Seymour explores the traditions, structures, and spaces of OTO, the saxophone, and memory.
1. Natural Rite [angle] (2020, for Carole Finer)
solo for alto saxophone on window, shutters, radiator and wall.
2. Knot Rite (2020, after Frances A. Yates, Jan Kopinski and Tina Brooks)
solo for three alto saxophones and their feedback.
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Seymour Wright - saxophone
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recorded 'live-stream' at cafe OTO by Shaun Crook August 21st, 2020
mixed Seymour Wright.
Seymour Wright’s work is about the creative, situated friction of learning, ideas, people and the saxophone – music, history and technique – actual and potential.
His solo work is documented on three widely-acclaimed collections - Seymour Wright of Derby (2008), Seymour Writes Back (2015) and Is This Right? (2017).
Current projects include: abaria with Ute Kanngiesser; [Ahmed] with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Pat Thomas; @xcrswx with Crystabel Riley; GUO with Daniel Blumberg; The Experimental Library with Evie Ward; XT with Paul Abbott; a trans-atlantic duet with Anne Guthrie, and, with Jean-luc Guionnet a project addressing an imaginary lacunae in Aby Warburg's Atlas Mnemosyne.
His writing has been published in C//A, Sound American and The Wire.
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