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Lin, Hui-Chun / Davide Piersanti  : A Gash into Normality (Creative Sources)

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Hui-Chun Lin-violincello, voice

Davide Piersanti-trombone


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UPC: 5609063403732

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs373
Squidco Product Code: 23881

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2016
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Music Concert Hall in Neukolln-Berlin, Germany, on January 30th and February 4th, 2016.

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Artist Biographies

"Hui-Chun Lin (林惠君), Cello solo player, Performer, composer. born 1979 in Taiwan. Classical piano and cello education. Studied with Professor Peter Bruns at Dresden Conservatory. Postgraduate studies in improvisation with Tilo Augsten at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. Worked as solo cellist and ensemble musician Improvisation, theatre music, contemporary music, dance performance, classical music, world music and cello solo with live electronics. Participated in a workshop with "Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble" at Carnegie Hall in New York 09/2006, also participated the workshop "Dave Douglas: Composition and Improvisation in New York 02/2010" Leipziger Jazztage 2007 (jazz festival) with "Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester", Conducted an improvisation class at a middle school in Tainan/Taiwan 2008/09 "Artist in Residence" in Cité des Arts Paris 07/2010-01/2011. "Codes" Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music in Lublin (Poland) 05/2010. ​The CD Production "The Ballad Of Li Qingzhao And Su Dongpo" won the prize in der Kempener Paterskirche. 08/2015 "Streitraum Extra" with Laio Yiwu at Schaubühne Berlin, 12/2015 Dance/Music Improvisation "Suivre" with Jenny Haack, Jenny Döll, Bettina Neuhaus Musik: Michael Vorfeld - Perkussion, Barnaby Tree, 01/2016. "Improvisation XChange 2016" with Jenny Haack 07/2016 "RARA Festival" Sicily Italy 7/2016 Orchestral Whifftracks - Musik & Geruch, with Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, 09/2016

Hui-Chun Lin is a musician who moves fluidly among work in avantgarde music, world music, jazz and improvisation and also performance. Her repertoire encompasses traditional, experimental and classical music in equal measure. Her musical work is concerned above all with sounding out the intersections, boundaries and connections among genres, epochs and cultures. She is now also a musician, performer and cello teacher in Berlin, since 2011.

Since 2015, she starts to produce her own music, working with the Berlin Music Label "Maybee Records", and making music albums with variable musicians."

-Hui-Chun Lin Website (https://huichunlin.weebly.com/vita-eng.html)
3/27/2024

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"Davide Piersanti: Trombonist, composer, improviser, he now lives in Berlin. He plays in different styles and media: free improvisation, avant jazz, funk, electroacoustics, orchestras, dance, theatre. A graduate in jazz at the L.Refice Conservatory in Frosinone, he played and collaborated with Butch Morris, Alvin Curran, Steve Swell. Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson, Gino Robair, Eugenio Colombo, Tristan Honsinger, Funkallisto, Iato Orchestra, Manuela Giovagnetti and many others."

-Circuiterie (http://www.circuiterie.com/index.php/en/davide-piersanti-2)
3/27/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Mousetrap's Gamble 5:26

2. Singularity 3:23

3. Suffering A Serious Coughing Boat 4:12

4. Bukhara 9:08

5. Das Fabelhafte Kabarett Des Handelns 3:03

6. Nocturnal Animal 1:31

7. Doppel Zwei 5:30

8. Fake Asylum Door 6:40

9. A and K (For Aurel And Kajetan) 4:55

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Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Stringed Instruments
Recordings featuring brass instruments - trumpets, trombones, tubas, other horns
Duo Recordings
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