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HumaNoise: Tutti (Creative Sources)

"HumaNoise Tutti is an opportunity to hear Rodrigues in a large group that's not of his own devising-though there is often such complex and varied activity here, it would be misleading to evaluate it in the context of any one individual...
 

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Korhan Erel-electronics

Elena Margarita Kakaliagou-french horn

Jonas Kocher-accordion

Hannah Marshall-cello

Dirk Marwedel-extended saxophone

Theo Nabicht-double bass clarinet

Ulrich Phillipp-double bass

Ernesto Rodrigues-viola

Wolfgang Schliemann-drums

Nicolas Souchal-trumpet


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UPC: 5609063404029

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs402
Squidco Product Code: 23908

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded HumaNoise congress#28, at the Kunsthaus, in Wiesbaden, Germany, on July 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2016, by Harald Christ.

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"HumaNoise Tutti is an opportunity to hear Rodrigues in a large group that's not of his own devising-though there is often such complex and varied activity here, it would be misleading to evaluate it in the context of any one individual. The HumaNoise Congress is an annual gathering of international musicians in Wiesbaden, Germany, who over the course of several days play in every combination and as a group a la Derek Bailey's Company weeks. HumaNoise Tutti features three long performances of the full decet, which morph from clamorous counterpoint to restive drones to faint whispers and flits of sound. A rundown of the instrumentation gives an idea of the aural diversity: electronics, French horn, accordion, cello, extended saxophone, contrabass clarinet, double bass, viola, percussion, trumpet. There's a broad range of musical experience and temperament here, though as with much modern free improvisation, close listening and the suppression of individual virtuosity in the serviceof atmosphere is the rule (although Souchal opens "Sunday Evening" with a lyrical and rather direct turn on trumpet). In the 21st century, we're starting to see how lessons from the many "factions" of free improvisation that have arisen over the last 50 years might be pooled into a larger musical practice, one that transcends-or at the very least bridges-idiosyncratic philosophies, scenes, and techniques."-Dan Sorrells, The Free Jazz Collective


Artist Biographies

"Korhan Erel is a computer musician, improviser, sound designer based in Berlin. He plays instruments he designs on a computer by employing various controllers. He also uses analog and digital electronics. He composes and designs sounds for dance, theater, installations and film. He collaborates with dancers, video artists and spoken word artists. Korhan's collaboration with Sydney-based video artist Fabian Astore "The Threshold" has won the Blake Prize in Australia in 2012. He is a founding member of Islak Köpek, Turkey's pioneer free improvisation group, which is regarded as the band that started the free improvisation scene in Turkey.

Korhan's computer performance system is called Omnibus. The instruments within Omnibus are a culmination of Korhan's musical past and aesthetic choices. Omnibus instruments use concrete sounds (samples, field recordings), morphed and processed in realtime. They can be as simple as one single sample being played using a Nintendo Wii controller to a complex system that employs granular synthesis and spectral processing. The instruments are played interactively using Nintendo Wii controllers (Korhan's choice of controller when he plays in ensembles with acoustic/electric instrument players), an iPad (used in solo/duo performances as well as ensemble concerts) and several midi controllers. No matter what technology he uses, Korhan always stays focused on the outcome and musicality rather than processes.

Korhan has had three residencies at STEIM (Center for research & development of instruments & tools for performers) in Amsterdam, where he studied use of sensors in music performance and instrument design. He was a guest composer at the Electronic Music Studios in Stockholm in January 2011.

Korhan has seven CD releases on Gruenrekorder (Germany), Creative Sources Records (Portugal), Evil Rabbit Records (Netherlands/Germany), A.K. Müzik (Turkey) and Kukuruku Recordings (Greece) as well as several netlabel releases.

He performs regularly in Europe and in the Middle East as a solo artist as well as with his projects in Germany, Turkey and Switzerland. He has performed in Soundtrips NRW, Moers Festival, Labor Sonor, Klangzeit Festival, Borusan Music House Istanbul and many more fantastic venues and festivals."

