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NEWS AND HAPPENING
2019
I decided to keep 2019 as kind of token of pre-pandemic musical life...
January: Oslo Blow Up Series trio with Ståle Liavik Solberg and Per Zanussi.
Feb: Notation and Transcendence in 21st century Music
paper given at IMR Notation for Improvisers Conference, London. Feb 9th, 2019
March: LINDSAY COOPER SONGBOOK gigs at Canterbury, Cafe Oto London, Köln and Munster.
Perform Avram's Parahelion in European Extreme festival on bass-clarinet w. ENSEMBLE X. Y
April: In Albi with Iancu Dumitrescu, Nathalie Forget and Daedalus Ensemble
Then gigs in Cluj, Bucharest and Timisoara, but without Nathalie
May: tour of Germany with Chris Cutler: Moers, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Munster, Köln, Essen, Bonn, Hagen, Duisburg,
also playing with guests: Michel Doneda and Emilio Gordoa,
Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Gunda Gottschalk, Martin Blume, Paul Hubweber, Georges Paul.
Free improvisation, modes of playing, gestures - paper given at Internationale Tagung Improvisation als Gestaltungspraxis, 3/5/19 @ Hochschule Düsseldorf
May 11th: The WATTS play RIO Festival, Bourgoin Jallieu, France
June 5th: clarinet with Chloe Herington's organized circular improvisation project
Duo w Yoni Silver at Catford Constitutional
Duo w Kay Grant at Iklectik
Sep: Hyperion Ensemble at Iklectik: world premiere of Örtemchei
Oct: Under the Void cd released.
Nov: The WATTS tour Japan
Dec: w Thanos Chrysakis bass clarinets project at Oto: world premier of Parautika
2020
Jan 26-7 Hyperion Ensemble at Oto: world permier of Oktargai
Feb 1st Hyperion International at Espace Senghor, Brussels
TORBA trio play Rome, Montini, Area Sismica with Fabrizio Spera and Gandolpho Pagano
Feb 18th play saxophone with UT at Oto.
Lockdown, etc.
Write article Subjectivation & Cave Art, posted to :
https://www.academia.edu/42101938/Subjectivation_and_cave_art
Re-score Piano Concerto for reduced orchestra for Ars Musica Festival with Orchestre Symphonique de Liège and Daan Vandewalle as solist. Performance eventually postponed to January 2023.
Make short video Blues for the Unseen with clarinet solo, for "Raise Your Voice for Assange" exhibition.
https://voice.diem25.org/diem-project/blues-for-the-unseen/
Write Anérithmon for 3 trombones and 3 bass clarinets for performance w Thanos Chrysakis project in December 2020, then postponed to December 2021.
Write Two-fold, c 40 minute diptych for vln, vla, clarinet, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, lap-steel guitar, and pre-recorded sound.
Nov 2021, meditating (on the grounds that "relation precedes substance") on a further set of diptychs or two-folds.
Dec 2021, write AOWA , c.3.30, for clarinet, violin, viola, piano, kolitong, bowls, frame drum. (To be extended?)
2022
Feb 2022, write article Shamans, Bodies, Words: A Non-cognitivist Apporach
March KONK PACK tour: Trondheim,Toensberg, Bergen, Stavanger, Vienna.
Iklectik gig with Kay Grant and Douglas Benford
April 23 play alto and viola with UT at Oto.
writing Spelaion
Sep 10th. Duo with Chris Cutler at Jazzwerkstadt, Peitz, Germany
Oct. Trio tour with Martin Klapper and Peter Jorgensen: Oroe, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Munster
Start work on new piece for winds and percussion only, provisionally titled Five Explosions.
Release Sacrum et Profanum CD of Avram and Dumitrescu pieces played by Hyperion International Ensemble in Krakow 2017.
Nov 18th HENRY NOW at Piacenza, and,
Nov 19th, at Palermo
Nov 20th, Palermo with TORBA trio and gig with musicians of Curva Minore Association.
Dec 9th, trio with Carolyn Hume and Paul May at Iklectic London: alto saxophone, keyboards, drums.
LOOKING FORWARDS TO
KONK PACK tour Feb 3 - 7.. from Paris to Prague.
Further gigs with Carolyn Hume and Paul May
Further tour with TORBA.
Trio with Mark Wastell and Phil Durrant at 100 Years Gallery, May 19th
Trio with Maya Dunietz and Chris Cutler at Cafe Oto, May 23.
3 world premieres: Spelaion at Cafe Oto Dec 17th 2022,
Piano Concerto at Liege, Jan 28th 2023,
Under the Void at Basel, April 1 & 2, 2023.
Project in development: Two-fold, currently looking for musicians and venues.