THURSDAY 8th April 2010
Door Time : 8pm
Tickets : £7adv. / £8 on the door
Chris Cutler
He started messing about with banjo, guitar and trumpet at school, settling for drums and playing shadows and other instrumental covers in his first band in 1963.
Subsequently he played in R'n'B and Soul Bands, winding up in 1967 playing in London's psychedelic clubs. At the start of the seventies, with Dave Stewart, he co-founded The Ottawa Music Co, a 22 piece Rock composer's orchestra, eventually joining British experimental group Henry Cow with whom he toured, recorded and worked in dance and theatre projects until it's demise in 1978.
In 1977 Henry Cow, The Mike Westbrook Orchestra and Frankie Armstrong formed a big-band and toured around Europe. After Henry Cow, Cutler went on to co-found a series of mixed national groups Art Bears, News from Babel, Cassiber, The (ec) Nudes, P53 and The Science Group. He was a permanent member of American bands Pere Ubu, Hail and The Wooden Birds and now works sporadically with John Rose, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Iancu Dumitrescu, Peter Blegvad and Stevan Tickmayer.
Other lasting collaborations have included Aqsak Maboul (Belgium), Lussier/Derome and Les Quatre Guitaristes (Canada), The Kalahari Surfers (Africa), Perfect Trouble (Germany), Between (Sweden), N.O.R.M.A., (Italy), Telectu (Portugal), Mieko Shimizu (Japan),The Hyperion Ensemble (Romania), The Film Music Orchestra, 'Oh Moscow', Gong, The Work and Towering Inferno (UK), The Residents (USA), and stateless Tense Serenity and Mirror Man. There have also been countless improvisational groupings and solo performances. Recent projects include Radio pieces with Lutz Glandien and Shelly Hirsch, Live Soundtrack for Carl Dreher's Vampyr (with Italians Musci and Venosta), his Timescales project and work with David Thomas and Linda Thompson.
He also founded and runs the independent label and distribution service ReR/Recommended and, until 1991, the East European specialist label Points East. He is editor of the New Music magazine Unfiled and author of the theoretical book File Under Popular as well as of numerous articles and papers published in 14 languages. He lectures intermittently on theoretical and music related topics. He has appeared on more than 100 recordings.
LINKS
http://www.ccutler.com/ccutler/
http://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Cutler
Jon Rose
"Jon Rose is an Australian violinist with a disrespectful love for his instrument and its musical habitats, fond of appending it with electronics, power tools and the like.”- The Wire Magazine
Jon Rose has created a body of radical music, and an alternative cultural context for the violin, its practice and its history. His Fence Project, has seen him, over the last 20 years, explore the sonic possibilities of fences all over the world.
Born in 1951 in Rochester, UK, Jon Rose started playing the violin at seven years old, after winning a music scholarship to King’s School Rochester. He studied violin with Anthony Saltmarsh (exponent of the Knud Vestergaard ‘Bach’ bow). He gave up formal music education at the age of 15 and from then on was primarily self-taught.
Throughout the 1970’s, first in England and then in Australia, he played, composed and studied in a large variety of music genres - from sitar playing to country & western; from ‘new music’ composition to commercial studio session work; from bebop to Italian club bands; from big band serial composition to sound installations. In 1977-78 he studied jazz arranging and counterpoint with Bill Motzing at the NSW Conservatorium of Music. He became the central figure in the development of Free Improvisation in Australia, performing in almost every art gallery, jazz and rock club in the country - either solo, with fellow improvisers like Louis Burdett, Serge Ermoll, Edy Bronson, Jim Denley or with an international pool of improvising musicians called The Relative Band. The collaborative LP Tango (Hot Records) in 1983 with Martin Wesley-Smith was a world first in violin and (Fairlight) sampling improvisation.
In 1986, he moved to Berlin in order to more fully realise his on-going project (of some 25 years): The Relative Violin. This is the development of a total artform based around the one instrument. Necessary to this concept has been innovation in the fields of new instrument design, environmental performance and new instrumental techniques.
In addition to appearing on over 60 records and CDs, Rose is the originator of two books - The Pink Violin and Violin Music in the Age of Shopping, both published by NMA, Melbourne.
In 2000 Rose formed the duo Temperament with pianist Veryan Weston, specialising in improvisation with different tunings (Just, 19 tone, etc) for the keyboards and various scordatura for the violins. Other on-going projects include Australia Ad Lib, an innovative website which documents alternative music practice in Australia.
LINKS
http://www.jonroseweb.com/
http://www.last.fm/music/Jon+Rose
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/mrose.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpqb4qBnLA
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