IKLECTIK presents,
Overtones and Undertones
With Gaudenz Badrutt, Phil Durrant, Tasos Stamou, Steve Beresford, Pascal Marzan
Wednesday 21 July 2021 | 8pm (doors 7:30pm)
£8 Early Bird (only 25!) | £10 General Admission
Tickets: https://buytickets.at/iklectik/542113
A concert of acoustic, electro-acoustic, electronic improvised music featuring musicians who explore overtones, microtones and subharmonics. A carefully tuned 10 string microtonal guitar creates a rich bed of overtones, which sonically interact with precise chords and extended piano techniques. Feedback and oscillating systems and electro acoustic treatments, accentuate harmonic clusters and undertones fashioned from subharmonics, creating an ever-evolving soundscape.
Programme:
First set:
Steve Beresford (piano and electronics) Pascal Marzan (10 string microtonal guitar)
Second set:
Gaudenz Badrutt ( Livesampling of internal & external feedbacks, analog fx & acoustic sound sources), Phil Durrant (amplified objects & electronics), Tasos Stamou (Prepared zither, modified guitar pedals, self-made electronics).
Artists:
Gaudenz Badrutt
Ph Credit: Isabella Quaranta
Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics & computer) works since more than 20 years mostly as an electronic musician in the field of improvised, experimental music. He is mainly known for his collaborations with Jonas Kocher (accordion) and Hans Koch (bass clarinet, clarinet, soprano saxophone), as Solo-Performer as well as one half of the electroacoustic duo Strøm.
Badrutt’s music is coined by a very instrumental use of computer/live sampling and electronic devices.
He is further occupied in the fields of electronic composition and sound & video installation.
Phil Durrant
Ph Credit: Colin Baldwin
Born near London in 1957, Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts.
As a violinist (and member of the Butcher/Russell/Durrant trio), he was one of the key exponents of the “group voice approach” style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more “reductionist” approach.
Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson, Mark Wastell, as well as his seven-piece group ‘If Herbie Went West Coast’, using a modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing with guitarist Martin Vishnick, mandolinist Richard Scott and drummer Emil Karlsen.
Durrant still performs regularly with the acoustic/electronic group Trio Sowari (with Bertrand Denzler and Burkhard Beins) and Mark Wastell’s The SEEN.
https://www.facebook.com/philsowaridurrant/
https://www.facebook.com/sowarimodular/
Tasos Stamou
Electroacoustic music composer and performer, alternative electronic music instrument maker, tutor and sound technologist.
During a decade of sound performances and recordings, Tasos Stamou has developed a unique style of live electroacoustic composition. Long and continuous pieces are created on stage or in the studio using a “portable electroacoustic music studio”. His gear consists of acoustic (prepared zither, reeds, recorders, objects) and electronic instruments (handmade electronics, modular synthesizer systems and live processed feedback loops). Based on sustained tonal textures and free improvised instrumental solos, his live compositions create a particular and unique atmosphere of ritual noise.
He is currently leading a workshop series exploring circuit bending & hardware hacking for experimental sound production.
Steve Beresford
Ph Credit: Fabio Lugaro
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British improvising scene for over thirty years, working 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 awarded a Paul Hamlyn award for composers in 2012.
He has written songs, written for large and small ensembles, and scored short films, feature films, TV shows and commercials. He was part of the editorial teams of Musics and Collusion magazines, writes about music in various contexts and was a senior lecturer in music at the University of Westminster. With Blanca Regina, he is part of Unpredictable Series, which produces events and sound and video recordings of experimental music and art.
In 2021, Bloomsbury published a book by Andy Hamilton: ‘Pianos, Toys, Music and Noise: Conversations with Steve Beresford’.
https://www.unpredictable.info/
Pascal Marzan
Ph Credit: Catherine Karako
Currently living in London, Pascal Marzan performs on a 10 string microtonal guitar.
After studying classical guitar – mainly devoted to the twentieth century repertoire – and teaching guitar in several music schools in Budapest, Hungary and France, Pascal has dedicated himself to free improvisation and the exploration of microtonal tunings of his instrument. His playing has been influenced by his interest in the folk musics of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa…
He has recorded guitar duets with John Russell, Roger Smith (Emanem records) and a trio with Sabu Toyozumi and Dan Warburton (Improvising Beings records)…
http://preparedguitar.blogspot.com/2015/02/pascal-marzan-13-questions.html
YouTube LINKS
Phil Durrant:
Gaudenz Badrutt:
Tasos Stamou:
Steve Beresford and Pascal Marzan:
In conversation with Steve Beresford:
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