A Confront Recordings launch event for the Jason Kahn & Phil Julian live electronics collaboration CD "Valentines".

The pair will perform as a duo and then as part of Mark Wastell's improvising group THE SEEN.

Jason Kahn & Phil Julian (duo)

THE SEEN:

Phil Julian / electronics
Jason Kahn / electronics
Phil Durrant / violin
Angharad Davies / violin
Mark Wastell / violoncello
Olie Brice / double bass
Dominic Lash / double bass
Graham MacKeachan / double bass

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JASON KAHN

Jason Kahn is a musician, artist and writer. He was born 1960 in New York and grew up in Los Angeles. He re-located to Europe in 1990 and is currently based in Zürich. As an electronic musician, vocalist and drummer Kahn collaborates regularly with many musicians, both in improvised settings and in the context of graphical scores which he composes for specific groups. Kahn has exhibited his installations in museums, galleries, art spaces and public sites internationally. These works focus on the idea of space: the conceptual and physical juncture points, its production and dissolution, and our relation to it as a political, social and environmental medium.

Kahn's other activities include sound pieces for radio, film, dance and theater. He has also designed numerous CD, LP and cassette covers. As a writer, his work has appeared in books, magazines and as liner notes to many audio publications. Performing regularly around the world, Kahn has given concerts throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Turkey and South Africa.

From 1998 until 2008 Kahn ran the label Cut, releasing twenty-five CD's which included both his own work and that of many other artists. In 2011 Kahn started the Editions imprint to publish his own recordings and writings.




PHIL JULIAN

Phil Julian is a UK based experimental sound artist, composer and improviser. Under both the Cheapmachines alias and his own name, Phil Julian has been venturing across various strains of unorthodox sound since the late 1990′s, with his prolific output on a catalogue of imprints encompassing a diverse range of sonic textures. Studio recordings and live performances within Europe and North America have focused on the use of analogue electronics (particularly unstable and/or chaotic systems) and computer based works.




THE SEEN



Mark Wastell has been organising larger formations of musicians, collectively known as THE SEEN, for over 10 years. Always comprising of an appropriate split between electronic and acoustic performers. Using predominantly improvised material with occasional instructions or themes distributed to individual musicians just prior to performance. No formation has ever been repeated, THE SEEN never stays static.

Register of previous participants include Tetuzi Akiyama, Mattin, Michael Duch, Graham Halliwell, Andrea Neumann, Rhodri Davies, Paul Hood, Takehiro Nishide, Annette Krebs, Lee Gamble, Matt Davis, Joe Williamson, Wolfgang Fuchs, Angharad Davies, Burkhard Beins, Tomas Korber, Bertrand Denzler, Paul Abbott, Ben Owen, David Toop, John Butcher, Richard Sanderson, Phil Durrant, Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Jonathan McHugh & Jane Dickson




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OTO PROJECT SPACE

The OTO Project Space is located just around the corner from Cafe OTO at 1-7 Ashwin Street - E8 3DL.

It was created as a space for artists to develop new work and for OTO Projects to present workshops, talks, film screenings and installations relating to the core programme at Cafe OTO. The building was designed by Assemble - a young, critically acclaimed design practice based in London - and built by a team of more than 30 volunteers.