An evening exploring the outer limits of the Polish experimental music scene where free improvisation and electronics collide in a heady mix of rhythmic and textural invention. Headed up by the duo Mikrokolektyw - who combine a propulsive mix of electronics, drums and trumpet - their joined on the bill by Lenar (turntables), Rafal Mazar (bass), Tom Choloniewski (Drums/objects) and Konrad Geca (Electronics/Film).
line-up:
konrad geca - solo
tomek choloniewski, dj lenar + adam asnan
rafal mazur + splatter
mikrokolektyw
MIKROKOLEKTYW
An improvising/experimental duo of trumpeter Artur Majewski and drummer Kuba Suchar known also from their previous band Robotobibok. As a duo they have recently released a critically acclaimed album on Chicago's Delmark Records.
Lenar is a dj and experimental turntablist from warsaw, improviser and one of the most acclaimed artists from so-called 'warsaw improv scene'. collaborated with John Tilbury, Frederic Blondy and other important figures of european electroacoustic improvisation.
Rafal Mazur is an acoustic bass player, philosopher, virtuoso and animator of krakow's improv scene. He has collaborated with almost all important musicians of the intuitive improvisation circuit.
Choloniewski is an improvising drummer playing both a regular kit as well as found objects. His recent performance on drums solo at Cafe OTO was described as "highly refreshing and reinventing the classical drumset".
KONRAD GECA
A young and very promising artist from krakow, Geca works both in the field of electronic music (a crossover of noise, ambient and electroacoustic improvisation) and as an experimental video artist. His performance is a surreal mixture of both of these fields of artistic ways of expression.
Adam Asnan is a London based composer-performer of musique concrète, acquiring an MA under the supervision of Denis Smalley in 2009.
Adam's work promotes the aesthetic potential of fixed (recorded) and amplified sound, with certain technical principles that activate wider notions of acousmatic* reception, and of the 'image' subject to the artifice. His compositions, live performances and audio-visual collaborations have been presented and staged across Europe and has recordings published by Entr'acte and Senufo Editions.
Splatter play improvised music that is not quite many things. It isn't quite jazz, it isn't quite free jazz, it isn't quite free improvisation, it isn't quite avant rock or plain old rock, or folk music or contemporary music - it is all of these things, mixed together in the moment - sometimes in the same tune.
TimeOut remarked that Splatter 'feed shards of rock and black metal into their freeform jazz soundscapes". It's close enough....
Splatter's line-up is
Anna Kaluza (alto sax)
Noel Taylor (clarinet)
Pedro Velasco (guitar)
Tom Greenhalgh (drums)
