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music tagged with: improvisation

chicago modern orchestra project – nappy hair’s best friend

chicago modern orchestra project – nappy hair’s best friend
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chicago modern orchestra project

“nappy hair’s best friend”

renée baker’s chicago modern orchestra project is revamping the traditional concert going experience by programming an eclectic genre mix, crossing grooves and roads where least expected. they look to build bridges between audience members of different backgrounds. part of their organizational mission is to adjust and transcend global viewpoints through ethnic human experimentation. to this end they seek out unusual and completely innovative scores from every genre of music – focusing on living composers.

nappy hair’s best friend, their first album for pan y rosas, is a document of a performance in lakeside, michigan in september of 2012. the album captures the performances of two pieces of conduction/comprovisations by aacm member renée baker.

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posted 09 October 2013

auris and gino robair – rub

auris and gino robair – rub
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auris and gino robair

“rub”

auris trio is composed of christopher preissing, eric leonardson and julia a. miller. they explore electroacoustic sound as an organic art of time and space. gino robair has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film, and gamelan orchestra, and his works have been performed throughout north america, europe, and japan.

rub, their first album for pyr, is the result of a session at the experimental sound studio in chicago from 2010. the sound is: eric leonardson – springboard, electronics; julia miller – guitar, electronics; christopher preissing – flute, electronics; gino robair – percussion, electronics.

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posted 01 October 2013

reid karris – creatio ex nihilo

reid karris – creatio ex nihilo
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reid karris

“creatio ex nihilo”

reid karris is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound experimentalist and improviser hailing from chicago, illinois trying very hard to get all the music stuck in his head out for all the world to hear. after spending years as an odd guitarist trying to fit in with the world of rock music reid shifted his focus towards improvisation and noise. his primary instruments for doing so are prepared guitar and drum kit sent through electronics. he performs with various groups with guitar including set self on fire, hkm guitar trio and the chicago scratch orchestra. he also plays drums in the experimental duo step slow.

his first album for pan y rosas, creatio ex nihilo, is a series of percussion improvisations that reid created using his drum kit, little instruments and a guitar. he manipulated the drums with electronics in the moment as he improvised. the sound is: sub thunder radio explosion. psyché-bell tone. pitter patter. reverse. emergent rhythm. sonar search guitar fragment in the white room.

– See more at: http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2013/09/pan-y-rosas-release-creatio-ex-nihilo-by-reid-karris/#sthash.44MAwGzy.dpuf

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posted 01 October 2013

máquina solar – de escamas

máquina solar – de escamas
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máquina solar

“de escamas”

máquina solar is a duo consisting of amanda irarrázabal (b. santiago, chile) on double bass and vocals and wenchi lazo (b. buenos aires, argentina) on guitars and vocals. they have been playing on and off for two years recording their first album de escamas in january of 2013. the music they play is based on free improvisations of concise and varied time lengths resulting in sounds that resemble, at times, short compositions.
their first album, de escamas, is a collection of twenty brief improvisations that were improvised and recorded in santiago, chile in january of 2013. short. noisy. dramatic. scratchy. singy.
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posted 18 September 2013

shapes and monsters – chkm

shapes and monsters – chkm
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shapes and monsters

“chkm”

shapes and monsters is an international collaborative improvisation project with two members in barcelona and two members in chicago. diego caicedo and gabriel millan play in snorkel quintet and etermortifera among others. reid karris is a solo improviser and member of step slow. keith helt is a member of catholic witches.

their first album, chkm, was improvised recorded between november 2011 and february 2013. tracks were sent back and forth. limited takes were allowed in order to maintain an improvised feeling/aesthetic.

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posted 18 September 2013

Geometrie Variabili – the Breath

Geometrie Variabili – the Breath
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Geometrie Variabili

“the Breath”

The lesson of Steve Lacy: starting from a single element like a scale, a broken chord, a sound, a breath in order to work it up by assembling and disassembling, tearing apart and rebuilding. Fragments of ideas taken freely in an exercise of rearrangement always looking for coherence, always trying to get back to basics.
posted 02 September 2013

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente
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nicolás chientaroli trío

“ViajeraMente”

based in buenos aires, pianist nicolás chientaroli is an active member of the city’s jazz scene where, in addition to his trio, he leads the group, la gran cena; and co-leads the groups los improvisadores gráficos and las formas avanzan. he has also performed with the groups andrés elstein trío, caravana colemanica, proyecto orgánico rave, trío dumpty, francisco salgado cuarteto, and la hormiga.

ViajeraMente is the third album from the trio and the first on pan y rosas. for this album the lineup features chientaroli on piano, carlos álvarez on bass and sebastián groshaus on drums. the album contains a mix of compositions by chientaroli, group improvisations and a cover of dizzy gillespie’s be-bop.

