Domestic intimacy and monotony present a theme at Kammer Klang's 21st night of contemporary music and performance. Featuring Leafcutter John, Kerry Yong and the Swiss percussion ensemble MINIMAL, covering classics from the last 70 years and new compositions with improvisation and performance: Vinko Globokar, Steve Reich, John Cage and Jacques Demierre.

LEAFCUTTER JOHN - solo set

Yorkshire come London lad, John Burton has graced the planet with his remarkable contributions to electronic, folk and experimental music since his primary exploring with an old computer he originally bought to write his Art School dissertation in 1998. Since then he's released 3 critically acclaimed albums which culminated in the release of "The Housebound Spirit" on Planet Mu Records. An Album which combined elements of music-concrete and electro-acoustic music with voice and guitar work more commonly found in folk music.

His forth album "The Forest and the Sea" (Staubgold) became a great success for artist and label alike and was nominated for best album (Quartz award 2007), with it he toured extensively throughout Europe and Australasia performing alongside; Matmos, Nick Cave, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Jarvis Cocker, Yo La Tengo, Grace Jones, Beth Orton, Otomo Yoshihide, Aki Onda, Phillip Jeck, Carsten Nicolai, Tujiko Noriko amongst others.

John is also a full time member of the Mercury Music Award nominated contemporary Jazz band Polar Bear, providing electronics, guitar, and vocals, and with the bands founder Sebastian Rochford John collaborates in the duo project 'Nails'. John's other duo project includes one with the accomplished Tabla player Talvin Singh (tabla / voice & electronics / guitar / voice).

Leafcutter John website

STEVE REICH - Piano Phase (1967)

Accompanied by his best friend: the Casio Keyboard, and newly acquainted friend, Mr Delay Pedal, Kerry Yong performs his re-orchestration of Reich's classic piece originally written for two pianos.

VINKO GLOBOKAR - Corporel (1985) and Toucher (1973).

Performed with voice and on the body by MINIMAL ensemble members - Serge Vuille and Julien Annoni.

JOHN CAGE - Living Room Music (1940)

Using unspecified object found in the home, Cage's dedication to ex-wife Xenia unravels a narrative over the movements: To Begin, Story, Melody and End. Performed by MINIMAL.

JACQUES DEMIERRE - Une Table pour Trois ou la Troïka s'ennuie (2009)

MINIMAL:
Serge Vuille
Julien Annoni
Olivier Membrez

(A Table for Three, or the Troïka gets bored) is a piece for three percussionists/performers playing on and under a table, exploring the sounds world of this common piece of furniture as well as the relations between people sitting around it. MINIMAL presents it in a staging by Christian Kesten in which the players adopt different attitudes towards another, sometimes very surprising, and develop an abstract yet very efficient mean of communication.

MINIMAL is a Swiss group that spends time and attention to detail to present high quality productions based around masterpieces of the twentieth century and cutting edge musical creation. Each production has a theme and makes a way through the labyrinth of the 20th and 21st century art music, underlining one particular aspect of it. MINIMAL at the TABLE treats of body-language through instrument-less percussion.