PETER KNIGHT / solo trumpet, prepared flugel horn, laptop electronics, pedals, amplifier

Live sampling and processing of micro sound worlds created using the trumpet, flugel horn, laptop electronics, amplifier and pedals. Allotrope is a solo project from multidisciplinary Melbourne composer and trumpeter Peter Knight. It continues, albeit tangentially, Peter’s preoccupation with space, understatement, and long form structure and draws inspiration from diverse sources.

Perpetually curious, Peter Knight's work defies categorisation; indeed, he works in the spaces between categories, between genres and between cultures, integrating jazz, world music, and experimental traditions across a broad range of works for solo and ensemble projects. Peter is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including two Australian Bell Jazz Awards (2012 & 2009) he was also nominated for the Green Room 'Best Composition and Sound Design' award and twice for the AMC/APRA Art Music Awards. His work has received international critical acclaim “Honest, inventive and original” Hour Magazine (Montreal) “Falling into an utterly genre-less wormhole” Cyclic Defrost, and his most recent album, Fish Boast of Fishing, which brings together acoustic and electroacoustic approaches to improvisation, was mentioned in the New York City Jazz Record’s ‘Best of 2011’ and featured on BBC Jazz on 3 "Fish Boast of Fishing is a serious work of stringent originality performed by an ensemble that deserves to be heard much more widely" BBC Radio 3 review.

Peter Knight's Allotrope is released in August on Listen Hear Collective and distributed in Europe through New Music Distribution.

Peter Knight website

GUILLAUME VILTARD / double bass

One of the most interesting musicians to emerge from London's fertile improvised and experimental scene in the last few years, Viltard's bass playing is resolutely unamplified and powerfully physical, and has anchored and illuminated groups with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, John Butcher, Eddie Prevost and Tony Marsh.

SHABAKA HUTCHINGS / clarinet, saxophones

Shabaka Hutchings plays tenor sax,bass clarinet, clarinet. Described by the BBC as "one of the most eclectic and musically adventurous instrumentalists on the London jazz scene", Hutchings grew up in Barbados and studied clarinet at the Guildhall School of Music. One of the capitals busiest saxophonists he straddles both the avant garde and jazz orthodoxy leading the trio ZED-U and performing with Jazz Warriors, The London Improvisors Orchestra, The Heights, Louis Moholo, Charlie Hadens Liberation Orchestra, Jack DeJohnette All Stars, as well as Speech Debelle, Gary Crosbys Nu Troop and Red Snapper.

In September 2010 Hutchings was confirmed as a 'BBC New Generation Artist'.

'Shabaka is a veritable cauldron of creativity ... an emerging Brit-jazz star if ever there was one' Jazzwise

“Turner [used] brushes to create a wild spattering and scattering of sound from cymbal and snare, with sudden explosions from tom and kick drums. At times in this early passage he sounded like rain on a caravan roof, at others like a tool box in the back of a moving van” - Molloy Woodcraft, The Guardian