-Korhan Erel Website (https://korhanerel.com/bio/)
3/13/2024

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"Elena Margarita Kakaliagou is a greek-austrian french horn player and performer, currently based in Berlin. Starting out with piano lessons, she moved on to the French horn at the age of 18. After completing her studies in Athens/GR with Vangelis Skouras, she moved on to KUG-Graz/AT to continue her education under the teaching of Hector McDonald. Instructed by Erja Joukamo-Ampuja, Elena obtained her Master's degree from Sibelius Academy/FI in 2010 /French horn and chamber music. During her career, Elena has received scholarships from Klangforum, Impuls and Ensemble Modern with teachers like Mike Svoboda and Bill Formann.

Elena's field of specialization is free improvised and contemporary music, next to classic chamber music. She has performed premiers and classical repertoire both as a soloist and as a member of Ensembles (Ensemble Linea, Unitedberlin, KNM Berlin) in Festivals like Ultraschall Berlin/DE, Maerz Music/DE, Randspiele/DE, Musica Nova/FI, Lá-bas/FI, Musica/FR, Warsaw Autumn/PL, New Adits/AT ao. She has also worked with individual artists: Riikka Innanen, Samuel Stoll, James Andean, Ingrid Schmoliner, Katharina Klement, Catherine Christel Hennix, Robin Hayward, Simon Steen-Andersen, Thomas Noll, to name but a few.

Elena is the co-founder of the Helsinki-based 'Rank Ensemble', the Austrian trio 'PARA', ("PARA-ligo" cd, creativesources 2012) the performance groups 'Lúiss' and 'Continuous Variation'."

-Elena Margarita Kakaliagou Website (http://www.elenakakaliagou.com/bio.html)
3/13/2024

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"Jonas Kocher is a sound artist and accordionist born in 1977. He is collaborating with personalities from various backgrounds and in numerous artistic and social contexts. His work explores issues such as the listening, space and perception as well as the integration of different kind of random elements. His specific approach to his instrument involves at the same time physicality and reduction, uncontrolled playing and high precision.

Jonas Kocher has a strong interest in process oriented works and unstable situations. As a sound artist he has realised works that are situated between composed theatre, installation and concert pieces. He got commissions from Ensemble Paul Klee, Biennale Bern 2010 & 2017, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, etc. and regularly collaborates with musicians such Michel Doneda, Joke Lanz, Axel Dörner, Hans Koch, Jacques Demierre and many more. Read the full biography on wikipedia

Jonas Kocher is initiator of Bruit, a structure that fosters sound and interdisciplinary works."

-Jonas Kocher Website (http://www.jonaskocher.net/6877793/about)
3/13/2024

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"Hannah Marshall is a cellist who is continuing to extract and invent as many sounds and emotional qualities from her instrument as she can , playing experimental & freely improvised music and collaborating with other musicians, theatre and performing artists in the UK and Europe. She trained at The Guildhall school of music and Drama from 1992-1996. She plays regularly with The London Improvisors Orchestra and has performed at various festivals including VNM-Graz, Freedom of the City - London, Fete Qua Qua, Nickelsdorf-Konfrontationen, Banlieue Bleu-Paris, Jazz em Agosto-Lisbon, Barcelona Horta Cordel, ring ring-belgrade, Wels Unlimited- Austria, Alpen Glow - UK/Austria, Taktlos, Nantes festival, Saalfelden jazz festival, Red Ear Amsterdam, thirstyfish festival - London, Konfrontationen, Akouphene-Geneva, Europa Jazz Festival, Joyful Noise Festival- Swtizerland, Blurred Edges Festival- Hamburg. She has been invited by Fred Frith, Thomas Lehn and Suichi Chino in their residencies at café Oto, and by Evan Parker in his monthly residency at The Vortex Club."

