beyond the piano: Her most recent collaboration with Atau Tanaka (Director, Culture Lab) has involved explorations with bio sensors and accelerometers to capture and use the gestures of performance. This sets the hands and arms in a fluid relationship with the piano, teasing out sound from the space around - as well as inside - the instrument. Sarah is an outstanding experimenter, constantly presenting new obsessions, discoveries and music in increasingly hard to pigeonhole performances. www.sarahnicolls.com.
Atau Tanaka, Japanese/American artist based in Paris, bridges the fields of media art, experimental music, and scientific research. He creates music for sensor instruments, wireless network infrastructures, and democratized digital forms. His first inspirations came upon meeting John Cage. www.myspace.com/atautanaka.
Ursonata byKurt Schwitters
Jactations byGeorges Aperghis
Both pieces are for solo Baritone singer, performed by Peter Willcock
Viola by Bruno Maderna, performed by Rob Ames (viola).
Figment I for solo cello by Elliott Carter, performed by Lucy Railton
Sweet for solo recorder by Louis Andriessen, performed by Leo Chadburn
www.kammer-klang.com/blogspot
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