Entry:
£7 – Standard Entry
£5 – Concessions (Students, OAP, Unemployed)
Proof and/or ID required.
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Line Up:
Alo Allik (laptop), Fumi Okiji (vocals), Olie Brice (bass), Tullis Rennie (trombone), Loz Speyer (trumpet), Noel Taylor (clarinet), Julie Kjaer (sax), Stefano Kalonaris (electronics). More T.B.C.
Program Notes:
Markov Networks for Free Improvisers is a model of musical interaction that is situated between the study of dynamical networks, decision theory, and free improvisation. This work sets to acknowledge the symbiosis of indeterminacy and self-structuring modalities within complex interactions of agency, identity and belief.
In Markov Networks for Free Improvisers, players are unsure about how the induced global network looks, although they have an idea of their local interactions. Each player can connect to a limited number of others, with whom he/she engages, applying inferential reasoning. The result will hopefully exhibit non-typical behaviours that highlight structure and form on both a local and a global level.
Biography:
Stefano Kalonaris is currently a PhD candidate at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University, investigating fruitful intersections between Game Theory, Probabilistic Graphical Models and Free Improvisation. He is both a seasoned performer and an avid researcher of a myriad musical styles and cultures. He has an addiction to dark chocolate. Stefano integrates the use of software (Max, Supercollider), sensors and electronics into his improvisational practice/work and is particularly keen on heteronomic music models that mix improvisational and compositional perspectives. He has performed at Café Oto, London Jazz Festival, Rich Mix, William Morris Gallery, Vulpes Vulpes Gallery, Thames Festival, Rhythm Sticks, Notting Hill Carnival, Lovebox Festival, Guanabara, The Vortex, Jazz Café, Kings Place, Bhavan Centre, National Theatre Foyer, Trinity College, Arts Depot, Barbican Foyer, Canning House, Kenwood House and SOAS.
