A pair of solo improvisations from two distinctive artists. Anthony Pateras (b.1979) is a composer, pianist and electroacoustic musician. Aside from writing numerous compositions for diverse instrumentations, he has performed worldwide in multiple bands and projects since the late 90s. His recorded music is available through Tzadik, Editions Mego or his own Immediata imprint, and he will be releasing his new TĒTĒMA project on Ipecac in December. Rafael Toral is an electronic musician whose practice focuses on the physical performance of experimental electronic instruments to deliver music that is full of clarity and space, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way. Formerly known for his drone/ ambient work with guitar and electronics, he has since collaborated with the likes of Jim O'Rourke, Evan Parker, Chris Corsano, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, and Christian Marclay.


ANTHONY PATERAS

Anthony Pateras is a composer, pianist and electroacoustic musician working with a musical language at the nexus of notation, improvisation and electronic music.

As pianist he has performed his work at the Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), the Sydney Opera House, the ICA (London), Concertgebouw Bruges, Foundaçao Serravles (Porto), Hamer Hall (Melbourne), Logan Centre for the Arts (Chicago), Ancienne Belgique (Brussels), Stavanger Konserthus, State Theatre (Sydney), Melos-Ethos (Bratislava), and the Adelaide Festival.

As composer his work has been performed by Brett Dean/Los Angeles Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Markus Stenz, Richard Tognetti & Satu Vänskä, Eugene Ughetti/Speak Percussion, Percussion Group The Hague, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Hiatus, Australian Art Orchestra, Timothy Munro and Third Coast Percussion, Erkki Veltheim, Percussionists of the Basel Symphony, Ensemble Intégrales Hamburg and Vanessa Tomlinson, amongst others.

Pateras has performed with musical innovators including vocalist Mike Patton (Great American Music Hall, San Francisco) drummer Han Bennink (Melbourne Jazz Festival), guitarist Stephen O'Malley (Instants Chavirés, Paris) drummer Paul Lovens (Musica Genera, Szeczin), DJ eRikm (Festival Cable, Nantes), and toured across France/Switzerland with the Necks with his own Pateras/Baxter/Brown trio in 2008.

Anthony Pateras website




RAFAEL TORAL

Melodic without notes, rhythmic without a beat, familiar but strange, meticulous but radically free, Rafael Toral's music is riddled with interesting paradox. Toral has developed a musical system to physically play experimental electronic instruments and puts it to practice with large-scale project Space Program — a complex network of recordings and performances to deliver music that is full of clarity and space, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way.

Formerly known for his drone/ ambient work with guitar and electronics and acclaimed records such as Wave Field (1994) or Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (2000), he has radically renewed his approach to music, launching the jazz-inspired and alien-sounding Space Program in 2004, using experimental electronic instruments.

Toral's long time connection with Sei Miguel is central to the development of the Space Program. Other collaborations include Jim O'Rourke, Evan Parker, John Edwards, Joe Morris, Tatsuya Nakatani, Chris Corsano, Manuel Mota, David Toop, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Phill Niblock, Christian Marclay, Sonic Youth, João Paulo Feliciano, Rhys Chatham, Lee Ranaldo, C Spencer Yeh, Dean Roberts... In 1998 he became a member of MIMEO electronic orchestra. Its other members are Keith Rowe, Thomas Lehn, Kaffe Matthews, Marcus Schmickler, Jérome Noetinger, Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg, Gert-Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler and Phil Durrant. Since 2008 he directs the Space Collective, a slowly developing orchestral group.

Rafael Toral website