BOAR is a collective of musicians based in Edinburgh who share interests in improvisation, hybrid instrumentation, human agency and embodiment in digitally mediated performance. Coming from backgrounds in free improvisation and noise, they reject the structures and hierarchies inherent in these approaches. Individually the members have a broad range of approaches, although share an interest in the continuity between electronic and acoustic elements in new music. Through group action, BOAR attempts to reject individual performance strategies - towards collective musicking.



Over three days at Cafe Oto, BOAR collective and invited artists (Hannah Marshall, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Kostis Kilymis, Tom Mudd, Gail Brand) will host a series of concerts and an open discussion. Throughout the residency they will be workshoping to create new work.

This residency will involve a practice based exploration of new relationships between performers and technologies. Focusing on improvisation as socially situated action, exploring how performers are dependant on each other and the technologies they use, and the musical effects of these dependencies during performance. The aim of the workshop is to undo safe, idiomatic modes of improvisation by introducing new relationships, forcing new material, and unexpected situations. These subjects will be explored over three days of concerts, discussions, and workshops.



Invited artists are:

HANNAH MARSHALL

Hannah Marshall is a cellist who is continuing to extract, invent, and exorcize as many sounds and emotional qualities from her instrument as she can. She has been a regular member of Alexander Hawkins’ Ensembles and has toured in Europe and South America with Luc Ex and Veryan Weston’s ensembles – SOL 6 & 12. She plays with ‘String Terrorists’ - Barrel (a trio with Violinist Alison Blunt & Violist/poet Ivor kallin). And has been invited by Fred Frith and Suichi Chino in their residencies at café Oto. She also plays with Terry Day, Tim Hodgkinson, Roger Turner, Paul May, Kay Grant, and the London Improvisers Orchestra.



www.hannahmarshall.net

DIMITRA LAZARIDOU-CHATZIGOGA

Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (b. 1981, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a musician and a linguist based in London. She is active in experimental and improvised music since 2006. She plays the zither, a string instrument, and uses ebows and objects on its resonance box to produce sustained or granulated sounds. Her approach focuses on the interplay between spontaneity and elaborate techniques.

She has performed solo, in long-term collaborations or in occasional formations with Jennifer Allum, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Matt Davis, Axel Dörner, Phil Durrant, Ferran Fages, Anastasis Grivas, Franz Hautzinger, Robin Hayward, Chris Heenan, Ute Kanngieser, Grundik Kasyansky, Tisha Mukarji, Ivan Palacký, Eddie Prévost, Henrik Olsson, Christine Sehnaoui, Birgit Ulher and Daichi Yoshikawa among others.

Her first solo album “stroke by stroke” was released in 2011. Recently, she released ‘outwash’, a trio with Angharad Davies (violin) and Tisha Mukarji (piano), and recorded several compositions for the Wandelweiser und so weiter boxset, both on Another Timbre.



www.strokebystroke.net

KOSTIS KILYMIS

Kostis Kilymis is an artist focusing on audio feedback systems and representation. His practice touches upon music, installation work and video – developed using a mixture of electronic and acoustic approaches. In performance, he has collaborated with various musicians such as Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Leif Elggren, Sarah Hughes and Patrick Farmer. He also maintains ongoing projects in Syndromes and Syndromes Sister Overdrive [w/Giannis Kotsonis] and runs the Organized Music from Thessaloniki music label. He has exhibited work in Athens and Oxford, and is currently based in London, UK.



www.kostiskilymis.com

TOM MUDD

Tom Mudd is a London based musician who writes software to allow him to harness electronic sounds for live performance. His research around this focuses on mapping techniques for physical controllers and generative tools to aid live improvisation. Both of these areas are regularly put to use performing and recording with acoustic and electronic musicians.

www.tommudd.co.uk

GAIL BRAND

Described as "the most exciting trombone player for years" (The Wire), Gail has recorded and performed on the international jazz and improvising scene since the early 1990s with Billy Jenkins, Elton Dean, Evan Parker, Phil Minton, Pat Thomas, Lol Coxhill, Veryan Weston, Oren Marshall, Maggie Nicols, Georg Graewe, Martin Hathaway, Liam Noble and countless others.

Recent work includes: work with comedian Stewart Lee and appearing in 'Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle' (BBC TV) (series one; series two): duo with US improvising vocalist Morgan Guberman; long standing duo with drummer Mark Sanders and Gail Brand; Gail Brand Sextet performing her pieces with edgy improvisation at the heart of the music. Gail has been an interviewer on BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3 programme, interviewing vocalist Maggie Nicols and is set to do more in 2012.

"One of the most passionate and dynamic musicians alive." - Time Out

www.gailbrand.com

BOAR Collective are:

Adam Campbell - adamcampbell.org
Tina Krekels - tinakrekels.com
Stewart Houston - stewarthouston.co.uk
Christos Michalakos - christosmichalakos.com
Marcin Pietruszewski - soundcloud.com/m-pietruszewski
Lorcan Doherty - theelephantcalf.wordpress.com/
Tristan Clutterbuck - tristanclutterbuck.com






This performance was funded through the OTO Projects Promoters and Artists Fund set up to support the creation and delivery of new live events with UK-based musicians. This fund was made possible with support from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.



www.jerwoodcharitablefoundation.org