IKLECTIK presents,
Electronics, Voice and Two Pianos
w/ Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Sharon Gal & Tasos Stamou
Tuesday 29 March 2022 | 8pm [7:30pm doors] till 11pm
Tickets: £10 General Admission https://buytickets.at/iklectik/659426
A special evening with 4 remarkable music improvisers and 2-piano duel!
Programme:
Steve Beresford + Tasos Stamou (duo – toy, electronics, piano)
Sharon Gal (solo – voice electronics, field recordings)
Steve Beresford + Pat Thomas (duo – 2 pianos)
Artists Bio
Pat Thomas
Pat Thomas studied classical piano from aged 8 and started playing Jazz from the age of 16. He has since gone on to develop an utterly unique style – embracing improvisation, jazz and new music. He has played with Derek Bailey in Company Week (1990/91) and in the trio AND (with Noble) – with Tony Oxley’s Quartet and Celebration Orchestra and in Duo with Lol Coxhill.
Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in British and international free-improvising for over forty years, playing piano, electronics and objects with the likes of Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, Christian Marclay and Alterations. He has an extensive discography as performer, arranger, composer and producer, and was was awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.
In 2021, Bloomsbury published a book by Andy Hamilton: ‘Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’.
In 2022, Siglio published the book ‘Call and Response’, which partnered photographs by Christian Marclay with notated improvisations by Beresford.
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/fulltext/ftberesc.html
https://www.instagram.com/unpredictableseries/?hl=en-gb
Sharon Gal
SHARON GAL is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, experimental vocalist and composer, with particular experience of free improvisation and collaborative group compositions.
Her work relates to sound, architecture, live performance and participatory art, exploring the psychology of sound and its relationship with space.
Sharon performs solo and on-going collaborations with David Toop, Steve Beresford, Phil Minton, Alex Ward, Yoni Silver, Anat Ben-David and Andie Brown.
She also directs a series of participatory compositions/performances, examining the inter-relations between people and place. These pieces are site specific; evolving collaboratively and inviting participation from the public. They offer artistic engagement, play, and creative exchange, as a means to learning and bringing together, presenting a democratic space and collective ownership.
Tasos Stamou
Tasos Stamou is an exploratory music performing and recording artist, a music technologist and a tutor. After migrating in U.K over a decade ago, his electoacoustic music started being haunted by the idea of nostalgia. His latest three electroacoustic composition albums, part of a trilogy of his experimental music with an ethnomusicological interest, have captured the interest in contemporary electroacoustic music composition. Stamou has performed in Europe and U.S.A in venues and festivals of innovative music and he has over 20 releases in independent music labels. He has collaborated with several veterans of exploratory music, such as Steve Beresford, Anna Homler, Mike Cooper, Savina Giannatou, Adam Bohman. He is signed in Discrepant (UK), Ikuisuus (FL), Moving Furniture Records (NL) and more independent labels.
www.tasosstamou.com
www.instagram.com/tasostamou
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