ORCHESTRA ELASTIQUE

Orchestra Elastique (OE) is a London-based music improvisation collective that comprises performers and multi-instrumentalists. The ongoing motif is to face music as a playground. Hailing from countries such as France, Portugal, Holland, England and Mexico, Orchestra Elastique fill this playground with instruments such as harp, accordion, trumpet, harmonium, piano, theremin, drums, percussion, electronics, vocals, cello, double bass, bagpipes and many, many more. The result is a form of music that takes influences from Minimalist Music, Free Jazz, Middle Eastern, South American, Krautrock, and various folkloric and tribal traditions.  Ranging from subtle dreams to explosive psychedelia, Orchestra Elastique’s performances elasticate mind, senses and spacetime...

Photo by Antonio Curcetti.

OE is:

Joris Beets (delta harp, percussion and more), Antoine Gilleron (trumpet, vocals and more), Bruno Humberto (harmonium, synths and more), Philippe Lenzini (guitar), Nahum Mantra (theremin, electronics and more) and Tristan Shorr (drums, piano and more)

Last year Orchestra Elastique made the soundtrack for the motion picture “A Fallible Girl”, directed by Conrad Clark to be premiered 27th of January at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2013. OE are currently finishing the process of scoring two other films and the soundtrack to "A Fallible Girl" will be released early this year.

A Fallible Girl trailer from Conrad Clark on Vimeo.

Playing various festivals across the UK and Europe OE have graced venues such as the ICA, Shunt, Cafe OTO, Battersea Art Centre, Point Ephemere, Ausland, Camden Arts Centre and many more.

Regular guests invited to play include: David Tunstall (bagpipes, double bass), Steph Patten (cello), Fiona Bevan (vocals, violin),  Larry Achiampong (bass,vocals), Elo Masing (violin, piano), Tom Whitehouse (flute), Sonia Paço-Rocchia (bassoon), among many others.



www.orchestraelastique.com

THE ALASKA NONE

The Alaska None is the ongoing solo music making project of James Alaska in which he abstracts, reconstructs and recontextualises fragments of sound from vinyl and tape, in order to make new, texture heavy compositions. For this performance he will be mixing sections from the tape archive of The Shul’Ha Brotherhood, a religious cult based in Dawes County, Nebraska U.S.A. in the early 1980s, who experimented with voice and electronics as a means of achieving self transcendence.