SOUND OUT 2010
Festival of Free Improvisation and New music
Canberra, January 31.
One of the most quoted platitudes about music is “It's a universal language”. This is way too simplistic - you have to struggle to learn another music system. But 40ish years ago a methodology for creating a truly global music emerged and has continued developing. Improvised music is not a style, but the methodology means that Norwegians, Argentines and Australians can all be playful together. The practitioners have different personalities and backgrounds, but an improvising group works as a community without preconception. Gestures, sounds, silences and moods are unpredictable. The result is a surprise in each and every session, even to the musicians.
Perhaps why the methodology is still powerful is that it hasn't been theorised yet - nobody knows quite what he or she is doing. But it's clear they are involved in an internationalist movement.
This music is predictive - the future must involve the peoples of the world having an equal dialogue. Come see and hear the future at SOUND OUT 2010.
We wish to thank The Royal Norwegian Embassy, Experimenta Productions, The Ministry for Foreign Affairs Argentina, The Argentinean Embassy, iblink designs, StudioMAP, and The Street Theatre for their support and sponsorship.
Street Theatre two
Canberra City
Corner of Childers Street and University Avenue
Sunday the 31st of January.
Two Sessions:
Costs per session.
Full $20 – Concession $15
Both Sessions
Full $35 – Concession $25
Book online at:
http://www.thestreet.org.au
Or (02) 6247 1223
AFTERNOON begins 1 pm:
1 pm Streifenjunko Duo
1.45 Experimenta Group: de los Santos - Calmens - Morel - Zypce - Koremblit
2.30 Richard Johnson / Cameron Deyell + guests
3.15 Claudio Calmens solo
3.45 Clayton Thomas / Clare Cooper + Espen Reinertsen
FINISH 4: 15pm
EVENING begins 6:30
6.30 Kim Myhr / Jim Denley + Eivind Nordset Lønning + Clayton Thomas
7.15 Gerardo Morel: Real time processing piano and electronics
7.45 Zypce / de los Santos: Duo Motors and Machines
8.30 Ensemble of ALL final free improvisation
FINISH 9: 15 pm
Adriana de los Santos, piano / objects - Argentina
Cameron Deyell, guitar - Canberra
Clare Cooper, guzheng - Berlin
Claudio Calmens, electric guitar / objects - Argentina
Claudio Koremblit, visuals - Argentina
Clayton Thomas, Double bass - Berlin
Eivind Nordset Lønning, trumpet - Norway
Espen Reinertsen, tenor sax - Norway
Gerardo Morel, computer / sampler - Argentina
Jim Denley, wind instruments - Sydney
Kim Myhr, guitar - Norway
Richard Johnson, wind Instruments - Canberra
Zypce, percussion / sound objects - Argentina
+ Canberra guests - Canberra
Adriana de los Santos, piano / objects – Argentina
Born in Entre Ríos, where she made her first music studies. Since 1978 she has been deeply involved with new music in Latin America. In 2004 she formed el Trío El Otro Tango and in 2006 el Duo Adriana de los Santos-Zypce.
Cameron Deyell, guitar – Canberra
New Zealand born guitarist, Cameron Deyell, is a reformed jazz tragic now making all kinds of progressive music. Cameron has been improvising in many contexts for many years and can be heard regularly in the Duo with Improvising vocalist Tony Osborne at The Whip It Series of performances. He has performed and recorded with some of Australia's best jazz musicians such as Mike Nock's Big Small Band (nominated for an ARIA award), the Catholics and the Japan Australia Jazz Orchestra. He has also been active in the local Australian music scene as Artistic Director of Sydney's Jazzgroove Association and Artistic Director of the Jazz:Now Festival at the Sydney Opera House.
Clare Cooper, guzheng – Berlin
Clare Cooper is based in Berlin, where she is developing pieces for inside pedal Harp and Chinese zither (guzheng) and working within the diverse community of artists and musicians as both a performer and organiser. Aside from solo performance Clare’s key projects are Germ Studies, LVSXY, Nevers and Hammeriver.
Claudio Calmens, electric guitar / objects – Argentina
Composes, and performs experimental music, electro-acoustic medias, musical Theatre, chamber works, and pieces for electric, midi and classical guitar. He teaches in state conservatories on his country. He is specialized in extended techniques for guitar. In 2000 he was in Cuba for the Orquesta Sinfónica de Camagüey invitation, directed by Louis Aguirre. On 2001 he visited at the United States, sponsored by the Dartmouth College, and Frog Peak Music. During 2004 September and October he has been invited to participate at the Podewil Cultural Centre in Berlin, playing solo and sharing the “Ensemble Otro” directed by Guillermo Gregorio. In February and March 2006 Claudio visited Canada, exchanging activity with artists in Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. In 2008 he played with the Australian / Latvian composer Vineta Lagzdina.