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posted 20 August 2013

cátodo dúo – al tiro

cátodo dúo – al tiro
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cátodo dúo

“al tiro”

based in chile, the cátodo dúo consists of amanda irarrázabal on double bass and ramiro molina on electric guitar. they began playing together in 2012 as a way of sharing their experiences in the field of the improvised music. built around a string concept, the duo easily moves from intense rhythmic situations to dense layers of noise. the music is totally improvised and their sound arises from treating instruments as sources of sound in every sense of the word using prepared instruments and avoiding conventional playing.

al tiro, their first album for pan y rosas discos, documents their first public performance. the sound is: chime snake swirl. metal scratch skree. quiet long note bends. physical percussion. staccato footstep notes. process vibrato. glass string flow. reverse polarities, cross streams. pierce pulse. low drone feedback string punch. objects falling down hills. black lodge bass descension glissando treble string ambiance.

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posted 14 August 2013

andrea pensado – teraz, tak!

andrea pensado – teraz, tak!
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andrea pensado

“teraz, tak!”

andrea pensado works with sound as a performer, composer and teacher. she has been using digital media and live interactive musical systems since 1995. she studied in argentina and poland. at first she composed mainly for acoustic instruments, however, she gradually felt more attracted by different sound realms. today, the abrasive digital noise of her improvisations is far away from her earlier pieces. harsh dense layers of sounds, often interwoven with her voice, combine hybrid synthesis and sampling techniques to create a highly personal sound language, which reflects an intuitive, emotional and paradoxically also logical approach to music making. she currently lives in the united states.

teraz, tak!, her first album for pan y rosas, begins with a solo performance by andrea and is followed by a series of duets between andrea and the musicians: walter wright, davindar singh, adriana de los santos and alexei borisov who provide additional electronics, saxophone, piano and guitar respectively.

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posted 06 August 2013

EFFICIENT REFINERIES – Spéléonaxis

EFFICIENT REFINERIES – Spéléonaxis
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EFFICIENT REFINERIES

“Spéléonaxis”

Spéléonaxis is the newest acoustic document by Miguel A. Ruiz and Siegmar Fricke who collaborate since the mid 90s on their project EFFICIENT REFINERIES. Produced again like the former three albums at Pharmakustik’s studio in Germany, the album contains six improvisational studiosession-recordings involving lots of new hardware and plugin-synthesizers. On Spéléonaxis EFFICIENT REFINERIES combines retrocosmic structures similar to the late 60s with innovative glitch-electronics and the newest technical possibilities in sound-processing. In addition very contrary elements are involved, ranging from melodic minimalism to pulsating psychotronics. Spéléonaxis can therefore be characterized as the most accessible and at the same time most experimental E.R. album so far.
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posted 29 July 2013

Claudio Nuñez – End of a story

Claudio Nuñez – End of a story
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Claudio Nuñez

“End of a story”

“I use the same modus operandi for most of my albums (except the ones that are composed): I lay some free improvised moods (usually on rhythm instruments) that serve as the frame or background for the rest of the piece… I call this process ¨real time compositions¨ as I never have any ideas or plans before the actual recording starts… When I feel that the group or orchestral feelings reflect the mood I stop adding new layers or instruments… On my solo guitar or piano sets & albums I do the same, just once… Sometimes I decide that format for the instrument group that is going to appear on the album (a piano trio, a guitar trio= piano/guitar, bass & percussion), do so that all the pieces are going to feature those elements as in real group or just limit myself to focus on one of my main instruments… Little games that add to the music a little more mystery… or (as in this album) I use any combination randomly…” – Claudio Nuñez

Electric guitar, fretlles bass, percussion & voice by Claudio Nuñez.

Recorded in January 26 & 27 2013 in Caballito, Buenos Aires.

01 – electric dream blues
02 – eternal sorrow dance
03 – he closed his eyes…
04 – end of a story

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posted 17 July 2013

Buben vs.Nasta Labada – Live at Improvisation Music Festival AGA

Buben vs.Nasta Labada – Live at Improvisation Music Festival AGA
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Buben vs.Nasta Labada

“Live at Improvisation Music Festival AGA”

Live at Improvisation Music Festival AGA
Azgur Memorial Museum
April 27th 2013
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posted 15 July 2013

volcano radar – refutation of time

volcano radar – refutation of time
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volcano radar

“refutation of time”

volcano radar is a fusion of ecstatic improvisational energy and apollonian intellect. a power quartet with dual free jazz/noise/avant guitarists elbio barilari and julia a. miller, legendary bassist harrison bankhead and incendiary drummer avreeayl ra, volcano radar moves fluently through a stylistic range from noise-funk improvisation to structured sonic forms.

their debut album, refutation of time, consists of an improvised set that was recorded at experimental sound studio in chicago on february 26, 2013.

– See more at: http://www.panyrosasdiscos.net/2013/03/pan-y-rosas-discos-release-refutation-of-time-by-volcano-radar/#sthash.OUt5uAz5.dpuf

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posted 20 June 2013

claudio nuñez – ninguna libertad/baladas

claudio nuñez – ninguna libertad/baladas
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claudio nuñez

“ninguna libertad/baladas”

claudio nuñez was born in buenos aires in 1959. he studied classical guitar during the 1970s and composition with hilda dianda. he received a choral conductor degree in 1980. he’s participated in several projects in los angeles and new york – storacci sextet, carlos miralles group, bhrama nada, the charlie martins quartet. he has also performed with sam hendrix, john riley, larry granadier, matt wilson, charles gayle, william parker, george fernandez, etc.

his music covers space modern jazz, free jazz, avant garde classical, indian classical music and new tango. he has long been a proponent of netlabels and free music

his first album for pan y rosas, ninguna libertad/baladas, is a double album that features free improv piano meditations with wordless vocal action underneath.

