Norman Adams, cello+electronics
Jane Dickson, piano
Ute Kanngiesser, cello
Sebastian Lexer, piano+
playing three duos:
Dickson & Kanngiesser
Adams & Lexer
Adams & Kanngiesser
Norman Adams
“I am a Canadian cellist, specializing in free improvised, interactive electronic and classical music. I believe in music made from listening, collaboration and interaction. I love to express the music of our ancestors and the music of my reality. I love to combine and integrate sounds: old and new, acoustic and electronic, pure and processed. I strive to find the music in all sound, getting inside a sound to find its core and expression. I believe that music made out of listening is music of the heart.”
http://www.suddenlylisten.com/
Jane Dickson is a Glasgow based composer and pianist. Her chamber opera Labyrinthine was recently premiered at La Monnaie | De Munt (National Opera of Belgium). Her research interests include instrumentality and virtuosity. She is a member of international group n s m b l, dedicated to the performance of new and alternative compositions, and has premiered two works by Jakob Ullmann; son imaginaire III and solo V. Recent awards include PRS Women Make Music and Creative Scotland Artists’ Bursary for composition.
janedickson.net
Ute Kanngiesser is a German, London based cellist: “For over 10 years, I have only played unscripted/improvised music. I have experimented with the sound of the cello, limiting myself to the alive material at hand: vast and complicated layers within the instrument and myself; and to let this music evolve continuously in relationship with others. It relates to the process of uncovering an endless multiplicity of coexisting sense perspectives. And it deals with the energy that this gives rise to. For me, it is the most exciting place to play music from.”
Most recent collaborations have been with Seymour Wright, Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga, Rie Nakajima, Jennifer Allum, John Butcher, Terry Day, Billy Steiger, Tom Wheatley, Paul Abbott, Guillaume Viltard, and Daniel Blumberg. Recently a solo recording has been released on Earshots! (http://recordings.earshots.
utekanngiesser.com
A fascination in contingency of sound has been the basis for Sebastian Lexer’s developments in extended piano techniques and a further exploration of modified sonorities derived from the acoustic piano using real-time computer processes. The resulting performance system piano+ has equally developed from a persistent interest in free improvisation and contemporary experimental music. The piano studies and continuing collaborations with John Tilbury and the association to Eddie Prévost’s improvisation workshop were influential to the development of his musical style: a musical journey through the spaces “in between”, the relationship to the instrument, sonorities and textures, musical processes, technology and fellow musicians.
sebastianlexer.eu