-Music Teachers UK (https://www.musicteachers.co.uk/user/6fdca7e3c5ca7ab082f8/biography)
3/13/2024

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"Dirk Marwedel Born 1959. Since 1985 Dirk Marwedel has been working in the area of ​​improvised music and related musical concepts as well as in interdisciplinary projects with performance, sound installation, film, dance, theater, sculpture and painting. In continuous interplay with different groups as well as soloist he has developed sounding techniques and preparations with which he easily exceeds the limits of familiar concepts of the sound spectrum of the saxophone and irritates listening habits. The permanent process of material and sound enhancement can also lead to play on hoses, balloons, with water or other sound bodies, even beyond the original instrument. With his work on slate slabs ("TonSchiefer") and the sculptures by the sculptor couple Livia Kubach and Michael Kropp, Dirk Marwedel, who also trained as a sculptor, explores and develops the sound qualities of stone.

Solistically, Dirk Marwedel draws particular attention to dynamic and structural movement. Dense monolithic sound currents can contrast with fine tissues, which are reduced to only a few senses, sequences of classical toning complement each other with grotesque or fragile, silent, brittle or bursting overflowing forms beyond the chromatically tempered tonal space. The limits and meanings of sound, sound and sound are moving, touching, mixing and differentiating. Silence is perceived as a fundamental element of musical experience.

Central themes in the area of ​​performance (for example in the case of sound video performance> no change changing <) are the inevitability and irreversibility of movement and development. With concentrated acoustic and visual material, processes that are fragmented in the phenomena of repetition and change, memory and present are perceived in the light of their incessant passing over one another. Even more direct than in purely concertante performances is the irritation and questioning of fixed, automated boundaries and interpretations and the opening of unexpected perceptions. Recent works such as the "fields of intercourse", the "court paintings" and the project "Living Sculpture" also deal with the center of perception, the perceiving and perceptive human beings themselves, with their modes, the Familiar, the stranger, to meet oneself.

Dirk Marwedel has appeared in Europe and Canada. He lives in Wiesbaden and is co-founder and organizer of the HumaNoise congress - day improvised music."

-Nurnichtnur.Com (Translated by Google) (http://nurnichtnur.com/artists/marwedel.htm)
3/13/2024

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"Theo Nabicht (* 1963 in Ebersbach / Sa.) Is a German woodwind (soprano, alto, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, double bass clarinet) and composer.

Nabicht studied saxophone, flute and piano from 1983 to 1987 at the Hochschule fŸr Musik "Hanns Eisler". From 1995 to 1997 he completed a masterclass for bass clarinet at the Conservatory of Strasbourg.

Theo Nabicht has since the 1980s with Bert Wrede, the orchestra Vielharmonie, the quartet BakaMutz with Bert Wrede, Thierry Madiot and Mauro Gnecchi, Gebhard Ullmann's big band Ta Lam 10 and the Clarinet Trio with Ullmann and JŸrgen Kupke worked. There were record releases and participation in international (jazz) festivals with musicians such as Phil Minton, Mikhail Alperin, Lutz Glandien, Werner Dafeldecker, Anthony Braxton, Peter Kowald and Fred Frith. Nabicht is a long-standing member of the Kammersemble Neue Musik Berlin and a guest at Klangforum Wien. Today he is mainly concerned with the performance of contemporary composed music (such as Giacinto Scelsi, Rolf Riehm or Helmut Oehring) and new improvisational music. He is also a composer; He composed in particular for theatrical productions of the Munich Kammerspiele, the theater Frankfurt or television productions. Today he is mainly concerned with the performance of contemporary composed music (such as Giacinto Scelsi, Rolf Riehm or Helmut Oehring) and new improvisational music. He is also a composer; He composed in particular for theatrical productions of the Munich Kammerspiele, the theater Frankfurt or television productions. Today he is mainly concerned with the performance of contemporary composed music (such as Giacinto Scelsi, Rolf Riehm or Helmut Oehring) and new improvisational music. He is also a composer; He composed in particular for theatrical productions of the Munich Kammerspiele, the theater Frankfurt or television productions."

