[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] Concert: Phil Minton/Axel Dörner/Thomas Lehn, Clare Cooper/Clayton Thomas/Jean-Philippe Gross and Daniel Schorno

[STEIM <knock@steim.nl>]

STEIM presents a night of sticky stinging electro-acoustic sound

TOOT - Phil Minton (UK) + Axel DÃrner (DE) + Thomas Lehn (DE)
Clare Cooper (AU/DE) + Clayton Thomas (AU/DE) + Jean-Philippe Gross(FR)
Daniel Schorno (NL/CH)

Date: Thursday, November 29
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690

We are very thrilled to have an exciting line up that represent the  
lineage and development of todays improvised electro-acoustic music.   
With three generations of important performers from the scene, we  
expect to witness extended techniques in voice, trumpet, harp and  
bass paired with distinct textures of both analog and digital  
electronics. Please join us for this ear-opening evening at STEIM.


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flyer design by Clare Cooper

BIO:
TOOT
Voice legend Phil Minton is joined with two of the most in-demand  
German improvisers from one generation younger, Axel DÃrner - Trumpet  
and Thomas Lehn - analogue synthesizer.
Axel DÃrner, born 1964, began his musical career with the piano  
before he switched to the trumpet at the beginning of the 90's. Since  
then he has become one of the most prolific players in Germany,  
involved in an immense number of different projects.
With a background as an interpreting and improvising pianist, Thomas  
Lehn has worked in the field of live electronic music using analogue  
synthesizers since the late 60s. The analogue equipment allows him to  
directly access the elements of the electronic sound synthesis with  
extreme spontaneity.
Phil Minton began his artistic career first as trumpeter during the  
middle of the 60's in the orchestra of Mike Westbrook. Soon after  
this he shifted his focus to voice and became one of the most  
expressional vocalists of the European improvised music scene.
Nearly inaudible music streams through their real time-composed  
textures. Air breaths out of a DÃrner's trumpet without forming a  
tone. Stridulatory, groaning, hissing, howling, bubbling sounds  
emerge from Minton's sometimes imitating Lehn's pulsing electronic  
tones. Their sounds merge into one another, occasionally developing  
rhythms that quickly disappear environment. The poetry of this music  
lies in its fragility.

Further information, biographies:
Phil Minton www.sofamusic.no/musicians/index.php?id=118
Axel DÃrner www.sofamusic.no/musicians/index.php?id=116
Thomas Lehn www.sofamusic.no/musicians/index.php?id=124


Daniel Schorno
DANIEL SCHORNO traces his musical roots to an early appetite for  
instrument hacking and the experimental avant-guard alike and has  
dwelled in the outer reaches of electro-instrumental 'interactivism',  
with its electronic discharge of clangor, for well over a decade and  
a quarter.
Much of this time has been spent with travel, concerts and workshops  
for STEIM and collaboration projects like Noughts, DEI, KAIROS and  
the New Media Pocket Opera, and have lead as far afield as Iceland,  
Moscow, Shanghai, Johannesburg's Soweto, the street kids & artists of  
Guatemala City, as well as all over Europe.
"Zitegeist Desert - crackle Scorpio encounter" is a new solo project,  
inspired by the experience of playing an extended version of Michel  
Waisvisz's 'crackle box', in the Sahara desert.
www.zitegeist.net  www.pocketopera.info  www.steim.org


Gross/Cooper/Thomas Trio
Gross/Cooper/Thomas build towers of sound with sticks, long strings  
and electricity. Each of these three improvisers have played around  
the world, pursuing collaborations with musicians that push their  
understanding of what music is. Jean-Philippeâs lush background in  
noise/rock, Clareâs classical string stretching and electronic- 
sounding-acoustic language, and Claytonâs duty to balls-to-the-wall  
free-jazz suggest a high volume, high frequency energy â that said,  
thereâs a chance that they will dig no further than the fine sweet  
details of static on their respective axes.

Jean-Philippe Gross
Born in 1979, lives and works in Metz (France). Before turning to  
electronics he played drums in different rock bands. Since â98 he  
plays improvised electronics with a mixing board, cheap microphones,  
radio, small speakers and analog synth. His work is primarily focused  
on feedback. He is collaborating with various musicians from around  
the world, among them Will Guthrie, Ferran Fages, Arnaud RiviÃre,  
Xavier Charles, AgnÃs Palier, Jean-Luc Guionnet. He is also a member  
of power free noise band Maelstrom with Arnaud Paquotte and Michel  
Oury. He has also played with John Hegre, Silent Block, Norbert  
Moeslang, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Utah Kawasaki, Kazushige Kinoshita,  
Katsura Mouri, Stephane Rives, Frederic Blondy, Jack Wright, Jean- 
Marc Montera and more.
More about Jean-Philippe Gross: http://jxpx.free.fr/

Clayton Thomas is a killer double bassist from Australia. His sound  
palette (and table of dangerous looking preparations â long metal  
sheets, mallets, license plate, styrofoam) never seems cease growing  
and allows him a kind of unlimited attack territory. In a recent  
weekend in Berlin he managed to perform duets with Peter BrÃtzmann,  
Paul Lovens, Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson.
Drawing just as much from Public Enemy as Albert Ayler, he has been  
inspired by collaborations with many great musicians, including  
Alexander Von Schlippenbach, Marilyn Crispell, Jon Rose, Makigami  
Koichi, Jim Denley, Peter Kowald, Wilber Morris, Henry Grimes and  
Jeff Henderson. With Clare Cooper, Clayton started the NOW now  
festival of Spontaneous music in Sydney as well as the Splinter  
Orchestra (25 piece improvising ensemble).
More about Clayton Thomas http://www.myspace.com/doubleclayton

Australian harpist and digital media artist Clare Cooper is  
interested in unlikely pairings, machines, and âopenâ listening  
experiences. Her music focuses primarily on acoustic player-powered  
mechanical percussion and electronic soundworlds on her two chosen  
string instruments: the pedal Harp and Chinese string instrument -  
the âGuzhengâ. Her main projects are a sci-fi study of DX7/Guzheng  
duets, âGERMâ with Chris Abrahams, and âHammeriverâ a 7 piece  
electro-acoustic ensemble exploring the music of Alice Coltrane. She  
is currently based in Berlin.
More about Clare Cooper http://gutstring.net + http://www.myspace.com/ 
clarela



This concert series is partly funded by Gemeente Amsterdam.

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