Summer improvised encounter headed up by two hyperkinetic instrumentalists coming together for the first time as a duo - the Australian pianist Anthony Pateras and London drummer Steve Noble. The evening will open with a solo from Pateras and the UK debut of the Kayfabe duo with Natasha Anderson on computer and Pateras on analog synth.

ANTHONY PATERAS / Prepared Piano, Analogue Synth

Anthony Pateras (b.1979) is a pianist and composer from Melbourne, living and working in Brussels. His work is unified by the simultaneous investigation of the formalized, intuitive, electronic and acoustic.

His works have been performed by the LA Philharmonic Association, Brett Dean, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Erkki Veltheim, Timothy Munro, Speak Percussion, Percussion Group The Hague, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Integrales Hamburg, Australian Art Orchestra and Vanessa Tomlinson.

He has an uncommon practice in that outside of writing numerous works for the concert hall, he has collaborated with a stylistic cross-section of musical innovators such as Han Bennink, eRikm, Christian Fennesz, Paul Lovens, Stephen O’Malley, The Necks and Mike Patton.

Currently he is one half of the piano/drums duo PIVIXKI (with Max Kohane from Agents of Abhorrence), and the analogue electronics project POLETOPRA (with visual artist Marco Fusinato). His project THYMOLPHTHALEIN, formed on an invitation from the Sudwestrundfunk New Jazz Meeting in 2009, performed most recently at The Forum, opening for Faust’s first Australian appearance. 2012 has unveiled two new projects: KAYFABE with Natasha Anderson and ASTRAL COLONELS with Valerio Tricoli.

Anthony Pateras website



STEVE NOBLE / Drums

Steve Noble is London's leading drummer, a fearless and constantly inventive improviser whose super-precise, ultra-propulsive and hyper-detailed playing has galvanized encounters with Derek Bailey, Matthew Shipp, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Stephen O'Malley, Joe McPhee, Alex Ward, Rhodri Davies and many, many more.

In the early eighties, Noble played with the Nigerian master drummer Elkan Ogunde, Rip Rig and Panic, Brion Gysin and the Bow Gamelan Ensemble, before going on to work with the pianist Alex Maguire and with Derek Bailey (including Company Weeks 1987, 89 and 90). He was featured in the Bailey's excellent TV series on Improvisation for Channel 4 based on his book ‘Improvisation; its nature and practise’. He has toured and performed throughout Europe, Africa and America and currently leads the groups N.E.W (with John Edwards and Alex Ward) and DECOY (with John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins).



KAYFABE

Natasha Anderson: computer
Anthony Pateras: analogue synth

In professional wrestling, kayfabe is the portrayal of events within the industry as “real” or “true”. Specifically, the portrayal of the rivalries between participants as being genuine and not of a worked nature. Kayfabe is often seen as the suspension of disbelief that is used to create the characters’ feuds and gimmicks.

Kayfabe have the dubious honor of being the last ever set in the What is Music? Festival’s 17 year existence.

Listen to Kayfabe on the Anthony Pateras website