-Wikipedia (Translated by Google) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Nabicht)
3/13/2024

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"Ulrich Phillipp (* 1956 ) is a German contrabassist of free jazz and new improvisational music.

Phillipp founded the Wiesbaden improvisation ensemble with Dirk Marwedel and Wolfgang Schliemann. He is one of the founders of the Wiesbaden musician co-operative New Jazz (1979), from which the ARTist collective hervorging in 1983. In addition to the concert activity, the inclusion of other genres, such as Tanzimprovisation, where Phillipp performed with Fine Kwiatkowski, Günter Christmann , Erhard Hirt and others. He also worked with Birgit Ulher and Roger Turner . In 2013 he was involved in the Grand Orchestra of the ensemble."

-Wikipedia (translated by Google) (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Phillipp)
3/13/2024

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"He has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and improvised music, live and in the studio.

His main interest shifted towards contemporary improvised and composed music.

The relationship with his instruments is focused in sonic and textural elements.

Electronic music was an early influence on his approach to violin playing, which challenges traditional romantic concepts of the violin/viola through use of preparations and micro tuning.

Active in different settings on the Portuguese scene for free improvised music, both as a collaborator and in leading his own groups.

Music for Dance, Cinema, Video and Performance.

Has created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music."

-Creative Sources (http://creativesourcesrec.com/creative_artists.html)
3/13/2024

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"Born 1956 , working since 1978 as free-lancing percussionst on improvised / composed New "Music, sound art and performance. Activities in Germany and abroad.

Constant development of individual musical idioms.

Solo / duo / ensemble / orchestral work; Participation in projects based on intermediary concepts (dance / theater / fine arts etc), increasingly refering to space; Emphasis of synaesthetic impacts.

Co-founder of the Wiesbaden musicians'cooperative new jazz (1979), ARTist collective (1983), HumaNoise congress - Days of Contemporary Improvised Music (1987).

Current working and / or available projects are:

* AS?! - Wiesbaden improvisation ensemble (trio with Ulrich Phillipp, doublebass, electronics, Dirk Marwedel, saxophones)

* Ensemble 2 INCQ. (Chamber ensemble with Marianne Schuppe, singing, Ulrich Böttcher, electronics, Joachim Zoepf, Dirk Marwedel, reeds, Christoph Korn, Hans Tammen, guitars, electronics Georg Wolf, Ulrich Phillipp, doublebasses, Michael Vorfeld, percussions)

* Endorfine (duo with Fine Kwiatkowski, dance)

* AQT RZ (trio with Joachim Zoepf, saxophones, bassclarinet, Christoph Korn, guitar, electronics)

* Percussion etcetera (duo with Michael Vorfeld, percussion)

* Acoustic / material sound (performance ensemble with Franz Erhard Walther, Jens P. Carstensen, Jan PER Sunday)

Performances on festivals in Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Copenhagen, Darmstadt, The Hague, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Linz, Ljubljana, Munich, Münster, Nancy (among others).

So worked with many players of the european improvisation scene in numerous ad hoc projects.

Publications:

CD> 1991
CD> lanks
CD> congress
CD> should be run after twelfth
CD / MULTIPLE> Acoustic
CD> Exploration
CD> BACH 4/7
CD / brochure> # 7 / # 8 / # 9
CD> AQT RZ <(Ch. Korn / J. Zoepf) Improvisers' Series ONLY / NOT / ONLY / Berslton 199 01 05 1999

CD> tre pezzi per percussione spesso usate in maniera non convenzionale
Selected projects:

> Phenomenal ward
> Interior sound of the outer space - exterior of the interior
> Urbanoper Wiesbaden Summer <- one month of art in public space (1989)

> Stadtraumbespielungen <8 concerts in public spaces with Wiesbaden Improvisations Ensemble (1989)

