First UK performance by Konzert Minimal, the radical Berlin-based ensemble of experimental musicians, composers and sound artists. Members of the ensemble come together with five UK-based musicians to present compositions by Wandelweiser founder Antoine Beuger, and the highly-acclaimed young American composer Catherine Lamb, last seen in the UK at Glasgow’s Tectonics Festival in January.

Antoine Beuger: meinong nonets (50 mins)
Catherine Lamb: areas of presence, material/highlight (40 mins)

Konzert Minimal musicians:
Johnny Chang (viola)
Catherine Lamb (viola)
Hannes Lingens (accordion)
Koen Nutters (double bass)

UK-based collaborating musicians:
Angharad Davies (violin) Bruno Guastalla (cello)
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (zither)
David Ryan (bass clarinet)
Yoni Silver (bass clarinet)

The concert is supported by the Goethe Institut, London, and launches Konzert Minimal’s first CD, which was released on Another Timbre in June.




Catherine Lamb (b. 1982, Northwestern U.S.) is a composer dedicating herself to the elemental interaction of tone—by the investigation into partial theory (extended just intonation) and variations in presence of materiality/field within unfolding forms/structures. She has written for numerous musicians/ensembles (in North America and in Europe), co-developed an experimental gathering with Laura Steenberge in Los Angeles Singing By Numbers, interprets/researches the music of Viola Torros with Johnny Chang (Konzert Minimal), and collaborates regularly with Bryan Eubanks in Berlin, including the co-running of a collective Sacred Realism. Her most influential mentors have been Mani Kaul, James Tenney, and Michael Pisaro.

www.sacredrealism.org/catlamb



Antoine Beuger is a founder member of the Wandelweiser Composers Collective, which favours a fragile aesthetic focused on the organisation of sound in silence. He has had compositions performed by experimental musicians the world over and numerous of his works have been released on CD. He runs Edition Wandelweiser from his home near Dusseldorf in Germany.



Johnny Chang engages in extended explorations surrounding the relationships of sound/listening and the in-between areas of improvisation, composition and performance. Chang's articulated performances have been featured in festivals, residencies and experimental music series in both Europe, North America and New Zealand, from Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Wandelweiser Klangraum Series (Düsseldorf), Hörbar (Hamburg), Klang im Turm (Munich), The Wulf (Los Angeles), Q-O2 workspace (Brussels), Loop-Line (Tokyo), Umlaut festival (Berlin & Paris) to experimental music series/venues in Berlin such as Ausland, Labor Sonor, Quiet Cue/Staalplaat and NK. He is currently working in collaboration with Antoine Beuger, Lucio Capece, Jürg Frey, Christian Kesten, Catherine Lamb, Hannes Lingens, Radu Malfatti, Koen Nutters, Morten J Olsen, Michael Pisaro, Derek Shirley and Stefan Thut. http://www.timescraper.de/johnny-chang.html



Hannes Lingens is a drummer and accordionist active in the field of contemporary and experimental music. He is part of the ensembles Obliq, Konzert Minimal, [ro], Die Hochstapler and musicians collective Umlaut Berlin. He has worked with improvisors like Tetuzi Akiyama, Alexander Frangenheim, Madoka Kouno, Christof Kurzmann, Olaf Rupp, Matthias Schubert and many more. As an interpreter he has collaborated with composers Peter Ablinger, Antoine Beuger, Philip Corner, Sven-Åke Johansson, Christian Kesten and Manfred Werder among others. He also composes music himself.

www.hanneslingens.de



Koen Nutters is a musician, composer and organizer of music, bands, events, concert series, exhibitions, installations and performance pieces. He is one of the founding members of the international "N collective" (2002 - 2009), the artistic director of the DNK-Amsterdam concert series, a freelance curator, and a (founding) member of many bands and projects with a host of international musicians and artists



Konzert Minimal is a collective of composers, performers, and sound artists, which draws upon the diverse experiences of its members in modern classical music, experimental and improvised music, sound art, conceptual performance and composition.