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)

This year Orchestra Elastique made the soundtrack for the motion picture “A Fallible Girl”, directed by Conrad Clark to be premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. OE are currently in the process of scoring two other films and the soundtrack to "A fallible girl" will be released very soon on CD. After various London dates OE will also be on a short tour of France this coming December with several dates in Paris.

Playing various festivals across the UK and Europe OE have graced venues such as the ICA, Shunt, Cafe OTO, Battersea Art Centre, 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

TOM RICHARDS

Tom Richards has been walking the line between sonic art, sculpture and music since graduating with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2004. In the last few years Richards has developed his own idiosyncratic modular electronic music system, with which he creates slowly evolving and heavily textured polyrhythmic improvisations. His individual approach and reductive palette lead to a tense, rhythmically focused sonic experience.

His works have been seen and heard at: Tate Britain, Spike Island, Zabludowicz Collection, Bold Tendencies, Soundfjord, and Resonance FM. His ‘Broken Patchbay’ EP was released in March 2012. He lives and works in London.



www.tomrichards.info