Tuesday 3 May 2011

VALERIO TRICOLI & ROBERT PIOTROWICZ Live in London

Cafe Oto
Friday 13th May 2011
Door Times : 8pm
Tickets : £6 advance / £8 on the door

Penultimate Press presents the Netaudio opening concert with:

Robert Piotrowicz - modular synthesizer, computer
Valerio Tricoli - revox tape recorder, electronics.

solo sets, followed by joint performance

ROBERT PIOTROWICZ


Robert Piotrowicz is one of the most prolific artists in the Polish experimental and improvised music scene. He develops his own solo projects and also collaborates with world's leading sound artists and musicians. As an instrumentalist, he works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around his electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser. He is both an accomplished performer of his own music and experienced improviser in different instrumental configurations wit other artists. His other activities include electro-acoustic studio compositions, composing for theatres, participation in interdisciplinary art projects and sound installation.

Robert Piotrowicz - Lincoln Sea: Ice Walk

Piotrowicz has developed his trademark sound of intense dynamics seized indramatic and balanced form. Several albums with his solo music had been released, the last one so far, "Lasting Clinamen" in 2008, highly acclaimed by the critics around the globe. Robert Piotrowicz as intrumentalist and composer works most often with Anna Zaradny also Burkhard Stangl, Valerio Tricoli. Other collaborators in recent yerars included Oren Ambarchi, Jerome Noetinger, Xavier Charles, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, Tony Buck, Kevin Drumm, and others.

Robert Piotrowicz - 10 fun songs

VALERIO TRICOLI


Thomas Ankersmit/Valerio Tricoli - Track 1 Alt

Valerio Tricoli (*1977 in Palermo, based in Berlin) works as a concrete music composer, improviser, sound installation artist, producer, sound engineer, and curator. His compositions bridge musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound (i.e. the radical interest in how reality, virtuality, memory relate to each other during the acoustic event): music, as a recorded or as a synthetically-modeled sound, is always hovering between the “here and now” of the event and the shady domain of memory - distant but at the same time present, like a déjà-vu experience. Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments - most of them analogue - (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers), however the structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place. He is one of the founders of the Bowindo label/collective (”arguably the best thing to come out of Italy since Luigi Nono”, Dan Warburton, The Wire), and of the band 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a daring synthesis between improvisation, electro-acoustic composition and avant-rock sensitivity. “Metaprogramming From Within The Eye Of The Storm”, “an intense investigation of disembodied perception in the form of a single electro-acoustic composition” (Daniel Sorenson), is his latest composition, released in 2006 and welcomed with great critical interest.

Valerio Tricoli - solo revox

This event is part of the Netaudio London festival and presented in partnership with Penultimate Press. Other Netaudio London events include a showcases by Nurse with Wound, Bruce Gilbert, Mika Vainio and Radian, a club night presented by Runsounds and an all day interaction programme at the London Roundhouse, with conference, sound art exhibition, live music and online broadcast. More info here

Thursday 23 December 2010

Rashad Becker added to next gig line up


'traditional music of imaginery species'

Rashad will perform on the 25th March along with Ghédalia Tazartès

Monday 6 December 2010

Ghédalia Tazartès and Michel Chion- March 2011

Penultimate Press and Cenatus present two disparate figures from the French experimental tradition of musique concrète: Two nights featuring musical outsider Ghédalia Tazartès and the next his mentor and friend, the theoretician, producer and musician Michel Chion.

24 March 2011


Michel Chion will present the world premiere of Live In Prose, A Symphony Concrète. This piece was composed in the period 2006-2010 and has been previously been only in extracts and drafts in Paris, Montreal Canada and Yokohama, Japan. The entire work is "for fixed sounds".

Michel Chion was born in 1947 in Creil (France). In the 70's he was assistant to Pierre Schaeffer at the Paris' Conservatoire national de musique, producer of broadcasts for the GRM, and publications director for the Ina-GRM, of which he was a member from 1971 to 1976. Parallel to these activities, he composed important musique concrète works in the studios of the GRM including the classic 'Requiem'.

25 March 2011


Ghédalia Tazartès will present an idiosyncractic solo performance for voice and electronics. His public appearances remain exceptional events as he rarely performs in concert.

Additional acts to be announced.

The autodidact Ghédalia Tazartès, born 1947 in Paris has spent 30+ years within musical practice and experimentation, letting his musical work wander from chant to rhythm, from one voice to another. Utilising magnetic tape recorders, he paves the way for the electric and the vocal paths, between the muezzin psalmody and the screaming of a rocker. He traces vague landscapes where the mitre of the white clown, the plumes of the sorcerer, the helmet of a cop and Parisian an hydride collide into polyphonic ceremonies. Don’t become a black, an arab, a Tibetan monk, a jew, a woman or an animal but to feel all this stirring deep inside of you.”

Commissioned by Sound and Music and Cafe OTO.

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