KAMMER KLANG returns to OTO with another night of music from various musical genres.

CHRISTIAN KESTEN

Christian Kesten is a vocalist, performer, composer, sound and intermedia artist. He studied music and interdisciplinary studies at UdK Berlin. He has developed a repertoire of extended vocal techniques, focusing on noise and subtle nuances of sound colours. His work explores the connections between voice and action, music and language, and music and visual arts, and also deals with the interpenetration of sound and space.

Kesten has given solo performances as a composer-performer in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan, and has collaborated with Emmett Williams, Alison Knowles, Alessandro Bosetti, Lucio Capece, Chris Abrahams, Andrea Ermke, Mark Trayle, Axel Dörner, Makiko Nishikaze, and others. His ensemble compositions have been presented at MUMOK Vienna, Ontological New York, MusiMars Montreal, Théâtre 2.21 Lausanne, Dampfzentrale Berne, Parochialkirche Berlin, and elsewhere. Kesten is a member of the ensemble Maulwerker and artistic director of the series ‘maulwerker performing music’. He is also an interpreter of New Vocal Music and music theatre (with premieres by Demierre, Mello, Nishikaze, ter Schiphorst, and Schnebel, among others). Kesten has held teaching positions and given guest lectures in Europe, Israel, and the United States and serves as co-curator of the Labor Sonor series for experimental music, film and performance art in Berlin.

Christian Kesten website

WE SPOKE perform SPIEGEL by FRITZ HAUSER, 2011

We Spoke: New Music is a contemporary music collective based between Switzerland and London. Merging ‘we speak’ with ‘bespoke’, the group explores the different languages of contemporary art music focusing on one particular theme for each one of its production. Percussionists Julien Annoni and Serge Vuille will represent the group for this KammerKlang evening, performing one piece from the programme We Spoke: Looping. Spiegel explores the very subtle sound variations a chop stick can produce on the rim of a snare drum, with the two drummers mirroring and complementing each other's pattern. Fritz Hauser is a swiss composer and drummer who develops an extensive work around simple percussion instruments such as the snare drum, cymbals or gongs.

THIS MACHINE WON'T KILL FASCISTS BUT IT MIGHT GET YOU LAID

This Machine Won't Kill Fascists but It Might Get You Laid uses 4 electric guitars, repetition and volume to explore microtones. Written by Christopher Bailey and originally commisioned by Julian Day the piece was debuted June 2011 at Chisenhale Dance Space. Expect sharp-dressed musicians and over-heating amplifiers.

Christopher Bailey is currently between websites. If you'd like to hear more and can't wait until the night please call him on 07900931114.

Performers: George Percy / Anna Rose Carter / Nicolas Kort / Christopher Bailey

KOTTOS by IANNIS XENAKIS (1977)

Performed by Kammer Klang founder and cellist Lucy Railton.

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