DIATRIBES (CH)
Cyril Bondi (percussion, etc) & d'incise (percussion, electronic, etc)

Diatribes, the Geneva based duo, continue their exploration of simplification and rational rituality, and present a couple of new pieces held together by strict sonic or structural principles. Highly detailed textures, repeated gestures, soft tones, febrile pulses and acoustic hyper-sensibility, pushing one step ahead the ideas they've exposed in their previous album "Augustus".

The duo, two improvisors working together since 2004, after a voracious youth exploring free jazz, noise, musique concrête and free improv, and many collaborations with international musicians such as Magda Mayas, Bertrand Gauguet, Robin Hayward, Dominic Lash, Partick Farmer, Derek Shirley and Hannah Marshall, Barry Guy, Keith Rowe, amongst others, have chosen to focus on a rather introverted process of creation. During the past year they have intensely toured across Europe and beyond.



Cyril Bondi and d'incise are both very active in the Swiss experimental scene, leading the Insub Meta Orchestra, a very large ensemble, and created in the INSUB. label, netlabel & association (since 2006, as Insubordinations). Their unstoppable energy led them to build a strong network around these activities. They have other bands together, including Queixas (with Abdul Moimême) and a subbass quartet (with Derek Shirley and Dragos Tara), and other occasional collaborations.

Cyril plays solo and with the post-jazz trio Plaistow and d'incise plays solo, works on electro-acoustic set-ups and compositions, and does graphic designs.

www.dincise.net/diatribes
insub.org/rec02



SARAH HUGHES (zither) / KOSTIS KILYMIS (electronics) / SAMUEL RODGERS (electronics)

Sarah Hughes and Kostis Kilymis started working as a duo in 2012. Their collaboration has resulted in a few of hours of improvised music, an interpretation of a George Brecht score, and a fixed document in the shape of the Consumer Waste cdr edition, 'The Good Life'. They were recently joined by Samuel Rodgers, and will be performing as a trio live for the first time.

consumerwaste.org.uk/cw08
wolfnotes.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/cafe-oto-project-space-jack-harris-samuel-rodgers-sarah-hughes-and-kostis-kilymis/



Sarah Hughes plays zither and piano in improvising groups and as a founding member of the Set Ensemble, a group of musicians dedicated to the performance of contemporary composition. She performs with long-term collaborators Patrick Farmer, Daniel Jones and Stephen Cornford and has also performed with musicians such as Antoine Berger, Seijiro Murayama, Angharad Davies and Jurg Frey. She has performed internationally and has participated in various festivals such as Blurred Edges in Hamburg, i and e in Dublin, Sounds Like in Canada and Cut and Splice in London. She is the co-founder of Compost and Height, curating projects such as Michael Pisaro’s Only [Harmony Series #17] New Works by Manfred Werder, Ben Owen and Patrick Farmer, and the Water Yam Project.

sarahhughes.org

Kostis Kilymis is an artist focusing on feedback systems and representation in musical performance and artistic practice. His main instrument is the mixing board through which he captures and manipulates electroacoustic phenomena, pre recorded material and electronically generated sound. He has been an improviser, performer and collaborator -his encounters including Lucio Capece, Nikos Veliotis, Leif Elggren, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Cornford and Phil Julian amongst others. He curates the Organized Music from Thessaloniki label.

kostiskilymis.com
thesorg.noise-below.org



Samuel Rodgers is a musician and sound artist working across improvisation, sound recording, performance and installation. His work is concerned with exploring acoustic phenomena and developing haptic relationships to sounding objects and spaces - sound reproduction and recording being key in the articulation of these spatial relationships. Samuel is a member of the Set Ensemble and co-curates the Consumer Waste record label.

samuelrodgers.info/
consumerwaste.org.uk/