Sunday 21 May 2023, 8pm
Chris Cutler and Tim Hodgkinson, long-standing collaborators, have worked as an improvising duo since at least 1992. They met Maya Dunietz as members of Hyperion International, playing the music of Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana-maria Avram. In October 2014, the three of them came together as an improvising trio at Tectonics Festival to perform in Cutler's P-53 composition alongside Ilan Volkov conducting a chamber ensemble. Struck by how they interacted that night, they decided to repeat the experience as a stand-alone trio.
In addition, the first half of this programme will include a performance by Tim Hodgkinson of Gushe, for solo clarinet and tape: Maya Dunietz will play piano pieces by Scriabin, Schnebel, and Dunietz; Chris Cutler will perform A Billboard Lovely as a Tree.
Maya Dunietz (1981) is a pianist, composer, creator of sculptures, installations and performances, combining singing, instrumentation and recording techniques with digital technologies and a varied array of materials. She merges different art fields into a single malleable mass. Her works are influenced by their spatial context; Dunietz has performed as soloist, composer and ensemble member with Meitar Ensemble, Saar Berger (Ensemble Modern), Bat Kol Choir, Hyperion Ensemble, Solistensemble Kaleidoskop, and others. Her works have been shown in institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo, Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Fondation Cartier, Arnolfini Gallery, Reykjavik Arts Festival and many more.
Chris Cutler (drums) is a renowned drummer whose activities encompasses from rock to contemporary art music, composition to improvisation, tonal song form to found sound. At the start of the seventies, he co-founded The Ottawa Music Company before joining British experimental group Henry Cow, with whom he toured, recorded and worked for the next eight years. Subsequently he co-founded a series of mixed national groups such as Art Bears and Cassiber. He is a permanent member of The Artaud Beats (with Yumi Hara Cawkwell, Geoff Leigh, John Greaves) and Half the Sky/Lindsay Cooper Songbook. He also founded and runs the independent label ReR Megacorp www.rermegacorp.com and is author of the theoretical collection File Under Popular as well as of numerous articles and papers published in 16 languages.
Tim Hodgkinson most recently performed with KONK PACK (w Roger Turner and Thomas Lehn), Iancu Dumitrescu’s Hyperion Ensemble, UT, Fred Frith, gabby fluke mogul, and Zhuyang Liu.
Tim Hodgkinson composes music and also plays lap steel guitar, clarinets, and saxophones. He co-founded the politically and musically radical group HENRY COW with Fred Frith in 1968. He played in The Work, God, and K Space, as well as joining Ossatura and Torba in Italy. Two of his pieces performed recently are the Piano Concerto, played by Daan Vandewalle at Ars Musica Festival, and Under the Void performed by Phoenix Ensemble, Basel. He has a long involvement in improvisation, and from the 1990's researched into music and shamanism in Siberia. Latest recording: This is what happens, on clarinet, in duo with Zhuyang Liu on guzheng.