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posted 20 June 2013

philip corner – java improvs

philip corner – java improvs
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philip corner

“java improvs”

philip corner is an: action musician. trombone/alphornist, occasional vocalist, pianist, percussionist, theorist, visual artist. composer, improvisor, educator, collageur, assembleur, calligrapher. student of jahoda, cowell, messiaen, luening, borduas, cage, taubman. teacher in new york high schools and livingston college. fluxologist, resident composer for judson dance theatre, experimental intermedia foundation. member of: tone roads chamber ensemble. sounds out of silent spaces gamelan son of lion. his focus is: listen. silence. resonance. surroundings. action. ecstasy.

philip corner’s second album for pan y rosas, java improvs, is a box set that collects eight improvisations that were recorded over the course of a year during his travels in indonesia. from philip:

Surely what drew me to Indonesia was the gamelan. A connection through years of practice with the New York new-music group “Son Of Lion.” And there I met three marvelous musicians and played with them, drawn together by shared mind-in-the-moment music making – the only way it becomes an “universal language.”

the collection is divided into three boxes and contains six and a half hours of music. the first box consists of two separate performances with percussionist yasudah s. and the dancers susana miranti kroeber and phoebe neville. the second box consists of four performances with the singer and dancer restu kusumaningrum. the third box consists of two performances with the percussionist jalu pratidina and dancer phoebe neville.

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posted 11 June 2013

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente

nicolás chientaroli trío – ViajeraMente
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nicolás chientaroli trío

“ViajeraMente”

based in buenos aires, pianist nicolás chientaroli is an active member of the city’s jazz scene where, in addition to his trio, he leads the group, la gran cena; and co-leads the groups los improvisadores gráficos and las formas avanzan. he has also performed with the groups andrés elstein trío, caravana colemanica, proyecto orgánico rave, trío dumpty, francisco salgado cuarteto, and la hormiga.

ViajeraMente is the third album from the trio and the first on pan y rosas. for this album the lineup features chientaroli on piano, carlos álvarez on bass and sebastián groshaus on drums. the album contains a mix of compositions by chientaroli, group improvisations and a cover of dizzy gillespie’s be-bop.

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posted 07 June 2013

marta sainz – tres piezas

marta sainz – tres piezas
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marta sainz

“tres piezas”

marta sainz is an improviser who uses her voice and body to conduct her investigations of sound. her work draws from butoh, german expressionism as well as artaud’s theater of cruelty. she seeks to create an emotional shock for the spectator as they experience all aspects of her total performance. she also performs with lali barrière in the duo, un coup de dès; with miguel a garcía and enrique zaccagnin in the group destruction des animaux nuisibles; and in a duo with maryah marymoto.

her first album for pan y rosas consists of three pieces of free improvisation, recorded at home, in one take, in november of 2012 and january of 2013. she used her voice, objects, a ukelele, an analog synthesizer and various effects to create this, el sonido de las entrañas.

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posted 07 June 2013

Avelino Saavedra – MUD

Avelino Saavedra – MUD
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Avelino Saavedra

“MUD”

MUD, is basically a systemic study of an instrument and its resonance capabilities. Also is the culmination of the mixture between sound processing and live improvisation with a very limited palette of sounds and effects.

As usual in Saavedra’s work one can grasp the enormous amount of time invested on developing, to get the finest results, in terms of sound. Earlier in spring, Saavedra stated (while talking about this album) that his idea was to squeeze all the capabilities of this instrument until depletion. So he did, and this is the modus operandi of Saavedra, to be able to extract the most of it of his instruments and deliver a closed-up project, without cracks, a full album, enclosed and finished.

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posted 22 May 2013

ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer – Live at Naherholung Sternchen

ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer – Live at Naherholung Sternchen
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ASTMA and Els Vandeweyer

“Live at Naherholung Sternchen”

Performed and recorded by Olga Nosova, Alexei Borisov and Els Vandeweyer (Berlin, Germany, 25 July 2012)
Alexei Borisov: guitar, voice, electronics
Olga Nosova: snare drum, citra, recorders, sound objects, voice, effects
Els Vandeweyer: vibraphone, percussion, voice
Special thanks: Meli Anders
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posted 20 May 2013

N.O.F.P. – Live @ Sonoscopia

N.O.F.P. – Live @ Sonoscopia
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N.O.F.P.

“Live @ Sonoscopia”

The event, held on March 15, 2013, marks the centenary of the publishing of Luigi Russolo’s manifesto “L’arte dei rumori”.

Recorded live @ Sonoscopia before a live audience.

N.O.F.P. is: Henrique Fernandes – intonarumori, wooden laptop, devices; Alberto Lopes – infinito, wooden laptop, intonarumori; João Martins – wooden laptop, devices; João Mascarenhas – intonarumori, percussion; João Ricardo – laptop, samples.

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posted 08 May 2013