Tuesday 8 September 2026, 7.30pm
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This duo is the result of a collaboration between the Chilean musicians Benjamín Vergara and Edén Carrasco, spanning more than 20 years. This partnership is reflected in practices in the context of experimental music, noise, minimalism, free jazz, site specific performance. The music of this project explores the limits of the timbres of these two acoustic air instruments, trumpet & sax, building zones with melodic lines camouflaged by textures, a noisy touch of dron blues, and a submarine version of cool jazz. This 2026 the duo released a cassette álbum called -secuelas- by the italian label Tsss Tapes, that they will be playing in some cities of Europe that includes Cafe Oto, Echoraum (Viena), Sowieso (Berlin), Richten 25 (Berlin), Cap 30 (Copenhague), Hörbar (Hamburg).
Chilean trumpet player, improviser and educator, based in the city of Valdivia, Chile.His work focuses on improvised music, written contemporary music, free jazz and experimental music. Director of the Festival of experimental music –Relincha- occurring since 2014 in the city of Valdivia. Professor in music improvisation at School of Music and SoundArt of the Universidad Austral de Chile. He has collaborated with a huge range of musicians like Fred Frith, Felipe Araya, Ben Bennett, Keefe Jackson, Jim Baker, Edén Carrasco, Amanda Irarrázabal, ensembles and multi disciplinary projects. His music is available in labels like Inexhaustible Editions, 577 records, Relative Pitch, Tour de Bras.
https://www.benjaminvergara.com/
https://benjaminvergara.bandcamp.com
Chilean musician that plays free improvised music and has played in many different bands such as Ensamble Majamama, La Kut, Cariñito 3, Martin Joseph Pacific Ensemble, Akinetón Retard, Cuarteto de Saxofones de Miguel Villafruela, Ensamble Nuevo of Goethe Institut, and many other spontaneous and ad hoc combinations for improvised music. He has been part of casual meetings of improvised music and/or recorded and published albums with musicians Tetuzi Akiyama, Angélica Castelló, Klaus Filip, Ly Thanh Tien, Jason Kahn, Leonel Kaplan, Christof Kurzmann, Andy Moor, Norbert Möslang, Günter Müller, Tatsuya Nakatani, David Stakenäs, Burkhard Stangl, Sabu Toyozumi, Taku Unami, Birgit Ulher, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval, Ute Völker and Manfred Werder. He has played in many stages in Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brasil, China, Colombia, Germany, France, Holland, Japan, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. At the same time, is involved in the tradition of gaita colombiana, and has a project called Mákina Kandela
https://soundcloud.com/eden-carrasco
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).
