Wednesday 29 April 2015, 8pm
ACCUMULATION: Premiere of a new work for Amplified String Quartet & Electronics
Following their fruitful first collaboration at Cafe OTO in 2014, Antoine Chessex, Apartment House & Jérôme Noetinger collaborate for the second time to present ACCUMULATION, a new work for amplified string quartet and electronics. Chessex wrote a score for Apartment House featuring dense clusters of acoustic textures treated in real time by Jérôme Noetinger with his analog setup made of two reel-to-reel tape recorders. Electronic accumulations and manipulations by the tape recorders transform the strings into dissonant layers furthermore diffused on a quadrophonic PA and resulting in an intense piece of experimental music.
To complete the evening, Chessex will present yet another side of his works, proposing a solo performance for tenor saxophone and backtape where his repetitive gestures played with circular breathing technique on the tenor saxophone are multiplied by the tape into a multitude of disorienting swarm-like cloud of sonic matter.
The works of Chessex have over the years crossed the boundaries between noise, modern composition, improvisation and electronic music. His compositions are characterized by textural density and tensions often resulting in sound masses addressing the physical dimensions of sounds and spaces.
Apartment House:
Gordon MacKay / violin
Hilary Sturt / violin
Bridget Carey / viola
Anton Lukoszevieze / cello
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Jérôme Noetinger / reel to reel tape recorders, electronics
Antoine Chessex / composition & live diffusion
Supported by Arts Council England & Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
The group, created by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze has been captivating audiences for nearly 30 years, with performances of avant-garde and experimental music from all over the World.
The ensemble has been a firm fixture on the British concert scene, with regular performances at Café Oto and as an associate ensemble of the Wigmore Hall.
Apartment House has released over 40 albums, many on the UK label Another Timbre. Current releases include Pauline Oliveros - Sound Pieces, Magnus Granberg - Evening Star, Vesper Bell and Morton Feldman’s epic and mesmerising Violin and String Quartet.
Jérôme Noetinger (1966) is a composer, improviser and sound artist who works with electroacoustic devices such as the Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder and magnetic tape, analogue synthesisers, mixing desks, speakers, microphones, various electronic household/everyday objects and home-made electronica.
He performs both solo and in ensembles (Cellule d'Intervention Metamkine, Le Un, Hrundi Bakshi, Les Sirènes, Proton…), and collaborates often (Sophie Agnel, Lionel Marchetti, Aude Romary, Angelica Castello, Antoine Chessex, Anthony Pateras, Anne-Laure Pigache…).
From 1987 to 2018, he was the director of Metamkine, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the distribution of improvised and electroacoustic music.
Between 1987 and 2014 Jérôme was a member of the editorial committee of the quarterly journal of contemporary sound, poetry and performance, Revue & Corrigée.
For ten years from 1989, he was a member and programming co-ordinator of exhibitions, gigs, and experimental cinema at le 102 rue d'Alembert, Grenoble.
https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/75586-J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me-Noetinger
Antoine Chessex is a composer, saxophonist and sound artist whose works assume a wide diversity of forms, crossing the boundaries between noise, modern composition, improvisation and electronic music. His live performances are characterized by textural density and microtonal tensions often resulting in sound masses exploring the physical dimensions of spaces. Chessex presents his works worldwide and has collaborated extensively with Zbigniew Karkowski, Valerio Tricoli, Apartment House and Jérôme Noetinger among others. He is a founding member of the noise band Monno.
www.soundimplant.com/achessex
www.soundcloud.com/antoine-chessex