> 27'10.554 for a percussionist 45 minutes for a speaker <(1990)

> (Con) sequences / mo (ve )ments
> Longstrings and percussion Unerhört
> Acoustic / material sound
> Endorfine
> Ensemble H "en silence"
> About: Shadows, Jumping
> Ensemble H "2 INCQ."
> Helmeteutics 1-3
> The Vulnerability Room (Live / Performances) with artist Schanghutter, Fine Kwiatkowski and Wiesbaden Improvisation Ensemble (1995/96)

> Penthouse 356
> BACH 4/7
> Nomadic-sedentary / nomadic <> climatic
> Arche eo chordata
> Swimming pool study for sound and light
> Impromptu á trois / Tripfuge
(Rhizom DancePerformanceTheatre) (1997), with the title "

> TanzKlangFarbe
> Interpretation - 4/4 in gray tones
> Animorfine
> Böttcher / Kaczynski / Schliemann / Vorfeld (1998)

> Tamashi Endo, Adriana Kocijan, Gernot Frischling and Fine Kwiatkowski

> Listen-field research I-III
> Music for a Spa Park
> Divergent
> Stadtlucht
> Supercollider
> Vario 36
> Character
> Men at work
> OB: ACHT
> Metamorphoses
> Sound-installation / performance / concert for sound-objects, video-projection and live percussion (2000)> soundpanel / PLAYGROUND / JARDIN des objets trouvés

> Time: structured -Nurnichtnur.DE (Translated by Google) (http://www.nurnichtnur.de/artists/schliemann.htm)
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"Nicolas Souchal: trumpet, bugle, composition. Born in 1979.

Nicolas Souchal is a French trumpet player, active in contemporary jazz and improvised music. He is recognized for his sense of construction in improvisation, his expressive sonority, and his playing including the extended techniques of the instrument. His approach is borrowed from musicians such as Don Cherry, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Axel Dörner, and Daunik Lazro.

In 1997 in Clermont-Ferrand, he was a founding member of the Collectif Musique en Friche, a bubbling crucible of experiments, close to the ARFI (Association for the Research of an Imaginary Folklore). He developed two wind duets, one with Franck Pilandon, the other with Christiane Bopp, and more recently the quartet Les arbres moved during the night, improvised instrumental music and sound diffusion.

Since 2000, composer and arranger with the Balkan Brass Band, as well as the nebabylonian jazz quartet Humbaba, he appropriates and recomposes the traditional music of Eastern Europe.

Since 2010, he has been heard in various formations on the Parisian scene: Pavillon Rouge (Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Matthias Mahler, Jean-Marc Foussat), ARBF & Hmadcha in Essaouira (meeting between big band free jazz and Sufi musicians Yoram Rosilio), Quintet Cuir (improvised epidermic music, with Jean-Brice Godet, John Cuny, Yoram Rosilio, Jérôme Fouquet)"

-Nicolas Souchal Website (translated by Google) (http://www.nicolassouchal.fr/a-propos-de-nous/)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Path 1. Saturday Afternoon 16:24

2. Path 2. Sunday Afternoon 21:17

3. Path 3. Sunday Evening 16:09

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Nuda
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With discographies reaching back to the 80s, the trio of Beat Unternahrer on trombone and Furst-Pless-Horn, Jan Schacher on contrabass, objects and voice, and Pelayo Arrizabalaga, known for his reed work, on turntables and sine-generator, create 16 mostly improvised, succinct works that are influenced by free jazz, ea-improv, and sonic composition.
Lisbon String Trio with Karoline Leblanc
Liames
(Creative Sources)
One of five live collaborations with The Lisbon String Trio of violist Ernesto Rodrigues, cellist Miguel Mira, and bassist Alvaro Rosso, Quebec pianist Karoline Leblanc accompanying on the piano as the 4th string in this open-minded equation of slowly intersecting improvisation creating an unusual tapestry of sound that ebbs and flows in exceptional ways.
Suspensao
Theatron
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