Claudio Koremblit, visuals – Argentina
Experimenta Festival’s founder and Artistic Director at Buenos Aires, between 1997 and 2009, the first sound art and experimental music festival in Latin America. Creator of Buenos Aires’s FM Public Radio: “Música de la Gran Flauta ”, between 1989-1991, presenting all kind of experimental music for the first time in the country. He also writes about New Music at magazines and newspapers like Crítica de Argentina, Ñ de Clarín, Radar de Página 12, Esculpiendo Milagros, and La Contumancia, El Musiquero y Perro Negro, among others. He prepares right now a first book about experimental music. He creates music and design sound for theatre directors and choreographers.
Clayton Thomas, double bass – Berlin
Clayton Thomas is a double bassist and grass roots organiser working in the broad spectrum of improvised and experimental music.
“I'm trying to work out a physical activity equally engaged in electronic and acoustic music aesthetics, while maintaining the kind of transitional and transformative energy of the music that changed my life. I draw inspiration from creative music of all eras, happily learning from and engaging with improvisers, sound artists, composers and thinkers alive and kicking in the 21st century. “
Striefenjunko Eivind Nordset Lønning, trumpet - Norway
Espen Reinertsen, tenor sax – Norway
Streifenjunko make vigorous music with the rare instrumentation of tenor saxophone and trumpet. Espen Reinertsen and Eivind Lønning apply uncommon instrumental techniques to project a spacious sound with nothing else around. They have worked closely together for a long time to present a truly unique repertoire, but have also collaborated with renowned musicians like Keith Rowe, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshi Nakamura, Jim Denley, Christian Wallumrød, Sidsel Endresen and video artist Kjell Bjørgeengen.
Streifenjunko have recently released their debut CD "No Longer Burning" on the record label Sofa, and a track from this album was also included in The Wire Tapper 21. They have over the last couple of years toured Asia, Africa, USA and Europe. Festival performances includes: Fri Resonans and Konsberg Jazz-festival in Norway, On the Edge of Wrong Festival in South Africa and Moers Festival in Germany.
Gerardo Morel, computer / sampler – Argentina
Has studied guitar, music theory, composition and programming at conservatories, the University of Quilmes and by himself since 1986. He has formed several bands ranging from pop, techno, experimental rock and even reggae, playing guitar, bass guitar, and live electronics. He also composes soundtracks for short and feature length films as well as theatre, and is involved in the experimental and free improvisation scene in Buenos Aires. For 3 years he has been producing Niños Consentidos, a multi-aesthetic event where everything can happen, in a surrealist inspired mix of performance art, popular and experimental music, visual and social art.
Jim Denley, wind instruments – Sydney
An emphasis on spontaneity, site-specific work and collaboration has been central to his work. He sees no clear distinctions between his roles as instrumentalist, improviser and composer. Collaborations, his radio feature for the ABC won the Prix Italia in 1989. In 1990 he was a member of Derek Bailey’s Company for a week of concerts in London. In May 06 he recorded a program for the ABC in the Budawang Mountains, South West of Sydney, now been made into a CD, Through Fire, Crevice and the Hidden Valley. This received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Music category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2008. He co-founded with the electro-acoustic text/music group Machine for Making Sense.
Kim Myhr, guitar – Norway
Is a young and innovative guitarist with an emphasis on a wide range of percussive, harmonic and timbral effects. He has embarked on an international career with performances throughout Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. His projects these days is a duo with Sebastien Roux (electronics/FR), the trio MURAL with Denley and Ingar Zach, the group “Silencers” with Benoit Delbecq (piano/FR) as well as a piece for Trondheim Jazz-orkester featuring Sidsel Endresen, Christian Wallumrød and many others. He has also performed with Martin Tetreault, Anthony Pateras, Toshi Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Robbie Avenaim to mention a few.
Richard Johnson, Wind Instruments- Canberra.
Richard has been performing with the texture of sound on soprano saxophone and bass clarinet for many years and in the last couple of years has been experimenting with instruments made from the conical gourds from PNG. These particular gourds allow the stripping back of the wind instruments to their most visceral and most sensuous form and allow for the exploration of the fundamentals of sound production with extended techniques. He has performed at the Nownow Festival; the Make it Now performances; Brice Glace and The 102 Club in Grenoble France, as well as local free Improvising events and the Whip it series more recently in Sydney with the likes of Roger Dean, Robbie Avenaim, Jerome Nottinger, Xavier Querell, Jim Denley, Kim Myhr, Clare Cooper, Richard Ratajczak, Cameron Deyell, Tony Osborne and Caterina De Re to name a few.
Zypce, percussion / sound objects – Argentina
In 1994 he released his CD “Nuevo muerto” (“New dead”) in which he and his ensemble play his own works of contemporary classical music tainted with industrial reminiscences, although these categories are in fact very dubious labels. He has also composed music for film, dance and theatre in Argentina and abroad, and has made concerts of his experimental compositions with pianist Adriana de los Santos, among others. He builds his own musical instrument and has an extremely elaborate approach.
