We need your help – please
We need your help – please
Thursday 31 March 2016, 8pm
Slip are back at OTO with an evening of expanded song. Laurie Tompkins and Susie Whaites perform Tim Parkinson’s gloriously monotonous Songs; German and Swedish musicians Andreas Dzialocha and Marta Forsberg bring drones both nocturnal and ecstatic to the UK for the first time; and masterful American performer/composer Ashley Paul makes a special guest appearance.
Ashley Paul is an American performer and composer based in London. She uses an array of instruments including saxophone, clarinet, voice, guitar, bells and percussion, mixing disparate elements to create a colorful palate of sound that works its way into her intuitive songs; free forming, introverted melodies. This blend manifests beautiful and simple musical forms against acoustic experimentation.
Ashley has performed or recorded with Phill Niblock, Rashad Becker, Nik Colk Void, Loren Connors, Heatsick, Aki Onda, C. Spencer Yeh, Anthony Coleman, Bass Clef, Joe Maneri, Joe Morris, Seijiro Murayama, Greg Kelley, Bill Nace and Eli Keszler appearing on such labels as Important, PAN, ESP-DISK’ and Tzadik. She received a Masters of Music from New England Conservatory in 2007.
Andreas Dzialocha (DE) is an electric bass player, programmer and composer, founder of the Serenus Zeitblom Oktett. Studies art history, musicology, computer science. Writes environments with and without computers for instrumentalists, theater and sound installations. Performs in various ensembles between free improvised music, chamber music and pop. Bass player of the swedish group Tula (Telegram / Warner), publisher of the BLATT 3000 paper platform for contemporary music. Solo Electric Bass Album Release 2015 on Slip Imprint (London / Berlin). Cofounder of the selfcurated festival VERANTWORTUNG 3000 summer 2016. Young artist award 2012, nominated by the Moers Festival. Lives and works in Berlin.
http://solo.andreasdzialocha.com/
Marta Forsberg is currently a bachelor student in Electroacoustic composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She a violinist and electroacoustic composer working in the field of free improvisation and slow, drone based music. She aspires to create an all embracing environment for the music, performers and the audience by visualising sound with colour and light constructions.
https://soundcloud.com/martalennartsdotter
Tim Parkinson has consistently pursued an independent path, seeking to engage with whatever it means today to be a functioning composer in the world. His music is mostly written for a dedicated community of friends and musicians (amongst others Philip Thomas, Anton Lukoszevieze, Julia Eckhardt). He has organised many public concerts to promote the presence, wealth and variety of present day music exploration, one thread of which is the annual concert series, Music We'd Like to Hear co-curated with John Lely and Markus Trunk. As a soloist he has performed with Object Collection, Skögen, Apartment House, Set Ensemble, Incidental Music, Q-02, J.G. Thirlwell, Phill Niblock, Matteo Fargion, James Saunders, Lee Patterson, Angharad Davies, Rhodri Davies, Jürg Frey, Michael Pisaro, Michael Parsons, Gavin Bryars, Joshua Rifkin, and Christian Wolff, amongst others.
His music has been labelled as experimental, "reconstructing music from the ground up", and "sounding like nothing else", the work invariably returning to fundamental questions around the meaning of sound.
He currently holds a Creative Fellowship at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, and 2019 sees the 8th production of the complete “Time With People” at the Kallio New Music Days, Helsinki, and two new album releases of recent music on all that dust and Slip.
